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Sri Lanka was determined to win the opening match, but the bowling of Indian all-rounders and young debutant Shivam Mavi blocked the path to victory for the Sri Lankan team.

Deepak Hooda, Axar Patel and Mavi were the pioneers in taking the Indian team to victory.

Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka, who won the toss, invited the Indian team to bat first. Opener Ishan Kishan scored a total of 17 runs in the first over, including 2 fours, and gave the Indian side a great start. Mahesh Thiekshana managed to take the wicket of the other debutant, Shubman Gill, ending the rivalry of the opening pair of Kishan and Shubman Gill.

From then on, the Sri Lankan players took control of the match for a moment, but the Indian batsmen did not allow them to take it to the end. There, Deepak Hooda managed to score 41 runs unbeaten. At the end of twenty overs, the Indian scoreboard was 162/5.

The Sri Lankan team, which entered the field to play the reply innings, could not get a successful start, and Shivam Mavi managed to send Pathum to the stadium calmly, limiting the opening batting deficit to 12 runs.

The Indian batsmen did not allow the middle-order batsmen to enter the runs, and this time too, a failed middle-order batting pattern was seen. Captain Shanaka and Vanidu Hasaranga were able to swing the game back towards Sri Lanka, which was in India’s grasp, but they failed to carry it to victory. Chamika Karunaratne, who did not give up the victory until the last over of the match, played an excellent batting, but that was not enough for the victory.

In the end, the Sri Lanka scoreboard showed 160 runs with all the players out at the end of the twenty overs. Captain Dasun Shanaka scored 45 points for the Sri Lankan team. At the end of the match, the Indian team won by 2 points.

ඉතා තියුණු තරගයකින් පසු පළමු තරගයේ ජය ඉන්දියාවට

ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ආරම්භක තරගය ජයග්‍රහණය කිරීමට දැඩි අධිෂ්ඨානයෙන් පසුවූ නමුත් ඉන්දීය තුන් ඉරියව් ක්‍රීඩකයන්ගේ සහ තරුණ මංගල ක්‍රීඩක ශිවම් මාවිගේ පන්දු යැවීම හමුවේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායමට ජයග්‍රහණයේ මාවත අවහිර විය.

දීපක් හූඩා, අක්සාර් පටෙල් සහ මාවි ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායම ජයග්‍රහණයේ මාවත වෙත රැගෙන යාමේ පුරෝගාමීන් වූහ.

කාසියේ වාසිය දිනූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නායක දසුන් ශානක ප්‍රථමයෙන් පන්දුවට පහර දීමට ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායමට ආරාධනා කළේය. ආරම්භක පිතිකරු ඉෂාන් කිෂාන් පළමු ඕවරයේ දී හතරේ පහර 2ක් ඇතුළුව මුලු ලකුණු 17ක් ලබා ගත් අතර, ඉන්දියන් කණ්ඩායමට විශිෂ්ට ආරම්භයක් ලබා දුන්නේය. කිෂාන් සහ ශුබ්මන් ගිල්ගේ ආරම්භක පිතිකරු යුගලයේ සභදතාවය අවසන් කරමින්, මහේෂ් තීක්ෂණ අනෙක් මංගල ක්‍රීඩකයා වූ ශුබ්මන් ගිල්ගේ කඩුල්ල දවා ගැනීමට සමත් විය.

එතැන් පටන් තරගයට අවතීරණය වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ක්‍රීඩකයන් තරගයේ පාලනය මොහොතකට ලබා ගත් නමුත් ඔවුන්ට එය අවසානය තෙක් රැගෙන යාමට ඉන්දීය පිතිකරුවන් ඉඩ ලබා දුන්නේ නැත. එහිදී දීපක් හූඩා නොදැවී ලකුණු 41 රැස් කිරීමට සමත් විය. පන්දුවාර විස්ස අවසානයේ ඉන්දීය ලකුණු පුවරුව 162/5 ලෙස දැක්විය.

