Category Archives: cricket for amity

September 15, 2025 · 12:40 pm

Advanced Lighting Systems for Two Cricket Stadiums in Lanka

News Item in The Island, 15 September 2025… with this  title “DIMO Installs Sri Lanka’s first ICC-compliant LED floodlights for stadiums”

Advanced features include zoned lighting control for partial stadium use … [with activation  here  in  TPS  made possible  by  KK de  Silva,  of  St Aloysius College  cricket  in the mid-late  1950s  and the SL Admin-Service]

Reinforcing its leadership in sports infrastructure development, DIMO has successfully completed the installation of Sri Lanka’s first and second LED floodlighting systems at two of the country’s most iconic cricket stadiums. The first installation was completed at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium (RDICS) in 2023, followed by the second at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium (RPICS) in Colombo in 2025.

This milestone builds on DIMO’s historic achievement in the 1980s, when it made global headlines by installing Sri Lanka’s first and the world’s second floodlighting system at RPICS, cementing its legacy as a pioneer in sports lighting technology.

Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under accountability, architectural innovation, Colombo and Its Spaces, cricket for amity, governance, landscape wondrous, life stories, performance, Sri Lankan cricket, sri lankan society, world events & processes

September 9, 2025 · 9:31 pm

Asia Cup Now … Gruelling Schedule for Sri Lanka

Shashank Kishore in  ESPNcricinfo, 9  September 2025, where  his  title runs  thus “Back-to-back games plus travel ‘not ideal’ – Asalanka, Rashid on gruelling schedules”

“If you start complaining about these things, it affects your performance on the field,” Rashid Khan says.

“Right now, I’m feeling very sleepy,” Charith Asalanka announced, to peals of laughter around the room. It was a brutally honest opening quip from Sri Lanka‘s captain, who had flown into Dubai from Harare via South Africa just hours earlier for the men’s T20 Asia Cup.

Continue reading →

1 Comment

Filed under Afghanistan, cricket for amity, cricket selections, landscape wondrous, life stories, performance, travelogue

September 9, 2025 · 1:52 am

Mishara leads Many Hands in Stride to Victory in Third ODI

Sunil Thenabadu  in ??  ….where the title runs thus:  “MISHARA”S 73* AND KUSAL PERERA’S 46* SEALS SERIES T 20 WIN FOR SRI LANKA”

Mishara’s maiden fifty seals Sri Lanka’s T20I series against Zimbabwe He added an unbroken 117 for the third wicket with KJ Perera as SL chased 192 down

Sri Lanka 193 for 2 (Mishara 73*, Perera 46*, Evans 1-28) beat Zimbabwe 191 for 8 (Marumani 51, Raza 28, Hemantha 3-38) by eight wickets

Zimbabwe put forward a team effort led by Tadiwanashe Marumani’s fourth T20I fifty to post an imposing 191 for 8. But Sri Lanka’s top four batters made light work of their target by ending the game with 14 balls and eight wickets to spare. With it, Sri Lanka took the series 2-1.

Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under accountability, cricket for amity, cricket selections, life stories, performance, Sri Lankan cricket

September 5, 2025 · 7:15 pm

A Cricketer Who Survived ……..

From FACEBOOK Entry by Lankan Lions,  Sept 2025

He made a brilliant century, which set up Zimbabwe’s first ever Test win when they beat Pakistan in 1995. Two years later, scoring 203 against New Zealand, he became the youngest Zimbabwean batsman to score a Test double century. He has represented Zimbabwe in three World Cups (1996), 1999, and 2003, and during his 10-year career, he took 139 international wickets in addition to 4912 international runs.

Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under animal world, charitable outreach, cricket for amity, ethnicity, leopards in the wild, life stories, performance, the imaginary and the real, trauma, travelogue, unusual people

September 5, 2025 · 12:42 pm

Vale … Lareef Idroos: A Gathering in Los Angeles

Dr Mohamed Lareef Idroos of La Canada, Ca. passed away on September 1st, 2025.

Beloved husband of Nabila and father of Shireen, Sabrina and Samira

Funeral will be on Thursday, September 4th …..at Rose Hills Memorial Park, 3900 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, Ca……………..at 10 am

—————————————————

Dr Lareef Idroos, was a past pupil of St Thomas College……….. He headed the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Hollywood, Ca……………….A highly respected and loved doctor to all his patients.

Lareef Idroos was a successful leg-spin and googly bowler for S. Thomas’ College in the late 1950s; entered the Medical Faculty circa 1960 and was a member of the University of Ceylon cricket team under Carlyle Perera which secured the Sara Trophy during a spectacular season 1962/63. After he migrated to USA in the 1970s, he played for USA in the ODI tournaments conducted by the ICC in the late 1970s.

“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un”

                                               ****************

Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under art & allure bewitching, charitable outreach, cricket for amity, cricket selections, cultural transmission, education, ethnicity, heritage, life stories, patriotism, performance, S. Thomas College, self-reflexivity, Sri Lankan cricket, sri lankan society, unusual people

September 4, 2025 · 1:30 am

Another Nailbiter in Zimbabwe ODI: Remarkable Last Stage Win

LIVE COVERAGE of Last Stages followed ball-by-ball by the Thuppahiyaaaa !

