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The force from Mt.Lavinia eyeing for their first win
By Shamseer Jaleel
The Thomian cricket team for 2003/2004 is packed with seven coloursmen. A school that has a proud tradition in cricket has contributed much to the development of cricket in the country by producing some top quality players of the calibre of Duleep Mendis, Kaushik Amalean, Vajira Wijegunawardena, Anura Tennakoon, Micheal Tissera, Guy De Alwis, Aruna Gunawardena, Saliya Ahangama, Dennis Chanmugam and their present coach Ranil Abeynaike to name a few.

The Thomian cricket team for 2003/2004 is led by Sri Lankan under 19 player and stumper of the side Kausal Silva. Kausal who is a 3rd year coloursman scored 715 runs and took 40 victims last season. Kausal who will be touring with the under 19 team to Pakistan will be the stand by wicket keeper on tour and later this side will be going for the World Cup which will be hosted by Bangladesh.

He also played for the national under 17team at the Tri Nation series involving India and Bangladesh and played a leading role during recently concluded Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka. His deputy is Videsh Balasubramaniam who is also a 3rd year player and represented the Under 15 national team at the World Cup which was held in England. He played only 5 matches last season as he sustained an injury, but now has fully recovered and will share the new ball with Shehan Shanthikumar who is a second year player. Shehan scored more than 500 runs and took 30 wickets last season.

The former Sri Lankan test captain Duleep Mendis' son Sanjeev Mendis who is in his 2nd year will be the first change bowler and will be strengthening the middle order batting coming in at number 7. Second year players Isuru Warunakulasuriya and Navin Perera will open batting. The lads from Mount Lavinia have already played matches but, are still to win a game outright.

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