The Royal–Thomian the annual cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 match between Royal College, Colombo (a government-run non-denominational school accommodates approximately 8,000 students) and S. Thomas' College, Mt Lavinia (a private Anglican school that has about 2500 boys on roll) is the second-longest uninterrupted cricket match series in the world (the oldest being the series between St Peters College and Prince Alfred College, South Australia), even older than the Ashes, having being played for 131 years continuously.