Sri Lanka: Sixes in one match (19 June 1999)
Herby Jayasuriya's article in your issue of June 7 brought back nostalgic memories of my association with those two fine personalities, Clement Cotilingam and Dyce Duckworth in the Prisons team from the early forties upto the seventies during which
19-Jun-1999
19 June 1999
Sri Lanka: Sixes in one match
RJN Jordan
Herby Jayasuriya's article in your issue of June 7 brought back
nostalgic memories of my association with those two fine
personalities, Clement Cotilingam and Dyce Duckworth in the Prisons
team from the early forties upto the seventies during which period of
time we participated in the 'A' to 'D' division in Government Servile
tournaments.
Both retired as Prison Superintendents and were both products of S.
Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, where they excelled in cricket, soccer
and athletics. As Herby mentioned Clements demise came about in 1973
whilst Dyce Duckworth retired and left for Australia in the
mid-seventies, the latter last serving as Superintendent, Negombo
Prison. Herby's reference to Dyce having schooled at Wesley is a small
mix-up as he apparently talks of another time Wesley cricketer, A.V.
Duckworth, who played with distinction for the Treasury with Raju
Coomarswamy and others.
Another anecdote worth recalling as a cricketing record is the
breaking of stumps on three separate occasions in the same match by
that Ceylon fast bowler D.S. Jayawardena on the Tamil Union grounds.
The match was the Police vs Prisons 'A' division final about the year
1944 when the Police team included stalwarts like Malcolm Spittel, Joe
Misso, Vernon Prins and L.M.P. de Silva.
Our team also included Bertie Wijesinghe (he resigned within an years
service), Tom Melder, the Benedictine all-rounder, the two Thomians
Clement Dyce among others.
I played for my college team, St. Anthony's Katugastota, for three
years in the mid-thirties and thereafter joined the Saracens and
played a few matches under Gerry Guneratne.
Source :: The Daily News