Australia needed just 6.5 overs to thrash a woeful West Indies by eight wickets in an embarrassing end to their one-day international series in Canberra on Tuesday, with Jake Fraser-McGurk slamming 41 off 18 balls.
The cricket boards of Pakistan and Sri Lanka are locked in a financial dispute over who should bear the additional $3-4 million burden incurred due to the shifting of the Asia Cup to the island nation last year.
With some sensational golf, Uchitha Ranasighe, son of former top-class golfer Anura Rohana, secured an overall 3rd place with a score of 293 while Shahab Uddin of Bangladesh claimed the first position, scoring a remarkable 288, while pushing Baker Siddik, also from Bangladesh, to the 2nd position with a score of 290 at the 37th Orion Bangladesh Amateur Golf Championship, which concluded at the Kurmitola Golf Club in Dhaka recently.
A quick-fire 57-ball knock of 66 inclusive of eight boundaries by Nethmi Senaratne and a fine all-round performance by Dewmi Wijeratne helped Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 36 runs in the Women’s Under-19 Tri-Nation Twenty20 final played at the Sheikh Kamal Cricket Stadium in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Questions have been raised over the recent process followed by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in awarding the TV production rights. Not only the rights were awarded to the company after significant delay but the company which got the rights was not ranked lowest in the financial bid.
Sri Lanka’s Methwan Wijemanne and Ivanka Samarasinghe bowed out of contention of the ongoing ITF Junior Circuit Tennis Week 2 tournament when they were beaten in the quarter finals in the girls’ and boys’ singles segment played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo.
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