Over Fifty Year old Royalists from Melbourne visit Sydney Reciprocating an inaugural visit by the Sydney Old Boys to Melbourne a year ago, a team of over fifty year old cricketers (and some of their wives) led by Sam Lawton (Captained Royal in 1974) graced us with their presence in Sydney recently. It was a great week end, with a pre-match dinner feted privately by some Sydney old boys at the Blue Elephant Function centre in Sydney on Saturday 30th of January 2010, and was well attended by over a hundred Sydney based old boys & wives, who reminisced about the good old days and were pleasantly entertained .
Veteran Sri Lankan actor Shesha Palihakkara passes away Veteran actor, producer, and dancer of Sri Lanka, Shesha Palihakkara has passed away today.
Shesha Palihakkara entered the Sinhala cinema by choreographing movies like Ahankara Isthri and Puduma Leli. He got his first starring role in Matalang in 1953.
Jaffna-Colombo bus service commences The public transportation services in Jaffna commenced today with 175 passengers boarding four buses from Jaffna to Medawachchiya.
The inaugural game in memory of the founder of the Lanka Lions Cricket Club, Sydney was played at the George Thornton Reserve cricket grounds, Sydney on Sunday the 6th of December 2009, between a team of Over 50 year old Royalists whose prowess was derived more from “text book” cricket played under the open top desk-tops at college, while teachers delivered their discourse on hard to understand subject matter, interspersed with sporadic bouts of street cricket with dustbins for wickets AND the over 50s from Sri Lanka Lions, some of whom had played school and club cricket back in the motherland. While the betting at the commencement of the game was hugely in favour of the latter, the odds fluctuated throughout the day and at one stage threatened to go the way of the underdogs.
