The confrontation between CH and FC and Police Sports Club in the Dialog 'A' Division Inter-Club League rugby first round match at Police grounds in Police Park today should turn out to be a thriller. The match will kick off at 4.00 pm.
CH and FC who has been getting thrashed by other clubs some seasons ago, came back to their normal pattern of play in their last three matches against Army losing (15-20) against CR & FC winning (19-12) and going down fighting against Havies (26-31) in their last match under the coaching of dedicated and hard working former CR, Kandy SC, Havelocks and national coach Tavita Tulagaese "Laga".
The CH and FC side has been training hard under their new captain Rohitha "Chichi" Rajapaksa last few weeks and are determined to pull off a morale-boosting win like they did against formidable CR side.
Police on the other hand started training under the watchful eyes of their Head Coach Shamly Nawaz, who is also the CR & FC assistant coach some time back under Inthisham Marikkar. They have a really low record thus far losing all their matches hence the Cops will have to be at their very best if they are to beat the rejuvenated CH team in their home grounds at Police Park.
The forte of the CH & FC team has been their power-packed forwards. The CH 'eight' especially their ever green flankers Yoshitha Rajapaksha and Sasanka Ariyaratne, along with Sathya Ranatunga, Terrence Henry and Sajith Saranga have always given a terrific display in the loose but today they will be given a close fight up front by the Police forwards spearheaded by Peterite number eight Sajith Saram, captain Jayanga Silva, former skipper Romesh Archarige, ex Royalist, Havies and CR hooker Lahiru Pavithra ably supported by Hashan Silva.
In the set scrums the CH hooker Pulasthi Gunaratne should get the better of his vis-a-vis Sameera Wickramanayaka while the line outs should be shared between the CH duo of Saranga and Matheesha Sarathchandra and Police's Archarige.
With the halves combination of Avishka Lee and Shamry Burah having hit it off well in the last match the CH side will hope that Avishka will set his three quarters in motion at every turn as they have two hard running centres in Lee Keegal and Dinushan Ariyapala.
In addition they have two experienced wingers in Anuradha Herath and Heshan Maduranga who have stood out with their powerful runs down the flank with Antonian full back Samuel Maduwantha often joining the line to form the overlap and will go as the play maker for CH and if he gives off his best in attack and place kicking then they will pull off a victory.
Going by the two teams starting line ups a close tussle for supremacy can be expected but CH will have the edge in their bid to notch up another win.
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