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Asia Cup hosting was decided after the Pakistan test series!

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July 15, 2022

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Considering the current crisis political situation in Sri Lanka, it is reported that the Asian Cricket Council has a plan to move the hosting of the Asia Cup cricket tournament to be held in Sri Lanka in 2022 to another country. However, it is reported that the final decision will be taken on the success of the Pakistan tournament.

Sri Lanka is a country where cricket has become very popular. The number of cricket spectators in Sri Lanka is huge, but due to the current crisis situation, there is a decrease in the capacity of the spectators and the questionable situation regarding the safety of other players participating in the tournament has been raised.

However, the completed tour of the Australian cricket team to Sri Lanka was held without any hindrance. With these events, the Pakistani cricket authorities have agreed to hold the test matches of the Pakistan cricket team’s tour to Sri Lanka as before. The first match of the Test series will begin on the 16th in Galle. The Sri Lankan team, which won the last test match with great success, enters the match with the mentality of victory and it is reported that the pitch will decide whether the all-rounder Kamindu Mendis, who was successful in the last Australian match, will be included in Pakistan’s first test match. That is because Dhananjaya Silva has recovered from the Covid condition and has returned to the team. Also, spinners Lasith Amudeniya and Praveen Jayawickramaha have been rested in this tournament.

However, a high number of spectators is required for these two matches. Sri Lanka can get a lot of economic strength through the Asia Cup tournament. Accordingly, this Pakistan Test tournament can be crticile decision maker to hold the Asia Cup tournament. The audience should be supportive.

පකිස්ථානය රැගෙන එන ආසියානු කුසලානය

වර්තමානයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ පවතින අර්බුදකාරී දේශපාලනමය තත්ත්වය සැළකිල්ලට ගෙන, ආසියානු ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සිලය විසින් 2022 දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ආසියානු කුසලාන ක්‍රිකට් තරඟාවලියේ සත්කාරකත්වය වෙනත් රටකට ගෙනයාමේ සැළසුමක් ඇති බවට වාර්තා වේ. කේසේවුවත් මෙහි අවසන් තීරණය පකිස්ථාන තරඟාවලියේ සාර්ථකත්වය මත ලබා ගන්නා බව වාර්තා වේ. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව යනු ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාව ඉමහත් ජනප්‍රියත්වයට පත් වී ඇති රටකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ සිටින ක්‍රිකට් ප්‍රේක්ෂක පිරිස අති මහත්ය.නමුත් දැනට පවතින අර්බුදකාරී තත්ත්වය මත ප්‍රේක්ෂක ධාරිතාවේ අඩු වීමක් වීම සහා තරඟාවලියට සහභාගී වෙන වෙනත් ක්‍රීඩකයන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ප්‍රශ්නකාරී තත්ත්වයක් ඇතිවේද යන උපකල්පන මත මේ තරඟාවලිය වෙනත් රටකට රැගෙන යාමේ කතාබහ මතු වී ඇත.

කෙසේවුවත් නිමවූ ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායමේ ශ්‍රී ලංකානු සංචාරය කිසිදු බාධාවකින් තොරව පැවැත්වුණි.මේ සිදුවීම් සමඟ පකිස්ථාන ක්‍රිකට් කණ්ඩායමේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකානු සංචාරයේ ටෙස්ට් තරඟ පෙර පරිදිම පැවැත්වීමට පකිස්ථාන ක්‍රිකට් බළධාරීන් එකඟ වී ඇත. ටෙස්ට් තරඟාවලියේ ප්‍රථම තරඟය දහසය වනදා ගාල්ලේදී ආරම්භ වේ. නිමාවූ අවසන් ටෙස්ට් තරඟය විශිෂ්ට ලෙස ජයගත් ශ්‍රී ලංකානු කණ්ඩායම ජයග්‍රාහි මානසිකත්වයෙන් තරඟයට අවතීර්ණ වන අතර අවසන් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියානු තරඟයේදී සාර්ථක වූ තුන් ඉරියව් ක්‍රීඩක කමිඳු මෙන්ඩිස් පකිස්ථාන ප්‍රථම ටෙස්ට් තරඟයට එක්කරගන්නවාද යන්න තණතීරුව අනුව තීරණය කරන බව වාර්තා වේ. ඒ ධනංජය සිල්වා කොවිඩ් තත්ත්වය සුව වී නැවත කණ්ඩායමට පැමිණ ඇති බැවිනි. එසේම දඟ පන්දු යවන ක්‍රීඩකයන් වන ලසිත් ඇඹුල්දෙනියට සහා ප්‍රවීන් ජයවික්‍රමහට මෙම තරඟාවලියේ විවේකයක් ලබා දී ඇත.

