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The Sri Lanka youth team has the upper hand in the practice match.
The Sri Lanka team managed to gain more advantages in the three-day training match held between the Sri Lanka under-19 youth team and the England youth invitational team, who have gone to England to participate in 3 one-day matches and 2 four-day test matches.
The Sri Lankan team, which had started batting first, was declared for 248 runs in the first innings after losing 7 wickets. On the first day which was limited to 56 overs, the Sri Lanka youth team scored 182 runs for 4 wickets and the second day had to be completely abandoned due to rain.
Asitha Vanninayak, who was successful in batting for the Sri Lankan team, faced 200 balls and managed to score 100 runs. The innings included 13 fours, and he stopped midway through his innings to allow other batsmen to bat.
The England youth invited team, who entered the field to play the reply innings of Sri Lanka’s first innings, could score only 104 runs. Vanuja Sahan bowled 11.1 overs and took 4 wickets for 13 runs while Dududu Ranatunga and Dulaj Samudita managed to take 2 wickets each.
The Sri Lanka youth team, who started their second innings with 144 runs leading, at the end of the day scored 132 runs for 2 wickets and managed to come forward in the second innings with a total of 276 runs. Avshek Liyanarachchi scored 51 runs and Sadisha Rajapaksa scored 32 runs in the second innings. By the end of the day, vice-captain Shehan Daniel had scored 25 points and Lahiru Davatage had scored 21 points.
Sri Lanka Youth 248 for 7 in 80 first innings – (Asitha Vanninayake 100, Sadisha Rajapaksa 23, Pawan Pathiraja 23, Ranuda Somaratne 29, Ravin de Silva (33 not out), Lahiru Davatag 12, RL Ewitts 53/3, E. Jacques 43/2)
England Youth Invitational 104 all out in 42.1 overs – (MD Wagstaff 53, KK Patel 11, M Hurst 10, Vanuja Sahan 14/4, Dulaj Samuditha 27/2, Duvindu Ranatunga 34 /2)
Sri Lanka Youth second innings 132 for 2 in 26 overs – (Abhishek Liyanarachchi 51, Sadisha Rajapaksa 32, Shehan Daniel (not out) 25, Lahiru Dawatage (not out) 21)
පුහුණු තරගයේ වැඩි වාසිය ශ්රී ලංකා යොවුන් පිලට.
එක්දින තරග 3කට හා සිව්දින ටෙස් තරග 2කට සහභාගීවීම සදහා එංගලන්තයට ගොස් සිටින ශ්රී ලංකා වයස අවුරුදු 19 පහළ යොවුන් කණ්ඩායම හා එංගලන්ත තරුණ ආරාධිත කණ්ඩායම අතර පැවති තුන් දින පුහුණු තරගයේ වැඩි වාසි ලබා ගැනීමට ශ්රී ලංකා පිළ සමත් විය.
පන්දුවට මුලින් පහර දීමේ අවස්ථාව හිමි වූ ශ්රී ලංකා පිල පළමු ඉනිමට ලකුණු 248කට කඩුලු 7ක් දැවී තිබියදී ඉනිම අත්හිටුවන ලදී. පන්දුවාර 56කට සීමා වූ පළමු දින ශ්රී ලංකා යොවුන් පිළ කඩුළු 4කට ලකුණු 182 ක් ලබා ගත් අතර දෙවැනි දිනය වර්ශාව හේතුවෙන් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම අතහැර දැමීමට සිදු විය.
ශ්රී ලංකා පිළ වෙනුවෙන් සාර්ථක පිතිහරභයක නිරත වූ අසිත වන්නිනායක පන්දු 200කට මුහුණ දී ලකුණු 100ක් ලබා ගැනීමට සමත් විය. එම ඉනිමට හතරේ පහරවල් 13ක් ඇතුළත් වූ අතර, ඔහු අනෙකුත් පිතිකරුවන්ට පන්දුවට පහරදීමට ඉඩ සලසමින් සිය ඉනිම අතරමග නවතා දැමීය.
ශ්රී ලංකා පළමු ඉනිමේ පිළිතුරු ඉනිම ක්රීඩා කිරීමට පිටියට පිවිසි එංගලන්ත තරුණ ආරාධිත කණ්ඩායමට සියළු දෙනා දැවී ලබාගත හැකි වූයේ ලකුණු 104ක් පමණි. පන්දු යැවීමේදී කැපී පෙනෙන දක්ෂ්තා දැක්වූ වනුජ සහන් පන්දුවාර 11.1 ක් යවමින් ලකුණු 13කට කඩුළු 4ක් දවා ගනිද්දී දුවිදු රණතුංග හා දුලාජ් සමුදිත කඩුලු 2ක බැගින් දවා ගැනීමට සමත් විය.
