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Commonwealth Women’s Cricket Matches From Tomorrow…

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4 years ago

July 28, 2022

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The cricket event of the Commonwealth Games is scheduled to be held as a T20 league tournament.

This year, 8 teams will participate in the Commonwealth Women’s Cricket Event and they will compete in two groups, A and B. India, Australia, Pakistan and Barbados are the four countries under group A and Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand and South Africa are the four countries under group B.

The squad are as follows.

Sri Lankan team
Chamari Athapaththu (c), Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Vishmi Gunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Hasini Perera, Udeshika Prabodhani, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Anushka Sanjeewani, Malsha Shehani, Rashmi Silva

Indian team
Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Taniya Bhatia (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Sabbhineni Meghana, Sneh Rana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav

Australia Team
Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Amanda-Jade Wellington

England team
Heather Knight (c), Nat Sciver (vc), Maia Bouchier, Katherine Brunt, Alice Capsey, Kate Cross, Freya Davies, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Freya Kemp, Bryony Smith, Issy Wong, Danni Wyatt

Pakistan team
Bismah Maroof (c), Muneeba Ali (wk), Anam Amin, Aiman Anwer, Diana Baig, Nida Dar, Gull Feroza (wk), Tuba Hassan, Kainat Imtiaz, Sadia Iqbal, Iram Javed, Ayesha Naseem, Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Omaima Sohail

New Zealand team
Sophie Devine (c), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Izzy Gaze, Claudia Green, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Hayley Jensen, Fran Jonas, Amelia Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Jess McFadyen, Georgia Plimmer, Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu

South African team
Sune Luus (c), Chloe Tryon, Anneke Bosch, Tazmin Brits, Nadine de Klerk, Mignon du Preez, Lara Goodall, Shabnim Ismail, Sinalo Jafta, Ayabonga Khaka, Masabata Klaas, Nonkululeko Mlaba, Delmi Tucker, Laura Wolvaardt

Barbados team
Hayley Matthews (c), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shanika Bruce, Shai Carrington, Shaunte Carrington, Shamilia Connell, Deandra Dottin, Keila Elliott, Trishan Holder, Kycia Knight, Kyshona Knight, Alisa Scantlebury, Shakera Selman, Tiffany Thorpe, Aaliyah Williams

Match schedule

Group A
July 29
Australia vs India
Pakistan vs Barbados
July 31
India vs Pakistan
Barbados vs Australia
August 3
Australia vs Pakistan
India vs Barbados

Group B
July 30
New Zealand vs South Africa
England vs Sri Lanka
August 2
England vs South Africa
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand
August 4
South Africa vs Sri Lanka
England vs New Zealand

August 6
The Final

August 7
Bronze medal match and final

Accordingly, the first match between India and Australia will be held tomorrow (29). It was at Edgbaston Stadium in England.

පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලයීය කාන්තා ක්‍රිකට් තරග හෙට සිට….

පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලයීය ක්‍රීඩා උළෙලේ ක්‍රිකට් ඉසව්ව T20 league තරගාවලියක් ලෙස පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතව පවති.

මෙවර පොදුරාජ්‍ය මණ්ඩලයීය කාන්තා ක්‍රිකට් ඉසව්ව සඳහා කණ්ඩායම් 8ක් සහභාගි වන අතර ඔවුන් A සහ B ලෙස කාණ්ඩ දෙකක් යටතේ තරග වැදීමට නියමිත ය. A කාණ්ඩය යටතේ ඉන්දියාව, ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව, පාකිස්තානය සහ Barbados යන රටවල් හතර ද B කාණ්ඩය යටතේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව, එංගලන්තය, නවසීලන්තය සහ දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව යන රටවල් හතර ද තරග වැදීමට සුදානම්ව සිටි.

එම සංචිතයන් පහත පරිදි වේ.

ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායම
Chamari Athapaththu (c), Nilakshi de Silva, Kavisha Dilhari, Vishmi Gunaratne, Ama Kanchana, Achini Kulasuriya, Sugandika Kumari, Hasini Perera, Udeshika Prabodhani, Oshadi Ranasinghe, Inoka Ranaweera, Harshitha Samarawickrama, Anushka Sanjeewani, Malsha Shehani, Rashmi Silva

ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායම
Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Smriti Mandhana (vc), Taniya Bhatia (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Harleen Deol, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Sabbhineni Meghana, Sneh Rana, Jemimah Rodrigues, Deepti Sharma, Meghna Singh, Renuka Singh, Pooja Vastrakar, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav

ඕස්ට්‍රේලියා කණ්ඩායම
Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Tahlia McGrath, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Amanda-Jade Wellington

එංගලන්ත කණ්ඩායම
Heather Knight (c), Nat Sciver (vc), Maia Bouchier, Katherine Brunt, Alice Capsey, Kate Cross, Freya Davies, Sophia Dunkley, Sophie Ecclestone, Sarah Glenn, Amy Jones, Freya Kemp, Bryony Smith, Issy Wong, Danni Wyatt

පාකිස්තානු කණ්ඩායම
Bismah Maroof (c), Muneeba Ali (wk), Anam Amin, Aiman Anwer, Diana Baig, Nida Dar, Gull Feroza (wk), Tuba Hassan, Kainat Imtiaz, Sadia Iqbal, Iram Javed, Ayesha Naseem, Aliya Riaz, Fatima Sana, Omaima Sohail

නවසීලන්ත කණ්ඩායම
Sophie Devine (c), Suzie Bates, Eden Carson, Izzy Gaze, Claudia Green, Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Hayley Jensen, Fran Jonas, Amelia Kerr, Rosemary Mair, Jess McFadyen, Georgia Plimmer, Hannah Rowe, Lea Tahuhu

දකුණු අප්‍රිකානු කණ්ඩායම
Sune Luus (c), Chloe Tryon, Anneke Bosch, Tazmin Brits, Nadine de Klerk, Mignon du Preez, Lara Goodall, Shabnim Ismail, Sinalo Jafta, Ayabonga Khaka, Masabata Klaas, Nonkululeko Mlaba, Delmi Tucker, Laura Wolvaardt

Barbados කණ්ඩායම
Hayley Matthews (c), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shanika Bruce, Shai Carrington, Shaunte Carrington, Shamilia Connell, Deandra Dottin, Keila Elliott, Trishan Holder, Kycia Knight, Kyshona Knight, Alisa Scantlebury, Shakera Selman, Tiffany Thorpe, Aaliyah Williams

තරග කාලසටහන

A කාණ්ඩය
ජූලි 29
ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව vs ඉන්දියාව
පාකිස්තානය vs Barbados
ජූලි 31
ඉන්දියාව vs පාකිස්තානය
Barbados vs ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව
අගෝස්තු 3
ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව vs පාකිස්තානය
ඉන්දියාව vs Barbados

B කාණ්ඩය
ජූලි 30
නවසීලන්තය vs දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව
එංගලන්තය vs ශ්‍රී ලංකාව
අගෝස්තු 2
එංගලන්තය vs දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව
ශ්‍රී ලංකාව vs නවසීලන්තය
අගෝස්තු 4
දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව vs ශ්‍රී ලංකාව
එංගලන්තය vs නවසීලන්තය

අගෝස්තු 6
අවසන් පූර්ව තරගය

අගෝස්තු 7
ලෝකඩ පදක්කම සඳහා වන තරගය සහ අවසන් තරගය

ඒ අනුව ප්‍රථම තරගය ඉන්දියාව සහ ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාව අතර හෙට දිනයේදී(29) පැවැත් වේ. ඒ එංගලන්තයේ Edgbaston ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේදී ය.

காமன்வெல்த் மகளிர் கிரிக்கெட் போட்டிகள் நாளை முதல்…

காமன்வெல்த் போட்டியின் கிரிக்கெட் போட்டிகள் டி20 லீக் போட்டியாக நடைபெற உள்ளது.

