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By Uthpala Wijesuriya The Royal-Thomian or the Battle of the Blues, the world’s second oldest uninterrupted cricket battle, will unveil for the 144th consecutive year this week. The encounter pits the boys bearing the crests of the Elephant and Palm Tree against those bearing the Cross and Dove. The Royal-Thomian is in many ways greater […]
By Hugh Karunanayake The last cricketing appearance by Don Bradman in Sri Lanka was at the Colombo Oval on March 31, 1948 before a capacity crowd of 20,000. The Australian Team was on their way to England for the Ashes series and stopped over in Colombo to play a one day game against what was […]
Under 19 Cricket Opening batsman Sachintha Dissanayaka anchored the Dharmaraja batting lineup for 66 overs, Lahiru Amarasekara took four wickets for St. Joseph’s, and Richmond took command against St. Servatius’ on an intriguing first day of the Under 19 cricket encounters started on Thursday. Dissanayake batted for three sessions to anchor the Dharmaraja batting […]
By Dion Schoorman Today, 17th February, is the 40th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s inaugural Test match and marked a special milestone in the history of Sri Lankan cricket. That game against England began at the Colombo Oval on 17th February 1982. On the day of the inaugural Test, the country came to a virtual standstill, […]
Under 19 Cricket Spinners Niman Umesh and Wanuja Kumara shared ten wickets between them to help St. Peter’s fight back in the second innings and record a five wickets victory over Trinity in the Under 19 traditional cricket encounter at Asgiriya on Wednesday. The home team had a first innings advantage of 39 runs when […]