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West Indies avert follow-on  to be 224/9 Rain interrupts play after 4th over after lunch – by Sunil Thenabadu (sports editor – eLanka) West Indies 224 for 9 (Mayers 45, Brathwaite 41,holder 36,Cornwell 39 Jayawickrama 3-38, Ramesh 3-75) trail Sri Lanka 386 by 162 runs  Rain washed out the final session the entirety of the second session barring- only four overs completed after lunch before the trained ground staff was called into action – West Indies ended the third day on 224 for 9, still 162 runs behind Sri Lanka’s first-innings total. Play will begin 15 minutes earlier on the fourth and fifth days to cover for the lost time.  The rain proved a blessing in disguise the acquittal for the visitors on a day that had otherwise begun rather encouragingly, with Jason Holder and Kyle Mayers taking the attack to the home side. After the stand  ended,, with Rahkeem Cornwall being dismissed  for a ...

Nov 24, 2021 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , ,
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Sri Lanka will be a force to be reckoned with next year – Darren Sammy – Sunil Thenabadu (Sports Editor – eLanka) Photo source: (Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/02/west-indies-respect-world-twenty20-final-england ) Darren Sammy of the West Indies is one of cricket’s most loved guys.His captaincy strategies are very high more than most captains .To his country is a legend having captained for two T 20 world cups, in year 2012 winning team at RPS against Sri Lanka and in year 2016 when they were runners in Calcutta against England.But he has only one five wicket hauls and not a single fifty scored. At this years T 20 world cup tournament Darren Sammy was a member of the commentary team had this to utter to a group of Sri Lankan journalists: “I will never forget that World Cup final against hosts Sri Lanka at the RPS in front of a noisy Sri Lankan cricket fraternity ...

Nov 17, 2021 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , ,
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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  ...

Nov 14, 2021 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , ,
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Sri Lanka and West Indies need to play in qualifying round at ICC T 20 WC 2022 in Australia – by Sunil Thenabadu (Sports editor – eLanka)   The Eighth edition of the ICC T20 WC  2022will be held in Australia but surprisingly both West Indies and Sri Lanka will both have to play an supplementary qualifying round in order to be included  to  the super 12’s  Many will ponder when reaching the news that Sri Lanka and West Indies having won two and one match in the ongoing Super 12 ICC T20 tournament have to play in qualifying matches as in this edition to be in the Super 12’s.This is as in ICC world T 20 rankings both Sri Lanka and West Indies are having low ICC T 20 rankings. Bangladesh and Afghanistan however are assured of direct entry.  Cricket fanatics would contemplate why another ICC T20 WC is held ...

Nov 9, 2021 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
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