Saturday, April 21, 2012

Sylvestrian W.M.Mufees won junior carrom single title in the 11th Junior National Carrom Championship

  Sylvestrian W.M.Mufees won junior carrom single title in the 11th Junior National Carrom Championship which worked off at the Carrom Federation premises in Maharagama 





Final results -
Under 13 girls singles final - Tharushi Himahansika (Mahamaya College, Kandy) beat Tharushika Chamodi (Samudradevi Balika Vidyalaya) - 25/23

Under 13 boys singles final - Senath Rajapakshe (Royal College, Colombo) beat Dakshina Alwis K.N. Amerasinghe (Mahanama College, Colombo) - 25/6

Under 15 girls singles final - Detuni Nomaya (Dharmapala, Pannipitiya) beta Suchini Shashikala (Mahamaya B.V) -25/10, 25/8

Under 15 boys singles final - W.M.Mufees (St. Sylvester's College, Kandy) beat Diluk Perera (Dharmapala, Pannipitiya) - 25/4, 25/4

Under 17 girls singles final - Rebecca Dalrene (All Saints, Borella) beta Akshana Perera (Vishaka Vidyalaya) - 25/18, 15/25, 25/19

Under 17 boys singles final - Manuka Ashen (Royal College, Colombo) beat Mohamed Shaheed (Royal College, Colombo) - 25/11, 25/10

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Sylvestrians got Third place in Dialog Youth T20 cricket tournament.

Schools T20 third place play off: St. Sylvester’s beat Richmond by 9 wickets

Richmond 47 all out (18.1) 

Sahan Ramesh 18
 K. Mendis 15

Nimesha Mendis 5/10
Sumeda Dissanayake 2/07)

St. Sylvester’s 51 for 1 (6.1) 

Waruna Wijesinghe 34 n.o.



captions of school teams

sylvestrian proud caption Waruna Wijesinghe ( 4th in left to right)



St.Sylvesters Rugby Team 2012





Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Sylvesters blog post on your mobile





Nazeem-one of the best sportsmen of St. Sylvester's


 Superintendent of Police and Assistant Director of Police Training School at Kundasale A.H.M. Nazeem is one of the finest all-round Sportsmen produced by St. Sylvesters College, Kandy, who represented Sri Lanka with distinction at hockey.

Soft spoken Nazeem played cricket, soccer, hockey and also participated in athletics and boxing for his school and excelled in all. The school did not have rugby during his time, and he would have played this game too.
Starting from cricket, he played for his school for four years ended by captaining the school cricket team in 1978. Those were the days when there was no tournament matches and it was all friendly and traditional matches which was around 7 to 8 matches for a season in all.

Thousand runs or 100 wickets in a season was never heard of and to achieve these miles one has to reel off a century in every match or get a haul of 10 wickets or more in every match.

Nazeem was an attacking batsman who scored over 500 runs per season and in his final year he scored centuries against Isipathana College, Dharmaraja College and Ibbagamuwa Central College and also scored 5 half centuries. His medium pacers brought him a haul of 60 wickets displaying consistency with both bat and the ball. He also played cricket for the Police team.
At soccer he was a centre forward and captained the school in 1978 and also turned up for the Police team when time permitted as he was engrossed in another sport which was his forte.

It was at hockey that Nazeem exuded his brilliance as he captained the school as a full back. While still at school he played for the Kandy District team at the Senior Hockey Nationals.
Joining the Police force he continued his hockey in a big way and represented the country for 8 years playing against top nations which toured this country.

He also played in the Asia Cup Hockey Championship and toured many countries. His highest representation was playing for Sri Lanka in the Asian Games.

He played hockey for 17 years and retired from the game when he felt that he has had enough and should give way to the youngsters. At hockey he also captained the Kandy District and the State Services hockey team, in 1994 and led the side to win the all island Mayors Cup hockey championship. He led the Police team which won the Moore Shield and the Andriesz Shield also the all island sevens hockey tournament conducted by the Matale Hockey Association.

He recalled that one year at the senior hockey nationals the Colombo Hockey Association had a crack side with no less than nine national players doing service for them and they went out favourites to win the championship title against State Services which had a more or less scratch side. But the State Services put up a fine display to defeat the star studded Colombo team 4 -2 to win the title. Nazeem manning the last line of defence put up an attacking display to score 2 of these goals.
An incident he recalled was playing for the Police team in a tournament abroad, one of the umpires blundered and the hockey fanatics of that country went berserk throwing missiles and all sorts of missiles into the field and they had to scamper for safety and a riot squad arrived in the grounds to quell the riots before it got out of hand. They were escorted to the hotel and no one was injured.

He introduced hockey to Seetha Devi BV, Kandy before M.A.M. Ahroof took.
He played inter-divisional rugby for the Police and also cricket in the Donovan Andree Shield tournament and in one season took 50 wickets.
He also coached the State Services women's hockey team and the Police women's hockey team.

Some of his contemporaries at hockey were Malcolm Perera, Anton Perera, Dr. R. Mahendra, M.Ayub, Mansur Jhan, who went on to represent the country. He boxed for the College, was a member of the cadet platoon and the school western band.

Article by- S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen, Kandy Sports Corrt

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Sylvestrians beat Anthonians After 7 years


St. Sylvesters vs St. Anthonys

niththawela rugger stadium

03 April 2012


score
St. Sylvesters - 36 St. Anthonys - 22

Sylvestrians beat Anthonians After

7 years at the same stadium and same time..


.
SYLVESTRIANS ARE BRAVE IN ALL DEEDS