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Dasun Shanaka’s century saves Sri Lanka from humiliation loss.
The Indian team won by 67 runs in the first ODI held yesterday (10).
With the outstanding performance of Virat Kohli, captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, the Indian team managed to win the first ODI against Sri Lanka. Taking the lead 1-0 in the ODI series consisting of 3 matches.

Sri Lanka won the toss and gave India the opportunity to bat first. Accordingly, the Indian team entered the field and managed to score 373 runs by losing 7 wickets at the end of 50 overs.

Virat Kohli managed to score a century for the Indian team, which is his 45th century. The loss of two catches by Virat Kohli in the hands of the Sri Lankan bowlers was the main reason for the Indian team to reach such a score, and an easy catch that gave 54 runs was lost in the hands of wicketkeeper Kusal Mendis. This can be called the decisive moment of the match.
The bowling of the Sri Lankan team was very far-fetched and the Indian batsmen did not allow any bowler to succeed. At the end of the 10 overs bowled by Wanidu Hasaranga, the world’s number one T20 bowler, he scored 67 runs and failed to take any wickets. The Indian batsmen managed to maintain a team scoring rate of 6.0 overall for Sri Lankan bowlers.
At the end of the 50 overs, the Sri Lankan team, which entered the field to play the reply innings, could score only 306 runs with the loss of 8 wickets. The opening batting pair of the Sri Lankan team changed and this time Pathum Nissanka and Aviska Fernando entered the field as the opening batting pair. Mohammad Siraj managed to send the opening wicket tie to 19 runs to Avishka Stadium.

Kusal Mendis, who was a successful opening batsman in this year’s Twenty20 series, entered the field as the number one batsman and he had to leave the field without scoring a run. It is surprising that he changed his position when he was successful as an opening batsman.
This time too, the middle-order batting of the Sri Lankan team failed, and when Sri Lanka lost 8 wickets for 206 runs, Kasun Rajitha managed to score a record 100 runs together with the captain Dasun Shanaka, and Dasun Shanaka managed to score a precious 100 runs. With that century, the Sri Lankan team managed to cross the 300-run mark, which saved Sri Lanka from humiliation.

Scoreboard – India
Virat Kohli – 113 (87)
Rohit Sharma – 83 (63)
Shubman Gill – 70 (60)
Bowling
Kasun Rajitha – 10-0-88-3
Dilshan Madhusanka – 6-0-43-1
Scoreboard – Sri Lanka
Dasun Shanaka – 108 not out
Pathum Nissanka – 72 (80)
Dhananjayada Silva – 47(40)
Bowling
Umran Malik – 8-0-57-3
Mohammad Siraj – 7-1-30-2
දසුන් ශානකගේ ශතකයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාව අවමානයෙන් ගැලවේ.
ඊයේ (10) පැවති පළමු එක්දින තරගෙන් ලකුණු 67ක් ජයක් ලබා ගැනීමට ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායම සමත් විය.
විරාත් කෝලි, නායක රෝහිත් ෂර්මා හා ශුබ්මන් ගිල්ගේ කැපී පෙනෙන දක්ෂතාවය නිසා ශ්රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව පැවැත්වූ පළමු එක්දින තරගයෙන් ජය ලබා ගැනීමට ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායම සමත් විය. ඒ තරග 3කින් සමන්විත එක්දින තරගාවලියේ තරග 1-0 ක් ලෙස පෙරමුණ ගනිමිනි.
කාසියේ වාසිය ශ්රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායම ලබා ගනිමින් පළමුව පන්දුවට පහර දීමේ අවස්ථාව ඉන්දියාවට ලබා දුන්නේය. ඒ අනුව පිටියට පිවිසි ඉන්දියානු කණ්ඩායම පන්දුවාර 50 අවසානයේ කඩුලු 7ක් දැවී ලකුණු 373ක් ලබා ගනීමට සමත් විය.
ඉන්දියානු කණ්ඩායම වෙනුවෙන් විරාත් කෝලි ශතකයක් රැස් කිරීමට සමත් වූ අතර එය ඔහුගේ 45 වන ශතකය වේ. විරාත් කෝලි ලබා දුන් උඩපන්දු දෙකක් ශ්රී ලංකා පන්දු යවන්නන් අතින් ගිලිහීම මෙවැනි ලකුණු සංඛ්යාවක් කරා ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායම යාමට ප්රධානතම හේතුව වූ අතර, ලකුණු 54 ලබාදුන් පහසු උඩ පන්දුවක් කඩුලු රකින ක්රීඩක කුසල් මෙන්ඩිස් අතින් ගිලුහුණි. මෙය තරගයේ තීරණාත්මක අවස්ථාව ලෙස හැදිවිය හැකිය.
