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Distinguished Old Boys

Chief justice Asoka de Silva

Judge Joseph Asoka Nihal De Silva was a Senior Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka prior to joining the ICTR. Before that, he was a Judge and subsequently, President of the Court of Appeal. He was called as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1972, after which he joined the Attorney-General’s Department, and later became Senior Deputy Solicitor-General.

Jude Asoka De Silva born in 1945 and educated at St. Anthony's College Kandy. he is a Distinguish Old Antonian in College History. Judge De Silva studied law at the University of Ceylon, University of Colombo and University of Illinois in Chicago. He was appointed by the Council of Legal Education to be a Lecturer and Examiner at the Sri Lanka Law College and has also lectured at the University of Colombo.

He represented Sri Lanka at the Sustainable Development Conference in Brazil and has attended numerous international conferences and courses.

Muttiah Muralidaran

Muralitharan was born in the village of Nattarampotha in Kundasale, the eldest of the four sons to Sinnasamy Muttiah and Lakshmi. Muralitharan's father Sinnasamy Muttiah, runs a successful biscuit-making business.

Muralitharan was educated at St. Anthony's College Kandy . He began his cricketing career at the college as a medium pace bowler but on the advice of his school coach, Mr. Sunil Fernando, he took up off-spin when he was fourteen years old. He soon impressed and went on to play for four years in the school First XI. In those days he played as an all-rounder and batted in the middle order. In his final two seasons at St Anthony's College he took over one hundred wickets and in 1990/1 was named as the 'Bata Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year'.

World records and achievements

• The most Test wickets (770 wickets as of 06 may 2009).

• The most One-Day International wickets (505 wickets as of 6 May 2009).

• The highest number of international wickets in Tests and ODIs combined (1275 wickets as of 6 May 2009).

• The most 5-wicket hauls in an innings at Test level (66).

• The most 10-wicket hauls in a match at Test level (21). He is the only player to take 10 wickets/match against every Test playing nation.

• Fastest to 350, 400, 450, 500, 550, 600, 650 and 700 Test wickets, in terms of matches played.

• Only player to take 10 wickets in a Test in four consecutive matches. He has achieved this feat twice.

• Only player to take 50 or more wickets against every Test playing nation.

• Muralitharan and Jim Laker ( England ), are the only bowlers to have taken 9 wickets in a Test innings twice.

• 7 wickets in an innings against the most countries (5).

• Most Test wickets taken bowled (157), stumped (41) and caught & bowled (31). Bowled by Muralitharan (b Muralitharan) is the most common dismissal in Test cricket (excluding run out).

• Most successful bowler/fielder (non-wicket keeper) combination - c. Mahela Jayawardene b. Muttiah Muralitharan (67).

• Most Man of the Series awards in Test cricket (11).

• One of only six bowlers who have dismissed all the eleven batsmen in a Test match. Jim Laker, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Geoff Dymock, Abdul Qadir and Waqar Younis are the others.

• Most test wickets in a single ground. Muralitharan is the only bowler to capture 100-plus Test wickets at two venues, the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo and the Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy .

• The only bowler to take 75 or more wickets in a calendar year on three occasions, achieving it in 2000, 2001 and 2006.

* Information Taken from Sesquisentanial Magazine and wikipedia encyclopedia

William Gopallawa