The much awaited 100th Cricket encounter between Trinity College Kandy and St. Anthony’s College Kandy will  be played on the 10th and 11th of March 2017 at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. St. Anthony’s and Trinity College are the two oldest Colleges in Kandy and the Trinity-Antonian encounter is also the 6th oldest Inter-school Big Match in Sri Lanka. 

Also known as Kandy’s Battle of the Blues, this series between the Hill Capital’s two leading schools was contested for the first time  in March 1914. (Two earlier games in 1907 and 1910 consisted of a mix of teachers and schoolboys). Leading the teams in the first game played at the Bogambara grounds, were C.C. Senaratne of St. Anthony’s and C.E. de Silva of Trinity, with the Antonians winning. Trinity won the following year and a long, well contested series has followed, barring three years (1956, 1957 & 2001).

A Joint Committee headed by the Principals of Trinity College and St. Anthony’s College  have released the official event logo to be used in connection with all activities related to this Centenary Big Match. There will be a series of events organized to commemorate this historic occasion. The joint committee is been ably supported by the Old Antonians Cricket Wing, the Trinity College Cricket Foundation  and the Old Trinitians Sports Club in planning and implementation the match and related events. 

The tally as it stands today after 99 encounters has Trinity College with 23 wins, St. Anthony’s College with 12 wins and 64 ending without decision. While a majority of wins registered by Trinity were in the pre-independence era, the Antonians have had the better of exchanges since independence. In the latter part of the last century a trophy was introduced in memory of John Halangoda, who was a product of Trinity College and subsequently cricket coach at St. Anthony’s College. 

Both schools have a proud history of producing some excellent cricketers who have gone on to shine in both local and international arenas. Amongst them are Jack Anderson, ACM Lafir, Mahes Goonatilleke, Bernard Perera, Marlon VonHagt, Ruwan Kalpage, Piyal Wijetunge, Muttiah Muralitharan and Sajith Fernando from St. Anthony’s and Ravi Ratnayeke, Nilantha Ratnayake, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Kumar Sangakkara, Sachith Pathirana, Niroshan Dickwella and Lahiru Kumara from Trinity. These two schools have produced the most number of international cricketers and also the most number of School Boy Cricketers of the year from the Central province.