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2 records were broken when Sri Lanka won against Pakistan.
Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by five wickets at the Dubai International Stadium on Friday (September 9) in the final of the 2022 Asia Cup Super 4.
While extraordinary milestones were not broken during the tournament, Sri Lanka’s impressive win over Pakistan led to the creation of some remarkable records.
Accordingly, here are the first two records broken in the Super 4 match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
- Wanindu Hasaranga becomes Sri Lanka’s second-highest wicket-taker in T20Is.
Sri Lankan leg spinner Vanindu Hasaranga managed to turn the game upside down with his brilliant bowling against Pakistan. He caused a lot of trouble for the Pakistani batsmen and managed to take three wickets in his four overs.
Hasaranga, who had taken 65 T20 wickets before this match, surpassed Ajanta Mendis to become Sri Lanka’s second-highest wicket-taker with 68 T20 wickets. Hasaranga achieved this milestone in 41 innings.
Sri Lankan player Lasith Malinga is leading the wicket-taking record with a record 107 T20I wickets in 83 innings. However, based on Hasaranga’s recent performances, it seems that there may be some threat to Malinga’s top position.
- Pathum Nishanka is the highest run-scorer in T20Is for Sri Lanka in a calendar year.
Sri Lankan opening batsman Pathum Nishanka scored 55* runs in 48 balls and took his innings to the victory of the Sri Lankan team.
The right-handed batsman has been a crucial player for Sri Lanka this year and has been a standout batsman in the 2022 Asia Cup. Nishanka has scored 165 runs at an average of 41.2 in the ongoing tournament, taking his 2022 T20I total to 491 runs in 16 matches.
No Sri Lankan player has scored more than 491 runs in one calendar year. He is also the first player from Sri Lanka to score 400+ runs in T20I matches in one calendar year.
Skipper Dasun Shanaka scored a 16-ball 21 on Friday to become the second Sri Lankan to cross the 400-run T20I mark in one year. Shanaka has collected 417 runs in 16 matches so far this year.
පකිස්ථානයට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තියුණු ජයක් ලබද්දී බිඳ වැටුණු වාර්තා 2ක්
2022 ආසියානු කුසලානයේ අවසන් සුපිරි 4 වටයේ අවසාන තරගය සිකුරාදා (සැප්තැම්බර් 9) ඩුබායි ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව කඩුලු පහකින් පාකිස්තානය පරාජය කළේය.
තරඟය අතරතුර අසාමාන්‍ය සන්ධිස්ථාන බිඳ නොදැමූ අතර, පාකිස්තානයට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලැබූ විශිෂ්ට ජයග්‍රහණය කැපී පෙනෙන වාර්තා කිහිපයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට හේතු විය.
ඒ අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ පකිස්ථානය අතර පැවති Super 4 තරඟයේදී බිඳ වැටුණු මුල්ම වාර්තා දෙක මෙන්න.
- වනිඳු හසරංග T20I තරගවලදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දෙවැනි වැඩිම කඩුලු ලාභියා බවට පත්වෙයි.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා පා දඟ පන්දු යවන ක්‍රීඩක වනිඳු හසරංග පාකිස්තානයට එරෙහිව සිය දක්ෂ පන්දු යැවීමෙන් තරගය උඩු යටිකුරු කිරීමට සමත් විය. ඔහු පකිස්තාන පිතිකරුවන්ට බොහෝ කරදර ඇති කළ අතර ඔහුගේ ඕවර හතරේදී කඩුලු තුනක් දවා ගැනීමට සමත් විය.
මෙම තරගයට පෙර විස්සයි20 කඩුලු 65ක් ලබා සිටි හසරංග, අජන්ත මෙන්ඩිස් අභිබවා විස්සයි20 කඩුලු 68ක් ලබා ගනිමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ දෙවැනි වැඩිම කඩුලු ලාභියා බවට පත් විය. හසරංග ඉනිම් 41 කදී මෙම සන්ධිස්ථානය අත්කර ගත්හ.
