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RUGBY FIXTURE CARD 2011
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Thurstan College under 13 soccer captain Harindu Rangajith Abeyasuriya has been selected to represent Sri Lanka Schools under 13 team for the ASIAN SCHOOLS FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT to be held on Republic of Iran from 17th to 25th May 2011
The touring squad was selected after one week residential training at Beddagana Football Complex Training Centre .The team is expected tol leave on 16th of May
This is the 4th occasion that a THURSTAN JUNIOR has been included in a Sri Lanka Schools Soccer Team in an over seas tour
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Prize Giving (2007-2010)
College prize giving for Years 2007 to 2010 will be held on 04.07.2011 by the patronage of the President of Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Our distinguished old boy, Hon Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Students performed best in following groups will be awarded at this event.
Invites all Parents, Old boys, Teachers and well wishers to sponsor any of these prizes at this great opportunity.
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Health Camp
Old Thurtanites ( 2001 Batch ) oraganise a Health Camp at the College Premises on 10th May 2011.for Academic and non academic staff and for students of Gades 12 and 13.
For more details pl contact Iresha.
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Thurstan beat Thomians
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Thurstan beat Thomians
Thurstan College staged a superb second half rally to beat S Thomas College Mount Lavinia by 22 points to eight points in their Singer inter-school under 19 -A division league rugby tournament match worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday.
After the scores had been level eight all at half time Thurstan College came back strongly in the second half and went on to pull off their first win for the season while collecting their points from two goals, one try and one penalty.
The Thomians managed to score only a solitary try and one penalty all in the first half as they crashed to their third straight defeat in the tournament having earlier lost to Trinity College Kandy (6-75) and Kingswood College (6-63).
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ISLAND PAPER
In another Division 1 match of Group A played yesterday at the Sugathadasa Stadium, Thurstan created a shock by beating S.Thomas 22-8.
| President Mahinda Rajapaksa Inaugural T:20 Triangular Cricket Tournament among Richmond, Nalanda & Thurstan | ||||||||||
| on April 8th & 9th 2011 at Thurstan Sports Complex Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha Colombo 7 | ||||||||||
| 1ST MATCH : THURSTAN VS NALANDA ON APRIL 8th MORNING | ||||||||||
| Thurstan College -137 for 7 in 20 overs: Kaveen Silva 34, Ramindu Kumarasinghe 25, Kavindu Kulasekara 24, | ||||||||||
| Sineth Gunawardana 2 / 41 [ 4 overs ], Malinda Vimukthi 2 / 15 [ 4 overs ] | ||||||||||
| Nalanda College – 98 all out in 19.1 overs : Sineth Gunawardana 33 | ||||||||||
| Prabodha Arthavidu 3 / 10, Minhaj Jaleel 3 / 22, Sachintha Wijesinghe 2 / 19 | ||||||||||
| RESULT – THURSTAN won by 39 runs | ||||||||||
| 2ND MATCH : THURSTAN VS RICHMOND COLLEGE ON APRIL 8th AFTERNOON | ||||||||||
| Thurstan College :125 for 9 in 20 overs Supun Nawaratna 40,Sajeewa Salgado 27, | ||||||||||
| Dhananjaya de Silva 2 / 27 | ||||||||||
| Richmond College : 129 for 8 in 19.5 overs Dhanajaya de Silva 31,Mahesh Sandaruwan 22,Kavindu Thimuth 27 | ||||||||||
| Sajeewa Salgado 3 / 18, Kaveen Silva 2 for 19 | ||||||||||
