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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනම් කළේ ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය විසින් ඉල්ලා සිටීම නිසා බව ක්රීඩා ඇමැති රොෂාන් රණසිංහ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එම තහනම ලැබීම ගැන පාලක මණ්ඩලයේ තිරිසනුන් සතුටුවෙමින් සාද පවත්වා ඇති බව ද ඔහු පැවසීය. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කරන්නේ අන්තර්ජාල නාලිකාවක සාකච්ඡාවට එක්වෙමිනි. ශ්රී […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has alleged that Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Jay Shah was responsible for the issues plaguing Sri Lankan cricket. In an interview posted on YouTube, Ranatunga alleged the close connection with officials […]
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Sunday, November 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana World Cup-winning former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, expressing his views regarding the suspension imposed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has called for a comprehensive investigation into the matter. Ranathunga further highlighted that President Ranil Wickremesinghe has to stand by his commitments against corruption and launch a […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
By Nirmala Kanangara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Cricket fans who gathered near Sri Lanka Cricket a few days ago stage a protest demanding a shake-up in the sport’s administration following the disastrous performance of the national team at the ongoing cricket World Cup, being held in India. (Pic by Pradeep Dilrukshana) After the special audit […]
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ක්රිකට්වලින් ලැබුණු ඩොලර් මිලියන හයක් විදෙස් ගිණුම්වල ගිණුම් ගත කර ඇති බව විපක්ෂ නායක සජිත් ප්රේමදාස ප්රකාශ කර තිබෙනවා. ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ කොළඹ අද (11) පැවති වැඩසටහනකදීයි. දූෂිත ක්රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලයට එරෙහිව සියලුදෙනා පෙළ ගැසිය යුතු බවයි විපක්ෂ නායකවරයා කියා සිටියේ. ක්රිකට්වලින් ඉපයූ ඩොලර් මිලියන 6ක් මෙරටට ඇවිත් නැහැ”
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Saturday, November 11th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ලංකාවේ ඇති දූෂණ ක්රිකට් ආයතන සියල්ලම විසුරුවා හරින බව ක්රිඩා අමාත්ය රොෂාන් රණසිංහ පවසනවා. ඔහු මේ පිළිබඳව සඳහන් කරන ලද්දේ අද (11) ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශයේදී කැඳවා තිබූ විශේෂ ප්රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාව අතර තුරදීයි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු ප්රකාශ කරන ලද්දේ මෙවැනි අදහසක්. ” මහනුවර කිව්වොත් ක්රිකට් හොර ගුහාවක්. මහනුවර ක්රිකට් හොරුන්ගේ පාරාදීසයක්. […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් අද (10) මෙරටට පැනවූ ක්රිකට් සාමාජිකත්වය අත්හිටුවීමට අදාල ඉල්ලීම සිදුකර ඇත්තේ ශම්මි සිල්වා ප්රමුඛ ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය බවට සුප්රසිද්ධ cricinfo වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරනවා. එමෙන්ම ICC මණ්ඩලය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් නියෝජිතයින්ට නිරීක්ෂකයෙකු ලෙස සහභාගී වීමට අවසර දී ඇති බැවින් අහමදාබාද්හි පැවැත්වෙන ICC රැස්වීම් සඳහා ශම්මි සිල්වාද […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
Nagraj Gollapudi and Andrew Fidel Fernando https://www.espncricinfo.com/ The decision was taken following a tumultuous week in the SLC after Sri Lanka’s poor performance at the World Cup Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been suspended by the ICC with immediate effect because of extensive government interference in the board’s administration. Though the ICC has termed the […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
lanka C news ශ්රී ලංකාවට ක්රිකට් තහනමක් පනවා ඇත්තේ ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සලයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනය කර ඇති ඉල්ලීමක් අනුව යයි ක්රික් ඉන්ෆෝ වෙබ් අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ආයතනයේ සභාපති ශම්මිද සිල්වා විසින් මෙම ඉල්ලීම කර ඇති බවද එම අඩවිය වාර්තා කරයි. ජාත්යන්තර ක්රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් සිකුරාදා දින පැවති රැස්වීමටද ක්රිකට් සභාපති ලෙස […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror ICC suspends Sri Lanka Cricket over political meddling (Daily Mirror) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Sri Lanka’s crisis-ridden cricket board yesterday, saying it had failed to ensure there was no government interference in its affairs. The game’s world governing body said Sri Lanka Cricket was “in serious breach of […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror PARLIAMENT (Daily Mirror)- Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will be handed over to former captain Arjuna Ranatunga for a brief period for the task of rebuilding if SLC is suspended by the ICC, Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said today. “We will hand over the task of […]