පිළිතුරු ඉනිම ක්‍රීඩා කිරීමට පිටියට පිවිසි ශ්‍රී ලංකා පිළට සාර්ථක ආරම්භයක් ලබා ගැනීමට නොහැකි වූ අතර, ආරම්භක පිතිකරන සම්භන්ධතාවය ලකුණු 12කට සීමා කරමින් පැතුම් නිස්සංකව ක්‍රීඩාගාරය වෙත යැවීමට ශිවම් මාවි සමත් විය.

මැද පෙළ පිතිකරුවන් හට ලකුණු අතරට පිවිසීමට ඉන්දීය පිතිකරුවන් ඉඩ ලබා නොදුන් අතර, මෙවරද අසාර්ථක මැද පෙළ පිතිකරණ රටාවක් දක්නට ලැබීය. ඉන්දියාවේ ග්‍රහණයේ තිබූ තරගය නැවතත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව දෙසට දෝලනය කිරීමට නායක ශානකට හා වනිදු හසරංගට හැකි වූ අතර නමුත් එය ජයග්‍රහණය තෙක් රැගෙන යාමට ඔවුන් අපොහොසත් විය. තරගය අවසාන පන්දුවාර තෙක් ජයග්‍රහණය අත් නොහළ චාමික කරුණාරත්න විශිෂ්ඨ පිතිහරබයක නිරත වූ නමුත් එයත් ජයග්‍රහණට ප්‍රමාණවත් නොවීය.

අවසානයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ලකුණු පුවරුව දැක් වුයේ පන්දුවාර විස්ස අවසානයේ සියලු ක්‍රීඩකයින් දැවී ලකුණු 160ක් ලෙසය. ශ්‍රී ලංකා කණ්ඩායම වෙනුවෙන් නායක දසුන් ශානක ලකුණු 45ක් ලබා ගැනීමට සමත් විය. තරග අවසානයේ ඉන්දීය කණ්ඩායම ලකුණු 2ක තියුණු ජයක් ලැබීය.

மிகவும் விறுவிறுப்பான போட்டிக்கு பிறகு முதல் போட்டியில் இந்தியா வெற்றி பெற்றது

தொடக்க ஆட்டத்தில் வெற்றி பெற வேண்டும் என்பதில் இலங்கை உறுதியாக இருந்தது, ஆனால் இந்திய ஆல்-ரவுண்டர்கள் மற்றும் இளம் அறிமுக வீரர் சிவம் மாவியின் பந்துவீச்சு இலங்கை அணியின் வெற்றிப் பாதையைத் தடுத்தது.

தீபக் ஹூடா, அக்சர் படேல், மாவி ஆகியோர் இந்திய அணியை வெற்றிப் பாதைக்கு அழைத்துச் சென்றதில் முன்னோடிகளாக இருந்தனர்.

டாஸ் வென்ற இலங்கை கேப்டன் தசுன் ஷனகா இந்திய அணியை முதலில் பேட்டிங் செய்ய அழைத்தார். தொடக்க ஆட்டக்காரர் இஷான் கிஷான் முதல் ஓவரில் 2 பவுண்டரிகள் உட்பட மொத்தம் 17 ரன்கள் எடுத்து இந்திய அணிக்கு சிறப்பான தொடக்கத்தை அளித்தார். மகேஷ் தீக்ஷனா, மற்றொரு அறிமுக வீரரான ஷுப்மான் கில்லின் விக்கெட்டை வீழ்த்தி, தொடக்க ஜோடியான கிஷன் மற்றும் ஷுப்மான் கில் ஆகியோரின் போட்டியை முடிவுக்கு கொண்டு வந்தார்.

