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Asia Cup hosting was decided after the Pakistan test series!

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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

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Three Sri Lankan Athletes Qualify for World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025

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Colombo: In a historic achievement for Sri Lankan athletics, three national athletes have officially qualified for the World Athletics Indoor Championships 2025, set to take place from May 21 to 23 in Nanjing, China. This marks Sri Lanka’s largest representation at the prestigious event in over two decades.

Sri Lankan Athletes Heading to Nanjing 2025

The three Sri Lankan athletes who secured their spots based on performances and world rankings are:

  • Chamod Yodasinghe – 60m Sprint
  • Kalinga Kumarage – 400m
  • Kaveesha Bandara – 60m Hurdles

Their qualification comes after impressive performances at the inaugural National Short Course Championship, highlighting Sri Lanka’s growing potential in indoor athletics.

A Historic Moment for Sri Lanka

The last time Sri Lanka sent a team to the World Athletics Indoor Championships was in 2001 (Lisbon), where four athletes represented the nation. This latest qualification marks the largest contingent in over 20 years, showcasing significant progress despite limited indoor competition opportunities in Sri Lanka.

With preparations underway, these athletes will aim to make an impact on the global stage and elevate Sri Lanka’s presence in international athletics.

Stay tuned for more updates on Sri Lanka’s journey to Nanjing 2025!

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Chinese Government Pledges Support for Sri Lanka’s Sports and Youth Development

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Colombo: In a significant move towards strengthening sports and youth development in Sri Lanka, Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong met with Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Sunil Kumar Gamage, and Deputy Minister Eranga Gunasekara today (26) at the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

During the meeting, Ambassador Qi Zhenhong congratulated the newly appointed ministers and reaffirmed China’s commitment to supporting Sri Lanka’s sports and youth programs. Discussions centered on enhancing bilateral cooperation and exploring actionable initiatives to uplift sports development in the country.

A key highlight of the discussions was China’s willingness to promote sports such as Tai Chi and Dragon Boat Racing in Sri Lanka. This initiative aligns with the broader vision of fostering international sports collaboration and expanding the sporting culture within the country.

This renewed partnership marks an important step in Sri Lanka’s sports development, paving the way for future investments and technical support to enhance local sporting infrastructure and training programs.

Stay tuned for more updates on this collaboration and its impact on Sri Lankan sports!

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Sri Lanka to Host the Prestigious 2025 SAFF Championship After 17 Years

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Colombo: Sri Lanka has officially been granted the hosting rights for the 2025 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship, set to take place in June 2025. The decision marks a historic moment for Sri Lankan football, as the nation last hosted the tournament in 2008 alongside the Maldives.

The SAFF Championship is widely regarded as the “World Cup of South Asia,” bringing together the best footballing nations from the region. The 2025 edition will feature seven teams:

  • India (Defending champions and most successful team)
  • Pakistan
  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Maldives
  • Nepal
  • Sri Lanka (Host nation)

With the backing of home supporters, Sri Lanka will look to capitalize on this opportunity and aim for a deep run in the competition.

SAFF Championship: A Look at Past Editions and Winners

The SAFF Championship, first held in 1993, has seen 14 editions so far. India has been the most dominant team in the tournament’s history, winning a record 9 titles. The Maldives and Bangladesh have each won the tournament twice, while Sri Lanka claimed their only title in 1995, when they hosted the event in Colombo.

Here is a look at the past winners:

  • India – 9 titles (1993, 1997, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2021, 2023)
  • Maldives – 2 titles (2008, 2018)
  • Bangladesh – 2 titles (2003, 2023)
  • Sri Lanka – 1 title (1995)

Sri Lanka’s return as the host nation in 2025 gives them a golden opportunity to reclaim the championship after 30 years.

If executed well, the 2025 SAFF Championship could mark the beginning of a new era for Sri Lankan football, helping the nation rise again in South Asian football.

Can Sri Lanka make the most of this historic opportunity? The countdown to SAFF 2025 begins!

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