P. L. Munasinghe

Munasinghe was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mt Lavinia Sri Lanka, where as Head Prefect he was awarded the Victoria Jubilee Gold Medal, winning colours in rugby and athletics.

[1] Under his leadership at the Royal Thomian rugby match in July 1975, his team came from behind to beat the favourites 8–3[2] to win the Michael Gunaratne Trophy.

Sharm De Alwis has described his two tries as a "spectacular sensation" where he "sliced through the entire defence to score under the posts" not once but twice (it must be assumed that he sidestepped and cut inside, as De Alwis refers to him paralysing the opposing stand off - also referred to as fly half or No 10).

Leading from the front he not only scored the two match winning tries but marshalled a defence which the Ceylon Daily Mirror described as: the virtual stone wall erected by the Thomian back division who tackled as if their life depended on it.

Particularly impressive in this department was full back (Shane) Pinder, skipper Munasinghe and wing three quarter Devaka Fernando who tackled their opponents to a virtual standstill.