The Forty Club on tour to Sri Lanka (16 February 1999)

16 February 1999

The Forty Club on tour to Sri Lanka

The Daily News

The Forty Club, founded in 1936 and whose present president is Jack A. Bailey are on their first ever cricket tour of Sri Lanka.

In recent years the club has toured South Africa, Kenya, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Malaysia and Japan.

The aim of the club is "to take cricket to the schools by offering them fixtures against experienced cricketers who would encourage schoolboys to play the game to the highest standards of behaviour and performance and in the best spirit of the game".

The club has grown into the world's largest wandering cricket club and has a worldwide membership of some 4000.

The 30-member team which also comprises former Sri Lanka all-rounder Tony Opatha, arrived in Sri Lanka last week and travel to Kandy to take on St. Anthony's College in a one-day fixture on Wednesday.

They opened the tour with a match against the ACUSL at the SSC grounds which was followed by a match against Prince of Wales at Moratuwa and against SSC yesterday.

Feb. 18 v Regional Under 17 at Asgiriya Stadium
Feb. 21 v Regional Board Over 45 at Radella Stadium
Feb. 22 v Cavaliers at Radella Stadium
Feb. 25 v Wesley College at Campbell Park
Feb. 26 v British High Commission XI at NCC
Feb. 28 v Golden Oldies XI at De Soysa Stadium
Mar. 1 v St. Peter's College at Bambalapitiya
Mar. 2 v Colombo Veterans XI at CCC

(Players): Gordon Potter (captain), Charles Anderson (vice-captain), Robbie Barker, Dirk Coster, Denham Earl, Peter French, Ron Hart, Ron Helyar, Clive Huggins, Barrie Hunter, Simon Klimcke, Christopher Mayne, Carl Openshaw, Michael Perkins, Michael Plumridge, Robert Smith, Paul Swaffield, Nigel Walker, Gordon Watts, John Williams, John Williams, Roger Bassett (tour manager).

(Umpires): Dudley Eckworth, Dave Morewood, Peter Turner, Bernard Wright,

(Scorers): Anne Bassett, Jill Bracken, Ken Medlock.

Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)