The 2018/2019 cricket season will go down in the Antonian history as the year that brought us back to where we belong – Division One, after lingering in the lower division for five long years.

Following an outstanding year in 2017/2018, the Antonian cricket team pressed home the momentum this year to qualify for Division 1 after a lapse of five years. We are back where we belong!

Fazly was educated at St Anthony’s College, Katugastota from 1969 to 1978, where he showed early promise in sports. As a left-arm medium pace bowler, Fazly was in the First XI squad under Mohan Ratnakumar in the early part of the 1978/79 season.

Thaiyar Mohammed is known to most Antonians as an outstanding cricketer and their captain of 1977, but what he has achieved since leaving college is news to only a few.

This is a brief story of two Antonian cricketers who were destined for great things as teenagers but chose not to pursue their impending glory.

The outstanding performances of our junior teams in the past 18 months have put Antonian cricket on the path to prosperity, something we have not seen for a long time. Coupled with this, our First XI team emerged after the 2017/2018 season as a team that can compete with the best schools in the country.