Agreed! I just had a look at world rugby rankings (that's for the full 15 versions, not sevens). Sri Lanka are ranked 43rd. They are putting their, sub-condinent neighbours, to shame. India are ranked 84th, Pakistan 91st, and Bangladesh and Nepal, didn't even make it onto the table. Here's the link: www.worldrugby.org/rankings/mru?lang=en
Well mate , other than rugby we Indians lead the subcontinent charts in Most of the sports . If you look at other sport's like Badminton,Hockey,Squash, Volleyball.. India tops at everywhere 💪. Where as in football we are the only subcontinent nation under 100 in FIFA rankings whereas our brothers Sri Lanka are at 200+.
India 1.3billion people at 2016 olympic 1 silver and 1 barely won a bronze total 2 medal China at 2016 olympics Gold26 Silver18 Bronze26 Total70 Show your country talents against those countries in sports...compare to india we are better in sports..mumbai or delhi has more population than sri lanka
Sri Lanka (Ceylon) has been playing rugby since the 1800s. Their only challenge is size (no food to eat for many generations) like westerners and Fijians were able to.Even Africans eat more than many Sri Lankans. Also overpopulation make people less physical.
Dam so impressed by the skill level of the Sri Lankan boys and their never say die attitude!. After my home team of course i've found my new favourite team.
Next month we have the best opportunity to go there. Not world cup. Olympics. Japan not participating in the Asian Olympic qualifier, if full strength Sri Lankan side can make an upset there direct spot guaranteed. If not world qualifier sure spot if we become 2nd or 3rd.
@@namalbionface9306 It's so sad that Sri lanka fielded set of schoolboys just passed out from the schools. If you look at the guys play at the club season these are a bunch of kids. It's all politics.
@ Dark Rose As far as I know since 1821. Ceylon has the one of the oldest in Rugby School Games, played between Royal College ( The Eton of Ceylon ) Colombo 7 vs Trinity College Kandy, fought for the Bradby Shield in two full legs, one full test in Colombo and the second test in Kandy. The winner is decided of the two test scores put together. FYI, Bradby served as the Head Master of both these Public Schools at different points of his career. Also, one of the oldest Cricket matches between two Public Schools are played between Royal College ( The Eton of Ceylon) and St. Thomas College Mt. Lavinia, the Big Match known as the Battle of The Blues, in 2019, they played the 140th match = 140 years of annual 3 day test Match. Likewise the two schools have been Rowing the Royal Thomian Regatta for ions.
School rugby leagues are a huge thing in Sri Lanka actually. Almost all the national rugby players of Sri Lanka hail from Isipathana college colombo 05. They are known as the kings of rugby in Sri Lanka...
It is predominantly a Public School game in Ceylon played by Royal College ( The Eton of Ceylon ), Trinity College, St. Thomas College, St. Peter's College, Wesley College which were all started by The British Masters. There are a few offshoots of locally founded schools by nationalist Buddhists that have copied the game over the years. The majority of the people are Cricket fanatics and the second sport is Football ( Soccer ) and Rugby has not reached the grass roots yet.
Irb needs to invest in Sri Lanka again 2nd they've been playing rugby for so long even 7s program is better then nothing..main point is promoting the game globally .
Sri Lanka can be better in 7s. Politics, lack of funds, Lack of exposure holding them back. Few years ago when Sri Lanka playing with Samoa they went to the half time as 14-0 leading but Samoa went to win it by 33-14. What I meant is SL has the capacity without any foreign players.
the truth is Lot of SL rugby players don't give 100% at the international level. Because clubs warn them if they got injured they will not give them contracts or cancel. playing SL national team doesn't give them any financial benefits and most of the players say goodbye to rugby after play a few years and go for full-time jobs.
@@QubitTechnologies That might change in the future. The SLR has taken a decision from this week with majority of council votes here on wards clubs will be banned if they fails to release players unless there's a justifiable reason. So it's now in the law.
Sl can rank way better than that. but the problem is SL don't play rugby with higher ranking teams. Most of the European countries that ranked better than SL are not really good. But they always get matches because of the funds that have to maintain the ranks. The other thing is SL in the only country play rugby with 100% local people. Jpana+hongkong+malaysia play with the players from outside the country and they gave them citizenship with big money. Japan doesn't help asisn countries to improve rugby.
Defrobani Alternate: Deffrobani From "Taprobana", the Greek name for Sri Lanka, itself derived from the Sansrkit tamraparni meaning "copper-leaved." In Iolo Morgannwg's mythology, the so-called "Summerland" (Gwlad y Haf)1 that was the original home of the Britons before being lead westward by Hu Gadarn. The identification of Debrofani seems to have been Constantinople, but this is Morgannwg's invention. In reality, Defrobani is the Welsh approximation of the Greek Taprobana, now known as Sri Lanka or Ceylon. It is first mentioned in the West by Ptolemy, but really enters the Western consciousness in the writings of Marco Polo and John Mandeville. Polo describes Taprobana as having a Mount Serendib, upon which is buried some artifacts belonging to the Biblical Adam; it is also then identified with Eden. Knowing this, it is not strange that Iolo would identify Defrobani with the original home of the Britains. So as Sri Lanka/Deffrobani was identified with the original home of mankind
You can clearly see the fittest guys Danushka and Soori are playing very well but other lack fitness. Sudarshan is like 20% body fat how can he be on the field smh
lol. Do you know Sri Lanka rugby history is older than the All Blacks? Sri lanka has the 15th largest registered rugby players in the world and second only to Japan in Asia?
As far as I know since 1821. Ceylon has the one of the oldest in Rugby School Games, played between Royal College ( The Eton of Ceylon ) Colombo 7 vs Trinity College Kandy, fought for the Bradby Shield in two full legs, one full test in Colombo and the second test in Kandy. The winner is decided of the two test scores put together. FYI, Bradby served as the Head Master of both these Public Schools at different points of his career. Also, one of the oldest Cricket matches between two Public Schools are played between Royal College ( The Eton of Ceylon) and St. Thomas College Mt. Lavinia, the Big Match known as the Battle of The Blues, in 2019, they played the 140th match = 140 years of annual 3 day test Match. Likewise the two schools have been Rowing the Royal Thomian Regatta for ions.
I mean We're doing so fucking wrong. Srilankan people only stimulating with cricket. But they don't know we are in the top 40 among 100 other countries who play rugby. Our team just need some encouragement and support. it is fcking disappointing 😑.