ඉනිම 83කදී වාර්තාගත විස්සයි20 කඩුලු 107ක් දවාගනිමින් කඩුලු දවා ගැනීමේ සටහනේ පෙරමුණ ගෙන සිටින ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රීඩක ලසිත් මාලිංගය. කෙසේ වෙතත් මෑත කාලයේ හසරංග පෙන්වූ දක්ෂතා මත පෙනෙන්නේ මාලිංගගේ ඉහළම ස්ථානයට යම් තර්ජනයක් එල්ල විය හැකි බවයි.
- පැතුම් නිශ්ශංක දින දර්ශන වර්ෂයකදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වෙනුවෙන් T20I තරඟවල වැඩිම ලකුණු ලාභියා වේ.
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආරම්භක පිතිකරු පැතුම් නිශ්ශංක පන්දු 48 කදී ලකුණු 55*ක් ලබා ගනිමින් සිය ඉනිම ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමේ ජයග්‍රහණය කරා රැගෙන ගියහ.
දකුණත් පිතිකරු මෙම වසරේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට තීරණාත්මක ක්‍රීඩකයෙකු වී ඇති අතර ඔහු 2022 ආසියානු කුසලාන තරඟාවලියේ කැපී පෙනෙන පිතිකරුවෙකු වී හමාරය. නිශ්ශංක දැනට පැවැත්වෙන තරගාවලියේදී ලකුණු 165ක් රැස්කරගෙන ඇත්තේ සාමාන්‍ය 41.2ක් ලෙසින් වන අතර, ඔහුගේ 2022 T20I ලකුණු සංඛ්‍යාව තරග 16කදී ලකුණු 491ක් දක්වා රැගෙන ගියේය.
නිශ්ශංක ලබාගත් ලකුණු 491 ට වඩා වැඩි ලකුණු සංඛ්‍යාවක් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ කිසිදු ක්‍රීඩකයෙකු එක් දින දර්ශන වර්ෂයකදී ලබාගෙන නොමැත. ඔහු එක් දින දර්ශන වර්ෂයක් තුළ T20I තරඟවලදී ලකුණු 400+ රැස් කළ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පළමු ක්‍රීඩකයා ද වේ.
නායක දසුන් ශානක සිකුරාදා පන්දු 16කින් ලකුණු 21ක් රැස්කරමින් එක් වසරක් තුළ T20I ලකුණු 400 සීමාව පසු කළ දෙවැනි ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයා බවට පත් විය. ශානක මේ වසරේ මේ දක්වා තරග 16කදී ලකුණු 417ක් රැස්කර තිබේ.
பாகிஸ்தானுக்கு எதிராக இலங்கை வெற்றி பெற்றதன் மூலம் 2 சாதனைகள் முறியடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.
2022 ஆசியக் கோப்பை சூப்பர் 4 இன் இறுதிப் போட்டியில், வெள்ளிக்கிழமை (செப்டம்பர் 9) துபாய் சர்வதேச மைதானத்தில் பாகிஸ்தானை 5 விக்கெட் வித்தியாசத்தில் இலங்கை வென்றது.
போட்டியின் போது அசாதாரண மைல்கற்கள் உடைக்கப்படவில்லை என்றாலும், பாகிஸ்தானுக்கு எதிரான இலங்கையின் அற்புதமான வெற்றி சில குறிப்பிடத்தக்க சாதனைகளை உருவாக்க வழிவகுத்தது.
அதன்படி, இலங்கை மற்றும் பாகிஸ்தான் அணிகளுக்கு இடையிலான சுப்பர் 4 போட்டியில் முறியடிக்கப்பட்ட முதல் இரண்டு சாதனைகள் இதோ.
- டி20 போட்டிகளில் இலங்கையின் இரண்டாவது அதிக விக்கெட் வீழ்த்திய வீரர் என்ற பெருமையை வனிந்து ஹசரங்க பெற்றார்.
இலங்கையின் லெக் ஸ்பின்னர் வனிந்து ஹசரங்க பாகிஸ்தானுக்கு எதிரான தனது சிறப்பான பந்துவீச்சால் ஆட்டத்தை தலைகீழாக மாற்றினார். அவர் பாகிஸ்தான் பேட்ஸ்மேன்களுக்கு நிறைய சிக்கல்களை ஏற்படுத்தினார் மற்றும் தனது நான்கு ஓவர்களில் மூன்று விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தினார்.
