115th Battle of Maroons kick off today

Kingswood College

Dharmaraja College

By Shamseer Jaleel 

The 115th Battle of the Maroons Big Match encounter between Dharmaraja College and Kingswood College will be played at the Asgiriya International Cricket Stadium today (23 September) and on 24 September. 

This encounter is played for T.B. Tennekoon Shield.

Sachintha Dissanayake will lead the Rajans outfit while the Randles Hill School will be led by Mahasen Abeykoon.

Rajans in their 50-limited-over encounter were able to beat only Wattala Antonians.

The same fate for their opponents as they too won only one encounter against Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte. 

In their traditional two-day encounter Rajans drew Ananada, Mahinda, St Anthony’s and Trinity and lost out to Nalanda and St. Sylvester’s. 

Kingswood College drew in their two-day match against Prince of Wales.

For Rajans their leading scorer is Sachintha Dissanayake who scored over 700 Runs including a sparkling century against Ananda College plus six half centuries. Other leading players are Pulindu Perera, Tharusha Wanninanayke, and Dulara Bandulasena.

For the Randles Hill school, Ganuka Saluwadana scored 300 plus and Hasintha Polkotuwa scored over 200 runs and took 15 wickets as they played only a few games this season. Of the 114 Encounters played so far Dharmaraja has won 35 encounters while Kingswood has won 19 matches and 60 Encounters have ended in draws.  The last win by any team was in 2015 when Dharmaraja won the match under the captaincy of Tharusha Weragoda.

This is the oldest Big Match in the Central Province.