International Touch Series 2024  The Tri-Series Rugby Season for 2024 starts this Saturday. Our Sri Lanka team packed with players from WA, Melb & Syd, trained by Keith Rozario, will compete with some of the best Intl Touch Rugby talent fighting for the International Touch Series 2024 Champions Trophy on Saturday 3rd Feb at Lidcombe Oval, NSW from 11:45am onwards. International Teams Srilanka England Ireland Lebanon Greece We encourage all our Srilankan Sydney Siders to come along for a worthy charity event and support our Srilankan team. Date : Saturday 3rd February Time : 11:45 AM onwards Venue : Lidcombe Oval, NSW ...

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All Blacks and Springboks likely finalists but Pumas and England will be no pushovers. – BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE.  (eLanka Sports editor)   It was one of the best defensive exhibitions in Rugby as The All Blacks and Ireland engaged in a memorable quarter final that delivered what the best teams in the world can produce.  The heart stopping World Cup quarter final lived up to all expectations as two  of the world’s best, locked horns and gave Rugby fans what should have been a World Cup final.    In a game where no quarter was given and none got, rugby fans were treated to a unrelenting battle that went down to the wire before the never to be written off All Blacks held on in a nerve wracking encounter by four points knocking out the world ranked number one team.  Unlike in the past, where New Zealand always entered ...

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Inexperienced but audacious young Lankans dare to dream BY TREVINE RODRIGO IN MELBOURNE  Geelong braces itself for an invasion as cricket fans in Australia and around the world swarm to Melbourne’s popular holiday hotspot over the weekend beginning October 16. Barely a fortnight after the AFL Grand final winning celebrations, residents expect a massive influx of Cricket fans numbering many thousands who will throng GMHBA Stadium to watch teams from Sri Lanka, Namibia, UAE and the Netherlands battle it out in the qualifying rounds for the top two spots in group A to play in the main event. Hospitality will be stretched to breaking point, but the ICC are satisfied that the town is ready to meet all expectations related to accommodation and other hosting services. Thousands of cricket mad Sri Lankans who always dominate crowd numbers at cricket games in Melbourne are expected to outnumber all else, and they ...

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SL Women’s cricket team to leave to Zimbabwe on Monday for ICC Women’s WC Qualifiers – by Sunil Thenabadu (Sports editor – eLanka) Photo Source: Sri Lanka Cricket ( https://srilankacricket.lk/2021/10/sri-lanka-squad-for-the-womens-world-cup-qualifier-2021/ ) Sri Lanka Women’s team is scheduled to leave to Zimbabwe on Monday the 15th to take part in ICC Women’s qualifiers in Harare beginning November 21st to December 5th  2021 Sri Lanka is grouped with”  Netherlands, Ireland,West Indies ,Papua New Guinea in Group A while the Group B comprises of Bangladesh,Pakistan,Thailand,USA and hosts Zimbabwe.The top three team in each group will qualify for the ICC Women’s WC 2022 to be held in New Zealand from March 4th to April 3rd.It is learnt that the 17 member Sri Lankan squad were confined to bio-bubble from the November 3rd at the Cinnamon Lakeside hotel until their departure on the 15th Monday  ...

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