April 15, 2025 · 1:41 am
Simon Burnton, in The Guardian Weekly, 14 June 2024 A cricket pitch grown in Adelaide has been shipped 11,000 miles via Florida to a newly built stadium in New York state. Time will tell whether this World Cup [2024], plus … Continue reading →
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August 22, 2025 · 8:44 pm
The WIKIPEDIA Entry on The Man captaining Sri Lanka Today in the ODI Field Kariyawasam Indipalage Charith Asalanka (born 29 June 1997) is a Sri Lankan professional cricketer who currently serves as the captain of the Sri Lanka national team in white-ball formats of T20I and ODI and is … Continue reading →
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March 20, 2025 · 7:38 pm
Navin Dissanayake in The Island, 20 March 1995 Cricket has long been Sri Lanka’s greatest unifier. It is the sport that makes the world see us as more than just a small island—it makes them respect us, remember us, and … Continue reading →
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September 3, 2025 · 1:29 am
Michael Roberts I realised that I had limited information about who held the reins of Sri Lanka cricket these days and That my knowledge was, at best, partial. In rendying this abysmal shortcoming, I am presenting basic .details drawn from … Continue reading →
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February 12, 2026 · 6:52 pm
Madushka Balasuriya, in ESPNcricinfo, 12 February 2026 When Duleep Mendis first arrived in Muscat to help a budding nation find its footing in international cricket, he expected his stay to be brief. That was 13 years ago. The 2026 tournament in … Continue reading →
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June 15, 2025 · 8:06 pm
Somasundaram Skandakumar to Cricketing Friends, speaking from the Heights of Uva, 15 June 2025 Dear All, An amazing final indeed and I too watched all of it. A Country once banned by the ICC for its extreme apartheid policies and … Continue reading →
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September 23, 2024 · 7:51 pm
Michael Roberts After Charith Asalanka led Sri Lanka to hard-fought triumph against India recently — see … and continues to captain the side in the two shortern-form games, Dhananjaya De Silva has stepped up as skipper, batsman, bowler and slip-fielder in … Continue reading →
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June 27, 2025 · 10:48 am
News Item in THE ISLAND, 27 jUNE 2027 … The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added several uniquely Sri Lankan words to its June 2025 update, OED.com has said.Among the new entries is “asweddumise”, meaning to prepare land for paddy … Continue reading →
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August 25, 2024 · 9:01 pm
Indunil De Silva With my classmate and friend Lorenz Pereira and wife Kumi at the SSC after the Bradby. Lorenz was the most gifted Sportsman at College during our generation. He was so gifted that sports came … Continue reading →
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November 5, 2024 · 7:17 pm
Lam Seneviratne, whose choice of title is “Lords -My Claim to Fame” … quite an appropriate point I had presented to the MCC at Lords a painting of the Singhalese Sports Club grounds in 1975 to mark the first ODI … Continue reading →
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