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA – MAY 30: Kamindu Mendis …..  (Photo by Alex Davidson-ICC/ICC via Getty Images)

Pathum Nissanka

Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under cricket for amity, cricket selections, life stories, patriotism, performance, Sri Lankan cricket

September 3, 2025 · 4:40 pm

Vale: Lareef Idroos

Errol Fernando in Melbourne

I am deeply saddened to hear of my very old friend Lareef’s death. He was my neighbour in Kollupitiya, Colombo 3. From the time I was 6 or 7 years old I played cricket with him under the coconut trees. The railway line and the sea were just behind the batsman!  Lareef loved to bowl, and I loved to bat and so we were both happy! I spent hours, days, weeks, months and years facing his bowling. He came up with new tricks all the time and used the sea breeze very effectively!  I have no memory of him batting and me bowling !

 

Continue reading →

1 Comment

Filed under accountability, art & allure bewitching, Colombo and Its Spaces, cricket for amity, cricket selections, cultural transmission, education, heritage, life stories, patriotism, performance, plural society, politIcal discourse, S. Thomas College, sri lankan society, travelogue, unusual people, world events & processes

September 1, 2025 · 1:40 am

Sri Lanka win another Nailbiter against Zimbabwe

Preliminary Thoughts from Afar from Michael Roberts

 & Another pulsating tight finish! …. Good for cricket.

& Sri Lanka delivered 17 WIDES …. Seventeen -with Madushanka (5) and Chameera (4) the worst culprits

& Sikander Raza (a Pakistani Punjabi) once again revealed his cricketing  capacities – showing  that, at 39 years, Age is  not a barrier to continuing excellence

& Pathum Nissanka was solid as usual as opening bat and composed 122 runs at  89.7 s/r …. deservedly securing the Man-of-the-Match award.                                                                                        

Pathum Nissanka

Sikander Raza Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under accountability, cricket for amity, cricket selections, life stories, performance, self-reflexivity, Sri Lankan cricket

August 30, 2025 · 1:50 am

Sri Lanka Snatch Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

First 50-Over ODI in Harare  is a Nailbiter

…  followed  by this Thuppahiyaaa on ball-by-ball script in ESPN ………………  With one MADUSHANKA producing  a hat trick in  Over no 50 to complement Asitha  Fernando’s superb over no 49

RESULT
1st ODI, Harare, August 29, 2025, Sri Lanka tour of Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka FlagSri Lanka
298/6
Zimbabwe FlagZimbabwe
(50 ov, T:299) 291/8

Sri Lanka won by 7 runs

end of over 502 runs • 3 wickets
ZIM: 291/8CRR: 5.82 
Tony Munyonga43 (52b 1×4)
Blessing Muzarabani1 (1b)
Dilshan Madushanka10-0-62-4
Asitha Fernando10-0-50-3
49.6

1
Madushanka to Munyonga, 1 run  …… length ball outside off, swung away high and over mid-off running back. The ball falls safe but it’s Sri Lanka that celebrate – they have snuck through by 7 runs!

PK: “This is the danger of not giving it some serious welly in the 45-49 overs.

49.5

•
Madushanka to Munyonga, no run

Wide yorker, misses and Sri Lanka are home free!

Boundary needed here, and nothing else.

Odinlass : “Hahahaha! My word! This is outrageous!”

49.4

Madushanka to Muzarabani, 1 run  ….. full outside off, swings this and connects well. Down to long-on. Munyonga of course not coming back for the second
49.3

W
Madushanka to Ngarava, OUT

Hattrick for Madushanka! Talk about your redemption arcs, a forgettable day is fast becoming one to be etched in stone! This was quick and straight and Ngarava had no choice but to swing at it. Too good for him though, far too good

Richard Ngarava b Madushanka 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0
Ashraf: “what have u done @Hayes???”
Akindu: “Madushanka YOU BEAUTY!!! clutch play to move the odds toward SL. “
Nuur: “…And that is the problem with one man shows. When that one man is gone, show is over”
49.2

W
Madushanka to Evans, OUT

Two in two! Full outside off, looks for the scoop but it can’t clear short fine who peddles back and holds on smartly! Harare is silenced.

Brad Evans c AM Fernando b Madushanka 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0
Alan: “Finally a jinx worked”

abhi : “Had to jinx him Hayes”

49.1

W
Madushanka to Raza, OUT

Oh my word, he’s crushed middle stump! Big gaps on the onside and Raza moves across looking to sweep this for four. But this a yorker on the base of middle stump. And quick. Raza has to trudge of desolately

Sikandar Raza b Madushanka 92 (87b 8×4 0x6) SR: 105.74

Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under accountability, cricket for amity, cricket selections, life stories, patriotism, performance, world events & processes

August 25, 2025 · 2:03 am

Women’s Cricket: World Cup in India & Lanka, 2025

Anjana Kaluarachchi, at CEYLON TODAY, 22 August 2025 where  the title reads “Revised Schedule: Colombo to Host 11 Matches of ICC Women’s World Cup”

 The ICC has released a revised schedule for the upcoming ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025, jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka from 30 September to 2 November.  Due to the unavailability of M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Navi Mumbai will replace Bengaluru as one of the five host venues. The DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai is now set to stage five key fixtures, including three league matches, a semi-final, and potentially the final on 2 November.

Continue reading →

Leave a comment

Filed under Colombo and Its Spaces, cricket for amity, landscape wondrous, life stories, nationalism, performance, Sri Lankan cricket, tourism & travel, world events & processes