Tag Archives: Sri Lanka Cricket

By Nuwangi Gunawardena Sri Lanka U19’s Tour of England kicked off with the 1st Youth Test at Chelmsford on the 21st of August. The four-day match would mark the first series for the Sri Lankan U19’s since former national cricketer Jehan Mubarak took over as the head coach in March …

A recap on the recently concluded Pakistan Test tour of Sri Lanka. By Nuwangi Gunawardena Sri Lanka and Pakistan went to head to head in the recently concluded two match Test series at the Galle international stadium from the 16th to the 27th July. Both teams were coming off of …

By Suhela Abeynaike Conroy Ievers Gunasekara was born an athlete meant to change sports history in Sri Lanka. He was a colossus, a gentleman of the highest order; unassuming and always stood for justice, a hard hitting batsman and a local maestro on the tennis court. Born on July 14, …

  Affectionately called as ‘Murali’ he is by far the greatest Sportsperson Sri Lanka ever produced in the modern era. Truly a Legend, an icon and an Ambassador. Not only to his alma mater St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota but also to his country, Sri Lanka and for the game of …

By Elmo Rodrigopulle I deem it a privilege and an honour to be asked to pen a piece on MAHADEVAN SATHASIVAM, by my Editor Sujith Silva for the ‘QUADRANGLE’. Sathasivam, without doubt was the greatest batsman produced by Sri Lanka in the pre-Test era and even the post era could …

Vijaya Malalasekera By Sujith Silva   My first Royal-Thomian memory goes back to 1953 when Royal College was captained by Ubhaya de Silva; the Thomians were down I think 4 for 14 and then P.I. Peiris and Geoff Wijesinghe put on record partnership of 187 runs. The Thomians went on …

Would you be surprised to hear of a Sri Lankan who taught a thing or two to the MCC and the ICC? Well don’t be, we have a cricket enthusiast, historian, recorder, player and a prolific writer (on cricket of course), a veritable encyclopedia on cricket, in Mahinda Wijesinghe who …