அதிலிருந்து இலங்கை வீரர்கள் ஒரு நிமிடம் ஆட்டத்தை தங்கள் கட்டுப்பாட்டில் வைத்தனர், ஆனால் இந்திய பேட்ஸ்மேன்கள் அவர்களை இறுதிவரை கொண்டு செல்ல அனுமதிக்கவில்லை. அங்கு தீபக் ஹூடா ஆட்டமிழக்காமல் 41 ரன்கள் எடுத்தார். இருபது ஓவர்கள் முடிவில் இந்திய ஸ்கோர்போர்டு 162/5.

பதில் இன்னிங்ஸை ஆட களம் இறங்கிய இலங்கை அணியால் வெற்றிகரமான தொடக்கம் கிடைக்காததால், தொடக்க துடுப்பாட்டப் பற்றாக்குறையை 12 ரன்களுக்கு மட்டுப்படுத்திய சிவம் மாவி பதுமையும் நிதானமாக மைதானத்திற்கு அனுப்பினார்.

மிடில் ஆர்டர் பேட்ஸ்மேன்களை ரன்களுக்குள் நுழைய விடாத இந்திய பேட்ஸ்மேன்கள், இம்முறையும் மிடில் ஆர்டர் பேட்டிங் முறை தோல்வியடைந்தது. கேப்டன் ஷனக மற்றும் வனிது ஹசரங்க ஆகியோர் ஆட்டத்தை மீண்டும் இலங்கையை நோக்கி ஆட முடிந்தது, ஆனால் அவர்கள் அதை வெற்றிக்கு கொண்டு செல்லத் தவறினர். போட்டியின் கடைசி ஓவர் வரை வெற்றியை விட்டுக் கொடுக்காத சமிக கருணாரத்ன சிறப்பான துடுப்பாட்டத்தை வெளிப்படுத்திய போதிலும் அது வெற்றிக்கு போதுமானதாக அமையவில்லை.

இறுதியில், இருபது ஓவர்கள் முடிவில் அனைத்து வீரர்களும் அவுட்டாக இலங்கை ஸ்கோர்போர்டு 160 ரன்களைக் காட்டியது. இலங்கை அணி சார்பில் கேப்டன் தசுன் ஷனக 45 புள்ளிகளைப் பெற்றார். ஆட்ட நேர முடிவில் இந்திய அணி 2 புள்ளிகள் வித்தியாசத்தில் வெற்றி பெற்றது.

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Sri Lankan all-rounder Kamindu Mendis delivered under pressure, helping Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) script a historic first-ever win over Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium during the IPL 2025 season.

Chasing a tricky target of 155, Mendis played a composed and crucial unbeaten knock of 32 off 22 balls, stitching an unbroken 49-run partnership with Nitish Kumar to seal a five-wicket victory with eight balls to spare. His calm presence at the crease when the game was delicately poised underlined his growing stature in T20 cricket.

Earlier, the Chennai Super Kings, once invincible at home, continued their disastrous 2025 campaign — suffering a fourth consecutive home defeat. Batting first, CSK stumbled despite a promising start, collapsing to 154 all out. Dewald Brevis impressed briefly on debut with a quickfire 42 runs, but it was Harshal Patel’s brilliant spell (4 wickets for 28 runs) that broke CSK’s backbone.

For CSK, promising youngster Ayush Mhatre shone early, but a middle-order collapse proved costly. Even skipper M.S. Dhoni’s tactical gamble of giving Sam Curran two overs backfired, as SRH batters capitalized to turn the game.

In the SRH chase, despite early hiccups — losing Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head quickly — Ishan Kishan’s fluent 44 and Kamindu Mendis’ finishing touch ensured Hyderabad stayed alive in the playoff race.

Meanwhile, in the updated IPL 2025 points table, Sunrisers Hyderabad now sits 8th with 6 points, while CSK languishes at the bottom with just 4 points from 9 games, effectively ending their playoff dreams.

Mendis’ all-round contribution, including a key wicket earlier, and his coolness in the chase were pivotal. While Harshal Patel deservedly took the Player of the Match award, Sri Lanka can proudly celebrate Kamindu’s evolving prowess on the IPL stage.


