Category: Sports
Sports Meet 2014 (Pics)
This tournament was conducted on a knock out basis among winners of the Provincial tournament held in their respective Provinces. By winning this tournament Old Thurstanites are eligible to participate in the Division 2 tournament conducted by SRI LANKA CRICKET in 2014-15 season and also eligible to play in the SLC Under 23 Division 3 tournament in 2014. The team consisted mostly of of the Current Thurstan 1st XI team. The team was managed by the energetic OBU Functional Secretary of Cricket Shantha Silva .
SLC Division III Finals – Old Thurstanites “A” VS Seenigama Cricket Club played on November 9th, 2013 at Surrey ground, Maggona.
Old Thurstanites – 282/7 in 50 overs
[Minhaj Jaleel 79, Sajith Gunathilaka 31, Kavindu Kulasekara 40, Thimara Jayasighe 48, Charana Nanayakkara 48 Not out, Layan Erange 2/29]
Seenigama Cricket Club – 180/6 in 50 overs
(Resan Tuder 34, Layan Erange 75, Deve Sampath 31 n. o. Kavindu Kulasekara 2/42, Thimera Jayasinghe 2/29)
Old Thurstanites won by 102 runs.
It is after 8 years, a Colombo District Cricket team has won the SLC Division III championship and Old Thurstanites are in the finals of two other tournaments.
Colombo District tournament (16th of December @ NCC Grounds) and Western Provincial tournament date not finalised yet.
Congratulations!
Not only for its excel in education, Thurstan is well known for setting high standards for sports and for showing outstanding results in the area of sports. Thurstan offers a wide variety of sports ranging from indoor to outdoor. The students are offered with the best equipped facilities. This site offers details of respective sports along with pictures of the current teams.
The College is divided into four houses as follows and denoted in alphabetical order of their names. They are name after Past Directors of Education.
Name | Colour | Flag |
DENHAM | Deep Blue – Deep Yellow | |
MACRAE | Deep Blue – Light Blue | |
ROBISON | Deep Blue – Deep Red | |
SANDIMAN | Deep Red – Deep Yellow |