ශ්රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමේ පන්දු යවීම ඉතා දුරවල මට්ටමක පැවති අතර, කිසිදු පන්දු යවන්නෙකුට සාර්ථක වීමට ඉන්දීය පිතිකරුවන් ඉඩ ලබා දුන්නේ නැත. ලොව අංක එකේ විස්සයි විස්ස පන්දු යවන්නා වන වනිදු හසරංග යැවූ පන්දුවාර 10 අවසානයේ ඔහුට ලකුණු 67ක් ලබා ගත් අතර කිසිදු කඩුල්ලක් ලබා ගැනීමට නොහැකි විය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සියලුම පන්දුයවන්න හට 6.0 වඩා ලකුණු ලබා ගැනීමේ දල වේගයක් රදවා ගැනීමට ඉන්දීය පිතිකරුවන් සමත් විය.
පිළිතුරු ඉනිම ක්රීඩා කිරීමට පිටියට පිවිසි ශ්රී ලංකා කන්ඩායමට පන්දුවාර 50 අවසානයේ කඩුලු 8ක් දැවී ලබා ගත හැකි වූයේ ලකුණු 306ක් පමණි. ශ්රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමේ ආරම්භක පිතිකරණ යුගලය වෙනස් වූ අතර මෙවර ආරම්භක පිතිකරණ යුගලය ලෙස පිටියට පිවිසියේ පැතුම් නිස්සංක හා අවිශ්ක ප්රනාන්දුය. ආරම්භක කඩුල්ලේ සබදතාවය ලකුණු 19 වන විට අවිශ්ක ක්රීඩාගාරය වෙත යැවීමට මොහොමඩ් සිරාජ් සමත් විය.
මෙවර විස්සයි විස්ස තරගාවලියේ සාර්ථක ආරම්භක පිතිකරුවෙකු වූ කුසල් මෙන්ඩිස් නොම්බර එක පිතිකරුවා ලෙස පිටියට පිවිසි අතර ඔහුට ලකුණු නොලාබාම පිටියෙන් ඉවත් වීමට සිදු විය. ඔහු ආරම්භක පිතිකරුවෙකු ලෙස සාර්ථක වී සිටියදී ඔහුගේ ස්ථානය වෙනස් කිරීම විමතියට කරුණකි.
මෙවරද ශ්රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමේ මැද පෙල පිතිකරණය අසාර්ථක වූ අතර, ශ්රී ලංකාව ලකුණු 206කට කඩුලු 8ක් දැවී සිටියදී නායක දසුන් ශානක හා එක්ව කසුන් රාජිත වාර්ථගත ලකුණු 100ක සභදතාවයක් පැවැත්වීමට සමත් වූ අතර, දසුන් ශානක අගනා ලකුණු 100ක් ලබා ගැනීමට සමත් විය. ඒ ශතකයත් සමගින් ශ්රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායම ලකුණු 300 සීමාව පසු කිරීමට සමත් වූ අතර, එය ශ්රී ලංකාව අවමානයෙන් ගලවා ගැනීමට සමත් විය.
ලකුණු පුවරුව – ඉන්දියාව
විරාත් කෝලි – 113 (87)
රෝහිත් ශර්මා – 83 (63)
ශුබ්මන් ගිල් – 70 (60)
පන්දු යැවීම
කසුන් රාජිත – 10-0-88-3
දිල්ෂාන් මධුසංක – 6-0-43-1
ලකුණු පුවරුව – ශ්රී ලංකාව
දසුන් ශානක – නොදැවී 108
පැතුම් නිස්සංක – 72 (80)
ධනංජයද සිල්වා – 47(40)
පන්දු යැවීම
උම්රාන් මලික් – 8-0-57-3
මොහොමඩ් සිරාජ් – 7-1-30-2
தசுன் ஷனகவின் சதம் இலங்கையை அவமானத்திலிருந்து காப்பாற்றியது.
நேற்று (10) நடைபெற்ற முதலாவது ஒருநாள் போட்டியில் இந்திய அணி 67 ஓட்டங்களால் வெற்றி பெற்றது.
