Sri Lanka News Round-up (25 April 1998)

Saturday 25, April 1998

Sports in brief

Daily News

World Blind CC chairman to visit Lanka

Mr. George Abraham, Chairman of the World Blind Cricket Council, in consultation with the National Federation of Sports for the Disabled in Sri Lanka, will be visiting Sri Lanka from April 28 to 30. His visit is to launch a promotional campaign for the forthcoming World Cup cricket tourney for the blind, scheduled to be played in India at the end of this year.

To mark this event, the Sri Lanka Federation of the Visually Handicapped and the Sri Lanka Council for the blind, have arranged to play an exhibition cricket match on Tuesday April 28 at the School for the blind, Ratmalana, commencing at 10 am. This match will be the first trial to select the Sri Lankan team for the world tourney.

Special awards will be on offer for the Best Allrounder, Best Batsman and Best Bowlers in the blind and partially sighted categories.

The match is being sponsored and financed by MJF. Lion Lady Sue Karunaratne.

Six-a-side tourney at Nuwara Eliya

by P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

Nine Mayors of local bodies in Sri Lanka and their cricket teams will be seen in action when they are billed to play a six-a-side cricket tourney at Nuwara Eliya hosted by the Nuwara Eliya Municipal council and its Mayor Bandula Seneviratne. The tournament is being sponsored by the Ceylon Brewery Limited, with a handsome donation of Rs. 42,000 and conducted under the auspices of the Summer Hill Sports club of Nuwara eliya.

The Mayors teams will comprise Colombo (two teams), Trincomalee, Dehiwela, Nuwara Eliya, Matale, Badulla and Kandy MCs.

This is the first occasion, such a match is being played in Nuwara Eliya.

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