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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

Athletics

Pathirage Rewrites Record Books with Historic 92.62m Throw in Rome

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2 days ago

June 5, 2026

Editor

Sri Lankan javelin sensation Rumesh Pathirage produced the performance of a lifetime at the Rome Diamond League, launching the spear an astonishing 92.62 metres to become the second-best javelin thrower in Asian history and move to eighth place on the world all-time rankings.

The 23-year-old delivered the remarkable throw with his second attempt in the men’s javelin competition, sending shockwaves through the athletics world and cementing his place among the sport’s elite.

Pathirage’s record-breaking effort not only shattered his previous personal best but also established a new Sri Lankan national record and the world-leading mark for the 2026 season.
Adding to the significance of the achievement, the Sri Lankan star eclipsed the long-standing Rome Diamond League meet record of 90.34 metres, which had stood for two decades and was set by Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen.

The historic throw marks a major milestone for Sri Lankan athletics, with Pathirage becoming the first athlete from the island nation to surpass the coveted 90-metre barrier in international competition.

His performance places him among the greatest javelin throwers of all time and further strengthens his credentials as a leading contender for major global championships in the years ahead.

Cricket

All-round Sri Lanka overwhelm West Indies

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3 days ago

June 4, 2026

Editor

Sri Lanka produced a clinical display with both bat and ball to defeat West Indies by 41 runs in the first match of the three match ODI series worked off at Kingston on Wednesday.

After being asked to bat, Sri Lanka posted a challenging 303 for 7 from their allotted 50 overs, thanks largely to impressive contributions from Pathum Nissanka and captain Kusal Mendis. Nissanka played the anchor role with a composed 79 off 103 deliveries, striking nine boundaries and a six, while Kusal accelerated the scoring with a fluent 72 from 62 balls, featuring four fours and four sixes.

The pair guided Sri Lanka out of early trouble after Kamindu Mendis fell cheaply. Pavan Rathnayake contributed 24, while Charith Asalanka added a useful 45 to keep the innings on track. Janith Liyanage then provided the finishing touches with a brisk unbeaten 44 from 29 balls as the visitors crossed the 300-run mark. Roston Chase, Matthew Forde and Jayden Seales claimed two wickets each for the hosts.

West Indies made a promising start to their chase, reaching 73 for 2 inside the first 10 overs. Justin Greaves struck 45 and skipper Shai Hope battled for 56, but Sri Lanka’s bowlers repeatedly struck at crucial moments to halt the momentum.

The turning point came through Dushmantha Chameera, whose pace and accuracy troubled the West Indian middle order. The fast bowler claimed four wickets, including the prized scalp of Hope, to finish with 4 for 67. Spinner Maheesh Theekshana played an equally important role, conceding just 26 runs in his ten overs while taking two wickets.

Wanindu Hasaranga dismissed Sherfane Rutherford at a key stage, while Asitha Fernando and Charith Asalanka also entered the wicket column. Despite late resistance from Shamar Joseph, West Indies were bowled out for 262 in 49.2 overs.

Cricket

Sri Lanka Set for Full-Scale New Zealand Tour in Early 2027

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4 days ago

June 3, 2026

Editor

Sri Lanka’s National Men’s Cricket Team will undertake a demanding all-format tour of New Zealand in January and February 2027, featuring three One-Day Internationals (ODIs), three Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), and two Test matches.

The tour will provide Sri Lanka with a valuable opportunity to compete in New Zealand’s challenging conditions against one of the world’s leading cricketing nations. Matches will be played across several renowned venues throughout the country.

The ODI series will open at McLean Park in Napier on January 16 before moving to Wellington for the second match on January 19. The third and final ODI will be played in Dunedin on January 22.

The teams will then contest a three-match T20I series, beginning in Christchurch on January 26. The remaining two matches will be played in Nelson on January 29 and January 31.

The Test series will commence at Bay Oval in Tauranga from February 4 to 8, with the second and final Test scheduled at Seddon Park in Hamilton from February 12 to 16.
Tour Schedule
•⁠ ⁠January 16, 2027 – First ODI at McLean Park, Napier (04:30)
•⁠ ⁠January 19, 2027 – Second ODI at Basin Reserve, Wellington (04:30)
•⁠ ⁠January 22, 2027 – Third ODI at University of Otago Oval, Dunedin (04:30)
•⁠ ⁠January 26, 2027 – First T20I at Hagley Oval, Christchurch (11:30)
•⁠ ⁠January 29, 2027 – Second T20I at Saxton Oval, Nelson (09:30)
•⁠ ⁠January 31, 2027 – Third T20I at Saxton Oval, Nelson (06:30)
•⁠ ⁠February 4–8, 2027 – First Test at Bay Oval, Tauranga (04:30)
•⁠ ⁠February 12–16, 2027 – Second Test at Seddon Park, Hamilton (04:30)