Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy

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Some historical details

Gaurav Gupta, Trinity College, a blast from the past, August 11, 2017: The Times of India

A visit to the Asgiriya Stadium here in Kandy , which used to host Tests before the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium came up, takes you back to the old times, when cricket grounds in this country had a British look and feel about them.

As we walk in, a group of school cricketers are involved in an `intense' game, at a venue where Test cricketers once used to ply their trade.An electronic scoreboard, sponsored by an `old boy' from the college (it's a boys only college) is a new addition which perhaps connects the ground from the past to the present.

Historically, Asgiriya, a property of the Trinity College here, must go down as the only Test venue in the world which belonged to a college. Among the Trinity College alma matter is a certain Kumar Sangakkara, who with 12,400 runs under his belt in 134 Tests, was Sri Lanka's highest run-scorer in Test cricket. Apart from Sangakkara, who passed out from here in 1996, Trinity College has also produced other cricketers like Graeme Labrooy , Ranjan Madugalle, Ravi Ratnayeke, Nilantha Ratnayake, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Sachith Pathirana, and Niroshan Dickwella and Lahiru Kumara, who're both a part of the current Sri Lankan team.

“He's a great person. He's always ready to support us not just financially, also when we need his presence to motivate the children-not just the cricketers but our rugby players too. This year, he came as a chief guest for our `big cricket' final. Last year, he gave a speech to motivate our rugby team. So, he remains involved with us,“ says Milinda Jayawaredene, secretary of the Old Trinitians Sports Club (OTSC), which is located in the premises of this college.

The `big cricket final' that Jayawaredene refers to is the annual inter-school final, usually played between Trinity College and St Anthony's School, which boasts of off-spin great Muttiah Muralitharan as its ex-student.

For some reason, though, you don't find a single photograph of Sangakkara at Trinity , though his name is mentioned as one of the captains of the OTSC (back in 1997) on the honours board.