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Friday, November 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror ICC) – The International Cricket Council Board has suspended Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership of the ICC with immediate effect. In a statement released on Friday night, the ICC said that the SLC had breached its obligations as a member, in particular the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and without government […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror COLOMBO (Daily Mirror) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe has to decide whether he wants me or ‘Betting’ Shammi, Minister of Sports Roshan Ranasinghe told Parliament while dropping bomb shells on Sri Lanka Cricket ( SLC). “Some interested persons are out to mislead the President by giving […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana රොෂාන් රණසිංහගෙන් ආන්දෝලනාත්මක හෙළිදරව්වක් “එළියට ගියානම් කරන්න වෙන්නේ නෑ”
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Monday, November 6th, 2023
Courtesy Sky News The seldom-used law means cricketers coming to the crease to bat must be ready to face their first ball within a set time. A Sri Lankan batter has become the first player in international cricket to be ‘timed out’ in a controversial moment in the World Cup. Angelo Mathews was given out […]
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Monday, October 16th, 2023
Dr. Muralidaran Ramesh Somasunderam. Test Match cricket is the pinnacle of the game of cricket. Cricket was introduced by Great Britain who embody the great game with its history, culture and heritage in regard to Test Match cricket in particular. Unfortunately, money speaks in the world today and based on this factor, India dominates […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Sept 26 (DailyMirror) – Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has expressed its desire to host all Afghanistan’s home series in Sri Lanka. It also wants to host all the India-Pakistan matches in Sri Lanka. These suggestions have come from Prof. Arjuna De Silva, the chairman of the medical panel of the SLC. Speaking […]
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Tuesday, July 25th, 2023
By Dr M. R. Somasunderam. Warner and Khawaja are of the age where their respective performances as opening batsmen for Australia are of paramount importance. They cannot afford to be dropped and selected again to the national team based on their respective ages at thirty six years of age respectively. The Australian team has included […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
අග්රාමාත්ය මාධ්ය අංශය. ජාත්යන්තර බොක්සිං සංගමයේ (IBA) සභාපති උමාර් ක්රෙම්ලෙව් මහතා 2023.07.18 දින අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී අග්රාමාත්ය දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මහතා හමුවිය. ජාත්යන්තර බොක්සිං සංගමයේ (IBA) සභාපතිවරයා ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං සහ අනෙකුත් ක්රීඩා දියුණු කිරීමට අඛණ්ඩව ගන්නා උත්සාහයන් පිළිබඳව අග්රාමාත්යවරයාට සහ ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශයට මෙහිදී ස්තූතිය පුද කළ අතර රුසියානු බොක්සිං සම්මේලනය ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බොක්සිං ක්රීඩාව ප්රවර්ධනය කිරීමට […]
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Tuesday, June 27th, 2023
Cricket News https://www.skysports.com/cricket/news/12123/12909999/english-cricket-deep-rooted-in-racism-sexism-and-classism-report-by-icec-finds This is true not only of English Cricket but also of ICC. Senaka Weeraratna is the inventor of DRS. Google and Wikipedia recognize him as there is no other challenger. ICC, however, is always in a state of denial when it comes to attributing due credit to the inventiveness of non-white authors. […]
