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Kamal Samarasinghe, \u201cGuest of Honour at RoyTho 2021, \u2018 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, A TRUE GENTLEMAN, NATURALLY A THOMIAN\u201d<\/span><\/h1>\n

\"Kamal<\/p>\n

Source:<\/span><\/strong>Stcobasydney<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA near fifty-year-old friendship with a kind, gentle and intelligent Thomian to his boot laces, has been a silver lining in my life \u201c<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I met Kamal Samarasinghe in 1970 when he played first XI cricket at S.Thomas’ College against St Benedicts. I myself had been at S.Thomas” Prep, for five years and had fond memories of my time there. St Thomas’ to me was a second home. Kamal was a wicketkeeper and a batsman of no mean repute.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our paths did not cross till we matched wits against each other at cricket. He with the bat and I with the ball. Memory fades but some remain despite the advent of time. Thomian openers in 1970 were Ravi Sathasivam and fresher Kamal Samarasinghe. The Thomian-Bens match heralds the school’s first XI season at the end of the first weekend of each year. Coming into the season was Kamal with an eighty-something against Prince of Wales\u00a0and a fifty vs St Sebastians, upstaging Ravi. P L D Kariyawasam was leading them again whilst I was skip\u00a0of Bens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bens had made a paltry 127 and the Thomian openers placed them on a sound footing at stumps with Kamal\u00a0getting 38 and Ravi twenty-plus to close at 68 for two. I was cock a hoop coming into this game having got\u00a06 for 9 in the previous year to\u00a0bundle them for 42 runs but a repeat was\u00a0thwarted\u00a0when Kamal nonchalantly\u00a0ignored the swinging outswinger. The game was drawn but Kamal had made a\u00a0point. Kamal would bat giving none away with\u00a0bat and pad close together. He placed a high price on his wicket and was extremely selective in his shot selection in building an inning.<\/span><\/p>\n

We were to forge a firm friendship when both of us ended at the same Company in 1978. Kamal joining as an Accountant\u00a0from AMS and me from the Police. Our Office was in front of the Oberoi (that was what it\u00a0was called then) and right adjacent\u00a0to S.Thomas’ Prep on the seaside. Others to join were Ajitha Pasqual of Royal fame with Lalith Wijayasekara the Royal and Sri Lanka Hockey goalkeeper. A motley bunch if ever. With extra time in our hands, we were often pitching our wits at Chess in a loft room (he taught me what a fool’s mate\u00a0was) or walking to the Taj Samudra sea fish restaurant\u00a0to lunch where Kamal’s\u00a0father G V P Samarasinghe frequented along with the Army Commander Sepala\u00a0Artygalle\u00a0et al. Kamal’s dad was\u00a0the Cabinet Secretary at the time. More often than not Kamal’s father noticing\u00a0us would pick up the tab but\u00a0never engaged us in a conversation. I was quick to realize where Kamal’s nonchalance was honed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kamal and I had finished playing serious cricket. He at SSC and I, in the Police. Soon, we were drafted to\u00a0play for Burgher Recreation Club at Sara Trophy level. I recall BRC playing against CCC. Gehan Mendis fresh from English County Cricket had been drafted to open for CCC. He had great scores in England, and much was expected of him. Even as opponents\u00a0we were looking forward to his batting. Ranjit Rajapaksa was\u00a0very quick, and he bowled the first over to Gehan who was all\u00a0grace and but watchful. Stroking a single he crossed to take the second over which was mine. The first two balls were big swinging\u00a0outers which Mendis left. The third was from way outside leg swinging into him. He almost\u00a0played two shots as the ball came like a slow-moving boomerang and hit him around ankle\u00a0height plumb in front. Kamal lost his usual stoic self and burst into laughter. I asked why he was laughing when the\u00a0rest of\u00a0the team was clapping. “Even his second shot was too early”, was Kamal’s reply. Cheeky.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two seasons that we played together at BRC cemented\u00a0our friendship before Kamal tied the knot. Shirakthi, affectionately called\u00a0Dinky snared Kamal and there he lost\u00a0his nonchalance. Or rather was not allowed to. The young couple left our shores to deep Africa. Some godforsaken place called Kaduna and we lost\u00a0contact briefly. We did meet time and again when he visited Sri Lanka, often at his estate in Weligama, where\u00a0we filled the\u00a0gaps and reminisced of\u00a0a time gone by. Coincidentally I was posted to Sydney in 2015, by which time Kamal and Shirakthi had already settled down in Canberra. Kamal had given up smoking by this time despite introducing me to that habit and decided to have two children instead. Shi Ara and Manuk have done their parents proud.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amongst my busy\u00a0schedule in Sydney, I found it exhilarating\u00a0to visit my mate in Canberra to spend a weekend\u00a0with Kamal and Shirakthi at their\u00a0lovely home in\u00a0Canberra. We reminisced over good times gone by, often bending\u00a0our elbows. We found\u00a0solutions to all the\u00a0problems of the world quite forgetting that our\u00a0generation had contributed to them\u00a0partly. It was fun and relaxing nevertheless.<\/span><\/p>\n

