U-19 Rugby: St. Anthony's vs Kingswood match rescheduled for Tuesday

The Singer Schools Rugby League Championship match between St. Anthony's College and Kingswood College, scheduled for today (7) was called off due to bad weather and rescheduled for Tuesday (10).

An official of Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Association stated that the match would be replayed on Tuesday at the same venue after heavy downpours forced the match to be abandoned.

The college songs were sung with a fair amount of gusto. 

The teams were lined up for the introduction which never took place. 

All attention was on the external factor. 

The casus belli was the state of the ground. 

The markings had been obliterated and Referee Aquib Jamaldeen, quite rightly was not prepared to start the game in such a situation. 

The rain had cleared by about 8.15pm. 

The Under-18 match was called off because of rain. 

And the home team was advised at that point that some steps should be taken to make play in the main game possible. 

Sadly nothing was done, save for a lone worker sprinkling some white substance on some of the lines. 

The five yard and the ten yard lines on both sides were not clearly visible. 

A little quick thinking and decision making could have helped save the situation. 

After all, there were three junior teams of the host school and their services-could have been obtained. 

It was thoroughly disappointing for the teams on the rugby faithful who had turned up to witness what would have been a very good game of rugby.