Roshan Iddamalgoda – 40th MCA President
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Roshan Iddamalgoda
Wattala Antonians cricket captain Roshan Iddamalgoda from Media Vision Advertising was unanimously elected as the new President of the Mercantile Cricket Association (MCA) at its 100th Annual General Meeting held on September 28, 2017 at the MCA Fine Dining Restaurant.
Iddamalgoda, thus became the 40th MCA President overall and the 26th Sri Lankan to hold high office. The MCA was established by the British Ex-pat Planters in 1911 and the first Sri Lankan President was Chandra Schaffter in 1965.
Iddamalgoda played Mercantile Cricket for Heath & Co. from 1987 to 1989 and for Mabroc Tea from 1996 to 2010.
He joined MCA in 2002, held the General Secretary’s post from 2008 to 2012, including the MCA Centenary year in 2011, was one of the Vice President’s from 2013 to 2017 before being the President.
Roshan and Roshan Abeysinghe formed Ragama Cricket Club in 1991; and currently the former is the General Secretary of RCC.
Iddamalgoda served Sri Lanka Cricket in the capacity of an Executive Committee Member and Chairman of the Tournament Committee. Nalin Wickremasinghe from Commercial Bank PLC was retained as the General Secretary.
Office Bearers for 2017/2018
(all elected unanimously)
- Patron: Hemaka Amarasuriya Vice Patrons: C.T.A Schaffter, Upali Dharmadasa and Chrysantha Obeysekere
- Trustees: Thilak de Soyza, K. Mathivanan and Neil Perera
- President: Roshan Iddamalgoda (Media Vision Advertising)
- Vice presidents: H.U.U Buddhima (Prestige Automobile (Pvt) Ltd), Rohana Dissanayake (David Pieris Group of Companies), Wasanthalal Fernando (John Keells Holdings)
- General Secretary: Nalin Wickremasinghe (Commercial Bank PLC)
- Asst. Secretary: Mahesh de Alwis (Fair First Insurance) Treasurer: Thushan Amarasuriya (Singer Sri Lanka PLC)
- Asst. Treasurer: Tarindra Kaluperuma (Stafford Motor Co.)Firms and Representatives: D. Samson & Sons (Rohan Somawansa), Trendex Lanka (Sirosha Gunatillake), First Choice (Pvt) Ltd. (Sanjaya Wijesinghe), Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka (Duminda Pinto), Valibel Finance PLC (Sajeewa Sapukotana)
- Chairman Tournament Committee: Sujeewa de Silva (Sri Lankan Airlines)