| RESULT – THURSTAN lost by 2 wickets | ||||||||||
| 3RD MATCH : RICHMOND VS NALANDA COLLEGE ON APRIL 9th MORNING | ||||||||||
| Richmond College :109 all out in 20 overs; Hasitha Madushan 22, Kavindu Thimuth 17, Kasun Chamara 17 | ||||||||||
| Malindu Vimukthi 3 / 15, Sineth Gunawardane 2 / 16 | ||||||||||
| Nalanda College : 100 all out in 16.3 overs : Koshan Dhanushka 47, Charith Kumarasinghe 17 | ||||||||||
| Kavindu Thimuth 3 / 15, Dileepa Priyadharshana 3 / 4 | ||||||||||
| RESULT – RICHMOND WON 9 RUNS | ||||||||||
| 4TH MATCH & FINALS: THURSTAN VS RICHMOND COLLEGE ON APRIL 9th AFTERNOON | ||||||||||
| Richmond College : 78 all out in 18.2 overs: Dhananjaya de Silva 18, Yashoda Lanka 16, Kavindu Thimuth 15 | ||||||||||
| Ramindu Kumarasinghe 3 / 10, Prabodha Arthavidu 2 / 24, Sachintha Wijesinghe 2 / 11 | ||||||||||
| Thurstan College :79 for 5 in 18.4 overs : Kavindu Kulasekara 17 not out, Prabodha Arthavidu 14, Supun Nawaratna 13 | ||||||||||
| Dileepa Priydharshana 3 / 16 | ||||||||||
| RESULT ? THURSTAN WON BY 5 WICKETS | ||||||||||
| WINNERS OF THE PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA CHALLENGE TROPHY : THURSTAN COLLEGE | ||||||||||
| RUNNERS UP – RICHMOND COLLEGE | ||||||||||
| MAN OF THE TOURNAMENT – Prabodha Arthavidu [ Thurstan ] | ||||||||||
| MAN FOR THE FINALS – Ramindu Kumarasinghe [ Thurstan ] | ||||||||||
| BEST BATSMAN – Koshan Dhanushka [ Nalanda ] | ||||||||||
| BEST BOWLER – Prabadha Arthvidu [ Thurstan ] | ||||||||||
| BEST FIELDER – Yashoda Lanka [ Richmond ] | ||||||||||
| HIGHERST NUMBER OF SIXERS – Kaveen Silva [ Thurstan ] | ||||||||||
Thurstan Cricket [ Cricket wing of the OBU ] has organized the above tournament among schools that the President Honourable Mahinda Rajapaksa attended during his school career. The President has consented to give this trophy and he is schedule to grace the finals of this tournament and distribute awards to the winners.
This tournament is schedule to be held at Thurstan Grounds, Prof Stanley Wijesundera Mawatha Colombo 7 on Friday April 8th & Saturday April 9th . Preliminary matches will be played on a league basis & the winners & runners-up will play in the finals.
His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksha hands over the Mahinda Rajapaksha challenge Trophy to Thurstan College Principal Mr. Y.A.N.D. Yapa. Mr. Noel Joseph, Mr. Paranavithana, Mr. Noel Joseph, His Excellency Dixon Dela Bandara (High Commissioner to Maldives), Mr. S. Panditha Managing Director of Sierra Cables PLC & Mr. Daminda Cooray looks on.
Thurstan Comfortable winners in the 31st Encounter
Thurstan skipper Thisura Madurappereuma once again called correctly when the Chief-Guest Nimal Warusavithana tossed the coin.
The Chief Guest donated the trophy in memory of his father W A de Silva and this encounter commenced way back in 1981.
Isipathana put into bat were bundled out for their lowest total in this series for 92 runs in 35.2 overs in this 45 over match. The spiners led by the left armer orthodox spinner Sachintha Wijesinghe ably supported by Sachith Dias & Probadha Arthavidu had all the Isipthana batmen in knots & never gave the opportunity to get on top of the varied spin attack. They were helped by slow turning wickets
Isipathana also commenced the bowling with their best spinners Sulochana & Wanigaratchchi with an attcking field set by skipper Warapitiya made life difficult to the Thurstanites and one stage Thurstan were in trouble with the score reading 41 for 4.
At this stage Skipper Madurapperuma went on the attack scoring 25 runs with 1 six & 4 fours which relieved the pressure and the next pair of Kaveen Silva & Ashan Wanigaratna scored the remaing runs to steer Thurstan to a comfortable victory.
