Dharmasoka old boys win cricket title

by Upananda Jayasundera Kandy Sports Special Cor. Kandy Sports Special Cor.

The annual Col.Henry Steel Olcott memorial cricket tournament which was concluded recently at the Colts Ground, Colombo for the 16th year was won by the old boys team of Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda who beat the old boys of Ananda College, Colombo.

Dharmasoka won the title for the eighth time after jointly winning it twice..The Olcott memorial tournament is held among old boys cricket teams of eight leading Buddhist schools all over the Island, Ananda, Nalanda, Dharmaraja, Dharmasoka, Dharmapala, Maliyadeva, Mahinda and Rahula-Matara.

A cricket tournament for the present cricket teams of these schools is also held annually organized by the Henry Steel Olcott Foundation and on behalf of the Foundation this year’s tournament will be organized by the old boys association of Ananda College.

Former Test cricketers Bandula Warnapura, Arjuna Ranatunga, Marvan Atapattu, Roshan Mahanama, Kumar Dharmasena, Sidath Wettimuny, Ajith de Silva and Upul Chandana have graced past occasions.

Two cricketers who represented the Olcott cricket tournament for 10 years from 2000 to 2009 are former Air Force Commander Oliver Ranasinghe, an old boy of Dharmapala Vidyalaya, Pannipitiya and DDP Alwis, an old boy of Dharmaraja College, Kandy who led the Rajans to victory in 2000.