Friday 5th February, 2010 SL women’s football players fail to turn up for match bag four bronze medals on day seven consolidated its position by continuing to head the points Glenn McGrath and his new love Sara. table on the seventh day of the (Pic Richard Dobson, The Sunday Telegraph) , but had to take notice of some inspiring per- McGrath finds love again formances by some of the other top nations, especially Sri Lanka, with Italian beauty which grabbed four bronze medals, in Dhaka Bangladesh yesterday. Cricketing great Glenn Jane died in 2008 after a long Sri Lanka, which managed to McGrath has found love battle with breast cancer. retain the fourth place overall, saw again. His dedication to his wife its next bunch of medals coming He was pictured dining in during her illness and to Sydney this week with through their efforts in raising money to fight the (2), golf (1) and shooting (1). Italian beauty Sara Leonardi disease in the wake of her and his agent said McGrath Dinuka Karunaratne bagged a death has won the admira- was happy for people to know bronze in the men’s badminton sin- tion of many Australians. he has a girlfriend. gles event while Chandrika de The bowling legend’s wife (AAP) Silva and Niluka Karunaratne won Sri Lanka the bronze medal in the badminton mixed doubles event. Parliament query Sri Lanka also made the news delay to Lahore attack report A senior federal govern- in Lahore for the third day's Sri Lanka’s bronze medal winning cycling team shares the podium with Indian and Pakistan cyclists who won ment official told the com- play in the second Test on the gold and silver medals respectively. mittee the government had March 3 when terrorists medal in the team event. The overs of batting and then reached tomorrow with the commencement yet to receive a report on the opened fire and hurled attacks from the provincial grenades at their bus, injur- bronze medal winning team com- the target in 14 balls. Meanwhile, of the athletics events. As many as authorities. ing seven players and their prised Mithun Perera, Prabagaran Sri Lanka suffered a six wicket 23 gold medals are on offer for this The report was compiled assistant coach. Kandasamy, Chandradasa and defeat at the hand of Pakistan in segment of the Games which is by a judicial commission in The attacks forced Sri Vijitha Bandara Ranarathna. their match which was played on considered the most popular of all 2009 and was supposed to be Lanka's government to recall Bangladesh, which won the gold Wednesday. disciplines. The athletics events submitted to the parliamen- the team, with Pakistan later medal in golf, created a piece of The 11th edition of the Games will kick-off with the 200 metres tary committee by the stripped of its share of 2011 sensation when it was reported will generate a lot of interest sprint event for men. Punjab government in Cricket World Cup matches in the soccer tournament of the SA that one of the team’s members September last year. and losing any hope of host- Games when its women’s team Shakhawat Hossain Sohel decided Medal tally at end of Day Seven "On numerous occasions ing international teams for failed to turn-up for their match to go ahead and be part of the team Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total we demanded a copy of the the foreseeable future. against Pakistan which was sched- despite learning of his father’s report but have not received The committee also dis- uled to be held at the Birshestho demise just 15 minutes prior to tee- 1 India 27 11 9 47 any from the Punjab govern- cussed the Pakistani team's Shaheed Mostofa Kamal Stadium ing off. India took silver. ment," the official, Ismail poor performance in at Kamalapur, yesterday. Pakistan Sri Lanka’s fourth medal on 2 Pakistan 6 13 6 25 Qureshi, told the committee. Australia last month and for- were awarded with three points in day seven was won by its pistol Parliamentary sports 3 Bangladesh 5 5 15 25 mer captain Javed Miandad's keeping with Olympic bylaws. shooting team which comprised committee chief Jamshed dispute with the Pakistan According to an interview our sis- E.M Senanayake, N.P.N Gunadasa 4 Sri Lanka 3 11 10 24 Dasti said later the chief sec- Cricket Board, officials said. ter paper Divaina had conducted and T.D.S Fernando. retary of Punjab and the 5 Nepal 0 0 7 7 Pakistan were blanked 3-0 with Reza Lathif, an official of the Host Bangladesh made twen- inspector general of its Sri Lanka team, the women’s team provincial police had been in Tests and 5-0 in one-day ty20 cricket look so easy by hand- 6 Afghanistan 0 0 5 5 is reported to have returned to Sri summoned to appear before series in their tour of ing Maldives a thumping eight Lanka citing a travel problem. his committee later this Australia last year. They play wicket defeat. Bangladesh restrict- 7 Bhutan 0 0 0 0 month. their last match on the tour, The Sri Lankans also excelled ed Maldives for a paltry score of 26 The Sri Lankan squad a Twenty20, in Melbourne on in golf by winning the bronze all out which were made after 16 8 Maldives 0 0 0 0 was on its way to a stadium Friday.

