TOYP honour for Roshan Mahanama (8 October 1998)
Sri Lanka cricketer Roshan Mahanama is among ten Outstanding Young Persons Program (TOYP '98) who will be honoured by the Junior Chamber Sri Lanka (Jaycees) in ten pre-selected categories at the Trans Asia Hotel on October 11
08-Oct-1998
8 October 1998
TOYP honour for Roshan Mahanama
The Daily News
Sri Lanka cricketer Roshan Mahanama is among ten Outstanding Young
Persons Program (TOYP '98) who will be honoured by the Junior Chamber
Sri Lanka (Jaycees) in ten pre-selected categories at the Trans Asia
Hotel on October 11.
Educated at Nalanda College, Mahanama is currently a business
development manager at Air Tiger Express. His most outstanding
achievement as a cricketer was establishing a new world record for
the highest partnership for any wicket in Test cricket with Sanath
Jayasuriya. The pair put on 576 for the second wicket, batting over
two full days. Mahanama's contribution was 225.
At school, Mahanama won the 'Observer' Most Popular Schoolboy
Cricketer of the Year award in 1983-84 and also the Most Outstanding
Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year and Best Batsman and Best Fielder
awards.
He was the youngest cricketer to play division I cricket in Sri Lanka
when he appeared for Bloomfield at the age of 13 in 1980, the year
the club emerged champions. He was captain of Bloomfield for three
years from 1995 to 1997.
He was a member of the Sri Lanka team that won the World Cup in 1996
and has represented his country in 52 Tests and 195 one-day
internationals. Rated one of the best fielders in the game, he has
held 57 catches in Tests and 100 in one-day internationals. Was voted
one of the Five Cricketers of the Year by Indian Cricket in 1997.
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)