කෙසේ නමුත් මෙම තරඟාවලියේ පවත්වන තරඟ දෙක සඳහා ඉහළ ප්‍රේක්ෂක සංඛ්‍යාවක් අවශ්‍ය ඇත.ආසියානු තරඟාවලිය තුළින් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළට විශාල ආර්ථිකමය ශක්තියක් ලබා ගත හැක.ඒ අනුව මෙම පකිස්ථාන ටෙස්ට් තරඟාවලිය හඳුන්වාදිය හැකි වන්නේ, ආසියානු තරඟාවලිය පැවැත්වීමේ තීරණයේ අවසන් පරීක්ෂණය ලෙසිනි.එයට සියළු ශ්‍රී ලාංකේය ක්‍රිකට් ප්‍රේක්ෂකයන් සහයෝගය දැක්විය යුතුය.

ஆசிய கோப்பையை நடத்துவது பாகிஸ்தான் டெஸ்ட் தொடரில் முடிவு!

இலங்கையின் தற்போதைய நெருக்கடியான அரசியல் சூழலை கருத்திற் கொண்டு, 2022ஆம் ஆண்டு இலங்கையில் நடைபெறவுள்ள ஆசிய கிண்ண கிரிக்கெட் போட்டியை வேறு நாட்டுக்கு மாற்றுவதற்கு ஆசிய கிரிக்கட் பேரவை திட்டமிட்டுள்ளதாக தெரிவிக்கப்படுகின்றது. எவ்வாறாயினும், பாகிஸ்தான் போட்டியின் வெற்றி குறித்து இறுதி முடிவு எடுக்கப்படும் எனத் தெரிவிக்கப்படுகிறது.

கிரிக்கெட் மிகவும் பிரபலமாகியிருக்கும் நாடு இலங்கை. இலங்கையில் கிரிக்கெட் பார்வையாளர்களின் எண்ணிக்கை அதிகமாக உள்ளது, ஆனால் தற்போதைய நெருக்கடி நிலை காரணமாக பார்வையாளர்களின் திறன் குறைவதோடு, போட்டியில் பங்கேற்கும் மற்ற வீரர்களின் பாதுகாப்பு குறித்த கேள்விக்குறியான நிலையும் எழுந்துள்ளது.

எவ்வாறாயினும், இலங்கைக்கான அவுஸ்திரேலிய கிரிக்கெட் அணியின் சுற்றுப்பயணம் எவ்வித தடையுமின்றி நடைபெற்றது. இந்த நிகழ்வுகளுடன், பாகிஸ்தான் கிரிக்கெட் அணியின் இலங்கை சுற்றுப்பயணத்தின் டெஸ்ட் போட்டிகளை முன்பு போலவே நடத்த பாகிஸ்தான் கிரிக்கெட் அதிகாரிகள் ஒப்புக்கொண்டுள்ளனர் டெஸ்ட் தொடரின் முதல் போட்டி வரும் 16ம் தேதி காலியில் தொடங்குகிறது. கடந்த டெஸ்ட் போட்டியில் அபார வெற்றி பெற்ற இலங்கை அணி வெற்றி மனப்பான்மையுடன் களமிறங்குவதுடன், கடந்த அவுஸ்திரேலிய போட்டியில் சோபித்த சகலதுறை வீரர் கமிந்து மெண்டிஸ் இடம் பெறுவாரா என்பதை ஆடுகளம் தீர்மானிக்கும் என தெரிவிக்கப்படுகிறது. பாகிஸ்தானின் முதல் டெஸ்ட் போட்டியில் சேர்க்கப்படும். ஏனெனில் தனஞ்சய சில்வா கோவிட் நிலையில் இருந்து மீண்டு அணிக்கு திரும்பியுள்ளார். மேலும், சுழற்பந்து வீச்சாளர்களான லசித் அமுதேனிய மற்றும் பிரவீன் ஜெயவிக்ரமஹா ஆகியோருக்கு இந்தப் போட்டியில் ஓய்வு அளிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

எனினும் இப் போட்டித் தொடரில் இடம்பெறும் இரண்டு போட்டிகளுக்கும் அதிக எண்ணிக்கையிலான பார்வையாளர்கள் தேவைப்படுகின்றனர்.ஆசியப் போட்டியின் மூலம் இலங்கைக்கு பொருளாதார பலம் அதிகம் கிடைக்கும்.