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Sunday, April 16th, 2023
Rohan Abeygunawardena Rugby is without doubt most popular team game among Sri Lankans, after cricket. This oval shaped ball game too was introduced by the British like Cricket and Tea in the mid nineteenth centaury. Rugby Football is a sport with an abundance of history, tradition and interesting episodes. To start with, a pupil at […]
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Friday, March 31st, 2023
Top Spin By Sunny Yes the signs are quite visible that Sri Lanka may not make it to the next Cricket World Cup which some analyst and more perceptive observers see possible after the latest loss against what could be termed a second string New Zealand team where the big names of Angelo Mathews, Kusal […]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Top Spin By Sunny Each day is a struggle for the players and a heartache for the adoring fans who continue to hope for a sudden surge that will stabilize the ship and sustain the momentum needed to correct all ills in a team floundering in a sea of uncertainty who once basked in the […]
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Courtesy ThePapare.com In cricket as well as in a host of other sports a system known as the player referral is now being used. In cricket parlance it is called the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) or Decision Review System (DRS). Generally, all inventions carry the name of the founder. In the case of rain […]
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Monday, January 9th, 2023
K . Venkat Once the FIFA World Cup started in Qatar, some of my virtue-signaling white friends went on an overdrive. Captains of a few European football teams had insisted on wearing the ‘One Love’ armband, ostensibly to express solidarity with homosexuals, whom Qatari laws persecute. The Qataris knew how to deal with this neo-aggression. […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
තිසර සමල් – එප්පාවල උතුරු මැද පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාර මහීපාල හේරත් මහතාගේ සංකල්පයක් මත සියළු පුරවැසියන් යම් ක්රීඩාවක නිරත විය යුතු යැයි යන තේමාව යටතේ උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාවේ ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශය සංවිධානය කළ පළාත් සභාවේ අන්තර් ආයතන වොලිබෝල් සැණකෙළිය දෙසැම්බර් 19-20 දෙදින පුරාවට උතුරු මැද පළාත් ගෘහස්ථ ක්රීඩාංගනයේදී පැවැත්විණි මෙය රන් කුසලාන” ක්රීඩා සැණකෙළිය වශයෙන් නම් […]
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
එස්. එල්. ටී. මොබිටෙල් සබුද්ධි සම්මාන උළෙල මෙරට පැවැත්වෙන එකම ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය සම්මාන උළෙල වන SLT-Mobitel සබුද්ධි ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය සම්මාන උළෙලේදී යෝගානන්ද විජේසුන්දර අනුස්මරණ සබුද්ධි ක්රීඩා සාහිත්ය රන් සම්මානය ආර්. ඒ. විමලසේන පෙරේරා මහතාට පිරිනැමිණ. ඒ ක්රීඩා සාහිත්යයේ ප්රවර්ධනයට ලබා දුන් ක්රීඩාමය පෞරුෂ දායකත්වය වෙනුවෙනි. සම්මාන උළෙල දෙසැම්බර් (02) වැනිදා ක්රීඩා අමාත්යාංශ ඩන්කන් වයිට් අනුස්මරණ ශාලාවේදී […]
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Saturday, November 26th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The 81st Madras-Colombo Rowing Regatta came was held today (November 26) at the Colombo Rowing Club. Considered to be the oldest boat race in the world between two cities in different countries, the event was inaugurated way back in 1898. The Madras Boat Club and the Colombo Rowing Club take turns in hosting […]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
By CANDACE SUTTON and STEPHEN GIBBS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Courtesy MailOnline Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka charged over alleged sexual assault Injured star was preparing to leave Sydney when arrested at team’s CBD hotel Gunathilaka has been moved to Parklea jail in western Sydney on remand 31-year-old arrested in luxury city hotel early on Sunday and handcuffed […]
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2022
Kithsiri Senadeera I have the highest regard for our Sri Lanka’s cricket captain Dasun Shanaka not only because he lead a young team to win the T20 Asia Cup under extremely difficult conditions, but the statement he made at the post-match press conference after winning the Asia Cup. Dasun Shanaka said “Not only Cricket, […]
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