Teachers day 2005.10.06 – organized by Buddhist society
Commerce day 2005. 10.21 – at college main hall 2.30 pm
Science day 2005.10.13 – at college main hall 2.30 pm
Western province debating tournament final round (Thurstan vs. Ananda)
2005/10/19 10.am at panadura sri sumangala girl school
FIRST ELEVEN CRICKET SEASON 2005-2006
Thurstan 1st XI cricket team made an auspicious start to the season with a good performance in their opening match against St Sylvester’s Kandy at their home ground at Bauddhaloka Mawatha just missing an outright win This match was also the Christening of the ground by the 1st XI team.
St Sylvester’s 1st Inn : 206 – R Karunaratna 101, S Nadjudeen 20, C Silva 33 n.o., Kanishka
Elvitigala 4 for 51, Lahiru Gamaga 3 for 39. Thurstan 1st Inn : 303 for 8 dec – Buddhi Samarawickrama 103, Geeth Kumara 84, Shehan Perera 54 n.o C Ranaweera 2 for 28, C Kolamboge 2 for 31. St Sylvester’s 2nd Inn : 86 for 9 at close – Umesh Karunaratna 6 for 27, Shehan Perera 2 for 31
Match Drawn.
St Sylvester’s batting first were all out for 206 with opener Ravi Karunaratna holding the batting together scoring a patient 102. At one time the visitors were in dire trouble with 7 down for 128, but a life given to Karunaratna proved to be very expensive. For Thurstan, the two fast bowlers Elvitigala & Gamage shared the wickets
Thurstan were not too happily placed at the end of the first day with 4 down for 60. The overnight pair of Samarawickrama [ 103 ] & Kumara [ 84 ] with another unbeaten 54 by experienced Shehan Perera helped Thurstan to declare at tea on the 2nd day on a healthy 303 for 8..
Buddhi Samarawickrama is the first Thurstanite schoolboy to score a century in the new ground.
St Sylvester’s going for the second time were soon in trouble against some heady off spin bowling by Umesh Karunaratna 6 for 27 & leg Spinner Shehan Perera 2 for 19. At close they were 9 wickets down, the last pair survived 2 overs to force a draw, thus Thurstan did not have the satisfaction of gaining an out right win in their first outing at their new Cricket ground
The previous week Thurstan won the Inaugural 20 Twenty tournament organized by St Joseph’s College Colombo.
The remaining games for the third term is as follows
• Sep 26th & 27th VS Kingswood at Police grounds Kandy
• October 1st & 2nd – Old Wesleyite’s Sports Club annual 6’s for the Lemonade trophy
• October 3rd & 4th VS St Joseph’s at Bauddhaloka Mawatha
• October 7th & 8th VS Dharmapala at Pannipitya
• October 21st & 22nd VS Rewata Vidyalaya at Bauddhaloka Mawatha [ arranged by – SLSCA]
• October 28th & 29th VS St Thomas’s Mt Lavinia at Bauddhaloka Mawatha
• November 18th & 19th VS Taxila MV at Bauddhaloka Mawatha [ arranged by SLSCA ]
Thurstanite Gihan de Silva shines in Swimming again at the All Island School Games 2005
Thurstanites Gihan de Silva established a new meet record with a time 33.64 seconds in the under 19 – 50 meter Breast stroke. Gihan swimming first time in the Under 19 age group improved his timing from 34.03 record which he set up at the XI th National Schools games in 2004 while swimming in the Under 17 Category
Gihan commenced his swimming when Thurstan opened their own swimming pool in late 2000. The Swimming pool was a donation by Old Thurstanite Lion Graetian Gunawardhana to mark the Golden Jubilee of the College. At the inauguration he said that he expects all Thurstanites to have the ability to swim before they leave college and also wanted Thurstanites to make their mark at National Swimming events in the shortest possible time.
Gihan is the first to achieve his expectation and is among a number promising youngsters who are expected to make their mark in the near future.
For Gihan, it has been a steady climb. He won this event in 2003 as well with a time of 35.21 sec and competing in the 3rd Tamil Nadu – Sri Lanka Age championship in 2004 he came first with a time 34.89 sec & he also came first in the 4 X 50 M Medley Relay.
He is in the squad trained by Kithsiri Fonseka.
All though he laid off competitive swimming during the time he was sitting his GCE OL’s but soon on his return with little training he has achieved this success.
With his focused commitment and if properly guided, he should bring more laurels to Thurstan and bring about a resurgence of swimming at Thurstan.