Former Trinity skipper Byron Fernando and ex-Royal captain Ted Hiran Muttiah will be the chief guests for the 75th Bradby Shield Encounter between Royal and Trinity which will be played in May this year.
The first leg will be played on May 11 at Pallekelle and the return match will be worked off at Royal Sports Complex on May 25.
Byron who captained Trinity in 1982 was on outstanding Number Eight who had a knack of joining the line to form the overlap and was a reliable place kicker who piloted them to victory on many occasions including the Bradby Shield match in which he contributed all the points by firing across three penalties in Trinity’s 9-6 win at Longden Place and put over a penalty and a drop goal in their 6-4 victory in the return game at Nittawela enabling the Lions to retain the Bradby Shield with an aggregate of 15-10. He migrated to Australia soon after leaving school.
Ted Hiran Muttiah who hails from a rugby playing family skippered Royal College in 1982 and went on to play club rugby as a schoolboy in the same year for Kandy SC.
He joined CR and FC in 1983 and represented the club in 1983 and 1984 and went onto don the Sri Lanka Jersey in the 1984 Rugby Asiad in Fukuoka City, Japan in which he scored two superb tries to give Sri Lanka a 14-12 win over Malaysia.
Hiran too migrated to Australia in 1985 but has returned to Sri Lanka and now works for the South Asia Gateway Terminal and is presently Deputy President of the Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club.
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