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THE THE SCORE October 2013 SCOREOfficial Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket R ECORD BREAKING BILLION RUPEE BIDS FOR SRI LANKA CRICKET KANDURATA MAROONS SPONSORED BY JAT HOLDINGS Redistribution For PRI MA CHAMPIONS CUP Not COMMENCED FOR 7TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR SRI AN L KA WINS THE DIALOG CUP ODI 2013 Official Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket 1 THE SCORE Contents National team 3 Umpiring 9 ‘A’ Team 6 Cricket Development 10 U19 and U17 Teams 7 Cover stories 14 Women’s National team 8 Marketing and Communications 15 Commercial Partners 20 Sri Lanka wins the Dialog cup ODI 2013 Page 4 Contents Kandurato Maroons become the UltraTech Super 4s Champions Redistribution For Page 14 Dialog Sri Lanka Cricket Awards Night Not Page 16 Cover Story Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal appointed as Test/ ODI & T20 Captains 2 Official Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket THE SCORE ICC Champions Trophy 2013 - England Sri Lanka started off poorly with defeats in both their warm-up games - including one to India - and then losing to New Zealand after being bowled out for 138 in the ICC Champions Trophy in June 2013. 4th Match, Group A: NZ v SL at Cardiff - Jun 9, 2013 12th Match, Group A: AUS v SL at The Oval - Jun 17, 2013 SL 138 (37.5 ov) (K Sangakkara 68, M McClenaghan 4/43) SL 253/8 (50 ov) ( M Jayawardena 84*, M Johnson 3/48) NZ 139/9 (36.3 ov) (N McCullum 32, L Malinga 4/34) AUS 233 (42.3 ov) ( A Voges 49, N Kulasekara 3/42) NZ won by 1 wicket SL won by 20 runs 8th Match, Group A: ENG v SL at The Oval - Jun 13, 2013 2nd Semi-Final: IND v SL at Cardiff - Jun 20, 2013 ENG 293/7 (50 ov) (J Trott 76, J Root 68, R Herath 2/48) SL 181/8 (50 ov) (A Mathews 51, I Sharma 3/33); SL 297/3 (47.1 ov) (K Sangakkara 134, J Anderson 2/51) IND 182/2 (35 ov) (S Dhawan 68, A Mathews 1/10) Team National SL won by 7 wickets IND won by 8 wickets West Indies Tri Series 2013 The tri-series in the West Indies featured India, Sri Lanka as well as the host began on June 28. The tri-series comprised seven matches, with each team playingRedistribution the other twice before a final. For 1st Match: WI v SL at Kingston - Jun 28, 2013 SL 208 (48.3 ov) (A Mathews 55*, S Narine 4/40) WI 209/4 (37.5 ov) (C Gayle 109, R Herath 1/37) Not WI won by 6 wickets 3rd Match: IND v SL at Kingston - Jul 2, 2013 5th Match: WI v SL at Port of Spain - Jul 7-8, 2013 SL 348/1 (50 ov) (U Tharanga 174, M Jayawardena 107) SL 219/8 (41/41 ov) (K Sangakkara 90, K Roach 4/27) IND 187 (44.5 ov) (R Jadeja 49*, R Herath 3/37) WI 190/9 (41/41 ov, target: 230) (D Bravo 70, S Eranga 3/46) Sri Lanka won by 161 runs SL won by 39 runs (D/L method) 6th Match: IND v SL at Port of Spain - Jul 9, 2013 Final: IND v SL at Port of Spain - Jul 11, 2013 IND 119/3 (29/29 ov) (R Sharma 48*, R Herath 2/32) SL 201 (48.5 ov) (K Sangakkara 71, R Jadeja 4/23) SL 96 (24.4/26 ov, target: 178) (D Chandima 26) IND 203/9 (49.4 ov) (R Sharma 58, R Herath 4/20) IND won by 81 runs (D/L method) IND won by 1 wicket Official Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket 3 THE SCORE Sri Lanka wins the Dialog cup ODI 2013 South Africa who first came to Sri Lanka in 1993 under the captaincy of Kepler Wessels, toured our island for the 3rd time to play 5 ODIs & 3 T20Is from the 20th of July to 6th August this year. 1st ODI: at Colombo (RPICS) - Jul 20, 2013 SL 320/5 (50 ov) (K Sangakkara 169, M Morkel 2/34) SA 140 (31.5 ov) (A Petersen 29, R Herath 3/25) SL won by 180 runs 2nd ODI: at Colombo (RPICS) - Jul 23, 2013 Redistribution SL 223/9 (49.2/49.2 ov) (TM Dilshan 43, M Morkel 3/34) SA 104/5 (A Petersen 24, R Herath 2/16) SL won by 17 runs (D/L method) 3rd ODI: at Pallekele (PICS) -For Jul 26, 2013 1st T20I: at Colombo (RPICS) - Aug 2, 2013 SA 223/7 (50 ov) (D Miller 85, A Mendis 3/35); SA 115/6 (20 ov) (JP Duminy 51, S Senanayyake 3/14) SL 167 (43.2 ov) (T Perera 65, L Tsotsobe 4/22) SL 103/9 (20 ov) (K Sangakkara 59*, JP Duminy 3/18) SA won by 56 runs SA won by 12 runs 4th ODI: at PallekeleNot (PICS)- Jul 28, 2013 2nd T20I: at