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Rugby union in Sri Lanka

Index Rugby union in Sri Lanka

Rugby union in Sri Lanka is mainly played at a semi-professional and recreational level. [1]

106 relations: All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament, Ananda College, Asia Rugby, Asia Rugby Championship, Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series, Asian Sevens Series, Australia national rugby sevens team, Australia national rugby union team, Australia national under-20 rugby union team, Bill McLaren, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club, Caltex, Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club, Chennai, Clifford Cup, Colombo, Colombo Hockey and Football Club, Colombo Racecourse, D. S. Senanayake College, Daily News (Sri Lanka), Dharmaraja College, Dialog Axiata, Dickoya Maskeliya Cricket Club, Dimbula Athletic & Cricket Club, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Governors of British Ceylon, Hambantota, Hambantota Sharks, Havelock Sports Club, Hugh Clifford, Ireland national rugby union team, Isipathana College, Kandy, Kandy Sports Club (rugby), Kingswood College (Sri Lanka), List of women's rugby sevens competitions, Louis Edmund Blaze, Lumbini College, Madagascar national rugby union team, Mahanama College, Mahesh Rodrigo, Mainstream Publishing, Maliyadeva College, Milo President's Trophy Knockout Tournament, Nawalapitiya, New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand national under-21 rugby union team, Piliyandala Central College, Poland national rugby union team, ..., Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa, Richmond College, Galle, Royal College, Colombo, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Rugby Football Union, Rugby sevens, Rugby sevens at the Commonwealth Games, Rugby union, Rugby union at the Asian Games, Rugby union in India, Rugby union in Japan, Rugby union positions, Rugby World Cup, Rugby World Cup Sevens, RugbyWA, S. Muthiah, S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, Saint Benedict's College, Saint Joseph's College, Colombo, Science College, Serendib International Cup, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club (rugby), Sri Lanka Army Sports Club (rugby), Sri Lanka national cricket team, Sri Lanka national rugby sevens team, Sri Lanka national rugby union team, Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club (rugby), Sri Lanka Police Sports Club (rugby), Sri Lanka Rugby Championship, Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union, Sri Lanka Sevens, St Peter's College, Colombo, St. Anthony's College, Kandy, St. Sylvester's College, Suez Canal, The Island (Sri Lanka), The New York Times, The Straits Times, The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka), The West Australian, Thurstan College, Trinity College, Kandy, Up Country Lions, Vidyartha College, Wesley College, Colombo, World Rugby, World Rugby Sevens Series, Zahira College, Colombo, 1907–08 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain, 1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, 1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, 2013 autumn rugby union internationals, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2015 Colombo Sevens. Expand index (56 more) »

All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament

The All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament is an amateur league competition for rugby union football clubs in India.

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Ananda College

Ananda College (Sinhala: ආනන්ද විද්‍යාලය) is a national school for boys, with a student population exceeding 7,000 across 13 grades from primary to secondary classes, on a campus of in Maradana, Colombo.

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Asia Rugby

Asia Rugby, formerly the Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU), is the governing body of rugby union in Asia under the authority of World Rugby.

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Asia Rugby Championship

The Asia Rugby Championship, or ARC, is an annual rugby union competition held amongst national rugby sides within the Asia Rugby region.

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Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series

The Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Asia.

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Asian Sevens Series

The Asian Sevens Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asia Rugby featuring national sevens teams.

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Australia national rugby sevens team

The Australia national rugby sevens team participates in international rugby sevens competitions such as the Sevens World Series and Rugby World Cup Sevens.

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Australia national rugby union team

The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is controlled by Rugby Australia.

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Australia national under-20 rugby union team

The Junior Wallabies is the national under-20 team that represents Australia in rugby union.

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Bill McLaren

William Pollock McLaren, CBE (16 October 1923 – 19 January 2010) was a Scottish rugby union commentator, teacher, journalist and one time rugby player.

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Calcutta Cricket and Football Club

The Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC) is a sports club based in Kolkata, India.

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Caltex

Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in more than 60 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa.

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Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club

Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club, also known as CR & FC, is a Division-A rugby union team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka which plays in the Dialog Rugby League.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Clifford Cup

The Clifford Cup is the most prestigious club rugby knockout tournament in Sri Lanka, and arguably the oldest rugby tournament in Asia.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

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Colombo Hockey and Football Club

Colombo Hockey and Football Club (also known as CH & FC) is a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka that competes in the Dialog Rugby League in Sri Lanka.

