Sri Lanka A Team to India a formidable outfit – SLC Vice President, Ravin Wickramaratne
The Vice President of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), Ravin Wickramaratne, who chaired the press briefing in connection with the Sri Lanka A Team’s tour of India last Friday at the SLC auditorium, observed that it was one of the best A teams Sri Lanka was sending to India. “Basically the Sri Lanka A team squad comprises of basically very strong talent from the domestic structure and a few Sri Lanka players too have been chosen to match the Indians as well as some youngsters who have done extremely well,” he said. The head table also comprised of SLC’s Chief Operations Officer Jerome Jayaratne, Head Coach Roy Dias, Manager Chaminda Mendis and Skipper Ashan Priyanjan. Wickramaratne went on to stress that… Read More →21 May 2019
A dream opportunity for Jeffrey Vandersay to come good
2019 ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP For a player who had been struggling to cement a permanent place in either form of the game and who had been not in ODI action for over an year having played his last ODI on October 23, 2017, Jeffrey Vandersay to be in Sri Lanka’s 15-member squad for the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup is indeed a dream come true. And by all accounts it has opened the door for the 29-year old leg break bowler to deliver with the ball in cricket’s showpiece event and find permanency at a time the national selectors have placed faith in him as a specialist bowler. While old stager, the 36-year old Jeevan Mendis is the only… Read More →21 May 2019
Sri Lanka meet New Zealand in opening fixture on June 1
2019 ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP Sri Lanka will mount its campaign at the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup that gets underway in England on May 30 with Skipper Dimuth Karunaratne leading his men against New Zealand in their opening fixture at Cardiff on June 1 at 3 p.m. Sri Lanka time. Prior to that, they will play two ODIs against Scotland on May 18 at Grange Edinburgh and on May 21 at the same venue and depart for England on May 22. In a significant change to the showpiece tournament format in a departure from the past when teams clashed in group stages, the 2019 World Cup will all ten teams play each other on a round robin basis. It… Read More →15 May 2019
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