Sri Lankan fast bowler Chanaka Welegedara is unlikely to travel to England for the Champions Trophy, after failing to recover sufficiently from an ankle injury he sustained on May 18. Welegedara failed a fitness test on Wednesday morning, and Sri Lanka Cricket have since named seam bowler Dilhara Lokuhettige as a replacement. The selection was cleared by the sports minister, but has not yet been approved by the ICC.
The former England cricket captain and channel 9 commentator Tony Greig died at the age of 66. His death announced by nine popular websites yesterday. According to these websites reports, he had been suffering from a lung cancer.He was initially diagnosed with bronchitis in May and the condition had been lingered by the time of ICC world Cup 2020 in October this year, which was finished in Srilanka. The medical tests revealed that a small lesion at the base of his lung.
On his return from Australia, He had fluid removed from his lung and diagnosed a lung cancer.
Opener Dimuth Karunaratne has been named in Sri Lanka's squad to Australia for three Tests, the first of which begins in Hobart on December 14. Fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep also finds a place in the squad, but 19-year-old off spinner Tharindu Kaushal, who is with the team for the ongoing home series against New Zealand, has not been named. The tour will begin with a warm-up match in Canberra on the 6th of December.
Eranga Dulakshi of the Sri Lanka Air Force established a national record at the 90th National Athletics Meet on Friday. Dulakshi set the record in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase after clocking a time of 10 minutes 11.72 seconds.Incidentally, Dulakshi eclipsed her own record of 10 minutes 17.66 seconds.
Breaking a Guinness World Record is no easy task.
Attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the highest number of points scored by two scrabble players within 24 hours, is something many would not even contemplate, considering the mental stamina required to achieve the feat.
However, two Sri Lankans Yeshan Jayasuriya and Lakshan Wanniarachchi will take up this challenge in Colombo today.
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15 by 15 grid.
The words are formed across and down in cross word fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary.
Lakshan Wanniarachchi and Yeshan Jayasuriya, both products of S. Thomas' College are aiming to become only the fourth pair to hold the record.
The first record was set by Paul Golder and John Howell back in 1995, where they scored 111,154 points.
Sri Lanka Twenty20 cricketer Chinthaka Jayasinghe has retired from first-class cricket in Sri Lanka, citing frustration with continued non-selection for the national team as a major reason. Jayasinghe, 34, played in five T20 matches from December 2009 to May 2010, making a high score of 38 from three innings in the lower-middle order. He played as a fast-bowling allrounder for his domestic sides, and has 104 wickets at 24.48, but did not bowl in internationals.
Former National boxing champion Manjula Wanniarachchi will be back in action in the boxing ring soon as he has now completed his twoyear ban after testing positive for a banned drug at an international meet where he won a gold medal two years ago.
Sri Lanka’s new T-20 captain Angelo Mathews today said he was satisfied and had confidence in his team scheduled to face the upcoming T-20 tournament against New Zealand.
“I am satisfied with the team. We came forward strongly as a team except for the last match in the last T-20 world cup. We don’t expect to make big changes. We hope to play as we have done so far. We are going to miss the services of Mahela and Malinga who have been rested by the selectors.”
Responding to a question on introducing new spinners to the team, he said such changes have to be made when playing with a non-sub continent country and those players will find it difficult to play against such spinner
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West Indies stormed into the final of the T20 World Cup after beating Australia. The West Indies beat mighty Australia by 74 runs. Australians' batting line-up succumbed to the pressure in chase of huge target-206 runs by the West Indian team.
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