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Over-50s Cricket World Cup | Australia vs Sri Lanka | Match 1 Sri Lanka Over 50s: 234/7 Australia Over 50s: 230/9 45.0/45 ov Sri Lanka Over 50s won by 4 Run(s) Full Score card: visit Veterans League of South Africa website: https://cricclubs.com/VeteransLeagueofSouthAfrica/viewScorecard.do?matchId=1224&clubId=22082 ...
Australian cricketer enters record books with 309 off 140 balls Steffan Nero of Australia bats during the International Cricket Inclusion Series match against New Zealand in Brisbane. Photograph: Albert Perez/Getty Images for Cricket Australia Source:Theguardian Blind national team player Steffan Nero betters 24-year benchmark Wicketkeeper-batter averages 523 at inclusion series in Brisbane Australian blind cricket team opener Steffan Nero has smashed a longstanding world record with an astonishing unbeaten 309 off 140 balls at the International Cricket Inclusion Series. The wicketkeeper-batter’s triple century broke the previous benchmark of 262 not out, set by Pakistan’s Masood Jan at the 1998 Blind Cricket World Cup. “It’s a dream in itself to play for Australia so to make a century for Australia is one of those lifelong memories you will never forget,” Nero said after making his third straight century at the tournament in Brisbane. It followed knocks of 113 (off 46 balls) and 101 not out ...
Journey of Independence: Multiple Milestones to Celebrate Source:dailynews.lk As the country chalks up 74 years of national Independence today with the customary usual pomp and ceremony a stock taking is in order to determine our achievements and setbacks and also ponder on the prospects and challenges in the future. Have we collectively failed as nation or can we be happy at our present position seven decades on? Of course, there will be the usual patriotic rhetoric that will be heard from Independence Day platforms and of the achievements and advancement made as a people. But as is the norm most of these speeches will be centred on the political achievements of various individuals and entities. There certainly will be those who will entertain a sense of satisfaction by the strides made the country in the realm of social advancement and on certain development indicators on the long journey since Independence. ...
Russel Arnold: Sri Lanka’s Forgotten ODI Star By Michael Roberts Source:cricketique.live During the course of the World Cup 2015 watchers were occasionally served up statistical tables of leading run-scores in the history of World Cup or ODI cricket. Sri Lankan fans would have been especially attentive to those featuring Sangakkara’s stellar career and record breaking levels. On one such occasion I was intrigued to see Russel Arnold’s statistics appear at the tail-end of an august list of names. Primed by Arnold’s appearance as a TV commentator and his impeccable performance in this role, I proceeded to do some research on the topic and began with a statistical picture of a comparative kind that is quite revelatory. This picture raises issues about media-hype and our very own memory banks. It would be fair to say that the batsmen stars in the ODI memory store of Sri Lankan cricket enthusiasts over the ...
Our ‘In’s’ and ‘Out’s’ in the English language-by S. N. Arseculeratne Source:Island The English language has spread world-wide like the pandemic of Covid. In Sri Lanka the English language has become our lingua franca. We vintage colonials, use English in conversations at home but when my friends cross-swords with me, they use Sinhala occasionally which is more expressive. We Lankan locals have expressive repartees, “Ado” for look here, “Bambuwa” for nonsense, “yako”’ for you devil, and “tho”, “thopi” and “pissa” for inccorrigibles. And bravo, the Oxford English Dictionary has now included the Sinhala word ‘Aiyo’, so why not enrich the English language with these other words also? Though English is often our Lingua domestica, it continues to plague me. Here’s why. At a recent party, the comperè invited “men and their spouses” for a game. Look, the plural of mouse is not mouses but mice, so why shouldn’t he have asked men and their spice to join? That’s more spicy and ...
Rare collector’s item to mark silver jubilee of World Cup win Members of Sri Lanka’s World Cup winning side Sanath Jayasuriya, Roshan Mahanama, Arjuna Ranatunga, Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan with the collector’s item. Source:Dailynews As the silver jubilee celebrations of Sri Lanka’s 1996 Cricket World Cup win nears, cricket fans have an opportunity to own a rare collector’s item. This collection recognises all 17 members of the playing, coaching and medical staff of the 1996 World Cup winning side; each beautifully presented on a 50mm Antique Silver Medallion. ...
A brief history of the Cricket World Cup – By Simon Burnton Source: The Guardian From its humble beginning in 1966, the tournament’s history is filled with English despair and southern hemisphere triumph Rod Marsh dives in front of first slip to dismiss Tony Greig during the World Cup match between Australian and England at Headingley in 1975. Photograph: Patrick Eagar via Getty Images 1966 In March 1966 Rothman’s and the influential agent Bagenal Harvey announce that a three-game “World Cup” will be held in September, to be contested by England, West Indies – that summer’s tourists – and an all-star Rest of the World XI to be led by the Australia captain, Bobby Simpson, with the remainder of the team chosen – obviously – by readers of the Radio Times. Sadly England’s capacity for World Cup fever is exhausted by the football version, and the three matches attract a combined audience ...
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