127th Battle of the Blues! -Royal College wins! WOOT!
March 20, 2006
Oh well you guys must be wondering what the hell is the battle of the blues and all….well here is a small explanation:
Royal College and St. Thomas College are the two most distinguished and outstanding schools of Sri Lanka. They were built almost 150 years ago by the British and its a big competition to get into one of these schools. And once you have studied in one of these schools its a lifelong experience and there are many memorable stories to pass on for the generations to come. And I am proud to be a Alumni of Royal College Colombo. It was a big journey and alot of hard work that got me to this incredible destiny and I will never forget this experience!
Now to Royal Thomian Cricket match. This match has been playing from the year of 1838 and it is considered as one of the longest uninterrupted cricket matches in the world. Its simply a cricket match between these two schools that lasts 3 days. But about a month before this memorable event there are other amazing events that take place to boost the spririt of the students. Some of them are a Parade along the main roads of colombo, A big assembly symbolizing the importance fo the match, many speeches from famous Alumni sayign how important it is to be a royalist, introduction of the players and other thigns like burning coffins which are covered with the opponent school’s flag, gaining support from other schools, making surprise visits to other schools interrupting classes and doing various fun stuff oh man tis a big jounrney. There are much more but they are quite vulgar to mention down here.
The Royal Thomian Crciket team:
But Royal College has been either losing or the match had been declared a draw for alot of past years until 2006! WOOT! ROYAL COLLEGE WON! It was amazing and the score was like 432 for 7 wickets which is said to a record after 100 somethign years! But thomians only scored 287 runs. And 104 runs and 140 runs were respectively scored by S. Senaratne and M.Maligaspe. It s a record breaking partnership too! Man how happy was I to hear this! The best part is one of my class mates named Feroze Ahamed was also one of the players and he did a great job too. Well all of you did a great job. And all the royalists too who werent in the team for showing immense support for royal! I am so so so happy! I wish I was there especially when I saw pic of my friends enjoying the memorable event! Anyways atleast I get to share with you guys about this wonderful event!
Royal after the victory:
Have fun!
