By Shamseer Jaleel

Trinity College first XI cricket captain and Senior Prefect Abhishek Anandakumar won the Ryde Gold Medal (Best all-round student) for the year 2020 in the Kandy School.

Abishek Anandakumar, one of the best all-rounders in the Under 19 inter-schools cricket season for the last couple of seasons, started his cricket career at Under 13 in 2012 and went on to lead the first XI outfit in his last year.

He represented the Under 15 and Under 19 Central Province team plus Team Kandy in the Super Provincial Under 19 event in 2019. 

He was the vice-Captain of the national Under 15 outfit which toured Malaysia in 2017. Further he has led at all levels at Trinity starting from Under 13 to Under 19. He was the Vice-Captain of the 2019/2020 outfit which won the All Island Best Team.

He represented Kurunegala Youth, Negombo CC, Tri Youth CC, Kandy Youth CC, Old Trinitians SC and Kandy CC in domestic cricket.

At junior level he represented Trinity in Athletics and Swimming participating at Provincial and National level.

The Ryde Medal is donated by the TCK OBA (Colombo Branch).