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SLC hosts England Under 19 ODI series-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Sri Lankan under 19 players celebrate Bangladesh series win Source:Dailynews Sri Lanka Cricket will host the England U19 Team during November – December 2021 for a Limited-Over Series. The England team will arrive in Sri Lanka on November 22nd and will play five ODIs with Sri Lanka U19s during the tour, which will be conducted under a Bio Bubble Environment. The five ODI’s will be played on November 30th and December 3, 5, 8, 10th at the SSC grounds. “We just completed a 5 – nil win against Bangladesh at Dambulla, and it did give us an opportunity to assess our team,’’ said Avishka Gunawardene, Head Coach of Sri Lanka U19. ...

Nov 8, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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The kid who came to Colombo to study law-by Rex Clementine In late 1990s, there was a kid from Kandy who came to Colombo to pursue his studies in law. In 1980s, the universities had been closed due to the JVP insurrection and as a result there was a backlog in enrolling students to complete their degrees.  The kid from Kandy had to wait for two years for his chance to enter university in a bid to become a lawyer going in the footsteps of his father. So with lot of spare time at his disposal, he decided to play some cricket and was employed by Informatics for a salary of Rs. 4000. Brendon Kuruppu was running cricket at Informatics. Around the same time, the national cricket team fared so poorly in the ICC Cricket World Cup in 1999 in England despite being defending champions. Captain, seniors, cricket board and ...

Jun 15, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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Independent Tribunal clears Avishka Avishka Gunawardene Source:Dailynews An independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal has unanimously cleared former Sri Lanka player Avishka Gunawardene of two charges against him under the Emirates Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Code, allowing him to resume participation in cricket with immediate effect. The Tribunal, which also considered charges against Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Zoysa for four counts under the same Code, has upheld one charge (2.4.6) against Zoysa while dismissing the other three charges. ...

May 16, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged
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      SRI LANKA CRICKET NEWS (MAY 2019) Compiled by Victor Melder                                                           Sri Lanka have slipped to number nine in the official ICC Rankings that was updated yesterday. Dimuth Karunaratne’s side is ranked sixth in Test cricket. India finished top of the Test rankings while England finished number one in ODIs. The ninth rank is Sri Lanka’s lowest and now they are in jeopardy of not qualifying for further ICC events directly. ICC Test Team Rankings 1 India 113 (-3), 2 New Zealand 111 (+3), 3 South Africa 108 (+3), 4 England 105 (+1), 5 Australia 98 (-6), 6 Sri Lanka 94 (+1), 7 Pakistan 84 (-4), 8 West Indies 82 (+5), 9 Bangladesh 65 (-3), 10 Zimbabwe 16 (+3) ...

Jun 9, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged , , , , Comments 0
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