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Sri Lanka Struggle to Beat Bangladesh in T-20 Warm Up - Late City Edition Wednesday 3rd June, 2009 Exciting faces Sri Lanka struggle to beat in next SLTA committee! Bangladesh in T-20 warm up by Revata S. Silva As the present Gen. Secretary of the Sri Lanka began their campaign in the T - Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) 2 0 W orld Cup with a win, but they were made to fight hard to earn the victory in their Interim Committee, Maxwell de Silva, is first warm up game against Bangladesh at sure to become the 31st President of the Trent Bridge in Nottingham yesterday. country s main controlling body of the Chasing a t arget of 152, they were well sport on June 11, there will be new faces placed at 110 for two with capt ain Kumar already short-listed for it s next Executive Sangakkara and his predecessor Mahela Committee, the SLTA sources revealed Jayawardene going strong, but Sangakkara s The Island on Tuesday (2). dismissal triggered a middle order collap se Among those new faces will be it s for- and when Indika de Saram was dismissed, mer controversial CEO Boshan they needed nine runs to win in nine balls Dayaratne. Some of the other new names with four wicket s in hand. nominated will be V ipul Perera, Irshard Eventually, Chamara Silva (12*) and Othman, Pavan Nadarajah and Arjuna Angelo Matthews (6*) guided them through Herath. with two balls to sp are to st art their cam - As de Silva is cert ain to be appointed paign with a winning note. uncontested for the Presidency at the next It was Jayawardene who set the tone dur - AGM on June 11, Dayaratne is to be ing the run chase scoring 43 runs in 26 balls with six boundaries and a six. Earlier, Sanath appointed Gen. Secretary while former SL national player and present SL Davis Cup SCOREBOARD Non-Playing Captain Aasiri Iddamalgoda and another former Davis Cup stalwart Bangladesh innings and former National Selection Committee Tamim Iqbal run out (Kulasekara) 14 Chairman P. S. Kumara are to fill two of Junaid Siddique b Maharoof 2 the six V ice President s post s available. Mohammad Ashraful c Sangakkara b Udana 16 Shakib Al Hasan b Mendis 23 W ijesekera steps down Mahmudullah c Sangakkara b Udana 1 Mahela Jayawardene plays Formally, there is a General Committee Raqibul Hasan not out 38 consisting 20 members, out of a 36-mem- Mushfiqur Rahim b Jayasuriya 34 a shot during his team’s ber Executive Committee at the SLTA Mashrafe Mortaza not out 9 Twenty20 World Cup cricket Extras (lb 10, w 3, nb 1) 14 which is the main controlling body of ten - warm-up match against nis in Sri Lanka since 1915 when it was Total: for 6 wickets 151 Bangladesh at Trent Bridge Overs: 20 established under the then Governor of Did not bat: Naeem Islam, Shamsur Rahman, cricket ground, Nottingham, Ceylon, Sir Robert Chalmers. Abdur Razzak, Rubel Hossain England, Tuesday June 2, The notable absentee of this year s Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-17, 3-50, 4-53, 5-72, 6- 2009. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Committee will be Vasantha Wijesekera 142. who was one of the Vice President s of the Bowling: Kulasekara 2-0-10-0, Maharoof 2-0-23- S L T A for the last five years or so. 1, Udana 4-0-30-2 (1w), Thushara 1-0-8-0 (1nb), Sangakkara said each and so did Farveez Maharoof, whose W ijesekera, a four-time Manager of the SL Mendis 4-0-25-1, Dilshan 2-0-10-0 (1w), Mathews at the post first over cost Sri Lanka 15 runs. Sri Lanka Davis Cup team (from 2005-08), has 2-0-15-0, Jayasuriya 3-0-20-1. match press rested veteran Muttiah Muralitharan. decided to step down from local tennis Sri Lanka innings conference. The other warm up games lined up for administration. T. Dilshan b Mashrafe 17 Earlier , after yesterday were England versus Scotland at S. Jayasuriya b Shakib 29 electing to bat T rent Bridge with Ireland t aking on West Bogollagama not contesting M. Jayawardene c Mushfiqur b Rubel 43 first, Indies and Australia playing old rivals New Along with de Silva, the following mem - K. Sangakkara Rahman b Razzak 16 Bangladesh s Zealand both at The Oval. bers of the present Interim Committee are J. Mubarak c Islam b Mashrafe 16 top order strug - Today Sri Lanka will t ake on South Africa C. Silva not out 12 to be included unanimously in the next gled against the at Lord s in their last warm up game. Executive Committee of the SLTA at its I. de Saram b Shakib 3 Sri Lankan Sri Lanka are in the Group C , where A. Mathews not out 6 June 11 AGM. They are: Kumar