St. Peter’s, Udugampola, Sports Meet today HC restrains ICL from taking BCCI to UK courts The defunct Indian Cricket Delhi High Court today held that the Essel Sports from filing a suit in the notice threatening to file a suit in the St. Peter’s College, gracing the occasion as League on Thursday suffered a set- attempt of Essel Sports (ICL) to file a Courts of the UK against the BCCI," High Court of England and Wales in Udugampola, a branch of chief guest. The Primary back when the Delhi High Court suit in the Courts of the U.K. Against it added. London seeking various reliefs St. Peter’s College, School Sports Meet will be restrained the rebel Twenty20 ven- the BCCI, when a suit by Essel was The Essel group has sought dam- including restraint orders and dam- Bambalapitiya, will hold held on February 10, also at ture from filing a suit seeking dam- already pending in the Delhi High ages from the BCCI, the ICC and the ages against the BCCI, the England their inter-School Annual the same venue where Fr. ages from the BCCI in British courts. Court based on similar causes of England and Wales Cricket Board for and Wales Cricket Board and the "In a suit filed by the BCCI before action, was 'unconscionable'," the ostracising the Indian Cricket International Cricket Council for Sports Meet today at Marcus Ferdinandz will be the Delhi High Court for an anti-suit BCCI said in a statement. League. allegedly 'boycotting' ICL," the BCCI Udugampola with Rev. Fr. the chief guest. injunction against Essel Sports Pvt. "The court confirmed its earlier "Essel Sports (ICL) through its statement read. Shameera Nirosh Cooray Ltd. (Indian Cricket League), the order of December 7, 2009 restraining English solicitors had sent a legal (www.hindustantimes.com) Twenty20 founder says don't overdo it Sri Lanka ‘A’ win by five wickets MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Sri Lanka ‘A’ beat Ireland the Irish reduced the hosts to The founder of Twenty20 cricket by five wickets with ten balls 110 for five, but an unbroken says administrators should be care- to spare in their T-20 friendly 68 run stand for the sixth ful not to schedule too much of the at SSC yesterday. wicket between Chinthaka 20-over format even though it is pop- Ireland, who stunned Jayasinghe and Jeevan ular with players and fans. cricket lovers during the last Mendis sealed Stuart Robertson, who devised ICC World Cup in the the game in the format a decade ago in his role Caribbean three years ago, Sri Lanka’s as marketing manager with the by beating Pakistan and favour. England and Wales Cricket Board, Bangladesh, have applied for Jayasinghe said he is not surprised it has full member status of the was on 41 off proven so attractive to cricket fol- International Cricket 27 balls with lowers. Council. four bound- However he said Thursday that Electing to bat first, aries and a Twenty20 should be mostly reserved Ireland posted an impressive Jayasinghe 41 n.o six while for domestic competitions in cricket 174 for six in their allotted 20 Mendis made nations, or as a vehicle to take Twenty20 founder Staurt Robertson’s top choices to play the abbreviated form of cricket, from left: Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Flintoff, overs. Stand in captain Niall a run a ball 29 with three cricket into new markets such as Shane Warne O’Brien top scored with 59 fours. the United States or China. used as a curtain raiser for an inter- world championships. even after retiring from internation- off just 38 balls with six This was Ireland’s second Robertson, now the corporate national series, to have one or two "After we got over the shock of al cricket. boundaries and two sixes loss to Sri Lanka ‘A’ during director at English county side to whet the appetite for more cricket our national side being beaten by "If international players are while Paul Stirling hit 43 in their tour. Last week, at NCC Hampshire, but said there was a coming up, so long as they don't Holland, I realized that in the future coming out of their careers, a bit 34 balls with five boundaries they were beaten by three risk of Twenty20 overkill. over-do it. If nothing else gives if this is the game to take cricket prematurely, then there would be a and a six as the opening pair wickets. "Twenty20 was always designed there is a risk of there being too into new markets such as Holland bit of an issue with it," he said. added 104 runs in 70 balls. as a game for counties or states or much Twenty20." then it's absolutely brilliant," he "But if it's guys like (Shane) Gary Wilson chipped in with Brief Scores: provinces and it was devised to Robertson was enthused by the said. Warne and (Adam) Gilchrist and an unbeaten 25 in 21 balls. Ireland 174/6 (20) address the declining audiences at capacity for Twenty20 to spread The popularity and potential (Andrew) Flintoff, who are a bit Chaminda Vidanapathirana (N.O’Brien 59,P.Stirling domestic level (in county cricket)," cricket to new markets - something earnings in Twenty20 have already injury-laden and coming to the end picked up two wickets. 43, C. Vidanapathirana 2-25) Robertson told Australian that was underlined when England coaxed some players to extend their of their careers, and want to keep The game was hanging in Sri Lanka ‘A’ 178/5 (18.2) Associated Press. was beaten by the Netherlands in careers in the Indian Premier going in Twenty20 and get a bit of the balance half way (C. Jayasinghe 41*, J. "I don't mind Twenty20s being the opening match of last year's League and other T20 competitions through the run chase when reward then that's fine." Mendis 29*, A. Cusack 2-43)

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