Two women umpires and match referee from Sri Lanka for Asia Cup-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Source:Dailynews Two women umpires and a woman match referee from Sri Lanka will officiate at the upcoming Women’s Asia Cup to be held in Bangladesh and this is going to be historic event for Sri Lanka as three women’s officials in one Asia Cup. Sri Lanka men’s officials( umpires) Kumar Dharmasena, Ruchira Palliyaguruge,Ravindra Wimalasiri, referees Ranjan Madugalle , brothers Graeme Labrooy and Wendal Labrooy are no strangers in men’s International Cricket but women’s officiate are new to Sri Lanka. The former Sri Lanka women’s team opener Dedunu De Silva and Nimali Perera, both SLC Level 3 umpires, and former National player Vanessa De Silva, who is a match referee, will take part in the upcoming Women’s Asia Cup, which is scheduled to be played in Bangladesh The Women’s T20 Asia Cup 2022 will be held from ...

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Niluka fine women’s cricketer and coach-by Upananda Jayasundera Niluka Amarasena, the talented cricketer, coach and official scorer. Source:Dailynews Niluka Amarasena, an old girl of Swarnamali Balika Vidyalaya,Kandy is a womens cricketer and a level one coach as well as an official scorer since the year 2011 appointed by Sri Lanka Cricket. She started club cricket after leaving School and straight away joined the Kandy Ladies Cricket team under the coaching of Bernard Perera, Harold Ranasinghe and Sirath Kasturiratne. After this continuous training, Niluka was selected to the Central Province Women’s Cricket Team and they became champions at the National Games in 2009 and 2010. She has represented Chilaw Marians and Matale District Womens Cricket team at the Inter District Cricket tournament conducted by Sri Lanka Cricket under the captaincy of Sweeni de Alwis and some of her other team members were Dedunu de Silva, Praba Udawatte and Inoka Galagedara to ...

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