Every March, Colombo performs a ritual. Executives take “urgent leave.” Politicians rediscover school colours. Corporate sponsors erect tents. Champagne meets schoolboy whites. It is, officially, a three-day cricket match between Royal College Colombo and S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia — the storied Battle of the Blues, widely regarded as the world’s longest uninterrupted annual school cricket series. Since 1879, it

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