இந்த ஆண்டு, 8 அணிகள் காமன்வெல்த் மகளிர் கிரிக்கெட் போட்டிகளில் பங்கேற்கின்றன, அவை A மற்றும் B என இரண்டு குழுக்களாகப் போட்டியிடுகின்றன. குழு A இன் கீழ் இந்தியா, ஆஸ்திரேலியா, பாகிஸ்தான் மற்றும் பார்படாஸ் ஆகிய நான்கு நாடுகள் மற்றும் இலங்கை, இங்கிலாந்து, நியூசிலாந்து மற்றும் தென்னாப்பிரிக்கா. குழு B இன் கீழ் உள்ள நான்கு நாடுகள்.

அணிகளின் விபரங்கள் பின்வருமாறு.

Match schedule

Group A
July 29
Australia vs India
Pakistan vs Barbados
July 31
India vs Pakistan
Barbados vs Australia
August 3
Australia vs Pakistan
India vs Barbados

Group B
July 30
New Zealand vs South Africa
England vs Sri Lanka
August 2
England vs South Africa
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand
August 4
South Africa vs Sri Lanka
England vs New Zealand

August 6
The Final

August 7
Bronze medal match and final

அதன்படி இந்தியா மற்றும் அவுஸ்திரேலியா அணிகளுக்கு இடையிலான முதலாவது போட்டி நாளை (29) நடைபெறவுள்ளது. இது இங்கிலாந்தின் எட்ஜ்பாஸ்டன் மைதானத்தில் நடைபெற்றது.

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Sri Lanka Crowned Runners-Up at Inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026

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22 hours ago

November 1, 2026

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Sri Lanka’s men’s kabaddi team secured a historic silver medal at the inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship 2026, finishing as runners-up after reaching the tournament final in Ahmedabad, India.

The Sri Lankan team faced hosts India in the men’s final on 31 October at the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, where India secured a 54–20 victory to claim the inaugural championship title.

Despite missing out on the gold medal, Sri Lanka’s journey to the final marked a significant achievement for the country’s kabaddi programme on the international stage.

Sri Lanka’s Road to the Final

Sri Lanka demonstrated impressive form throughout the men’s competition, competing against some of the strongest kabaddi nations in the Commonwealth.

The team recorded several important victories during the group stage, including wins against Scotland (53–10), England (50–22), Nigeria (53–14) and Bangladesh (31–20).

Although Sri Lanka suffered a defeat against Kenya and later against India in the group stage, the team progressed to the knockout stages.

In the semi-final, Sri Lanka produced an outstanding performance to overcome Kenya 28–24 in a closely contested encounter, securing their place in the historic final against India.

However, the hosts proved too strong in the final, dominating the contest to secure a 54–20 victory and claim the men’s championship.

Sri Lanka Women Finish with a Medal

Sri Lanka’s women’s team also delivered a commendable campaign at the inaugural championship.

The team recorded victories against Scotland, England and Bangladesh during the group stage, earning a place in the semi-finals.

However, they were unable to overcome India in the last four, going down 39–14.

With the semi-final defeat, Sri Lanka secured a bronze medal in the women’s competition, while Uganda went on to defeat Kenya 23–21 to reach the final.

India subsequently defeated Uganda 35–15 in the women’s final to complete a double championship triumph.

A Historic Championship for Kabaddi

The inaugural Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship was held from 23 to 31 October 2026 in Ahmedabad, bringing together 13 men’s teams and 10 women’s teams from across the Commonwealth.

The competition provided a new international platform for kabaddi, bringing together nations from Asia, Africa, Europe and other regions.

India claimed both the men’s and women’s titles, while Sri Lanka finished with silver in the men’s competition and bronze in the women’s event.

Sri Lanka’s performances represent an encouraging milestone for the sport and provide a strong foundation for the continued development of kabaddi in the country.

Men’s Champions: India
Men’s Runners-up: Sri Lanka

Women’s Champions: India
Women’s Runners-up: Uganda
Women’s Bronze: Sri Lanka and Kenya

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BALL BLASTER 2026: SRI LANKA’S BIGGEST SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT RETURNS BIGGER THAN EVER

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2 months ago

September 17, 2026

Editor

24 Schools, 15 Venues and Three National Trophies as Ball Blaster Enters Its Third Year

COLOMBO — Ball Blaster, Sri Lanka’s premier school football tournament, is set to return in 2026 with its biggest edition yet, organized by Aasgard Sports (Private) Limited in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Schools Football Association and the Ministry of Education.