ලකුණු 144ක් ඉද්රියෙන් නැවතත් තම දෙවැනි ඉනිම ආරම්භ කළ ශ්රී ලංකා යොවුන් පිළ දිනය අවසානයේදී කඩුළු 2කට ලකුණු 132ක් ලබා සමස්ථ දෙවැනි ඉනිමේ 276ක ඉදිරියට පැමිණීමට සමත් විය. දෙවැනි ඉනිම වෙනුවෙන් අභ්ෂේක් ලියනාරච්චි ලකුණු 51, සදීෂ රාජපක්ෂ ලකුණු 32 ලබා ගථ. දිනය නිමා වන විට උප නායක ෂෙහාන් ඩැනියෙල් ලකුණු 25ක් හා ලහිරු දවටගේ ලකුණු 21 ක ලබා සිටියහ.
ශ්රී ලංකා යොවුන් පිල පළමු ඉනිම පන්දුවාර 80 කදී කඩුලු 7 ට ලකුණු 248 යි – (අසිත වන්නිනායක 100, සදීෂ රාජපක්ෂ 23, පවන් පතිරාජ 23, රනුද සෝමරත්න 29, රවීන් ද සිල්වා (නොදැවී 33), ළහිරු දවටග් 12, ආර්. එල්. එවිට්ස් 53/3, ඊ. ජැක් 43/2)
එංගලන්ත තරුණ ආරාධිත පිල පළමු ඉනිම පන්දුවාර 42.1 කදී සියලු දෙනා දැවී ලකුණු 104 යි – (එම්.ඩී. වැග්ස්ටෆ් 53, කේ. කේ පටෙල් 11, එම්. හර්ස්ට් 10, වනුජ සහන් 14/4, දුලාජ් සමුදිත 27/2, දුවිඳු රණතුංග 34/2)
ශ්රී ලංකා යොවුන් පිල දෙවැනි ඉනිම පන්දුවාර 26 කදී කඩුලු 2 ට ලකුණු 132 යි – (අභිෂේක් ලියනාරච්චි 51, සදීෂ රාජපක්ෂ 32, ෂෙහාන් ඩැනියල් (නොදැවී) 25, ළහිරු දවටගේ (නොදැවී) 21)
பயிற்சி ஆட்டத்தில் இலங்கை இளையோர் அணி முன்னிலை பெற்றுள்ளது.
3 ஒரு நாள் போட்டிகள் மற்றும் 2 நான்கு-போட்டிகளில் பங்குபற்றுவதற்காக இங்கிலாந்து சென்றுள்ள இலங்கை 19 வயதுக்குட்பட்ட இளைஞர் அணிக்கும் இங்கிலாந்து இளையோர் அழைப்பிதழ் அணிக்கும் இடையில் நடைபெற்ற மூன்று நாள் பயிற்சிப் போட்டியில் இலங்கை அணி அதிக அனுகூலங்களைப் பெற முடிந்தது. நாள் டெஸ்ட் போட்டிகள்.
முதலில் துடுப்பெடுத்தாடத் தொடங்கிய இலங்கை அணி முதல் இன்னிங்சில் 7 விக்கெட்டுகளை இழந்து 248 ஓட்டங்களுக்கு டிக்ளேர் செய்யப்பட்டது. 56 ஓவர்களுக்குள் மட்டுப்படுத்தப்பட்ட முதல் நாளில் இலங்கை இளையோர் அணி 4 விக்கெட்டுக்கு 182 ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்றிருந்த நிலையில் இரண்டாம் நாள் ஆட்டம் மழையால் முற்றாக கைவிடப்பட்டது.
இலங்கை அணி சார்பாக துடுப்பெடுத்தாடுவதில் வெற்றிபெற்ற அசித வன்னிநாயக்க 200 பந்துகளுக்கு முகங்கொடுத்து 100 ஓட்டங்களைக் குவித்தார். இந்த இன்னிங்ஸில் 13 பவுண்டரிகள் அடங்கும், மேலும் அவர் மற்ற பேட்ஸ்மேன்களை பேட்டிங் செய்ய அனுமதிக்க தனது இன்னிங்ஸின் நடுப்பகுதியில் நிறுத்தினார்.
இலங்கையின் முதல் இன்னிங்ஸின் பதில் இன்னிங்ஸை விளையாட களம் இறங்கிய இங்கிலாந்து இளைஞர் அழைப்பு அணியால் 104 ஓட்டங்களை மாத்திரமே எடுக்க முடிந்தது. வனுஜா சஹான் 11.1 ஓவர்கள் வீசி 13 ஓட்டங்களுக்கு 4 விக்கெட்டுக்களையும், துடுது ரணதுங்க மற்றும் துலாஜ் சமுதித ஆகியோர் தலா 2 விக்கெட்டுக்களையும் கைப்பற்றினர்.
144 ஓட்டங்களுடன் தமது இரண்டாவது இன்னிங்ஸை ஆரம்பித்த இலங்கை இளையோர் அணி, நாள் முடிவில் 2 விக்கெட்டுக்கு 132 ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்று மொத்தமாக 276 ஓட்டங்களைப் பெற்று இரண்டாவது இன்னிங்சில் முன்னேறியது. இரண்டாவது இன்னிங்ஸிற்காக அவ்ஷேக் லியனாராச்சி 51 ஓட்டங்களையும் சதிஷ ராஜபக்ச 32 ஓட்டங்களையும் பெற்றனர். ஆட்டநேர முடிவில், துணைத் தலைவர் ஷெஹான் டேனியல் 25 புள்ளிகளையும், லஹிரு தவடகே 21 புள்ளிகளையும் பெற்றனர்.
