Kandy Sports Club (rugby)

Kandy S.C
Full name Kandy Athletic, Boating, Cricket, Football and Dancing Club (formally)
Union Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union
Founded 1874 (1874)
Location Kandy, Sri Lanka
Ground(s) Bogambara Stadium (until 1939)
Nittawela Rugby Stadium
Chairman Lasantha Wijesuriya
President Dr. Sarath Kapuwatte
Coach(es) Sean Wijesinghe
Captain(s) Fazil Marija
Roshan Weerarathne (Acting)
League(s) Dialog Rugby League
Clifford Cup
2015/16 Dialog Rugby League season 1
Team kit
Official website
www.kandysc.lankapanel.net

Kandy Sports Club (better known as Kandy SC) is a Division 'A' rugby union team, based in Kandy, Sri Lanka, competing in the Dialog Rugby League. The club has been the most successful Sri Lankan club in the Sri Lanka Rugby Championship, winning ? titles, as well as nineteen Clifford Cups, winning 17 titles in the last twenty years, which is the most number of wins by any club since the expanded competition commenced in 1950. In the period between 1995 and 2012 the club did not lose a Clifford Cup title, although in 1998 there was no tournament and in 2006 the club withdrew from the tournament.[1] Kandy SC had won the league title for a record nine consecutive years between 2000 and 2009.[2]

History

The Kandy Sports Club was founded in 1874 by a group expatriate coffee planters and others working in the plantations sector in and around Kandy, as the Kandy Athletic, Boating, Cricket, Football and Dancing Club.[3] In 1888, 14 years later, the name was changed to Kandy Sports Club when the club also started playing rugby, hockey and polo. The home grounds was Bogambara grounds until 1939 when the British Colonial Army took over during the Second World War. Later the buildings were taken over by the General Hospital to house its offices, however Kandy SC continued to play rugby at the Bogambara grounds without a club house. In 1949 the Municipal Council released the garbage dumping ground area at Nittawela to the club.[4]

From 1997 to 2009 Kandy SC has won every President's Trophy Knockout Tournament with the exception of the 1998 series, where it lost 26-30 in the final round to Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club (CR&FC).[5][6]

On March 10, 2010 the rugby team of the Kandy Sports Club left for a 15-day tour of Dubai and South Africa. The club played one match in Dubai and two in South Africa. This was the first time Kandy SC toured two different countries on one tour.[7]

Stadium

Players

The Kandy Sports Club was founded by a group expatriate coffee planters, however it has mainly had local players coming in from Kandyan school teams, namely Trinity College, Kandy which has by far the greatest, longest and an unparalleled rugby history and tradition in Sri Lanka, Kingswood College which was the first school to introduce rugby in Sri Lanka (by L. E. Blaze, an Old-Trinitian), though it gave up the game soon after and St. Anthony’s College which joined in as a progressive force. Other schools like Vidyartha College, Dharmaraja College and St. Sylvester's College have also had a long history in the sport while producing many players.[8]

Current squad

The squad as of November 2013:

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR nationality.

Player Position Union
Kishore Jehan Prop Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Dimithri Wijethunga Prop Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Piyumal Manchanayake Prop
Damith Dissanayake Hooker
Uchitha Jayasooriya Hooker
Yakoob Ali Hooker
Shehan Pathirana Lock Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Sayuru Anthony Lock Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Gayan Ratnayake Lock
Dinuka Perera Lock
Sashika Jayawardena Flanker Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Chris Cloete Flanker South Africa South Africa
Chanaka Bandara Flanker
Asitha Ratnayake Flanker
Chathu Ratnayake Flanker
Heshan Kalhara Number 8 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Buwaneka Udangamuwa Number 8 Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Player Position Union
Roshan Weeraratne Scrum-half Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Srinath Sooriyabandara Scrum-half Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Fazil Marija (c) Fly-half Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Arshad Jamaldeen Fly-half
Pradeep Liyanage Centre Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Gayan Weeraratne Centre Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Richard Dharmapala Centre
Oscar Umar Centre Kenya Kenya
Oshan Perera Centre
Anurudda Wilwara Wing
Lavanga Perera Wing Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Vishwamitra Jayasinghe Wing Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Dharshana Ettipola Wing
Nigel Ratwatte Fullback Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Tharindu Chanaka Fullback
Danush Dayan Fullback
Thilina Wijesinghe Fullback

Current internationals

Notable Foreign Players

Notable players

The Kandy Sports Club has had some notable players including players who have played internationally and internationals who have played for Kandy. Some notable players include: Sri Lanka skipper and dynamic Anthonian Priyantha Ekanayake with Lakshaman Ekanayake, Nalaka Weerakkoddy, Leroy Fonseka, Manjula Pathirana, Shyam Sideek, Rizvi Suhaib, Inthi Marikar, Lasantha Wijesuriya, Fijians Kitioni Ratrudradra, Bati Penaia, Tony Greanny and Viliame Satala.[9]

Out of the key expat players over the years Meli Nakuta & Viliame Satala have represented Fiji in the World Cup in 1999, Manasa Quro in 1991, while Kitioni Ratudrara, & Apisai Nagata have also represented Fiji at the highest level

  • Achala Perera
  • Amila Bandara
  • Ananda Kasthuriarachchi
  • Anuranga Walpola
  • Aravinda Udangamuwa
  • Bati Penaia
  • Buddhi Talagampola
  • Chamara Withanage
  • Dharshana Ettipola
  • Dilip Selvam
  • Erande Swarnatillake
  • Faizal Marija
  • Gayan Ratnage
  • Gayan Weeraratne
  • Haris Omar
  • Inthi Marikar
  • Imran Bisthamin
  • Indrajith Banaranayake
  • Kasun Silva
  • Kasun Yasaisuru
  • Kishore Jehan
  • Kitioni Ratrudradra
  • Krishantha Rajapakse
  • Kusal Rankothge
  • Lakshaman Ekanayake
  • Lalantha Karunatilake
  • Lasantha Wijesuriya
  • Leroy Fonseka
  • Malinga Godigamuwa
  • Manjula Pathirana
  • Mohammed Jabbar
  • Mohammed Rizvy
  • Mohammed Sabry
  • Mohammed Sheriff
  • Nalaka Weerakkody
  • Navinda Pullukuttiarachchi
  • Niranjan Ranasinghe
  • Pradeep Basnayake
  • Pradeep Liyanage
  • Prasad Chathuranga
  • Priyantha Ekanayake
  • Radhika Hettiarachchi
  • Rizvi Suhaib
  • Roshan Weeraratne
  • Sajith Saranga
  • Saliya Kumara
  • Sameera Silva
  • Sanjeewa Jayasinghe
  • Satala Vallimoni
  • Sean Wijesinghe
  • Senaka Bandara
  • Shashika Jayawardena

Coaches

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Period Kit manufacturer Title sponsor
2000– Canterbury of New Zealand Cargills (Ceylon) PLCEtisalat (Sri Lanka)Singer Corporation

Club honours

This is incomplete:

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.nation.lk/2010/08/08/sports5.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.sports.lk/2010/04/kandy-dominance-under-stern-test/
  3. ↑ http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/06/11/spo15.asp
  4. ↑ http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/02/07/kandy-sc-will-continue-to-dominate-rugby/
  5. ↑ http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/06/11/spo15.asp
  6. ↑ http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/09/07/spo04.asp
  7. ↑ http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2010/3/54711.html
  8. ↑ http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/06/11/spo15.asp
  9. ↑ http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/06/11/spo15.asp

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