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SL world champ at ICF meet

kit-sports editor — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 00:21:13 +0000

The Sri Lanka Carrom team will take part in the Seventh International Carrom Federation (ICF) Tournament to be held from 7 -11 October at Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi, India.

The Sri Lanka team will be led by Sri Lanka’s No. 1 ranked Chamil Cooray, and the contingent comprises of six players including the current World Champion Nishantha Fernando, who is ranked second in Sri Lanka.
ICF Member Countries are Sri Lanka, Germany, India, Italy, Pakistan, United Kingdom, Maldives, Korea, Bangladesh, Japan, Qatar, United States of America, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Malaysia, and France.

Men’s team: Chamil Cooray (Captain – National Champion), Nishantha Fernando (Current World champion), Annas Ahamed, Dimal Senaratne, Lalith Hewage (Manager Men’s Team), Thumula Naotunne (General Secretary CFSL and Team Leader)
Women’s team: Joseph Roshita (National Champion), Madhushika Kanchanamala, Arosha Wickramasinghe, Chalani Lakmali, Amitha Wickramasinghe (Manager Women’s team)

Three foreign teams at Rugby Rumble

kit-sports editor — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 00:33:33 +0000

Three teams from Pakistan, Dubai and Qatar will participate at the 2nd Rugby Rumble – Old Boys’ Tag Rugby 7s Festival, that is expected to kick off 25 and 26 July at Longden Place. Each participating team could register 12 players (8 Males and 4 Females) in their squad.
All teams should consist of seven players, five males and two females on the field at any given time. The 5 males should be over 20 years on 1 July 2015 and the two female players over 21 years on 1 July 2015.
Players who represented club’s or school’s during the 2015 season in league, knockout or 7s will not be eligible to participate in the tournament.
The organizers will charge an Entry Fee of Rs.7, 500/= per team. The player eligibility for the tournament will feature two segments. It is confined to players over 20 years of age and players over 40. This is a sevens competition and the above rule, 7 players always on field of the teams playing, applies.
In order to participate in the Rugby Rumble Old Boys’ Tag Rugby 7s Tournament teams must provide proof that their players are eligible to compete in the section for which they are entered. Therefore, a copy of the NIC will be required as proof of age. Proof of player eligibility will be required when registering players prior to each match during the competition.
For further details please contact Dilroy Fernando, Tournament Director, by telephoning 011 2576162 or 0777 360878, or by emailing dilroync@sltnet.lk

Pakistan, Zimbabwe seek Twenty20 improvement

kit-sports editor — Fri, 22 May 2015 01:09:49 +0000

Pakistan and Zimbabwe will seek to improve their limited over performances in the first of two Twenty20 matches held in Lahore Friday, in the first internationals on home soil for the hosts since 2009.

No Test-playing country has visited Pakistan since militants attacked the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore six years ago, killing eight people and injuring seven players.

Zimbabwe agreed to the tour, which also includes three one-day internationals, only after being promised a level of security usually reserved for heads of state, involving 6,000 policemen and paramilitary troops and helicopters buzzing overheard.

Ahead of the match, Pakistan’s captain Shahid Afridi stressed it was time to rebuild the team ahead of next year’s World Twenty20 in India.

“Cricket coming back to Pakistan is great news and we thank (the) Zimbabwe team for coming here,” he said.

“When you are focussing on the World Twenty20 you have to experiment and tweak your team wherever you see your weak areas and improve on them,” he added.

Afridi, who retired from one-day internationals following the 50-over World Cup, said he was delighted to finally play in Pakistan again.

“It’s a big thing for me, I am honoured to play in Pakistan as I will be leaving cricket after the World Twenty20. I have always taken up challenges, these are talented players and I hope a good team will be made,” he said.

Besides Afridi, batsman Shoaib Malik and paceman Mohammad Sami (both recalled after long absences), Mohammad Hafeez and Sarfraz Ahmed are set to feature in the new-look side.

Pakistan need to win both matches — the second on Sunday — to retain their fifth spot in the Twenty20 rankings.

In the case of a drawn series, Pakistan will drop to seventh spot while Zimbabwe can gain three places to ninth if they win one match and seventh if they win both.

That, Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura said, was an incentive.

“It’s a good thing about cricket that any team playing good cricket on a given day can win, it’s not about countries but it’s about the eleven guys to go out and play good cricket,” he said.

Zimbabwe will miss ace batsman Brendon Taylor who quit international cricket to play county in England and spearhead Tendai Chatara who is out with a broken leg.

The Twenty20s will be followed by one-dayers on May 26, 29 and 31.