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Samantha does great service to Kandy cricket as a coach- by Upananda Jayasundera Samantha Sudharshana Dikkumbura Source:Dailynews Samantha Sudharshana Dikkumbura, an old boy of Dharmaraja College, Kandy is an outstanding cricketer in the Eighties and his contemporaries were Prasanna Dissanayake, Priyantha Talwatte and Priyantha Weragoda to name a few. He played as an off spinner and a right hand middle order batsman. After leaving school, he formed Malwatte Sports Club and remained as its cricket coach cum player. Since 2000, he led the cricket team of the Malwatte Sports Club for many victories at the Kandy Municipal cricket tournaments. He is the first coach in Kandy to start ladies cricket at Malwatte Cricket nets and the ladies cricket team was known as ‘Kandyan ladies cricket team. This team consisted of many outstanding women cricketers in the calibre of Dilani Manodara, Sripali Weerakkody, Praba Udawatte and Chamarie Polgampola and all these ...