விராட் கோலி, கேப்டன் ரோகித் சர்மா, ஷுப்மான் கில் ஆகியோரின் சிறப்பான ஆட்டத்தால், இலங்கைக்கு எதிரான முதல் ஒருநாள் போட்டியில் இந்திய அணி வெற்றி பெற்றது. 3 போட்டிகள் கொண்ட ஒருநாள் தொடரில் 1-0 என முன்னிலை பெற்றுள்ளது.
டாஸ் வென்ற இலங்கை, இந்தியாவுக்கு முதலில் பேட்டிங் செய்ய வாய்ப்பளித்தது. அதன்படி களம் இறங்கிய இந்திய அணி 50 ஓவர்கள் முடிவில் 7 விக்கெட்டுகளை இழந்து 373 ரன்கள் எடுத்தது.
இந்திய அணிக்காக விராட் கோலி சதம் அடித்தார், இது அவரது 45வது சதமாகும். இலங்கை பந்துவீச்சாளர்களின் கைகளில் விராட் கோலியின் இரண்டு கேட்ச்களை இழந்ததே இந்திய அணி இவ்வளவு ஸ்கோரை எட்ட முக்கிய காரணமாக அமைந்தது, மேலும் 54 ரன்கள் கொடுத்த எளிதான கேட்சை விக்கெட் கீப்பர் குசல் மெண்டிஸ் கையில் இழந்தார். இதை போட்டியின் தீர்க்கமான தருணம் என்று சொல்லலாம்.
இலங்கை அணியின் பந்துவீச்சு மிகவும் அசாத்தியமானது மற்றும் இந்திய பேட்ஸ்மேன்கள் எந்தவொரு பந்து வீச்சாளரையும் வெற்றிபெற அனுமதிக்கவில்லை. உலகின் நம்பர் ஒன் டி20 பந்து வீச்சாளரான வனிது ஹசரங்க வீசிய 10 ஓவர்கள் முடிவில் 67 ரன்கள் குவித்து விக்கெட்டுகளை வீழ்த்த முடியாமல் திணறினர். இந்திய பேட்ஸ்மேன்கள் அனைத்து இலங்கை பந்துவீச்சாளர்களையும் விட 6.0 என்ற அணியின் ஸ்கோர் விகிதத்தை பராமரிக்க முடிந்தது.
பதில் இன்னிங்ஸை ஆட களம் இறங்கிய இலங்கை அணி 50 ஓவர்கள் முடிவில் 8 விக்கெட் இழப்புக்கு 306 ரன்கள் மட்டுமே எடுக்க முடிந்தது. இலங்கை அணியின் ஆரம்ப துடுப்பாட்ட ஜோடி மாறி இம்முறை ஆரம்ப துடுப்பாட்ட ஜோடியாக பாத்தும் நிஸ்ஸங்க மற்றும் அவிஸ்கா பெர்னாண்டோ களம் இறங்கினார்கள். மொஹமட் சிராஜ் தொடக்க விக்கெட்டை 19 ரன்களுக்கு அவிஷ்கா மைதானத்திற்கு அனுப்பினார்.
இந்த வருட இருபதுக்கு 20 தொடரில் வெற்றிகரமான ஆரம்ப துடுப்பாட்ட வீரராக களமிறங்கிய குசால் மெண்டிஸ் நம்பர் ஒன் துடுப்பாட்ட வீரராக களம் இறங்கியதால் அவர் ரன் ஏதும் எடுக்காமல் களத்தை விட்டு வெளியேறினார். தொடக்க பேட்ஸ்மேனாக வெற்றி பெற்ற போது தனது நிலையை மாற்றிக் கொண்டது ஆச்சரியமாக உள்ளது.
இம்முறையும் இலங்கை அணியின் மிடில் ஆர்டர் துடுப்பாட்டம் தோல்வியடைந்ததுடன், இலங்கை 206 ஓட்டங்களுக்கு 8 விக்கெட்டுகளை இழந்திருந்த போது, கசுன் ராஜித, அணித்தலைவர் தசுன் ஷனக்கவுடன் இணைந்து 100 ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்று சாதனை படைத்தார். 100 ரன்கள். அந்த சதத்தின் மூலம் இலங்கை அணி 300 ரன்களை கடக்க, இலங்கை அணியை அவமானத்தில் இருந்து காப்பாற்றியது.
