Former St.Anthony’s College Kandy, Sri Lanka seven a side and Sri Lanka national 15 a side fly half Samuel Maduwantha has decided to join Navy SC during the upcoming inter club rugby season 2020/21.
Samuel was one of the prized products to come out of St.Anthony’s College scoring 105 points while playing as full back in 2016, the year they were captained by another national player in centre, Dinuk Amarasinghe.
After leaving school Samuel joined CH and FC to improve his career in club rugby. In the Inter-club rugby season he was in brilliant form for CH team while contributing 158 points in 2017/18 and herculean task of scoring an exceptional 200 points in 2018/19 rugby season with his dazzling display.
Affectionately nicknamed “Sama” among the rugby loving public in Sri Lanka, Samuel had the distinction of representing the Sri Lanka national 15 a side team in 2019 rugby Asiad in Chinese Taipei under the captaincy of Omalka Gunaratne.
Speaking to the Daily News all the way from Kandy, Samuel Maduwantha said “There were lot of question marks and doubt about everyone’s mind that, which team I will join to represent the upcoming 2020/21 rugby season. So I decided to open out the hot news to Daily News first. I have joined Navy Sports Club to play the upcoming 2020/21 rugby season. All these things were possible due to lord Jesus blessings. I also wanted to especially thank Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa for giving me the opportunity to play for CH and FC, also not forgetting Yoshitha Rajapaksa, Rohitha Rajapaksa and the team manager Dhammika Medagedara for the utmost help given to me while playing for them, where I had the opportunity of representing CH for nearly three consecutive years. Finally I wanted to thank my parents, brother, Selina and all my family friends for the support given me to continue playing rugby in every way possible and I’m very much grateful to them. Now I will put all my effort and rally around with my Navy team mates to give off my very best for the Sailors to achieve success.”
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