Schokman attended Trinity College, Kandy.S. S. Perera, The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket (1832–1996), Janashakthi Insurance, Colombo, 1999, p. 440. A wicket-keeper and useful batsman, he was Ceylon's principal wicket-keeper in the 1930s. He toured India in 1932-33, when in the six first-class matches he made 256 runs at an average of 25.60 and made his highest score of 62 against Sind, which was also Ceylon's top score for the match.