இந்தப் போட்டிக்கு முன்னர் 65 T20 விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தியிருந்த ஹசரங்கா, 68 T20 விக்கெட்டுகளுடன் அஜந்தா மெண்டிஸை பின்னுக்குத் தள்ளி இலங்கையின் இரண்டாவது அதிக விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தியவர் என்ற பெருமையைப் பெற்றார். ஹசரங்க 41 இன்னிங்ஸ்களில் இந்த மைல்கல்லை எட்டினார்.
இலங்கை வீரர் லசித் மலிங்கா 83 இன்னிங்ஸ்களில் 107 டி20 விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்தி சாதனை படைத்துள்ளார். எனினும், ஹசரங்காவின் அண்மைக்கால ஆட்டங்களின் அடிப்படையில், மலிங்காவின் உயர்மட்ட பதவிக்கு ஏதேனும் அச்சுறுத்தல் இருக்கலாம் எனத் தெரிகிறது.
- ஒரு காலண்டர் ஆண்டில் இலங்கை அணிக்காக டி20 போட்டிகளில் அதிக ரன் குவித்தவர் பதும் நிஷங்கா.
இலங்கை அணியின் ஆரம்ப துடுப்பாட்ட வீரர் பதும் நிஷங்க 48 பந்துகளில் 55* ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்று தனது இன்னிங்ஸை இலங்கை அணியின் வெற்றிக்கு அழைத்துச் சென்றார்.
வலது கை பேட்ஸ்மேன் இந்த ஆண்டு இலங்கைக்கு ஒரு முக்கியமான வீரராக இருந்தார் மற்றும் 2022 ஆசிய கோப்பையில் ஒரு சிறந்த பேட்ஸ்மேனாக இருந்தார். நிஷாங்கா நடந்து வரும் போட்டியில் 41.2 சராசரியில் 165 ரன்கள் எடுத்துள்ளார், 2022 டி20ஐ 16 போட்டிகளில் 491 ரன்கள் எடுத்தார்.
ஒரு காலண்டர் வருடத்தில் எந்த இலங்கை வீரரும் 491 ரன்களுக்கு மேல் எடுத்ததில்லை. ஒரு காலண்டர் ஆண்டில் டி20 போட்டிகளில் 400+ ரன்களை எடுத்த முதல் இலங்கை வீரர் என்ற பெருமையையும் பெற்றார்.
கேப்டன் தசுன் ஷனகா வெள்ளிக்கிழமை 16 பந்துகளில் 21 ரன்கள் எடுத்தார், ஒரு வருடத்தில் 400 டி20 ரன்களைக் கடந்த இரண்டாவது இலங்கையர் ஆனார். ஷனகா இந்த ஆண்டு இதுவரை 16 போட்டிகளில் விளையாடி 417 ரன்கள் குவித்துள்ளார்.
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Kamindu Mendis Shines as Sunrisers Hyderabad Break Chepauk Curse, Crush CSK’s Playoff Hopes | IPL 2025
Sri Lankan all-rounder Kamindu Mendis delivered under pressure, helping Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) script a historic first-ever win over Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium during the IPL 2025 season.
Chasing a tricky target of 155, Mendis played a composed and crucial unbeaten knock of 32 off 22 balls, stitching an unbroken 49-run partnership with Nitish Kumar to seal a five-wicket victory with eight balls to spare. His calm presence at the crease when the game was delicately poised underlined his growing stature in T20 cricket.
Earlier, the Chennai Super Kings, once invincible at home, continued their disastrous 2025 campaign — suffering a fourth consecutive home defeat. Batting first, CSK stumbled despite a promising start, collapsing to 154 all out. Dewald Brevis impressed briefly on debut with a quickfire 42 runs, but it was Harshal Patel’s brilliant spell (4 wickets for 28 runs) that broke CSK’s backbone.
For CSK, promising youngster Ayush Mhatre shone early, but a middle-order collapse proved costly. Even skipper M.S. Dhoni’s tactical gamble of giving Sam Curran two overs backfired, as SRH batters capitalized to turn the game.
In the SRH chase, despite early hiccups — losing Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head quickly — Ishan Kishan’s fluent 44 and Kamindu Mendis’ finishing touch ensured Hyderabad stayed alive in the playoff race.
Meanwhile, in the updated IPL 2025 points table, Sunrisers Hyderabad now sits 8th with 6 points, while CSK languishes at the bottom with just 4 points from 9 games, effectively ending their playoff dreams.
