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Commonwealth Women’s Cricket Matches From Tomorrow…

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3 years ago

July 28, 2022

Editor

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.

Football

AIFF Faces FIFA, AFC Ban Threat as October 30 Deadline Looms

Published

4 days ago

August 28, 2025

Editor

Indian football is staring at yet another international suspension as FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have jointly warned the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to ratify its long-pending constitution by October 30, 2025, or risk a complete ban from world football.

In a strongly-worded two-page letter sent on Tuesday (August 26) to AIFF President Kalyan Chaubey, FIFA and AFC expressed “profound concern” over the failure to finalise and implement a revised constitution, a matter pending before India’s Supreme Court since 2017.

If suspended, India’s national teams and clubs would be barred from all international competitions, while the country’s ambitious 2036 Olympic Games bid in Ahmedabad could also be thrown into uncertainty.

FIFA & AFC Ultimatum

The letter, signed by FIFA’s Chief Member Associations Officer Elkhan Mammadov and AFC Deputy General Secretary Vahid Kardany, set out three urgent requirements for the AIFF:

1. Obtain a definitive Supreme Court order approving the revised constitution.

2. Ensure full compliance with FIFA and AFC statutes.

3. Formally ratify the constitution at the next AIFF General Meeting.

Failure to comply, they warned, would trigger sanctions, including full suspension of AIFF membership.

Previous Suspension in 2022

This is not the first governance crisis to hit Indian football. In August 2022, FIFA suspended the AIFF for “third-party interference” after a court-appointed Committee of Administrators temporarily ran the federation. That ban lasted just two weeks, lifted only after fresh elections were held in which Kalyan Chaubey defeated football legend Bhaichung Bhutia.

Domestic Fallout – ISL in Crisis

The deadlock has already disrupted Indian football at the domestic level. The Indian Super League (ISL), India’s top-tier professional league, has been put “on hold” by Football Sports Development Limited (FSDL), the AIFF’s commercial partner, due to uncertainty over its Master Rights Agreement, which expires in December 2025.

At least three clubs have suspended operations or delayed salaries, while all 11 ISL clubs have warned of an “existential crisis.” Reports from FIFPRO further highlight cases of players’ contracts being terminated, leaving livelihoods at risk.

The Supreme Court of India will hear the matter again on August 28, a session that could determine the immediate future of the ISL and India’s football calendar.

What’s at Stake

If AIFF fails to meet the October deadline, India could lose:

• Participation in FIFA and AFC tournaments.

• Entry rights for national teams and clubs in international competitions.

• Momentum in its 2036 Olympics bid.

• Credibility with players, fans, and commercial partners.

For now, the football fraternity in India waits anxiously for the Supreme Court’s verdict and AIFF’s ability to steer through yet another governance storm

Football

Heritage Derby Trophy Goes to Hameed Al Husseinie College

Published

3 weeks ago

August 12, 2025

Editor

Colombo – Hameed Al Husseinie College emerged victorious in the prestigious Heritage Derby Trophy football encounter against Zahira College, Maradana, securing a 3–1 win at the Colombo Racecourse grounds yesterday.

The match kicked off under the patronage of Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, adding special significance to this annual football rivalry.

Hameed Al Husseinie College took control early, leading 2–0 at halftime before sealing the victory with a third goal in the second half. Zahira College managed to pull one back, but it was not enough to challenge the dominant performance of the winners.

The trophy presentation was held soon after the final whistle, with the principals of both schools — Rizvi Marikkar of Zahira College and Mrs. Dain of Hameed Al Husseinie College — present to witness the celebrations.

This latest victory adds another chapter to the rich history of the Heritage Derby, further cementing Hameed Al Husseinie College’s reputation in school football.

Football

Exclusive: AFC Fines Sri Lankan Footballer Over “Free Palestine” Message

Published

4 weeks ago

August 3, 2025

Editor

Colombo – June 13
Sri Lankan national footballer Mohamed Thilham, who recently made headlines after displaying a “PRAY FOR FREE PALESTINE” message on his undershirt during post-match celebrations, has now been officially penalized by international football authorities.

Following Sri Lanka’s 3-1 victory over Chinese Taipei in the AFC Asian Cup 2027 Qualifiers on June 10 at the Colombo Racecourse Stadium, Thilham—a non-playing substitute—unveiled the message, drawing both praise and criticism from various quarters.

⚠️ AFC Sanctions Player with USD 2,000 Fine

FIFA, in coordination with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), has now issued a formal disciplinary notice to the player, imposing a USD 2,000 fine. This letter, according to sources within the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL), was sent addressing to Thilham, underscoring AFC stance on politically charged expressions at official matches.

According to FIFA’s Disciplinary Code, players are prohibited from displaying political, religious, or personal slogans during matches or official ceremonies. While Thilham’s gesture occurred after the final whistle, FIFA and AFC treat any action within the stadium environment as part of official conduct.

⚽ FFSL Under Scrutiny for Disciplinary Action

FFSL President Jaswar Umar previously stated that the act “was not authorized by the federation” and “violates international football disciplinary norms.” He also confirmed that the FFSL would take internal disciplinary action against the player.

However, this incident has reignited public debate over the role of athletes in social advocacy and the limits imposed by international sports law. While some supporters see Thilham’s actions as courageous and morally driven, others have raised concerns about the player’s career stability and future opportunities under increasing scrutiny.

📝 Editorial Insight

At Sri Lankan Sports TV, we initially chose to withhold the content of the message in our match coverage—out of responsibility to the player’s career and to respect global sports protocol. However, the message went viral after several social media users circulated the full image, seemingly with the intention of sparking controversy.

The resulting spotlight has unfortunately led to a formal penalty, underscoring the real-world consequences that athletes may face when international regulations intersect with personal conviction.