Thus Thurstan lead the series for the first time in the history with 16 matches to Isipathana’s 15.
| Thurstan vs Isipathana | ||||||||
| 31st Limited Over Cricket Encounter | ||||||||
| Played at SSC grounds on March 6th, 2011 | ||||||||
| (45 OVERS) | ||||||||
| Isipathana | ||||||||
| Nilusha Sasanka [ V.Capt ] ( 71 min, 31 balls, 2-4 ) st Kularatna | b Arthavidu | 18 | ||||||
| Chenutha Wickramasinghe ( 25 min,24 balls, 2-4 ) Lbw | b Wijewickrama | 11 | ||||||
| Sujith Priyashan ( 25 min, 17 balls ) | c Wanigaratna | b Wijewickrama | 5 | |||||
| Dimuth Warapitiya [ Capt ]( 42 min,30 balls ) c and | b Wijesinghe | 9 | ||||||
| Harith Kalindu Wanigarachchi ( 32 min, 27 balls ) c S Dias | b Wijesinghe | 8 | ||||||
| Deshan Jayakumar ( 23 min, 29 balls,1-4 ) | c Arthavidu | b S Dias | 10 | |||||
| Samitha Sulochana ( 32 min,20 balls,) | Lbw | b Wijesinghe | 8 | |||||
| Dhanushka Sadaruwan ( 12 min, 21 balls) | b S Dias | 5 | ||||||
| Pavan Anjana ( 12 min, 8 balls,) | b Wijesinghe | 4 | ||||||
| Ashan Wickrema ( 12 min, 7 balls ) | Not Out | 1 | ||||||
| Bushana Nibanda ( 5 min, 6 balls,) | b S Dias | 4 | ||||||
| Extras | lb1,w-8 | 9 | ||||||
| Total | all out | 92 | ||||||
| 2 3 1 | 4 5 6 8 7 9 11 | 35.2 overs | ||||||
| Fall of Wickets | 19, 34 ,42, 50, 59, 71, 79, 82, 87, 92 | (150 min) | ||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||
| K Silva | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | ||||
| R Wijewickrama | 5 | 0 | 17 | 2 | ||||
| R Perera | 5 | 1 | 11 | 0 | ||||
| P Arthavidu | 5 | 1 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| S Wijesinghe | 8 | 3 | 14 | 4 | ||||
| S Dias | 7.2 | 0 | 21 | 3 | ||||
| Thurstan | ||||||||
| Yasuru Kularatna ( 8 min, 10 balls ) | c Sasanka | b Sulochana | 1 | |||||
| Harith Dias ( 42 min,27 balls,1-4 ) | Lbw | b Wanigarachchi | 9 | |||||
| Sajeewa Salgado (16 min,17 balls,1-6, 1-4 ) | c Sasanka | b Sulochana | 12 | |||||
| Prabodha Arthavidu [ V. Capt ] ( 29 min,19 balls,1-4 ) | b Priyashan | 7 | ||||||
| Thisura Madurapperuma[Capt] (49 min,46 balls,1-6, 4-4) Lbw | b Wanigarachchi | 25 | ||||||
| Kaveen Silva ( 71 min,39 balls,2-4 ) | Not Out | 20 | ||||||
| Ashan Wanigaratna (33 min,22 balls,1-4) | Not Out | 13 | ||||||
| Sachith Dias | Did not bat | |||||||
| Ranga Wijewickrama ) | Did not bat | |||||||
| Rajitha Perera | Did not bat | |||||||
| Sachintha Wijesinghe | Did not bat | |||||||
| Extras | lb 2, w 4, | 6 | ||||||
| Total | 5 Wkt dec | 93 | ||||||
| 2 3 1 4 6 7 8 5 | 30 overs | |||||||
| Fall of Wickets | 27, 60, 81, 90, 106, 1110, 112, 148, | (126 min) | ||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||
| S Sulochana | 9 | 1 | 19 | 2 | ||||
| H Wanigarachchi | 9 | 0 | 23 | 2 | ||||
| Ashan Wickrema | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | ||||
| Sujith Priyashan | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | ||||
| D Warapitiya | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| D Nibandana | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| Man of the Match | Sachintha Wijesinghe | |||||||
| Best Batsman | Thisura Madurapperuma | |||||||
| Best Bowler | Sachintha Wijesinghe | |||||||
| Best Fielder | Nilusha Sasanka | |||||||
| Umpires | Ruchira Palliyaguru & Graetian Liyanage | |||||||
Thurstan skipper Thisura Madurappereuma called correctly when the Chief-Guest Rtd Brig Lalith Peris tossed the coin.
The Chief Guest who was instrumental in leading Thurstan for it’s first victory way back in 1965 was conducted by the Thurstan College Western Band in a colourful opening ceremony and the teams then posed for the traditional group photograph.