Mendis’ all-round contribution, including a key wicket earlier, and his coolness in the chase were pivotal. While Harshal Patel deservedly took the Player of the Match award, Sri Lanka can proudly celebrate Kamindu’s evolving prowess on the IPL stage.
Points Table Update (After SRH vs CSK Match):
- GT, DC, and RCB are leading the race with 12 points each.
- PBKS and MI are close behind with 11 and 10 points.
- CSK and RR are at the bottom with just 4 points, all but knocked out of the playoffs.
Sri Lanka’s promising golf talents Kaya Daluwatte and Reshan Algama showcased their growing international class with stellar performances at the prestigious 16th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final, held at the stunning Laguna Golf Lang Co in Vietnam.
Facing off against the finest junior golfers from the Asia-Pacific region—including representatives from Australia, England, Japan, India, and Wales—both Kaya and Reshan rose to the occasion, underlining Sri Lanka’s emerging strength in the sport.
Kaya Daluwatte delivered one of her career-best performances, finishing as the runner-up in the Girls’ Under-16 category. After three composed rounds, she posted a remarkable final score of even-par 216, highlighted by an impressive 2-under-par finish in the final round. Despite Japan’s Al Goto clinching the title with a score of 213, Kaya’s climb up the leaderboard captured widespread admiration. Her poise, precision, and birdies during the crucial back-nine holes showcased a maturity well beyond her years.
This runner-up finish at one of Asia’s top junior championships marks a historic achievement for Sri Lankan golf, signaling that the nation’s junior golfers are ready to challenge the region’s traditional powerhouses.
In the Boys’ Under-16 category, Reshan Algama also left his mark by securing a strong fourth-place finish with a gross score of 218. Although his final round did not match the brilliance of his earlier efforts, Reshan displayed commendable composure against a highly competitive international field. His consistency across top-level tournaments reflects his rapid development into a serious contender on the global junior golf circuit.
Vietnam’s Tuan Anh Nguyen dominated the Boys’ division, leading from start to finish to claim the title with a superb score of 205. India’s Arshvant Srivastava and Kanav Chauhan finished second and third, with scores of 214 and 216 respectively.
Kaya and Reshan’s performances not only bring pride to Sri Lanka but also signal a bright future for the country’s junior golfing scene on the Asian stage.
The much-anticipated SAFF Championship, originally scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka in July 2025, has now been officially postponed to 2026—a move that has raised serious concerns over the competence and credibility of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL).
According to the SAFF Executive Committee, the decision to delay the tournament stemmed largely from pressure exerted by its marketing partner, Sportfive, which advocated for a home-and-away format to increase commercial value. Furthermore, it is reported that Sportfive preferred the event be hosted in Bangladesh or India, citing better sponsor access and commercial feasibility in those countries if the tournament were to follow a centralized model.
However, beyond external pressure, this development highlights a troubling reality: the FFSL’s inability to effectively organize and defend Sri Lanka’s hosting rights on the international stage. This isn’t merely a scheduling issue—it reflects a deeper pattern of administrative shortcomings, lack of vision, and prioritization of media narratives over tangible development.
As previously reported by Sri Lankan Sports TV, the FFSL continues to focus more on optics and media stunts rather than on the foundational work required to uplift football in the country. The failure to safeguard Sri Lanka’s opportunity to host a major regional tournament not only affects the sport’s growth domestically but also damages the nation’s reputation within South Asian football.
For a federation that has long promised reform and transparency, this latest setback exposes how little progress has actually been made. When commercial partners have more sway than the national football body itself, it’s a clear indication that local football governance is being undermined by weak leadership and poor planning.
This should be a wake-up call—not just for the FFSL, but for every stakeholder invested in the future of Sri Lankan football. The time for slogans and staged announcements is over. Sri Lanka needs action, accountability, and genuine commitment to building a sustainable footballing culture. Until then, headlines like this will only continue to reflect a sport lost in mismanagement.
Kamindu Mendis Shines as Sunrisers Hyderabad Break Chepauk Curse, Crush CSK’s Playoff Hopes | IPL 2025
Kaya Daluwatte and Reshan Algama Shine at 16th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final in Vietnam
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