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| Sunday, 17 October 2004 |
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Kandy Sports Club - four of seven awards at Observer - Caltex rugby show The observer-CaltexTEX rugby awards ceremony for the fourth successive year will be held on Friday October 22 at Ceylon Continental Hotel (Roof Top) from 7 p.m. onwards where there will be top grade music thrown in to keep the rugby award winners entertained. Police were voted in as the Most Popular Rugby Club team. Dushan Lewke, the 21-year-old No. 8 forward of the CH & FC, was voted Most Popular Ruggerite of the Year (2004) contest. Kandy Sports Club has a field day, winning four of the seven awards. The other award winners will be: Best Ruggerite of the Tournament: Indrajith Bandaranayake of Kandy Sports Club, while the award for the Best Rugby Club of the Tournament was quite naturally won by Kandy Sports Club. The Best Captain picked was Radika Hettiarachchi of Kandy Sports Club, the Best Forward was S. Thalagampola of CR and FC and the Best Three-Quarter is Pradeep Liyanage of Kandy Sports Club. An ideal No. 8 forward, Lewke who stands at 6' 1" and weighs in at 90 kg, has fought his way back into the Sri Lanka side which is now in a residential training camp at Nittawela preparing for the Asiad to be staged in Hong Kong at the end of the month. Dushan suffered a shoulder injury during the season, but has made his way into the national pool and after Kandy Sports Club's Haris Omar, hung up his boats, is certain of being the country's No. 8 for many years to come. He is outstanding in attack and in defence too, and is a capable line-out jumper as well. Dushan learned his rugby at Royal College, where he played from the under-13 level to end up representing its first XV from 2000 to 2002. He started his career as a flanker, then as a second-row forward and now occupies the No. 8 position. He has been playing for CH & FC since 2003 when under his leadership, CH, won the under-21 title. He also helped Royal to aggregate 83-0 in the Bradby Shield of 2002 when he was the vice-captain and he won his colours and "crown" too. Lewke also represented the Sri Lanka under-19 outfits at the Junior World Cup in Chile (2001) and Japan (2002). (L.G.) |
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