Sri Lanka News Round-up (30 October 1998)

30 October 1998

Sri Lanka News Round-up

The Daily News

By Richard Dwight

St. Thomas' College trounced Kingswood College Kandy by an innings and 70 runs in their inter school cricket encounter concluded at Mount Lavinia yesterday.

The Thomians declared their first innings at the overnight score of 235 for 9 and then dismissed the opposition for 109 runs in their second innings with Suranga Peiris (4 for 25) and Gihan Fernando (2 for 20) causing the damage.

Kingswood: 56 and 109
(M.Mallawarachchi 33, T.Madanayake 26, L.Ekanayake 19, S.Peiris 4 for 25, G.Fernando 2 for 20)

St. Thomas': 235 for 9 decl.

Director of Umpiring K.T. Francis and a panel of instructors comprising W.A.U. Wickremasinghe, B.C. Cooray and F.R.S. de Mel will conduct seminars and workshops to recruit cricket umpires for the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka.

These seminars and workshops will commence in Kandy from today till November 3, in Dambulla from November 20 to 22, in Hambantota from December 3 to 6, and Badulla from December 18 to 20.

Those who are desirous in attending these seminars should be from the respective regions and be between the ages of 23 and 45 and with cricketing experience. They should send their applications to the respective regional boards.

Already four seminars have been held in Colombo, Galle and Katubedde Campus and an examination held on October 24 at St. Peter's College for 142 candidates. A fair number of ex-first-class cricketers sat for the examination.

On a request made by the Colombo District Women's Cricket Association to train Women Umpires, seminars and examinations will be held from November 6 to 8 at the BCCSL headquarters from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

Sri Lanka's K.T. Francis will officiate as the International Cricket Council's independent umpire in the first cricket Test of the five-Test 'Ashes' series between England and Australia at Brisbane from November 20 to 24.

Francis' umpiring colleague is most likely to be Australia's Darrell Hair, who raised a hornets nest by calling Sri Lanka's ace spinner Muthiah Muralitharan for chucking in the Melbourne Test played two years ago.

Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)