Isipathana batted for 83 overs in 310 min and scored 254 runs. Captain Dimuth Warapitiya scored stoked filled 96 runs with some crisp drives & cuts on the offside and was unfortunate to miss a well deserved century. He was ably supported by Deshan Jayakumar who scored 63 & was associated with a record breaking partnership for the 5th wicket of 124 runs eclipsing the Isipathana record which stood for 26 years. At one stage Isipathana were struggling at 59 for 4 wickets when Jayakumar was missed in the slips by the Thurstan skipper before he had scored. Warapitiya was also dropped when he was in the 60’s. Feature was that Thurstan off spinner Sachith Dias who came into the match with 92 wickets in the season could not take a wicket on the plumb SSC track. A similar fate befell Isipathana’s champion Left arm Spinner Anusha Samaratunga who came to the big match last year with a record 141 wickets could capture only 1 wicket in both Innings. Simliar fate befell Dias in this year’s match.
Thurstan ended the day with 52 for 1 wicket in the19 remaining overs. But they batted the whole of the morning session of 140 minutes and scored a miserly 58 runs for the loss of another 4 wickets in 28 overs and at lunch were 110 for 5.Soon after averting the follow on Thurstan declared 89 runs behind & threw the match open to Isipathana. But Thurstan batted far too long 300 minutes which was not helped by the slow over rate of Isipathana who bowled only 70 overs.
Remembering last year’s spirited effort by Thurstan snatch victory when they chased 189 runs & fell short by only 14 runs, Isipathana played safe and made a token declaration at 120 for 4 leaving Thurstan to get 209 runs in 13 overs!!
There has been 12 consecutive draws from 1999 and it is high time that the organizers restrict the 1st Innings to 60 overs so that there a chance for side to manufacture a victory as a declaration in the 2nd Innings with less than 2 hours only give the side chasing a chance of victory as it is highly unlikely that a side could take 10 wickets in that time on the plumb SSC track
| Thurstan vs Isipathana | ||||||||
| 48th Cricket Encounter Played at SSC grounds | ||||||||
| on February 26th & 27th, 2011 | ||||||||
| Isipathana 1st Innings | ||||||||
| Nilusha Sasanka [ V.Capt ] ( 59 min, 28 balls, 3-4 ) | c Perera | b Wijewickrama | 15 | |||||
| Chenutha Wickramasinghe ( 33 min,18 balls, 1-4 ) | b Wijewickrama | 8 | ||||||
| Ravindu Jayawardane ( 5 min, 2 balls ) | Lbw | b Silva | 0 | |||||
| Dimuth Warapitiya [ Capt ](213 min,151 balls,1-6,14-4) c Nawaratna | b Perera | 96 | ||||||
| Harith Kalindu Wanigarachchi ( 36 min, 23 balls, 1-4) Lbw | b Perera | 11 | ||||||
| Deshan Jayakumar ( 184 min, 161 balls,9-4 ) | C and | b Perera | 63 | |||||
| Danushka Sandaruwan (2 min,3 balls) | Lbw | b Perera | 0 | |||||
| Samitha Sulochana ( 90 min,85 balls,5-4) | st Nawaratna | b Arthavidu | 48 | |||||
| Pavan Anjana ( 10 min, 9 balls,) | c Nawaratna | b Arthavidu | 1 | |||||
| Bushana Nibanda ( 19 min, 21 balls,) | c Nawaratna | b Arthavidu | 1 | |||||
| Charith Rajapaksa ( 23 min, 7 balls ) | Not Out | 0 | ||||||
| Extras | b-2,lb-2,nb-6,w-1 | 11 | ||||||
| Total | all out | 254 | ||||||
| 2 3 1 | 5 4 7 6 9 10 8 | 83.4 overs | ||||||
| Fall of Wickets | 13, 14 ,33, 59, 183, 189, 214, 217, 229,254 | (310 min) | ||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||
| R Wijewickrama | 11 | 1 | 52 | 2 | ||||
| K Silva | 8 | 2 | 25 | 1 | ||||
| R Perera | 25 | 7 | 50 | 4 | ||||
| S Dias | 16 | 1 | 58 | 0 | ||||
| P Arthavidu | 16.4 | 5 | 30 | 3 | ||||
| T Madurapperuma | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | ||||