seamers as they they will play against Australia and West Gunawardena, as Treasurer, Kumara, Extras: (lb 4, w 6) 10 were reduced to Indies. Their first game will be against the Iddamalgoda, Lt. Col. Shiran Abeysekera Total: for six wickets 152 53 for four and Australians on the 8th of June at T rent and another former President Lalith Overs: 19.4 72 for five before Bridge. Did not bat: A. Mendis, N. Kulasekara, I. Udana, Raqibul Hasan The tournament will get underway on the W ithana. Meanwhile the present Interim T. Thushara, F. Maharoof . and wicketkeep- 5th of June at Lord s with England hosting Committee President Janaka Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-71, 3-110, 4-113, 5-136, 6- Jayasuriya (29 in 26 balls) and T illekeratne er Mushfiqar Rahim added 70 runs in 55 Netherlands. Bogollagama last week said he was not 143. Dilshan (17 in 13 balls) added 34 runs for balls. Raqibul s unbeaten 38 runs came in 40 contesting this time but was willing to Bowling: Mashrafe 4-0-30-2 (1w), Rubel 3.4-1-26- the first wicket in 28 balls. balls with three boundaries while Mushfiqar serve the new committee if he was 1 (2w), Mahmudullah 3-0-24-0, Ashraful 1-0-9-0, Sakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe Mortaza hit 34 runs in 28 balls with one boundary and requested to do so. Shakib 4-0-18-2 (1w), Islam 1-0-13-0 (2w), Razzak picked up two wicket s each. two sixes. S port s and Public Recreation Minister 3-0-28-1, That s the way it goes in T20. Y ou bat New boy Isuru Udana picked up two Gamini Lokuge postponed the SLTA A G M Toss: Bangladesh negatively for a couple of overs and the wicket s for the Sri Lankans while Ajantha last March, when Bogollagama was com- Umpires: N. Llong and A. Saheba whole complexion of the game changes, Mendis and Jayasuriya picked up a wicket pleting his first year in of fice, before appointing a nine-member interim admin - istration five months later under Inter-School Under-17 Division I Cricket Bogollagama himself. That was following Indian board grants gruesome in-fight s at the SLTA, for the control of the sport, between two p arties led by Bogollagama and former five-time Devananda rout C.W.W. Kannangara amnesty to 79 rebel players President Suresh Subramaniam. by Reemus Fernando home team in their Under-17 match played at NEW DELHI (AP) - The Indian the ICL's launch by starting the Moratuwa. cricket board said on Tuesday it has Indian Premier League (IPL) which given an amnesty to 79 players who attracted top cricketers from around Devananda College, Ambalangoda routed Scores: Prince of Wales 361 for 7 in 50 overs (Isuru want to sever their ties with the unof- the world and turned out to be a C . W. W. Kannangara College, Mathugama as they ficial Twenty20 Indian Cricket huge success. chased a paltry t arget of 43 runs in just 4.3 overs with - Thilina 82, J. F. Fernando 55, Nipuna Perera 73, Sithum Fernando 74 n.o; L. Sampath 3/49, L. League and return to mainstream The BCCI banned all rebel play- out losing wicket s in the Inter-School Under-17 competition. ers for life, but recently came out with Division I first round match played at Sri Sumangala Dananjaya 3/74) President s 130 for 8 in 50 overs (S. Aravinda 16 "Seventy-nine current players an amnesty scheme for those play- Ground, Hikkaduwa yesterday. and 11 former test cricketers have ers and officials wanting to cut their n.o, H. Dananjana 16; Isuru Thilina 4/27, Saviya Chasing the t arget Sham Suranga hammered severed their relations with the links to the breakaway league. A W ijesuriya 2/22) three fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 32 runs Indian Cricket League and applied deadline of May 31 was set for those which came in just 16 balls. Under-15 Division I for rejoining the mainstream of wanting to return to the official fold. Scores: Indian cricket under the amnesty Among the players seeking C . W.W. Kannangara 42 all out in 18.3 overs (G. Carey record 81 run win scheme offered by BCCI," the Board return to the official fold were Kaushanka 10 n.o; Lakshitha Sirimanna 2/09, Lahiru Carey College registered an 81 run win over of Control for Cricket in India's secre- Hemang Badani, Dinesh Mongia, Priyankara 3/08, Pulina Tharanga 3/02) President s College as Sachila Sulakshana top tary, Narainswamy Srinivasan said. Sridharan Sriram, Rohan Gavaskar Devananda 46 for no wicket s in 4.3 overs (Inosh scored with 61 runs in their Inter-School Under-15 The players had participated in and Deep Dasgupta.
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