Chaturanga Kumara awarded a cricket scholarship

Sri Lanka Cricket is pleased to inform the Public and the Media, that Chaturanga Kumara has been awarded a cricket scholarship to represent South gate Cricket Club, in England as their overseas amateur player in the Middlesex League for the upcoming 2011 season.

Sri Lanka Cricket extends its gratitude to Asitha Jayaweera Chairman SLC U.K Committee for successfully Coordinating this facility to Chaturanga under SLC’s development initiatives to facilitate School boy Cricketers to play in the English minor league.

Chaturanga Scored 1007 runs and captured 75 wickets for his Alma Mater St Josephs College Colombo in 2009/2010 season, and was adjudicated as the School Boy Cricketer of the Year in the Bata/Times awards in the same year.

Chaturanga also represented the Sri Lanka under 19s team when England toured Sri Lanka in January 2011.

SOURCE : www.srilankacricket.lk

2006 SRI LANKAN Tour of ENGLAND.....

Some Stats of The Sri Lanka tour of England 2006

 ♪England v Sri Lanka at Lord's - May 11-15, 2006
Match drawn
♪England v Sri Lanka at Birmingham - May 25-28, 2006
England won by 6 wickets
 ♪England v Sri Lanka at Nottingham - Jun 2-5, 2006
Sri Lanka won by 134 runs

SERIES DRAWN 1-1

*MJ scored Brilliant Century at LORDS...
*1 Century n 6 Half Centuries For SL's 2nd INN at LORDS.
*Vandort Played Long Inn n get 100 at Edgebaston which SL lost.
*Murali Took 10 Wickets in Both Inns at Edgebaston.
*MJ made His 2nd Duck for the Series at TrentBridge (Nott)
*Murali made his 2nd 10 wkt haul at Nott. with Brilliant 8/70 in 2nd INN figures.
*KP scored 2 BIG tons in the Series.. 1 for Trescothicks as well
*Players of the series M Muralitharan

-DK-

Kumar Sangakkara on this week's ICC Cricket World Radio Show

On this week's ICC Cricket World Radio Show, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara talks exclusively ahead of the start of tomorrow's second Test match between Sri Lanka and England and also discusses his partnership with the International Cricket Council's Think Wise campaign while Dr. Peter Harcourt, the chair of the ICC Medical Committee, explains to listeners the role and importance of the committee.

Sangakkara, who has played in 95 Test matches to date for Sri Lanka says about the Cardiff loss and looking ahead to Lord's tomorrow: "Disappointing is an understatement about Cardiff in regards to our batting. We were horrendous. We know it and have accepted that. No one tries to have a performance like that. We have to take responsibility for that, I think Cardiff was a tough lesson for us and an important one for us as a team.

"We have a different bowling attack than England, we don't have the same height. It is a bit of guile, swing, seam and we bowl to our plans. We have a lot of ability and a lot of variation. How best to use that is something we will try to answer in the next five days."

The 33-year-old also talks about his work with ICC Think Wise partnership and why cricketers should be involved in the initiative to remove the stigma associated with HIV and AIDS.

"Its very important because cricketers are held in high esteem, highly visible public figures. With majority of AIDS affected people living in cricket playing countries, our roles become that much more important. Also the fact that we support people with HIV and AIDS, so that they can lead a fruitful life so that they can access good life. More and more cricketers should be associated with it. Not just one or two cricketers but having teams take on this responsibility, that is going to be the best way forward that will strengthen the role played by ICC," says Sangakkara. 
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