The 12th annual Royal-Trinity hockey encounter for the J.C.A Corea Memorial Trophy will be played on the 20th October (Thursday) at the Trinity College Asgiriya Grounds.
Trinity will look forward to win the trophy after 8 long years. Royal has retained the trophy since 2008 with the last encounter ending in favour of Royal College. Royal College Colombo lead the overall tally with five games against three won by Trinity. Three games have ended in draws.
The Trophy is named after C.A. Corea, who was the first Sri Lankan principal at Royal College, succeeding Bradby in 1946. He was at the helm at his alma mater until 1953. He was the first old Royalist to become a Principal of Royal College Colombo.
After being eliminated in the group stage of the Gold & Blue Hockey 7s, Royal College is hoping to prove their talent in this annual encounter. While the annual encounter with S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia is around the corner, the team looks promising having won the all island u-18 national games.
On the other hand Trinity College Kandy has lost the annual encounter against S. Thomas College Mt. Lavinia after 7 years and are looking to win back the lost glory in this encounter. Trinity College hockey team will be led by Sri Lankan Schools’ captain Kasun Jayasinghe while U. Tharatharan will be the deputy.
The under 15 encounter will take place at 2:30 p.m. for the Paul Jeyaraj memorial trophy while under 19 encounter will be at 4.00pm.
Royal College – Manjitha De Silva,Ravindu Ranasinghe, Himesh Koralage, Dinuka Edirisinghe, Uchitha Wasudera, Himesha Hettige, Uvinda Shrika, Induwara Bimsara, Pasindu Charuke,Anojan Ganesharajah,Furqaan Irfan, Gowtham Kirupakaran, Sachin Dissanayake,Yasith De Costa,Sharounthan Balenthiren (VC),Sajana De Zoysa © ,Rohan Dissanayake, Dilan Kavinda, Sachithra Malshan, Nadun Wijayawardena
Trinity College – Sachinther Saundararajan, Dhaanushan Rajamahendran, Abinavan Indrakumar, Sathira Wijethunge, Givantha De Silva, Sangeeth Kanagarajah, Kasun Jayasinghe (Captain), Tharatharan Utharan (VC), Niroshan Krishnamoorthy, Anest Loren, Bhanuka Edirisinghe, Venuja Walgampaya, Aamir Shoaib, Kalpa Hulangamuwa, Avinash Fernando, Waleed Bashique