Shashikala Siriwardena Sri Lanka’s best female cricketer – By Sunil Thenabadu Sri Lanka woman’s cricket team’s ICC T/20 World Cup campaign ended after the final of ICC Women’s T 20 tournament in year 2020 with a comprehensive win by nine wickets over Bangladeshi women at the Junction Oval in central Melbourne.Shashikala Siriwardena, former skipper and the first superstar of the Sri Lankan Woman’s cricket team, had already decided to end her 17year long international career after this WC encounter. Shashikala Siriwardena captured four wickets in this last encounter of hers for just 16 runs in her quota of four overs with her off spinners, for which she was adjudicated as the “Player of the Match”. At the podium after receiving her award she spoke impecca- bly well bidding farewell and thanking all who had helped her in her long career answer- ing in eloquently in English to questions posed ...
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Shashikala Siriwardene bids farewell with “Player of the Match” award in final WC T 20 encounter with Bangladesh By Sunil Thenabadu – eLanka Sports editor Sri Lanka woman’s cricket team’s ICC T/20 World Cup campaign ended on Monday with a comprehensive win by nine wickets over Bangladeshi women at the Junction Oval in central Melbourne. Shashikala Siriwardena,former skipper and the first superstar of the Sri Lankan Woman’s cricket team, had already decided to end her 17-year long international career after this WC encounter. . Shashikala Siriwardena captured four wickets in this last encounter of hers for just 16 runs in her quota of four overs with her off spinners, for which she was adjudicated as the “Player of the Match”.At the podium after receiving her award she spoke impeccably well bidding farewell and thanking all who had helped her in her long career answering in eloquently in English to questions ...
Womens Cricket: Australia vs Sri Lanka Fixture Australia squad: Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes (vc), Erin Burns (T20I only), Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Heather Graham, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham Sri Lanka T20I squad: Chamari Atapattu (c), Harshitha Madavi, Shashikala Siriwardena, Anushka Sanjeewani, Hansima Karunaratne, Yashoda Mendis, Nilakshi De Silva, Dilani Manodara, Oshadhi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera, Sugandhika Kumari, Inoshi Fernando, Achini Kulasooriya, Udeshika Probodhani, Ama Kanchana. First T20I: September 29, North Sydney Oval, 2.40pm Second T20I: September 30, North Sydney Oval, 7.10pm Third T20I: October 2, North Sydney Oval, 10.10am First ODI: October 5, Allan Border Field, Brisbane, 10.10am Second ODI: October 7, Allan Border Field, Brisbane, 10.10am Third ODI: October 9, Allan Border Field, Brisbane, 10.10am ...
