Dickwella, Gunathilake and Mendis given a pardon, permitted to play in domestic cricket- Lanka Premier League to commence on 5th December  By sunil Thenabadu (sports editor-eLanka) Banned Sri Lanka cricketers  for misconduct for breaking the Bio-Bubble while touring England with SL team Niroshan Dickwella, Dhanushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis in June this year have got a reprieve  before their one year ban period expired have been granted permission to play in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) that will have top players both overseas and local in action when it begins on December 5 in Sri Lanka.  The three players were banned from both international and domestic cricket and fined Rs.10 million each at a time they were also involved in a pay dispute with Sri Lanka Cricket.  The squads:  Jaffna Kings: Faf du Plessis, Thisara Perera, Wahab Riaz, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shoaib Malik, Usman Shinwari, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Avishka Fernando, Upul Tharanga, Chaturanga de Silva, ...

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Sri Lanka youth cap Shashika pride of St. Servatius’ Shashika Source:Dailynews Sri Lanka youth cap, Left hand batsman and left arm leg-spinner P.W. Shashika Dulshan is an outstanding cricketer produced by St. Servatius’ College Matara Parawahera Widanage Shashika Dulshan was born on 4th of May 2000 at Matara. He was admitted to Thalpawila Madya Maha Vidyalaya in 2005. He joined St. Servatius’ College Matara in 2007 in grade 3. He started Cricket in 2011 as left arm fast bowler under his first coach Priyantha Abeysekara and assistant coach Tharindu Jeewantha in 2010. He started school Cricket and represented under 13 ‘B’ team in 2011. He represented the school under 13 teams for three years. He scored 55 runs and claimed eight wickets for the under 13 ‘B’ team in 2011. He scored 45 runs and claimed 8 wickets for the under 13 ‘A’ team in 2012. He scored 207 runs ...

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