HNB signs up as official banking partner to Roy-Tho Big Match 2017

HNB Head of Marketing Chammika Weerasinghe and HNB Head of Business Development Supun Dias handing over the sponsorship cheque to Royal College, Colombo Principal B.A. Abeyratne and S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia Warden Rev. Fr. Marc Billimoria overseen by Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera. Also in the picture from left: Co-Secretary, Royal -Thomian Match Organizing Committee 2017 Mahesh Nanayakkara (RC), Co-Chairman, Royal-Thomian Match Organising Committee 2017 Eransaka Perera (STC), Co-Chairman Royal - Thomian Match Organising Committee 2017 Ashan De Silva (RC) and  Co-Secretary, Royal-Thomian Match Organising Committee 2017 Kumudu Warnakulasuriya (STC)

Sri Lanka’s premier private commercial bank, HNB Plc, came forward to serve as the official banker to the country’s blue-ribbon cricket encounter, the 138th Battle of the Blues, for the second consecutive year. 

Taking place at the SSC Grounds from 9-11 March, the match between Royal College and S. Thomas’ College is the second-longest uninterrupted cricket series in the world, second only to the annual encounter played between St. Peter’s College, Adelaide and Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, Australia, which began just one year earlier than the Royal-Thomian series. 

The first Battle of the Blues took place at Galle Face Green at the present location of the Taj Samudra Hotel, and commenced what has since been a hotly contested game between two of the country’s oldest and most respected schools.