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Battle of the Blues postponed by a week

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8 months ago

January 27, 2023

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The 144th Battle of the Blues between St. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia and Royal College Colombo due to be played on March 9 – 11, has been rescheduled to the immediate next weekend.

This is due to the Local Government polls being scheduled for the same day.

A media communique states : “The match will now be played with spectators on the 16, 17 and 18th of March at the SSC grounds. This is due to the announcement that the planned local government elections are scheduled to take place on 09 March, the Joint Match Organising Committee in concurrence of the two heads of schools decided to reschedule the game for the following week”.

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Sri Lanka-Afghanistan warm-up match today

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11 hours ago

October 3, 2023

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The warm-up match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in the Cricket World Cup series will be held today at 2 pm at the Thiruvananthapuram Stadium.

The Sri Lanka team is led by Dasun Shanaka and the Afghan team is led by Hashmatullah Shahidi.

In the first warm-up match, Sri Lanka was defeated by Bangladesh.

Afghanistan’s warm-up match with South Africa was abandoned due to rain.

The warm-up matches will end today and the World Cup matches will begin on the 5th with the match between England and New Zealand.

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New position for Sanga at MCC

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23 hours ago

October 2, 2023

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The Marylebone Cricket Club has announced that former star cricketer of Sri Lanka – Kumar Sangakkara will remain on the MCC Committee as the new Chair of the MCC World Cricket committee.

He will chair a committee which includes other exceptional cricketers including Sourav Ganguly, Heather Knight, Justin Langer, Eoin Morgan and Graeme Smith, the MCC notes.

He replaces former England captain Mike Gatting, who had six years in the role.

Sangakkara was President of MCC from 2019-2021.