The Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club is celebrating its Centenary. The other day, it was reported that the main event of the Centenary celebrations will be the three-day “Rugby Sevens Tournament”. It is to be conducted under three segments: inter-school, inter-club (Men’s), and inter-club (Ladies).
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) refuted media reports suggesting its cricketers could potentially be banned from future Indian Premier League (IPL) player auctions as a consequence of not being made available for the opening matches of this year’s IPL.
A six wicket haul by Vishwa Didulana and an unbeaten half ton by Thenuka Liyanage paved the way for Kalutara PCC to record a comfortable four wicket win over Rio SC Ambalangoda in the Under 23 Invitational Limited Over tournament encounter played at Thurstan ground.
Royal College continued their domination on day two of the 144th Battle of the Blues encounter against traditional rivals S. Thomas’ College as they ended in a commanding position and had the Thomians in dire straits and struggling for survival at the SSC ground.
Dasis Manchanayake and Ramiru Perera slammed tons as the pair came to the rescue of Royal College and in the process established a new all-time fifth-wicket record on day one of the 144th Battle of the Blues against traditional rivals S. Thomas’ played at the SSC ground.
Dasis Manchanayake became the first Royal College captain in 27 years to score a century at a Royal-Thomian encounter, as he continued to frustrate the S. Thomas’ College bowlers on the first day of the 144th Battle of the Blues.
Ovina Ambanpola and Dasis Manchanayake made slow but steady progress in staging a recovery with an unbroken 29-run partnership after Royal College were reduced to 19/3 earlier in the first session of the 144th Battle of the Blues encounter at the SSC grounds.