We played together at the RoyTho\u00a0seniors in Sydney and Canberra. I qualified through my stint at Prep, but the Royalists insisted that I was an import. By this time Kamal couldn’t\u00a0bat and I couldn’t bowl as before. The enjoyment was yet the same. A near\u00a0fifty-year-old friendship with a kind,\u00a0gentle and intelligent Thomian to his\u00a0bootlaces, has been a\u00a0silver lining in my\u00a0life<\/strong>. We were of a kindred spirit. Shirakthi, Shi Ara, and Manuk are the icing on his cake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for the memories mate. Throw a shrimp on the barbie for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Esto Perpetua\u00a0 Kamal. Cheers too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lal Wickramathunga<\/strong>\u00a0 (former Sri Lanka Consular General NSW & QLD, Australia) <\/span><\/p>\n

\"NATURALLY<\/p>\n

CRICKET – Opening batsman and wicket keeper<\/span><\/p>\n

S. Thomas\u2019 College Mt Lavinia\u00a0\u00a0 –\u00a0\u00a0 Awarded STC 1st XI colours in 1970,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0 Re-awarded in 1971 and 1972<\/span><\/p>\n

International Ceylon Schools vs Australian Schools three test series in 1972. Played for the Ceylon Schools team in all three tests<\/span><\/p>\n

SL Club Premier Division\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in the P. Sara Trophy tournament 1972\/73\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– Burgher Recreation Club (BRC) P. Sara Trophy tournament\u00a0\u00a0 1978\/79 and 1979\/80<\/span><\/p>\n

In Australia – Associated with Canberra Lions, Canberra Ceylonese Cricket Club and Canberra Masters Cricket club at various times as a player, captain and office bearer\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

RUGGER – Awarded STC 1st XV colours in 1971<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to Kamal Samarasinghe, being the \u201cGuest of Honour\u201d at the Annual ROYAL-THOMIAN 2021 Cricket encounters, played at Memorial Oval, Ingleburn, NSW on the 10th of April 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

S. Thomas\u2019 College Old Boys\u2019 Association NSW\/ACT \u2013 Committee 2021-22<\/span><\/p>\n

Kulasiri Jayasinge \u00a0\u00a0Eksath Perera\u00a0 \u00a0Sanjiv Vivekanandan\u00a0 \u00a0Rajeeva De Alwis \u00a0\u00a0Harshitha Abeysinghe<\/span><\/p>\n

Lesley Manickam \u00a0\u00a0Kumar Rasiah \u00a0\u00a0Nihal Ramanayake \u00a0\u00a0Anuk Silva \u00a0\u00a0Chinthaka Mendis \u00a0\u00a0Kanchana Fernando<\/span><\/p>\n

Chandaka Fernando \u00a0\u00a0Rajiv Chinniah\u00a0 \u00a0Duke Ramachandran\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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