Three former Anandians in Sri Lanka 60+ Cricket team-by M.H.YAKEEM Source:Dailynews Sumedha Eratne , Mahes de Zoysa and Thilan Wijesinghe have been selected to represent the Sri-Lanka 60+ Cricket team for the first ever World Cup, which is scheduled to be held in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia from September 3- 16 2022. Sumedha Eratne – Started playing cricket for Ananda College from under 14 and went on to represent the under 16, 2nd X1 and the 1st X1 teams and after completing his education, he joined the University of Peradenya for his higher studies. During his studies at the University of Peradeniya, he represented the University Cricket team from 1970 – 1974 and also shared the captaincy in 1973 ..He was in the squad of the Sri-Lanka Central Provinceteam that played against MCC 1972/ 1973 . He has represented Zambia, Botswana and East Africa àt International tournaments and currently ...
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Johann Peiris to lead Sri-Lanka 60+ plus cricket team at the WC-by M.H.YAKEEM Johann Peiris Source:Dailynews All rounder, Johann Peiris has been selected to lead the Sri-Lankan Cricket team for the first ever 60+ World Cup tournament to be held on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia from September 3 to 16 with the participation of 12 teams. Veterans Cricket Australia will host this inaugural 60+ World Cup according to Rod Rice, the President of Queensland Veterans who is also the tournament liaison official. Peiris, who is a pilot by profession has played Cricket in Sri-Lanka and had the distinction of Captaining the St. Thomas College team at the centenary big match against Royal College in 1979. At this inaugural 60+ World Cup tournament, Sri-Lanka will also include players living in Australia, New Zealand and USA. The team will comprise five players from Sri-Lanka including Johann Peiris, 11 from Australia, 3 ...
Aug 17, 2022
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Tagged Ajith Narampanawe (Colombo), Andy Bhahirathan, Brian Goonesekera, Dr. Sittampalam Ragavan, Gary Gunasekera (Vice- Captain - Melbourne), George Seneviratne(USA), Johann Peiris, Keith Carlyle Jansz, Lal Wijesiriwardena, Mahendra Arthanayake, Mahes De Zoysa, Neil Karunasekera (Canberra), Prasanna Kariyawasam- Secretary, Senerath A. Seneviratne- Admin, Shantha Gunasekera- Manager, Sumedha Eratne (Auckland), Suren Surendran, Thilan Wijesinghe, Wasantha Hettiarachchi Nadarajah Gowripalam (Sydney)
