Third year player all-rounder Dasanayake Mudiyanselage Sakun Rukshan Dissanayake is captaining the first eleven cricket team of St. Johns College Panadura in the ongoing under 19 cricket season. His deputy will be Ashan Dilhara and the Coach and Master in charge are Naminda Dissanayake and Upul Gunatilleke respectively.
Johnians who have a proud record in cricket for more than twelve decades are playing in the under 19 division one cricket tournament for the first time and last year they beat St. Thomas College Matara to qualify for the division one. Sakun will be the first ever Johnian to lead his alma mater in division one.
This right hand batsman and off spinner has to face a big task because this year they have only three senior players and the rest are freshers.
But according to Sakun their principal M. Harshana Peiris and all other officials are extending their support
This season they have eight matches on the card and already they have played with St. Aloysius College Galle which ended in a no decision due to rain. They will be playing Royal College Panadura in their Big Match and they are down to take on them in a Limited over game too.
Sakun joined this educational institute in 2005 to the grade one and his first teacher was Mrs. Wijenayake and commenced cricket when he represented the under 13 division one team in the year 2010 and in the following year captaining the side he passed the 300 mark and in 2014 and 2015 playing in the under 15 scored 270 and 300 runs respectively.
In his first year in the under 17 he played under Sithum Pramod and in the next year he captained the team he got a fifty against Holy Cross College and passed the 350 run mark. In the same year he played for the first eleven and scored 490 runs. Last year under Madun Ahangama they clinched the division two title and he scored 800 runs including a century and six fifties. Also he carried away the Best Batsman award
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