The Galle Titans, formerly known as Galle Gladiators, the T20 franchise cricket team featuring in the Lanka Premier League (LPL), is looking to participate in several other leagues overseas with the Galle Titans brand, its owner Nayana Wasalathilake revealed today.
Dhananjaya de Silva shone on day two completing a tenth Test ton before Pakistan recovered from an early setback, having lost their top five batsmen with 105 on the board, on day two of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.
Dinesh Chandimal was given a special cap by Sri Lanka Cricket to mark the playing of his 75th test match. The cap was handed over to Chandimal by Angelo Mathews before the commencement of the second day of play of the ongoing test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. With the ongoing 2nd test match, Chandimal is also playing his 300th international match across all formats.
Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva came to the rescue of Sri Lanka after Pakistan left-arm pacie Shaheen Afridi ripped through the host side’s top order batting with three scalps in the morning session of play to have them struggling on 53 for 3, which helped them to end day one of the first World Test Championship match on 242/6 played at the Galle International Stadium today.
Sri Lanka’s Maheesh Theekshana and Pathum Nissanka made big gains in the ICC’s ODI player rankings, after making significant contributions to their team’s unbeaten run at the Cricket World Cup Qualifier which concluded on Sunday.
An unbeaten 80 from captain Chamari Athapaththu and 49 not out from Harshitha Samarawickrama set Sri Lanka Women up for a dominant 10-wicket win over New Zealand Women in the third and final T20I played in Colombo.
The Sri Lankan Ministry of Sports has appointed a new National Rugby Selections Committee, headed by former rugby player Sudath Sampath. The other members of the committee are Duminda de Silva, Alex Nishantha Chanaka, Rajiv Ganapathy, and C.P. Abeygoonawardena.
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