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Sineth, Kavindu, Manula, Vishwa and Ravishan to captain Under 17 provincial teams
By Reemus Fernando
Royal College’s Sineth Jayawardena, Mahanama’s Kavindu Amameth, Trinity’s Manula Kularatne, Joseph Vaz’s Vishwa Rajapaksa and Ravishan Nethsara of P. de S Kularatne, Ambalangoda will captain the five provincial teams in the Sri Lanka Cricket conducted Inter Provincial Under 17 cricket tournament.The tournament, featuring juniors who are in the eligible age category to compete in the ICC Youth World Cup in 2024, will commence tomorrow with a card of two matches.
Colombo North, Colombo South, Dambulla, Kandy and Galle are the five provincial teams competing in the tournament consisting of eleven matches.The tournament will commence with a card of two matches on Monday. While Galle meet Colombo North at Dambulla, Colombo South will encounter Kandy at Welagedara Stadium. The two venues will host all eleven matches including the final between the top two teams on August 29.
Colombo North are captained by Mahanama College open batsman Kavindu Amameth. The left hander will have Hiran Jayasundara of St. Joseph’s as his deputy.Royal College, Colombo batsman Sineth Jayawardena will captain Colombo South. The top order batsman who occasionally bowls medium pace will have the support of D.S. Senanayake’s Gaviru Senhas (vice captain).
St. Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa all-rounder Vishwa Rajapaksa is the skipper of the Dambulla team, while Gayana Weerasinghe of Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala is his deputy.Kandy are captained by Manula Kularatne of Trinity College. He has St. Anthony’s player Thisara Ekanayake as his vice captain.
Ravishan Nethsara, the fast bowling all rounder from P. de S Kularatne College, Ambalangoda is the captain of Galle team. He has Minura Abeywickrama (St. Servatius’) as his deputy.
Charith Asalanka (Captain), Pathum Nissanka, Kamil Mishara, Kusal Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Pavan Rathnayake, Dhananjaya de Silva, Janith Liyanage, Kamindu Mendis, Dunith Wellalage, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jeffrey Vandersay, Maheesh Theekshana, Milan Rathnayake, Asitha Fernando, Pramod Madushan, Eshan Malinga.
On Tuesday, a day before the ICC is expected to take a final call on Bangladesh’s participation at the 2026 men’s T20 World Cup, the PCB wrote to the governing body stating that it supports the BCB’s stance on not wanting to play in India at a time of political turmoil in the neighbourhood. ESPNcricinfo has learned that that PCB also copied the members of the ICC Board in it.
It is understood that the ICC has called a Board meeting on Wednesday to address the matter of the BCB asking for Bangladesh’s matches to be shifted to Sri Lanka because of security concerns in India. It could not be ascertained if the PCB’s email led to the Board meeting being called.
The timing of the PCB email could raise eyebrows, but it is understood that it will not impact the ICC’s stance so far, of not changing the World Cup schedule and allowing Bangladesh to play in Sri Lanka, co-hosts of the tournament with India. The ICC has been firm on this and has conveyed the same to the BCB during its interactions last week.
The BCB, with the Bangladesh government’s support, has refused to travel to India for the team’s group-stage games.
The ICC and the BCB have met several times to discuss the issue, most recently in Dhaka last weekend. But neither side has shifted their stances – the ICC insisting matches must go ahead as planned and the BCB that it cannot send its team to India. January 21 – Wednesday – had been set as a deadline for a decision, less than three weeks before the start of the tournament.
The PCB’s late involvement in the matter comes on the back of a week of speculation around their possible ways out of the impasse. There were unverified reports that the PCB had offered to stage Bangladesh’s games in Pakistan and, more dramatically, that the PCB was reviewing Pakistan’s participation in the World Cup, contingent on what happens with Bangladesh.
The PCB has not commented publicly on the matter, or responded to ESPNcricinfo’s queries.
The stand-off began when the BCCI instructed Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to remove Mustafizur Rahman from their squad for IPL 2026. The reasons for that have never been fully explained, though a worsening of political ties between Bangladesh and India has been cited. That prompted the Bangladesh government to formally state that the Bangladesh team would not play its matches in India.
The situation has spiralled since then, even leading to a player boycott in Bangladesh, which affected the ongoing BPL, after a senior BCB official spoke disparagingly of the country’s premier players when asked about the financial implications for the BCB if Bangladesh ended up staying away from the T20 World Cup altogether
(Cricinfo)
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The match began an hour later than scheduled, and as a 47-over contest after Bangladesh opted to bowl. Iqbal Hossain Emon cleaned Hugo Bogue up for 8 in the second over, but just as Aryan Mann and Tom Jones steadied New Zealand, rain returned, only for no play to be possible after that.
It was New Zealand’s second washed-out game in a row, and they will hope to beat India in their final group game so that they don’t have to depend on the result of the Bangladesh-USA match to progress to the Super Sixes.
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