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Colombo Racecourse

Colombo Racecourse was a harness racing course in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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D. S. Senanayake College

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Daily News (Sri Lanka)

The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.

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Dharmaraja College

Dharmaraja College (ධර්මරාජ විද්‍යාලය), founded in 1887 is a premier Boys' School in Kandy, Sri Lanka.

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Dialog Axiata

Dialog Axiata PLC (Sinhalese: ඩයලොග් ආසියාටා පීඑල්සී Dayalog Asiyata Pielsi; Tamil:டயலொக் ஆசியாடா பிஎல்சி (formerly known as MTN Networks and Dialog Telekom), is one of Sri Lanka's largesthttps://www.justlanded.com/english/Sri-Lanka/Sri-Lanka-Guide/Telephone-Internet/Mobile-phonestelecommunications service provider with the country's largest mobile network operator of 12.8 million subscribers and commands a 50% of the Sri Lankan mobile market. Dialog is a subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad which owns 83.32% controlling stake of the company while the rest is held by the public. Dialog was Listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange in 2005 June As of February 2017 Dialog Axiata holds billion in market capitalization and the 5th largest listed company in Sri Lanka by Market Capitalization. In 2015 "Dialog" brand name was valued at LKR 28.6 billion (US$204 million) and as the 3rd most valuable brand in the country by business magazine LMD in its annual study. In 2014 the company received the highest "Platinum" rating in the country's Corporate Accountability Index for the 4th consecutive year. Dialog operates on 2.5G, 3G, 3.5G and 4G LTE communications networks, and became the first operator to launch commercial 3G and HSPA+ operations in South Asia when it rollout the network on 16 August 2006. In April 2013 Dialog Axiata launched its mobile 4G LTE services using 10Mhz of spectrum in 1800Mhz band becoming the first operator to launch commercial FD-LTE network in South Asia initially delivering peak data rates of 50 Mbit/s thus marking its position as a technology leader among its regional peers. In addition to its core business of mobile telephony, the company operates a number of services including Dialog TV, a Direct To Home Satellite TV service and Dialog Global which provides international telecommunication services. Dialog Broadband offers fixed-line and broadband internet services, whilst Dialog Tele-Infrastructure is the company’s national telco infrastructure arm. Dialog was the first mobile operator to cover the Jaffna peninsula in Northern Sri Lanka within 90 days of the ceasefire agreement in 2002 and again in 2009 was the first mobile operator to extend its GSM network to the areas in the North and East Province where the war was fought, and presently has 80% market share in the region. Dialog Axiata is an investor under the aegis of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and has invested over US $1.96 billion towards the development of telecommunications infrastructure, thus becoming the single largest contributor to Sri Lankan foreign direct investment (FDI) to date. Dialog is also the official Sri Lankan partner of the mobile operator Vodafone.

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Dickoya Maskeliya Cricket Club

The Dickoya Maskeliya Cricket Club (also known as DMCC) is a sporting club formed by British tea planters and founded in 1868.

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Dimbula Athletic & Cricket Club

The Dimbula Athletic and Cricket Club (also known as the Radella Club) is a sporting club formed by British tea planters and founded in 1856.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Governors of British Ceylon

The Governor of Ceylon was the representative in Ceylon of the British Crown from 1795 to 1948.

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Hambantota

Hambantota (හම්බන්තොට, அம்பாந்தோட்டை) is the main town in Hambantota District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka.

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Hambantota Sharks

Hambantota Sharks Sports Club was a former Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka, that competed in the Dialog Rugby League.

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Havelock Sports Club

Havelock Sports Club is a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka that plays in the Dialog Rugby League.

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Hugh Clifford

Sir Hugh Charles Clifford, (5 March 1866 – 18 December 1941) was a British colonial administrator.

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Ireland national rugby union team

The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union.

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Isipathana College

Isipathana College (formerly known as Greenlands College) is a National school for boys located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Kandy

Kandy (මහනුවර Mahanuwara, pronounced; கண்டி, pronounced) is a major city in Sri Lanka located in the Central Province.

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Kandy Sports Club (rugby)

Kandy Sports Club (better known as Kandy SC) is a Division 'A' rugby union team, based in Kandy, Sri Lanka, competing in the Dialog Rugby League.

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Kingswood College (Sri Lanka)

Kingswood College (Sinhala: කිංස්වුඩ් විද්‍යාලය) is a National school which offers primary and secondary education for boys in Sri Lanka.

