I got the following information from a reliable source

Here is a list of Royalists and Thomians who played for Sri Lanka tests:

Royalists:
Ranjan Madugalle,
Asantha de Mel
Saliya Ahangama,

Thomians,
Guy de Alwis
Kapila Wijegunawardena

Ranjan Madugalle is ex Trinity College and then Royal.
Not sure how loong he was at Royal for Royal to claim credit.

But he is doing a great job as ICC Chief of Referees. He also captained Sri Lanka for a brief period.

Are you sure Ranjan Madugalle who played in the inaugural test series (81/82) is not a Royalist?

But you are correct about Duleep Mendis. He started his 1St XI debut at St. Sebastian, Moratuwa

For that matter he is from down south and S Thomas grabbed him for his cricketing talent.

I cant think of any other Royalsit /Thomians who played for Sri Lanka since obtaining test status.

Challenge me

I did say what comes to my mind….
now you do contradict your self…

Father of Eelamists ‘SJV’ was a Thomian!

surprisingly you have not heard of the Jaffna cricketers who did play or were good enough to play for Ceylon.

Sivanandam – wicketkeeper/batsman for Tamil Union.. was considered class but was in the shadow of HIK Fernando (the man considered Sri Lanka’s best ever wicketkeeper batsmant). St. Johns

Balakrishnan – Jaffna Central (played for ceylon).

Premachandra – Jaffna Central (fringes of Ceylon selection but played a lot for Tamil Union).

As for Royallist Thomians .. check out wikipedia or cricinfo .. Its definitely not in single digits.

With IPL there is even more money to be made by a talented cricketer. I am sure a tamil parent will now nuture a cricketing talent becase of the current cricket econnomy. However in the N&E there is zero investment in economy never mind cricket.

I met G Balasingham briefly before he died. I can assure M Thiru his most proudest time was when he captained Hartley and Jaffana Schools Team and was selcted as Vice Captain of Ceylon Schools while at Hartley

However Question for Royalist and Thomians howmany of them played for Sri Lanka since getting test status?

I can think of only one

Anyway I have the following comments on DBS’s article and comments readers made :

Some Readers have commented a Thomian can not be an Eelamist. I had classmates who were sent by boat back to Elam homeland in 1958. In Colombo they were studying in prestigious Christian Schools. There is nothing wrong if one is an Eelamist. I was acquainted with a Thominan cricketer for few months. He was from Wellawatte. He & his family had to flee the country because their lives were in danger.

It is not fair to put down the Tamil areas for being poor in cricket. As Dr. Brian Senivaratne the nephew of Edmund Samarkoddy ( the principled authentic LSSPer ) mentioned, NE provinces were less developed economically.

In certain ways when compared to other provinces like Western, Central and South , cricket did not have the support of the mercantile sector. The competitive cricket spread to places like Krunagalle, Galle and so on because of the introduction of Daily news Trophy & things like that.

I may be wrong but my impression is that even cricketers like late Balasingham ( I had acquaintance after 1983 ) were proud of their connection with St.Thomas than Heartley college. There are budding sanath jayasooriyas and muralitharans not only in Sinhala areas but also in elam areas but they need political, economic freedom and opportunities.