Hambantota (MRICS) - Aug 4, 2013 SA 238 (48.4 ov) (JP Duminy 97, A Mendis 4/51) SA 145/6 (20 ov) (D Miller 36, S Senanayake 2/18) SL 239/2 (44 ov) (TM Dilshan 115*, L Tsotsobe 1/48) SL 123/7 (20 ov) (K Sangakkara 39, L Tsotsobe 2/17) SL won by 8 wickets SA won by 22 runs 5th ODI: at Colombo (RPICS) - Jul 31, 2013 3rd T20I: at Hambantota (MRICS)- Aug 6, 2013 SL 307/4 (50 ov) (TM Dilshan 99, K Sangakkara 75) SA 163/3 (20 ov) (F du Plessis 85, JP Duminy 51*) SA 179 (43.5 ov) (AB de Villiers 51, S Lakmal 3/22) SL 164/4 (18.1 ov) (TM Dilshan 74*, M Jayawardena 33) SL won by 128 runs SL won by 6 wickets 4 Official Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket THE SCORE Mahela Jayawardene becomes 8th batsman to cross 11,000-run mark in ODIs Mahela Jayawardene surpassed 11,000 runs in One-Day Internationals (ODI) when he reached 61 against Australia in the Group A encounter of ICC Champions Trophy 2013 at Oval. He is the eighth player in the world and third Sri Lankan after Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara to cross the 11,000-run mark in the ODI format. Jacques Kallis and Sangakkara are the only other cricketers in the elite list apart from Jayawardene to be still playing. Upul Tharanga’s 174 National Team National A career-best 174 not out by Man of the Match Upul Tharanga and his record-breaking 213-run partnership with Mahela Jayawardene helped Sri Lanka beat India by 161 runs in the third match of the Celkon Mobile Tri-Nations Series Cup in Kingston on July 2. Redistribution Sri Lanka remains No 1 ranked T20I side after annual update Sri Lanka has retained its positionFor as the (+/-) Team Rating number-one ranked Twenty20 International 1 (-) Sri Lanka 134 (+2) (T20I) side after the annual update of the 2 (-) West Indies 127 (+1) Reliance ICC T20I Rankings Table was 3 (-) India 121 (+2) announced on Thursday. 4 (-) Pakistan 118 (-1) Not 5 (-) England 113 (-1) 6 (-) South Africa 112 (-2) 14 out of the 16 countries with T20I status are 7 (-) Australia 103 (+1) ranked, with Afghanistan and Canada yet to 8 (-) New Zealand 102 (-) play the required eight rated matches. 9 (-) Ireland 81 (-1) 10 (-) Bangladesh 74 (-2) Afghanistan needs to play one more and 11 (-) Scotland 62 (-) Canada two more T20 Internationals prior to 12 (-) Zimbabwe 48 (-) May 2014 in order to join the rankings. 13 (-) Netherlands 36 (-6) 14 (-) Kenya 34 (+2) Official Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket 5 THE SCORE Sri Lanka A Tour of West Indies The A team played two four-day matches against West Indies A, in St Kitts and St Vincent, before embarking on the limited-overs leg, which fea- The team was captained tured two Twenty20s in St Vincent and and three by Sri Lanka Test opener ODIs in Grenada. Dimuth Karunaratne, with middle order batsman An- gelo Perera serving as his deputy. New Zealand A Tour of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka A played two unofficial Test and 3 unofficial one day games against New Zealand A. Final OD: The New Zealand A ended their tour of the sub-continent with a narrow series ODI loss to Sri Lanka ‘A’. The win gave Sri Lanka ‘A’ the three-match one-day series 2-1 after the tourists won the opener. ‘A’ Team/ Under 17 Under Team/ ‘A’ Dimuth Karunaratne passed 50 for the fifth time in a row against the Kiwis on his way to a match-high 70 while 23-year-old skipper Dinesh Chandimal scored 48 and Ashan Priyanjan 47. All-rounder Ramith Rambukwella starred for the home side taking 4-30 from his Redistribution10 overs then scoring 36 from 29. Sri Lanka’s first Under17 cricket tour of England - A success The first-ever Under 17 cricketFor tour of England by a Sri Lankan Schools Team ended on a successful note when the Lankan lads won the three-day game by an innings and 72 runs, the one-day games ( 2-1) and drew the two encounter with their English counterparts on their short tour of the United Kingdom from April 8-25. Not 6 Official Quarterly Newsletter of Sri Lanka Cricket THE SCORE India U19 in Sri Lanka Kusal Mendis of Prince of Wales College lead the Sri Lanka Under 19 squad in this two-week long series which were played between July 23rd – Aug 8th.