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List of women's rugby sevens competitions

Rugby Sevens - a short form of the sport of rugby union - was first played in 1883, with the first (men's) internationals taking place in 1973.

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Louis Edmund Blaze

Louis Edmund Blaze, JP, OBE, BA (Calcutta), (29 September 1861 – 4 August 1951) was a Sri Lankan educationist and the founder and principal of Kingswood College, Kandy (1891–1923).

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Lumbini College

Lumbini College (ලුම්බිණි විද්‍යාලය) or Lumbini Vidyalaya is a Sinhala-medium mixed school in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Madagascar national rugby union team

The Madagascar national rugby union team represents Madagascar in the sport of rugby union.

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Mahanama College

Mahanama College is a Sinhala, Buddhist boys school in Colombo, Sri Lanka which was established in 1954.

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Mahesh Rodrigo

Mahesha Rodrigo (30 June 1928 - 7 January 2011) was a Ceylonese sportsman who represented his country in first-class cricket and rugby union.

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Mainstream Publishing

Mainstream Publishing was a publishing company in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Maliyadeva College

Maliyadeva College (Sinhala: මලියදේව විද්‍යාලය), is a government school in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, established in 1888, by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott.

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Milo President's Trophy Knockout Tournament

The Milo President's Trophy is an annual school knockout u/20 rugby tournament in Sri Lanka.

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Nawalapitiya

Nawalapitiya (නාවලපිටිය, நாவலபிட்டி) is a town in Central Province, Sri Lanka.

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New Zealand national rugby league team

The New Zealand national rugby league team (Māori: Tīma rīki motu Aotearoa) has represented New Zealand in rugby league since 1907.

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New Zealand national under-21 rugby union team

The New Zealand Under 21's rugby union team was a national representative team for players aged under-21.

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Piliyandala Central College

Central College Piliyandala (First National Sports School) is a national school located in Piliyandala, Sri Lanka.

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Poland national rugby union team

The Poland national rugby union team is governed by the Polish Rugby Union and has been participating in international rugby since 1958.

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Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa

Prince of Wales' College (Sinhala: වේල්ස් කුමර විද්‍යාලය Wels Kumara Vidyalaya, Tamil: வேல்ஸ் கல்லூரி அதிபதி) is a selective entry boys' school situated in Moratuwa, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Richmond College, Galle

Richmond College (Sinhala: රිච්මන්ඩ් විද්‍යාලය) is a primary and secondary school in Galle, Sri Lanka.

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Royal College, Colombo

Royal College (Sinhala: රාජකීය විද්‍යාලය Rājakīya Vidyālaya) (Tamil: றோயல் கல்லூரி Royal Kalloori) (also referred to as Royal College Colombo, Royal College, Colombo 7, Colombo Royal College, or simply as Royal) is a selective entry boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Royal Leicestershire Regiment

The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688.

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Rugby Football Union

The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the governing body for rugby union in England.

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Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens), and originally known as Seven-a-side rugby is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40 minute halves.

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Rugby sevens at the Commonwealth Games

Rugby sevens at the Commonwealth Games has been played every tournament since its first appearance at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Rugby union at the Asian Games

Rugby union at the Asian Games has been played since the 1998 games in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Rugby union in India

Rugby union is a minor sport in India.

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Rugby union in Japan

Rugby union in Japan is a moderately popular sport.

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Rugby union positions

In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards (numbered 1–8) and seven backs (numbered 9–15).

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Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is a men's rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams.

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Rugby World Cup Sevens

The Rugby World Cup Sevens is the premier stand-alone international rugby sevens competition outside the Olympic Games.

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RugbyWA

The Western Australia Rugby Union (RugbyWA) is the governing body of rugby union in Western Australia, it was founded in 1893 and the inaugural 4 team competition commenced in 1895 with the I Zingari, Fremantle, Swans and Midland Junction Club's taking part.

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S. Muthiah

Subbiah Muthiah, MBE (born 13 April 1930), is an Indian writer, journalist, cartographer, amateur historian and heritage activist known for his writings on the political and cultural history of Chennai city.

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S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia

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Saint Benedict's College

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Saint Joseph's College, Colombo

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Science College

Science Colleges were introduced in 2000 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom.

