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Ervine, Jongwe and Madande seal a thriller against Sri Lanka
Spectacular striking in the final over from Luke Jongwe then Clive Madande saw Zimbabwe tear to a rousing win, in the third tense finish of this tour. Madande hit the winning blow with one ball to spare, but it had been Craig Ervine who had set up the chase of 174 with his 70 off 54.
Ervine had blunted the bowling of Wanindu Hasaranga in particular, who went at 10.25 across his four overs. Still, Zimbabwe needed 20 off the final over, bowled by Angelo Mathews. Though Zimbabwe’s power-hitting was immense, Sri Lanka also made huge errors to concede victory from a strong position.
The most Zimbabwe had scored from an over before the last one was 13. But captain Hasaranga had used up all his frontliners by the 19th over, in an attempt to close out the match, and he was stuck with having to bowl one of his gentle seamers – Mathews or Dasun Shanaka – in the 20th. And to make things worse for the hosts, they could have just four fielders outside the 30-yard-circle as they were penalised for a slow over rate.
Jongwe was eight off seven balls at this stage. But faced with modest bowling, he began to find the boundary. The first ball was length outside off, which he bludgeoned over long on for six. Crucially, it turned out that Mathews had overstepped when bowling that ball, so Zimbabwe still had six to face.
The next ball – a free-hit – was smashed inside out over cover, as Mathews missed his yorker-length. Then, the killer blow – a thumping six over the bowler’s head, off a slower ball, as Mathews once again let Jongwe get underneath him. Within the space of two legal deliveries, the requirement had come down to three runs, off four balls.
Jongwe would miss the next ball, then send the following one high into the infield off the top edge, only to be dropped by Maheesh Theekshana. Madande applied the finishing blow off the fifth ball, crashing the third six of the over beyond deep midwicket to start lively celebrations, and to send Khettarama into a hush.
Brief scores:
Sri Lanka 173/6 in 20 overs (Charith Asalanka 69, Angelo Mathews 66*; Richard Ngarava 1-30, Blessing Muzarabani 2-36, Luke Jongwe 2-32, Wellington Masakadza 1-25) lost to Zimbabwe 178/6 in 19.5 overs (Craig Ervine 70, Brian Benett 25, Luke Jongwe 25*; Dilshan Madushanka 1-24, Maheesh Theekshana 2-25, Dushmantha Chameera 2-30, Wanidu Hasaranga 1-31) by four wickets
The Ministry of Industries and Entrepreneurship Development has recommended the establishment of Sri Lankan Standards, i.e. the import testing methodology for imported tires used for passenger cars and pneumatic tires for three-wheelers with the aim of ensuring a fair competitive environment for local
manufactures and ensuring consumer safety and security.
Taking into the said recommendations, “Import and Export (control regulations N0.08 of the 2026)” has been enacted to amend the existing regulations by means of the Extraordinary Gazette Notification No. 2508/27 dated 2026-10-01, prescribing Sri Lanka standard 1212 for the import of passenger types (HS Code 4011.10.90) and Sri Lanka standard 1347 for the import of
pneumatic tires for three – wheeled vehicles (HS Code 4011.90.10).
Accordingly, the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the resolution furnished by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development to submit the aforementioned regulations to Parliament for approval.
Approval of the Cabinet of Ministers was granted at their meeting held on 02.06.2025 to introduce a new act to promote and providing legal provisions for facilitating the Public Private Joint Enterprises within Sri Lanka as well as the establishment of the National Agency for Public Private Partnership Joint Enterprises.
Accordingly, the Legal Draftsman has formulated the relevant draft bill and the Attorney General has given his clearance to the said draft bill.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the resolution furnished by the President in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to publish the said
draft bill in the government gazette notification and thereby submit it to the Parliament for its concurrence.
Regulation, development and control of indigenous medical sector in Sri Lanka comprised of Ayurvedha, Sidhdha, Unani, Local Therapies are carried out under the provisions of Ayurvedha Act No. 31 of 1961.
Although amendments were made to the act from time to time as per the requirements, the necessity of further amending the Ayurvedha Act has been identified to enable efficiently maintaining all activities of local medical field productively, further formalizing the regulation of the sector, taking actions to providing licenses applicable to export of local medicines, and achieving the progress and sustainable development goals in the local medical sector.
Based on the said factors, the Cabinet of Ministers granted approval to the resolution furnished by the Minister of Health and Mass Media to direct the Legal Draftsman to formulate a draft bill to amend the Ayurvedha Act No. 31 of 1961.
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Cabinet nod to amend the Sri Lanka Development Administration Institute Act No. 9 of 1982
Establishment of the National Higher Performance Centre
State patronage for the cremation ceremony of the late deputy prelate (Anu Nayaka Thero) of the Sri Laka Ramangya Maha Nikaya, Gatambe Rajopawanramadhipatha, Siri Chandawimala Wanshalankara, Chandrakeerthi Sri Amarawansha, Sadhdharmawageeshwara, Shasanashobhanna Most Venerable Keppetiyagoda Siriwimalabhidhana Thero
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