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• June 15, 2024
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The draft constitution, prepared by the Judge Chitrasiri Committee for the Sri Lanka Cricket Board, was presented to President Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Presidential Secretariat today (15). The draft was handed over to President Ranil Wickremesinghe by the Committee Chairman, retired Supreme Court Judge K.T. Chitrasiri, accompanied by other committee members. To address the challenges faced by Sri Lanka Cricket …

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• June 14, 2024
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The Sri Lanka captain narrowly beat a strong field that included her Scotland counterpart and the world’s No.1 ranked white-ball bowler. Chamari Athapaththu has won the ICC Women’s Player of the Month award for a second time, after the Sri Lanka star beat a hot field to claim the coveted award for May 2024. Athapaththu edged out strong opposition from …

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• June 12, 2024
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Si Lanka’s hopes of going to the Super Eight of the ninth edition of the 2024 ICC T20 World Cup were good as over after heavy rains caused their third fixture of Group D against Nepal to be abandoned at Lauderhill. With just the 1 point and the remaining game against Netherlands carrying just the 2 points in the eventuality …

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• June 11, 2024
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I’m sure you would have seen this morning’s game and if anything, that’s probably helped you a little bit just for sort of South Africa to race away and Bangladesh is still just a game in front. What do you think the mood is like in your camp after watching that game and knowing that destiny to this point is …

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• June 10, 2024
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Sri Lanka suffered their second successive defeat yesterday in the 2024 T20 World Cup at the hands of Bangladesh by two wickets following another pathetic batting display by the frontline bar Pathum Nissanka 47 and 21 from Dhananjaya de Silva at Texas’ Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. Bangladesh reached the target by the 19th over with No.3 Litton Das and No. …

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• June 9, 2024
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 The U.S. Embassy in Colombo will proudly welcome the U.S. Sports Envoys to Sri Lanka, former National Basketball Association (NBA) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players Stephen Howard and Astou Ndiaye, from June 8 through 14.  The Public Diplomacy section of the U.S. Embassy will launch the weeklong basketball program intended to harness the unifying power of sports, made …

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• June 7, 2024
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In a more or less Now or Never face off against Bangladesh in their second Group D fixture at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Texas tomorrow Saturday morning, Sri Lanka’s top order batsmen face the major challenge of coming smoking to overcoming a long nagging problem of lack of depth in the mechanism in recent years which was badly exposed …

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• June 6, 2024
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Sequoia Consultants, Inc., a leading civil engineering consulting firm based in Los Angeles, California, has come forward to take over the future of the LPL team, Dambulla. The team will be operated under DeSilva Holdings, specifically setup for this purpose. The majority stake in Sequoia Consultants is owned by Mr. Priyanga De Silva, a Chartered Civil Engineer, who is the …

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• June 4, 2024
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South Africa humbled Sri Lanka by a 6-wicket thrashing completing the demolition in just 16.2 overs for 80 for 4 having bundled out out the islanders for 77 with Anrich Nortje claiming an impeccable 4 for 7 in the fourth fixture of the ICC 2024 T20 World Cup yesterday on a surface unhelpful to batsmen with the boundaries difficult to …

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• June 3, 2024
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The sky is the limit as former 2014 world champions Sri Lanka led by the imaginative attacking captain, Wanindu Hasaranga as his largely youthful side blended in the sole experience of long timer Angelo Mathews will necessarily need to exhibit that ultimate defining firepower in cricket’s most spellbindingly compelling short format 2024 ICC T20 World Cup flyer in a tilt …