| S Wijesinghe | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | ||||
| S Salgado | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Thurstan 1st Innings | ||||||||
| Supun Nawaratna ( 142 min, 92 balls,7-4 ) | c Sasanka | b Wanigarachchi | 49 | |||||
| Harith Dias ( 33 min,11 balls,) | c Sulochana | b Rajapaksa | 7 | |||||
| Sajeewa Salgado (65 min,52 balls,) | c Anjana | b Nibanda | 8 | |||||
| Prabodha Arthavidu [ V. Capt ] ( 82 min,49 balls,2-4 ) Lbw | b Wanigarachchi | 17 | ||||||
| Thisura Madurapperuma[Capt] (142 min,92 balls,) c Sasanka | b Wanigarachchi | 28 | ||||||
| Ashan Wanigaratna (26 min,2 balls,1-4) | c Sulochana | lbw | b Warapitiya | 6 | ||||
| Kaveen Silva ( 20 min, 18 balls) | c Anjana | b Warapitiya | 3 | |||||
| Sachith Dias ( 6 min,5 balls ) | lbw | b Warapitiya | 2 | |||||
| Ranga Wijewickrama ( 86 min, 57 balls, 3-4 ) | Not Out | 25 | ||||||
| Rajitha Perera ( 36 min, 27 balls ) | Not Out | 4 | ||||||
| Sachintha Wijesinghe | ||||||||
| Extras | b-2,,lb 2, nb 6,w 6, | 16 | ||||||
| Total | 8-Dec | 165 | ||||||
| 2 3 1 4 6 7 8 5 | 70 overs | |||||||
| Fall of Wickets | 27, 60, 81, 90, 106, 1110, 112, 148, | (300 min) | ||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||
| B Nibanda | 12 | 1 | 50 | 1 | ||||
| D Sandaruwan | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| C Rajapaksa | 14 | 3 | 24 | 1 | ||||
| S Sulochana | 15 | 8 | 20 | 0 | ||||
| H Wanigarachchi | 14 | 2 | 24 | 3 | ||||
| D Warapitiya | 13 | 2 | 33 | 3 | ||||
| Isipthana 2nd Innings | ||||||||
| Nilusha Sasanka [ V.Capt} ( 77 min, 72 balls,3-4 ) c Maduarapperuma | b Arthavidu | 39 | ||||||
| Chanutha Wickramasinghe ( 79 min,69 balls, 4-4) | b Arthavidu | 29 | ||||||
| Danuashka Sandaruwan ( 36 min, 29 balls,1-4) Lbw | b Dias | 10 | ||||||
| Dimuth Warapitiya [ Capt} ( 45 min, 31 balls,2-4 ) c S Dias | b Perera | 25 | ||||||
| Harith Wanigarachchi ( 15 min, 17 balls, 1-4) | Not Out | 8 | ||||||
| Extras | b-5,lb-2,nb-1 w-1 | 9 | ||||||
| Total | 4 wkts dec | 120 | ||||||
| 2 1 3 | 4 | 36.1 overs | ||||||
| Fall of Wickets | 72, 73 ,100, 120, | (125 min) | ||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||
| K Silva | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| R Wijewickrama | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| R Perera | 11.1 | 4 | 27 | 1 | ||||
| P Arathavidu | 13 | 2 | 27 | 2 | ||||
| S Wijesinghe | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| S Dias | 7 | 0 | 23 | 1 | ||||
| T Madurapperuma | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | ||||
| Thurstan 2nd Innings | ||||||||
| Supun Nawaratana (47 min,25 balls) ) | Not out | 13 | ||||||
| Harith Dias ( 42 min, 26 balls,5-4) | Lbw | Wanigarachchi | 29 | |||||
| Sajeewa Salgado ( 4 min, 5 balls,1-4) | 4 | |||||||
| Extras | w 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 3 wkt | 47 | ||||||
| 2 | 10 overs | |||||||
| Fall of Wickets | 43, | (45 min) | ||||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | ||||
| C Rajapaksa | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | ||||
| B Nibanda | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| D Sandaruwan | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| S Sulochana | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| H Wanigarachchi | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Man of the Match | Dimuth Warapitiya | |||||||
| Best Batsman | Deshan Jayakumar | |||||||
| Best Bowler | Rajitha Perera | |||||||
| Best Fielder | Nilusha Sasanka | |||||||
| Umpires | Lyndon Hannibal & Ravindra Wimalasiri | |||||||