In order to support students from under privileged families, we selected 15 students who have exceptional talents and skills in the fields of sports and education and sponsor their education throughout their stay in school. Our project adviser for this worthy cause is Mr. Gaston Ranasinghe.

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To build the bond between students and the old boys of Holy Cross College, we organized a car sticker campaign, as a fund raiser. This project was held on the 2nd of February 2008. The first sticker was presented to the Principal Rev. Brother Ranjith Perera.

‘Battle of Crusaders’ at Kalutara tomorrow
The second ‘Battle Of Crusaders’ encounter between the batch of ’92 Group of Holy Cross College, Kalutara and the first XI cricket team of the school will be worked off tomorrow Sunday, 22 at the College Grounds. The limited over encounter was introduced last year and is played for the Rev. Bro. Francis Silva Memorial Trophy, donated by the Executive Committee of the ‘92 Group in memory of the first Marist Brother Director of the school.
Holy Cross College started cricket in 1901 and the school was managed by Catholic priests until 1978, whereupon Marist Brothers took over the administration with that great scholar, the late Rev. Brother Francis Silva as the first Director, who did a yeomen service to develop the school and its sports.
A colourful opening ceremony will begin the proceedings of the day with Lasantha Mudalige, the President of Colombo Branch of the old boys union of Holy Cross College as the chief guest at 9.15 am.
The ‘92 Group is considered one of the best batches of old boys in the college and has produced great scholars apart from brilliant cricketers and sportsmen.
Jayantha Silva, a member of the ’92 Group went onto play Test cricket and now resides in Melbourne, Australia. He is considered as one of the best left arm leg-spinners the country produced.
Silva took more than 130 wickets in the 1992-93 season and in the process broke the then record for most number of wickets in a season.
Kapila Mendis, who subsequently played for the Singapore national team holds the record as the highest run getter in the Singapore Cricket League. He also owns a record in the Asian Cricket Council trophy tournament having hit 191 runs in 123 balls in a game.
Leg-spinner Dishan Fernando was the youngest ever to play First XI cricket for Holy Cross College at the age of 13 and was a member of the national spinners’ pool.
Pradeep Fernando is a former Ruhuna University and Galle Medical Faculty wicketkeeper and captain. He was one of the best fielders in college teams during the 80s.
Ravi Philip, a fine all-rounder who now plays for MAS Holdings, was selected to Sri Lanka A Pool and has scored several centuries during his school days.
Jagath Roshan represented Kelaniya University and still plays state services cricket. A genuine all-rounder, he will share the new ball with the lethal Prasad Gunarathna.
Stylish right-hand batsman, Sanjeewa de Silva, who has several centuries under his belt will be leading the side and open batting.
On the other hand, young Crusaders, Holy Cross College First XI team, recorded four outright wins during the 2008/09 season, including wins over St. Thomas’ Matara, Piliyandala Central, and Siri Piyarathana MV and St. Xavier’s, Marawila.
They were able to dismiss St. Thomas’ College for a mere 17 runs, which may probably be a schools cricket record.
The young Crusaders emerged as runners-up at the Kalutara District six-a-side tournament organized by Kalutara District Umpires Association recently.
Nuwan Maduwantha, a third year coloursman is the captain of the side. He has scored over 750 runs apart from taking 20 wickets. The right-arm paceman opens bowling for the school.
Fourth year coloursman Vinod Lakshitha is a player to watch as he has taken more than 50 wickets with his left arm leg-spin. The opener has also scored over 600 runs.
Janaka Arampath, a fourth year coloursman is a left arm seamer.
Senura Senarathna, a genuine all-rounder, who opens batting has scored oves 400 runs.

Teams
HCC ‘92 Group (from)
Sanjeewa de Silva (Capt), Jayantha Silva, Kapila Mendis, Dishan Fernando, Dr. Pradeep Fernando, Jagath Roshan, Prasad Gunarathna, Buddika Nishan, Lasantha Pradeep, Ravi Philip, Arjuna Senanayaka, Samantha Payoe, Raju Perera, Danuka Hettiarachchi, Manoj Priyadarshana, Sagara Laksiri and Dilukshan Fernando.
HCC First XI Team [From):
Nuwan Maduwantha (Capt), Vinod Lakshitha, Senura Marius, Janaka Arampath,Pasan Buddika, Tharindu Ashan, Ayesh Madushan, Buddika Gayashan, Nipuna Lakshan, Shien Leshantha, Lakshitha Osanka, Sadun Kalana, Romesh Rukantha, Nisal Tharuka and Nadeep Jayasinghe (Coach)

The carwash project is another of our many projects. The main aim of organizing this event is to raise funds for the Teacher’s felicitation programme that we hope to organize during this year.

The carwash project will be held on the 6th of April 2008 from 9.00 a.m. onwards, opposite the Holy Cross College. A ticket will be sold at the reasonable price of Rs. 100/-

Its because of our loving Teachers, that we are in this position today.  In order to pay homage to the teachers who taught us at school, we hope to organize the “Teacher felicitationProgramme “during this year. We hope to arrange a medical clinic and present momentoes to our loving teachers.  

Since Computer literacy is regarded as a must, at present, we hope to organize a Computer skill workshop for our group members and teachers of Holy Cross college. This one-day workshop will be held on the 11th of May 2008. Time and venue of the Workshop will be decided in the near future.

The inaugural web site was created by Mr. Jagath Fernando who is an old boy of the college in the same batch of 1992 and its address was  named as HCC 92.G3Z.Com in the year 2006.  As it became necessary to modernize and update the site,Mr. Marlin Prasanna of the same batch volunteered to undertake this project.

The new address for the web-site was decided as HCC92Group.Com and it has been registered and is in operation since November 2007.  The Executive committee appreciates the commitment of Marlin Prasanna in presenting this site with all the necessary data and updates.

The launching of the site was held on 2nd April 2008 at the auspicious time and the Chief Guest was another distinguished old boy of our Alma Mater, Mr. Pradeep Almeida, who is the Vice President of Dialog Telekom Ltd. in charge of Core Net work and new Technologies.  He is a B.Sc. Engineering graduate and is the son of an illustrate teacher late Mr. P.Don Anthony, who has done yeomen service to the college for well over three decades.

We earnestly request the old boys to contribute any information which they think important to publish in the site to send their contribution to the e-mail address admin@hcc92group.com