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Serendib International Cup

The Serendib International Cup (known as the Dialog Serendib International Cup for sponsorship reasons) was an international rugby union competition for emerging nations held in Sri Lanka in 2013 (Serendib is the old Arabic, Persian and Urdu name for Sri Lanka).

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club (rugby)

Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club are a Division 'A' rugby union team, based in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Army Sports Club (rugby)

Sri Lanka Army Sports Club is a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka that plays in the Dialog Rugby League in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka national cricket team

The Sri Lanka national cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International status.

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Sri Lanka national rugby sevens team

The Sri Lanka national rugby sevens team has competed in the Hong Kong Sevens since the 1980s.

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Sri Lanka national rugby union team

The Sri Lanka national rugby union team has yet to make their debut at the Rugby World Cup.

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Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club (rugby)

Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club is a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Police Sports Club (rugby)

Sri Lanka Police Sports Club (Police SC) is a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka, competing in the Dialog Rugby League.

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Sri Lanka Rugby Championship

The Sri Lanka Rugby Championship, known as the Dialog Rugby League due to its sponsorship by Dialog Axiata, is the major national rugby union club competition, held between the top Division 'A' rugby sides, in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union

The Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union is the governing body for rugby union in Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Sevens

The Sri Lanka Sevens is an annual international rugby sevens tournament held in Sri Lanka.

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St Peter's College, Colombo

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St. Anthony's College, Kandy

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St. Sylvester's College

St Sylvester's College, Kandy (ශාන්ත සිල්වෙස්තර විද්‍යාලය, මහනුවර; புனித சில்வெஸ்டர் கல்லூரி, கண்டி) (founded in 1940) is a public Boys' School located in the middle of Kandy city which offers primary and secondary education for boys in Sri Lanka.

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Suez Canal

thumb The Suez Canal (قناة السويس) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.

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The Island (Sri Lanka)

The Island is a daily English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Straits Times

The Straits Times is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).

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The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

The Sunday Times is a weekly Sri Lankan broadsheet initially published by the now defunct Times Group, until 1991, when it was taken over by Wijeya Newspapers.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Thurstan College

Thurstan College is a national school for boys in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka, providing primary and secondary education.

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Trinity College, Kandy

Trinity College, Kandy, is a private school for boys in Sri Lanka founded in 1872 by Anglican missionaries, that offers primary and secondary education.

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Up Country Lions

Up Country Lions were a Division 'A' rugby union team based in Sri Lanka, competing in the Dialog Rugby League.

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Vidyartha College

Vidyartha College (Sinhala:විද්‍යාර්ථ විද්‍යලය) is an all-male Buddhist institution located in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

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Wesley College, Colombo

Wesley College, Colombo, popularly known as "Wesley" or "The Double Blues" is a leading school providing primary and secondary education in Sri Lanka.

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World Rugby

World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union and rugby sevens.

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World Rugby Sevens Series

The World Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams.

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Zahira College, Colombo

Zahira College (commonly known as Zahira) (සහිරා විදුහල, சாஹிரா கல்லுரி) is an Islamic school in Colombo, Sri Lanka and was founded in 1892 as Al Madrasathul Zahira by two prominent Sri Lankan Muslims, I. L. M. Abdul Aziz and Arasi Marikar Wapchie Marikar, with the active patronage of Ahmed Orabi Pasha of Egypt.

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1907–08 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain

The 1907–1908 New Zealand rugby tour of Australia and Great Britain was made by a group of New Zealand rugby footballers who played matches in Australia, Ceylon, England and Wales between 1907 and 1908.

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1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain

The 1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of the British Isles was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the Australia national rugby union team against invitational and national teams from England and Wales, as well as several games against sides from North America.

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1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia

The 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia was the twelfth tour by a British Isles team and the fifth to New Zealand and Australia.

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1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia

The British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia in 1950 was the first post-war tour made by the Lions; there had not been one since 1938.

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2013 autumn rugby union internationals

The 2013 end of year rugby tests, also known as the 2013 Autumn internationals in the Northern Hemisphere, were a series of international rugby union matches predominantly played between European sides - England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, and visiting Southern Hemisphere countries - Argentina, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa, South Africa and Tonga.

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2014 Commonwealth Games

The 2014 Commonwealth Games (Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, (Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Commonwealth Games as governed by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

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2015 Colombo Sevens

The 2015 Colombo Sevens was the third and final leg of the Asian Sevens Series for the year.

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Rugby union in Ceylon, Rugby union in sri lanka.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_union_in_Sri_Lanka

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