அதன்படி பாகிஸ்தான் டெஸ்ட் போட்டியை நடத்துவது என்ற முடிவின் இறுதிப் போட்டியாக அறிமுகப்படுத்தலாம். ஆசிய போட்டிக்கு பார்வையாளர்கள் ஆதரவாக இருக்க வேண்டும். எனினும் இப் போட்டித் தொடரில் இடம்பெறும் இரண்டு போட்டிகளுக்கும் அதிக எண்ணிக்கையிலான பார்வையாளர்கள் தேவைப்படுகின்றனர்.ஆசியப் போட்டியின் மூலம் இலங்கைக்கு பொருளாதார பலம் அதிகம் கிடைக்கும். அதன்படி பாகிஸ்தான் டெஸ்ட் முடிவின் ஆசிய கிறிஸ்ட் கவுன்சில் முடிவு எடுப்பதாக அறிவித்துள்ளது. அதனால் இவ் டெஸ்ட் போட்டிகளுக்கு பார்வையாளர்கள் ஆதரவாக இருக்க வெண்டும்

Cricket

LPL 2026 Player Draft Set for June 1 in Colombo

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2 days ago

May 29, 2026

Editor

The much-anticipated Player Draft for the sixth edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2026 is scheduled to take place on June 1 in Colombo, marking a significant milestone ahead of Sri Lanka’s premier domestic T20 tournament.

A total of 421 cricketers including 179 Sri Lankan players and 242 overseas players will be available for selection during the draft process. The local player pool will consist of national representatives, domestic performers, and emerging talents, offering franchises a wide range of options as they finalize their squads for the upcoming season.

The draft will be conducted across several player categories, namely Platinum, Gold, Classic, Emerging, and Associate Stars.

Among the Sri Lankan contingent, 17 players have been listed in the Platinum category, while 34 players fall under Gold, 80 under Classic, and 48 under Emerging.

The overseas player lineup includes 31 Platinum players, 64 Gold players, 99 Classic players, and 48 players in the Associate Stars category.

The official draft proceedings will commence at 1.30 p.m. and are expected to draw the participation of all franchise owners and team management representatives.

Hon. Sunil Kumara Gamage, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, will attend the event as the Chief Guest.

Several key cricket administrators and officials are also expected to be present, including Mr. Eran Wickramaratne, Chairman of the Cricket Transformation Committee (CTC), members of the Transformation Committee, Mr. Ashley De Silva, Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket, and Mr. Samantha Dodanwela, Tournament Director of the Lanka Premier League.

The LPL has continued to grow in stature since its inception, providing a competitive platform for local talent while attracting international stars to Sri Lanka’s premier T20 competition.

Athletics

Tarushi Abisheka Wins Gold for Sri Lanka at Asian Under-20 Championships

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2 days ago

May 29, 2026

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Sri Lanka’s rising middle-distance runner Tarushi Abisheka delivered an outstanding performance to claim the gold medal in the girls’ 1500 metres event at the Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships in Hong Kong on Thursday.

Abisheka crossed the finish line in 4 minutes and 31.41 seconds, securing first place ahead of Iran’s Maryam Baluoutaki, who finished second, while South Korea’s Song Dawson claimed the bronze medal.

The young Sri Lankan athlete is also competing in the 800m event at the continental championship, continuing to showcase her talent on the international stage.

The Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships has attracted competitors from 40 countries, with athletes taking part in 46 events during the tournament.

Sri Lanka has fielded a 22-member team for the competition, consisting of 15 male athletes and seven female athletes.

News

India snap Sri Lanka winning streak

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3 days ago

May 28, 2026

Editor

Sri Lanka’s impressive winning streak at the FIBA U-18 Asia Cup SABA Qualifiers came to an end yesterday as they suffered a hard-fought 72-77 defeat against a strong Indian side at the Sugathadasa Stadium.

Coming into the match with two consecutive victories, the hosts displayed tremendous spirit and determination throughout the contest. Sri Lanka made an energetic start and matched the taller and more experienced Indian outfit in every department during the opening stages of the game.

The home team enjoyed an excellent first half and went into the breather with a narrow 43-40 lead after producing some attractive attacking basketball. Sri Lanka’s quick passing, aggressive drives to the basket and accurate shooting kept the Indian defence under constant pressure. The local cagers also showed great discipline in defence, forcing several turnovers and capitalising on fast-break opportunities.

However, India bounced back strongly after halftime with improved defensive work and better control in the final two quarters. Their experience and physical advantage gradually helped them regain momentum as they edged ahead during the decisive stages of the encounter.

Despite trailing in the closing minutes, Sri Lanka continued to fight bravely and reduced the margin with some spirited play. The hosts received strong support from the spectators who gathered at the stadium to cheer the young team.

India eventually held their nerve to secure a five-point victory and remain one of the strongest contenders in the tournament. Although Sri Lanka ended on the losing side, the performance of the young players earned praise for their fighting spirit and determination against a formidable opponent.