It is with great pleasure that we announce the first ever winners of the Trinity College Kandy Old Boys Association British Columbia Canada Scholarships: Duncan White Memorial Scholarship awarded to; Mahil Kothalawala for his academic excellence by obtaining 9 A’s at the GCE O/L examination. Dr. Senaka Bibile Memorial Scholarship awarded to; Janishka Premasinghe for his high potential in Cricket. Janishka was a member of the unbeaten 2011 TCK Cricket  [ Read More ]

Trinity College put up a solid effort to trounce Thurstan College by 41 points to 3 in a schools rugby tournament fixture at Pallekele. The winners led 24 points to nothing at the breather. Lions accumulated their points off three goals, four tries while the Thurstanites could not muster anything beyond a solitary drop goal. Lions scored off their full back Dinuk Nayakaratne, winger C. Ratwatte, flanker K. Yatwara, centre  [ Read More ]

Will history repeat itself with grisly accuracy when prop forward Murad Ramzeen’s Trinitians lock horns with No 8 Shehan Pathirana’s yet unconquered Royalists at the Royal Sports complex tomorrow will be the question on the lips of many a rugby connoisseur and historian albeit Royal being favourites to win the game and the Shield with an already eight point lead in the bag a fortnight ago at Bogambara. This writer’s  [ Read More ]

Trinity rugby now on right track- Lord Byron Trinity College Rugby is now on the right track says the new Chairman of the Old Trintians Rugby Scrummage Byron Fernando. Byron Fernando, himself the No.8 Forward and one of the six Trinity College Rugby Lionsmen under Centre Ravi Bandaranayake in 1981 whose team regained the Bradby Shield after four years, had a dream finish in 1982, the year he led the  [ Read More ]

  “The greatest comeback in Bradby Shield history.” Select ‘480p’ in each video to view in highest quality. Enjoy.   Part  1 : Part  2 : Part  3 : Part  4 : Part  5 : Part  6 : Part  7 : Part 8 : Part  9 :   Click Here to access the entire playlist on youtube. www.keepvid.com can be used to download the videos. Copy paste the youtube url of  [ Read More ]

Royalty loses both crown and jewels! To merely report that fifteen gallant and resurgent Trinitians led by that power house Prop Forward Murad Ramzeen knocked hitherto unconquered  No 8 Forward Shehan Pathirana’s  Royalists  off their feet last Saturday,  would tantamount to an epitome of the Latin cliché- Suppresso Veri, the truth but not the whole truth. In doing so, fifteen spirited Trinitians with youthful  exuberance,  albeit an eight point  deficit  [ Read More ]

The SLRFU named a 30 man squad for the Kandy Reds team which will be coached by Nihal ‘Viper’ Gunaratne. Kandy has not yet appointed a captain and will have two strong contenders for the prestigious position. Trinity skipper and front row forward Murad Ramzeen will be one contender while the other will be the burly Anthonian skipper and number eight Sanka Rajaguru. The Kandy Reds team will be dominated  [ Read More ]

Trinity College Kandy came back from a deficit of 8 points in the first leg to give a brilliant display of running rugby not only to beat Royal College but also to win the Bradby Shield handsomely with a 40 Points (3 Goals, 2 Tries, 2 Penalties, 1 Drop Goal) to 5 Points (1 Try) win in their 67th year of the series at the Royal Sports Complex yesterday. At  [ Read More ]

The live rugby match will be broadcasted here on 11th June 2011: 4.30 p.m. onwards Sri Lanka Local Time. GMT 11 a.m, Japan 8 p.m, Melbourne 9 p.m,  US Central 6 a.m. onwards. The match is now over. Thank you for watching. Complete Recorded Match Video: Click Here to view the page with the remaining parts. Match Highlights: Final 2nd Leg Score: Trinity – 40 Royal – 05 Final Overall  [ Read More ]

Trinity, led by burly No 8 forward and Rugby Lion Ravi Balasuriya, took on Lock Forward Seyed Hashim’s Royalists in 1977, acutely conscious  of  its loss of the Bradby Shield in the two previous years, and more so, by the series record the previous year  1976 – /0-36 at Longden Place and 6-25. Ravi Balasuriya The only scoring that Trinity did which was in the second leg at Bogambara was,  [ Read More ]