Points Table Update (After SRH vs CSK Match):

  • GT, DC, and RCB are leading the race with 12 points each.
  • PBKS and MI are close behind with 11 and 10 points.
  • CSK and RR are at the bottom with just 4 points, all but knocked out of the playoffs.
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Kaya Daluwatte and Reshan Algama Shine at 16th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final in Vietnam

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Sri Lanka’s promising golf talents Kaya Daluwatte and Reshan Algama showcased their growing international class with stellar performances at the prestigious 16th Faldo Series Asia Grand Final, held at the stunning Laguna Golf Lang Co in Vietnam.

Facing off against the finest junior golfers from the Asia-Pacific region—including representatives from Australia, England, Japan, India, and Wales—both Kaya and Reshan rose to the occasion, underlining Sri Lanka’s emerging strength in the sport.

Kaya Daluwatte delivered one of her career-best performances, finishing as the runner-up in the Girls’ Under-16 category. After three composed rounds, she posted a remarkable final score of even-par 216, highlighted by an impressive 2-under-par finish in the final round. Despite Japan’s Al Goto clinching the title with a score of 213, Kaya’s climb up the leaderboard captured widespread admiration. Her poise, precision, and birdies during the crucial back-nine holes showcased a maturity well beyond her years.

This runner-up finish at one of Asia’s top junior championships marks a historic achievement for Sri Lankan golf, signaling that the nation’s junior golfers are ready to challenge the region’s traditional powerhouses.

In the Boys’ Under-16 category, Reshan Algama also left his mark by securing a strong fourth-place finish with a gross score of 218. Although his final round did not match the brilliance of his earlier efforts, Reshan displayed commendable composure against a highly competitive international field. His consistency across top-level tournaments reflects his rapid development into a serious contender on the global junior golf circuit.

Vietnam’s Tuan Anh Nguyen dominated the Boys’ division, leading from start to finish to claim the title with a superb score of 205. India’s Arshvant Srivastava and Kanav Chauhan finished second and third, with scores of 214 and 216 respectively.

Kaya and Reshan’s performances not only bring pride to Sri Lanka but also signal a bright future for the country’s junior golfing scene on the Asian stage.

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SAFF Championship Postponement Exposes Deeper Issues Within FFSL

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The much-anticipated SAFF Championship, originally scheduled to take place in Sri Lanka in July 2025, has now been officially postponed to 2026—a move that has raised serious concerns over the competence and credibility of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL).

According to the SAFF Executive Committee, the decision to delay the tournament stemmed largely from pressure exerted by its marketing partner, Sportfive, which advocated for a home-and-away format to increase commercial value. Furthermore, it is reported that Sportfive preferred the event be hosted in Bangladesh or India, citing better sponsor access and commercial feasibility in those countries if the tournament were to follow a centralized model.

However, beyond external pressure, this development highlights a troubling reality: the FFSL’s inability to effectively organize and defend Sri Lanka’s hosting rights on the international stage. This isn’t merely a scheduling issue—it reflects a deeper pattern of administrative shortcomings, lack of vision, and prioritization of media narratives over tangible development.

As previously reported by Sri Lankan Sports TV, the FFSL continues to focus more on optics and media stunts rather than on the foundational work required to uplift football in the country. The failure to safeguard Sri Lanka’s opportunity to host a major regional tournament not only affects the sport’s growth domestically but also damages the nation’s reputation within South Asian football.

For a federation that has long promised reform and transparency, this latest setback exposes how little progress has actually been made. When commercial partners have more sway than the national football body itself, it’s a clear indication that local football governance is being undermined by weak leadership and poor planning.

This should be a wake-up call—not just for the FFSL, but for every stakeholder invested in the future of Sri Lankan football. The time for slogans and staged announcements is over. Sri Lanka needs action, accountability, and genuine commitment to building a sustainable footballing culture. Until then, headlines like this will only continue to reflect a sport lost in mismanagement.

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