Now entering its third year, Ball Blaster has grown from 2023 with 20 schools into one of the country’s largest youth football events. The 2025 edition featured 16 schools competing across four groups, drawing national broadcast attention through Sri Lankan Sports TV and PEO TV. For 2026, the tournament expands significantly, with 24 schools set to compete across 15 venues nationwide, in a season spanning six weeks and 84 matches.

A NEW FORMAT: THREE TROPHIES, THREE CHAMPIONS

The standout feature of Ball Blaster 2026 is a new three-tier trophy format. Schools will be drawn into four groups of six, playing a round-robin group stage before advancing into one of three parallel championships based on their group finish: the Cup Trophy for group winners, the Bowl Trophy for runners-up, and the Plate Trophy for second runners-up. The format ensures every participating school remains in contention for a national title deep into the tournament.

All three championships will reach their conclusion on the same finals weekend, with third-place playoffs and grand finals for the Cup, Bowl and Plate trophies all being played at Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo.

“Ball Blaster has always been about giving young footballers a stage,” said a spokesperson for Aasgard Sports. “This year, we’re expanding that stage to every corner of the island, and making sure every school that takes part has something real to play for, right to the final whistle.”

BUILDING ON A STRONG 2025

Ball Blaster’s growth has been underpinned by strong sponsor support. The 2025 edition was backed by Lifebuoy as Title Sponsor, alongside Lemonade as Refreshing Partner and Sky Market Travels as Travelling Partner. Organizers say conversations are already underway with returning and new sponsors ahead of the 2026 season, as the tournament’s expanded scale — nationwide venues, a longer season and three separate finals — offers significantly greater visibility for partners.

BROADCAST AND COVERAGE

As in previous years, Ball Blaster 2026 will be broadcast live via Sri Lankan Sports TV and PEO Sports, with matches also available on YouTube and across Sri Lankan Sports TV’s digital platforms.

For sponsorship and partnership enquiries, contact: Pasindu Mihiranga Sri Lankan Sports TV | Aasgard Sports (Private) Limited 0726 85 18 18 marketing@srilankansportstv.com

www.srilankansportstv.com

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Jaswar Umar Hails FIFA Series as Turning Point for Sri Lankan Football

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2 months ago

September 10, 2026

Editor

Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) President Jaswar Umar has described the inaugural FIFA Series in Colombo as a major milestone for the country’s football development, saying the tournament has given Sri Lanka renewed confidence and a stronger connection with the international game.

Umar, who has been involved in efforts to strengthen Sri Lankan football administration and development, said hosting the tournament demonstrated that developing football nations could compete on the global stage when given meaningful opportunities.

The FIFA Series, held in Colombo in March 2024, brought Sri Lanka together with Bhutan, Papua New Guinea and the Central African Republic. The four participating nations represented three different confederations, giving Sri Lanka an unusual opportunity to face teams with different playing styles.

Sri Lanka completed its campaign unbeaten, drawing 0-0 against Papua New Guinea and defeating Bhutan 2-0. Umar said the matches provided valuable experience for the national team and helped players adapt to different forms of international competition.

DOHA, QATAR – DECEMBER 17: FIFA President Gianni Infantino with Football Federation of Sri Lanka President Jaswar Umar during a meeting on December 17, 2024 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Serhat Akin/FIFA)

He stressed that the benefits extended beyond the football field. Sri Lankan officials involved in administration, technical operations, media, medical services and event management gained practical experience in organising matches to international standards.

The Racecourse Ground also received an important upgrade through assistance from FIFA’s Forward Programme. The renovation enabled the historic Colombo venue to host international football and created improved facilities for future events.

Umar said one of the most important achievements was bringing international football closer to Sri Lankan supporters. Young fans were able to watch national players compete against foreign opposition in their own city, helping to inspire a new generation.

He thanked FIFA and its President Gianni Infantino for supporting developing football nations.

According to Umar, the FIFA Series has left Sri Lanka with more than match results. It has provided international experience, stronger administrative capabilities, improved infrastructure and, most importantly, renewed belief in the future of Sri Lankan football.