HNB signs up as official banking partner to Roy-Tho Big Match 2017
Sri Lanka’s premier private commercial bank, HNB PLC came forward to serve as Official Banker to the country’s blue ribbon cricket encounter, 138th Battle of the Blues, for the second consecutive year. Taking place at the SSC Grounds from 9-11 March 2017, the match between Royal College and St. Thomas’ College is the second longest uninterrupted cricket series in the world, second only to the annual encounter played between St. Peters’ College, Adelaide and Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, Australia, which began just one year earlier than the Royal-Thomian series. The very first Battle of the Blues took place at the Galle Face Green in the present location of the Taj Samudra Hotel, and commenced what has ever since been a hotly contested game between two of the country’s oldest and most respected schools.