இலங்கை யூத் 80 முதல் இன்னிங்ஸில் 7 விக்கெட்டுக்கு 248 – (அசித வன்னிநாயக்க 100, சதிஷா ராஜபக்ச 23, பவன் பதிராஜா 23, ரனுத சோமரத்ன 29, ரவின் டி சில்வா (33 நாட் அவுட்), லஹிரு டவடக் 12, ஆர்.எல் எவிட்ஸ் 53/3, இ.ஜாக் 43/2)
இங்கிலாந்து யூத் இன்விடேஷனல் 42.1 ஓவரில் 104 ஆல் அவுட் – (எம்.டி.வாக்ஸ்டாஃப் 53, கே.கே.படேல் 11, எம்.ஹர்ஸ்ட் 10, வனுஜா சஹான் 14/4, துலாஜ் சமுதித 27/2, துவிந்து ரணதுங்க 34/2)
இலங்கை யூத் இரண்டாவது இன்னிங்ஸ் 26 ஓவர்களில் 2 விக்கெட்டுக்கு 132 – (அபிஷேக் லியனாராச்சி 51, சதிஷா ராஜபக்ச 32, ஷெஹான் டேனியல் (நாட்அவுட்) 25, லஹிரு தவடகே (நாட்அவுட்) 21)
Cricket
Afghanistan’s White-ball Series against Sri Lanka officially postponed
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announces that the Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka bilateral series, originally scheduled to commence on 13 March in the United Arab Emirates, has been rescheduled to the last quarter of 2026 due to logistical challenges, including flight constraints arising from the ongoing regional situation.
The series, which was to mark the first occasion of Afghanistan hosting Sri Lanka, was scheduled to feature six white-ball matches. The three T20 International matches were planned to be staged at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on 13, 15, and 17 March, followed by three One Day Internationals at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 20, 22, and 25 March.
Following the receipt of the required sanction from the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), preparations had been finalized for hosting the matches across the two venues. However, in early March, unforeseen developments created logistical constraints that affected travel arrangements and operational planning for the series.
To address the situation, the Afghanistan Cricket Board held a series of consultations with key stakeholders, including the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), Sharjah Cricket Stadium (SCS), and Dubai International Cricket Stadium (DICS). A joint meeting convened by the ACB on 4 March resulted in a recommendation to monitor the situation and reassess by 6 March, in the hope that conditions would improve. A subsequent follow-up meeting on 7 March recommended waiting until 9 March before making a final determination.
Despite the collective efforts of all parties to proceed with the event as planned, the logistical challenges remained beyond operational control, leading to the decision to postpone the series and explore rescheduling options.
Throughout this process, the Sri Lanka Cricket Board (SLC) was kept fully informed, and the decision to postpone the series was made in consultation and with the consent of Sri Lanka Cricket.
The preferred venue for the rescheduled series remains the United Arab Emirates, and the new dates will be announced in due course following further coordination between the respective boards and stakeholders.
Cricket
Gary Kirsten Appointed as Head Coach of Sri Lanka National Men’s Team
Sri Lanka Cricket has officially announced the appointment of Gary Kirsten as the new head coach of the national men’s team, effective from 15 April 2026. His tenure will run for two years, concluding on 14 April 2028.
Kirsten, a former South African international cricketer, brings with him a wealth of coaching experience and a distinguished playing career. Between 2008 and 2011, he served as head coach of the India men’s national team, guiding them to victory in the 2011 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup. He later took charge of the South Africa men’s national team from 2011 to 2013, during which South Africa rose to become the number one ranked team across all formats.
Most recently, Kirsten worked as a consultant with Cricket Namibia during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, further expanding his global coaching footprint.
As a player, Kirsten represented South Africa from 1993 to 2004, amassing 14,087 international runs across Tests and ODIs. His record includes 21 Test centuries and 13 ODI centuries, cementing his reputation as one of South Africa’s most reliable batsmen.
Sri Lanka Cricket has emphasized that Kirsten’s appointment is part of a broader initiative to revamp the National High Performance Center. His primary responsibility will be to prepare and lead the Sri Lanka National Men’s Team in their campaign for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027, which will be jointly hosted by South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
Cricket
Sri Lanka–Afghanistan Series Postponed Amid Regional Tensions
Sri Lanka Cricket has decided to postpone the upcoming limited-overs series against Afghanistan in the United Arab Emirates due to the current situation in the Middle East, sources confirmed.
The series, which was scheduled to run from March 13 to 25, included three T20 internationals in Sharjah and three ODIs in Dubai. However, growing security concerns following reports of Iranian strikes across parts of the region have forced officials to reconsider travel and hosting arrangements.
Both cricket boards are understood to be in discussions to reschedule the fixtures once conditions improve. The decision comes at a time when Sri Lanka is also focusing on strengthening its domestic fitness programme, with selectors emphasizing that physical readiness will be a key factor in future squad selections.
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