ஸ்கோர்போர்டு – இந்தியா
விராட் கோலி – 113 (87)
ரோஹித் சர்மா – 83 (63)
சுப்மன் கில் – 70 (60)
பந்துவீச்சு
கசுன் ராஜித – 10-0-88-3
தில்ஷான் மதுசங்க – 6-0-43-1
ஸ்கோர்போர்டு – இலங்கை
தசுன் ஷனக – 108 நாட் அவுட்
பாத்தும் நிஸ்ஸங்க – 72 (80)
தனஞ்சயத சில்வா – 47(40)
பந்துவீச்சு
உம்ரான் மாலிக் – 8-0-57-3
முகமது சிராஜ் – 7-1-30-2
News
Ceylon Masters Badminton Championships 2026 Entry Deadline Extended Until June 3
The Organizing Committee of the Ceylon Masters International Badminton Championships 2026 has announced an extension of the tournament entry deadline, giving players additional time to register for one of the region’s premier masters badminton events.
According to the organizers, the revised closing date for entries is June 3, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. The extension is expected to provide greater flexibility for players who have yet to complete their registration process.

The championship is set to attract a large number of masters badminton players from around the world, who will converge in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for a highly competitive international tournament. The event has steadily grown in stature and is now regarded as a key fixture on the global masters badminton calendar.
Tournament officials have encouraged interested players to take advantage of the extended deadline and secure their participation before entries officially close. They emphasized that the championship offers competitors a valuable opportunity to test their skills against international opponents while experiencing Sri Lanka’s renowned hospitality and sporting culture.
With strong local and overseas interest already evident, organizers expect another successful edition of the tournament and have urged players not to miss the opportunity to be part of this exciting international badminton championship.
Cricket
Virat Kohli half-century and bowlers help RCB retain IPL title
Royal Challengers Bengaluru successfully defended their IPL crown with a composed five-wicket victory over Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2026 final, powered by a masterful unbeaten 75 from Virat Kohli and a disciplined bowling performance.
After being asked to bat first, Gujarat Titans struggled to build momentum against a relentless RCB attack and were restricted to 155 for 8 in their allotted 20 overs.
The Titans lost both openers early as Bhuvneshwar Kumar removed Sai Sudharsan and skipper Shubman Gill inside the first four overs. Nishant Sindhu briefly resisted with 20, but wickets fell at regular intervals as RCB tightened their grip on the contest.
Washington Sundar stood firm amid the collapse, producing a fighting unbeaten 50 off 37 deliveries that featured five boundaries. However, he received little support from the middle order. Rasikh Salam emerged as the pick of the bowlers with impressive figures of 3 for 27, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood claimed two wickets apiece. Krunal Pandya also chipped in with a crucial scalp as Gujarat finished below a par total.
In reply, RCB got off to a flying start through Venkatesh Iyer, who blasted 32 from just 16 balls. Although the defending champions lost a few quick wickets in the middle overs, Kohli anchored the chase with another vintage innings under pressure.
The veteran star struck nine fours and three sixes in his unbeaten 75 off 42 balls, controlling the innings with a blend of aggression and composure. Rajat Patidar contributed 15, while Tim David added a valuable 24 before falling with the target in sight.
Kohli then guided RCB home alongside wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma, who remained unbeaten on 11, as Bengaluru reached 161 for 5 in just 18 overs.
The victory secured back-to-back IPL titles for RCB and once again highlighted Kohli’s enduring class on the biggest stage.
Brief Scores:
Gujarat Titans 155/8 in 20 overs (Washington Sundar 50; Rasikh Salam 3/27, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/29, Josh Hazlewood 2/37) lost to Royal Challengers Bengaluru 161/5 in 18 overs (Virat Kohli 75, Venkatesh Iyer 32, Tim David 24; Rashid Khan 2/25) by five wickets.
Athletics
Tarushi Abisheka Wins Gold for Sri Lanka at Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships
Sri Lankan athlete Tarushi Abisheka secured a gold medal in the girls’ 1500m event at the Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships currently being held in Hong Kong on Thursday (May 28).
Abisheka delivered an impressive performance to finish first with a timing of 4 minutes and 31.41 seconds, bringing glory to Sri Lanka on the international stage.
Iran’s Maryam Baluoutaki claimed the silver medal, while South Korea’s Song Dawson finished in third place to secure the bronze.
The talented Sri Lankan middle-distance runner is also competing in the 800m event at the championship.
The Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships has attracted athletes from 40 countries, competing across 46 events.
Sri Lanka has fielded a 22-member contingent for the tournament, consisting of 15 male athletes and seven female athletes.
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