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Dialog powers SLC National Super League Limited over Tournament
Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, Dialog Axiata PLC has come forth as the title sponsor for ‘Dialog – SLC National Super League’ Limited over Tournament which will be played on a standard 50 over format from January 24 to February 19.
The ‘Dialog – SLC National Super League’ will be broadcast LIVE on Dialog Television Channel 140 and will also be live streamed on SLC (Sri Lanka Cricket) YouTube Channel.
The five teams, ‘Kandy,’ skippered by Kamindu Mendis, ‘Colombo,’ skippered by Dasun Shanaka, ‘Jaffna,’ skippered by Dhananjaya De Silva and ‘Galle,’ skippered by Angelo Mathews, and ‘Dambulla,’ skippered by Ashan Priyanjan will be competing for top honours in the tournament. The Dialog – SLC NSL will be Sri Lanka’s ‘Elite Domestic Cricketing Competition,’ which, once in operation, will act as the primary competition for National Selections, and the country’s top 100 cricketers will be in action
The Dialog – SLC National Super League will see each team playing eight games in the initial round, whilst the top two teams will qualify for the finals to be played on February 19 at the picturesque Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. The Tournament will be played in accordance with international standards, with the first game starting at 09.45 AM at parallel venues. The inaugural game of the league will take place between the Galle and Colombo at SSC and Jaffna and Dambulla at P Sara Oval.
The entry of Dialog Axiata PLC to power with the latest competition comes on the back of its long-standing partnership and much broader engagement with the SLC as the ‘Official Sponsor of the National Cricket Team.
“The Sri Lanka national and the junior national team have performed well in the past few outings and high intense tourneys such as the National Super League play a clear role in providing an excellent platform to discover and groom new talent that one will don the national journey,” Mohan de Silva, Honorary Secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket said.
“I take this opportunity to thank our partner Dialog Axiata for coming forward once again to power a major tournament such as the Dialog – SLC National Super League which will provide four weeks of excellent sporting action to Sri Lanka’s cricket loving spectators.”
“As the Official Sponsor of the National Cricket Team, we are pleased to have partnered with Sri Lanka Cricket to come forth as the title sponsor of the ‘Dialog – SLC National Super League,’ which would help identify fresh talent into the National pool ahead of the upcoming tournaments. I wish the ‘Dialog – SLC National Super League’ a successful tourney,” said Harsha Samaranayake, Senior General Manager – Brand and Media, Group Marketing, Dialog Axiata PLC.
Dialog Axiata is the official sponsor of the National Cricket team, and also the sponsors of volleyball and netball teams. The Company also has a close association with the President’s Gold Cup Volleyball, national junior and senior netball tourneys, beach volleyball, schools rugby, premier football, beach soccer, schools’ cricket, junior volleyball and Paralympic sports – whilst also powering the Army Para Games, National Para Games and the Sri Lanka contingent to the World Paralympic Games.
Brazil are the unlikely candidates to have claimed two cricket records as one of their bowlers took a record nine wickets – including five in a row – in their 189-run T20 Women’s International victory against Lesotho in Botswana.
Having won the toss on Thursday, at the BCA Kalahari Women’s T20 International Tournament, Brazil posted a daunting 202-8 with wicketkeeper Monnike Machado hitting 69 off 41.
The fun, for the Brazilians, was only just beginning, though, as Laura Cardoso claimed a hat-trick with the last three deliveries of her first over – the second of the Lesotho innings – to set in motion the incredible feat that eventually saw the Africans bowled out for 13.
The 21-year-old then continued her wicket-taking achievement with a Women’s T20 International first of five dismissals in a row as she struck with the first two balls of her second over. This was all part of claiming the first nine Lesotho wickets to fall, but being denied the chance to take all 10 after a change of bowling following her third over. Her final wicket was Ret’sepile Limema, who fell to the fifth ball of the fifth over, with Cardoso replaced for the following over at that end. Her nine wickets, nevertheless, is the best return in either men’s or women’s T20 internationals.
The right-arm seamer did, indeed, come close to another hat-trick, when she claimed wickets with the last two balls of her second over, which itself totalled four victims.
Cardoso, who has has taken 55 wickets in 48 T20 matches for Brazil, replaces Indonesia’s Rohmalia Rohmalia at the top of the Women’s T20 best bowling rankings, as she finished with figures of 3-2-4-9.
Rohmalia had claimed seven wickets in 2024 in a match against Mongolia in Bali. Only three other women have claimed seven in a T20 international.
The men’s record, and the overall in the format, had been held by Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshey after he took eight wickets for seven runs against Myanmar last year.
The previous record for the number of wickets in consecutive deliveries was four, and was jointly held with the most prominent occasion in women’s cricket being when Shakera Selman pulled off the feat for the West Indies against Pakistan in 2018. Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan and Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga are among the most notable bowlers from the men’s game to have claimed four consecutively in the format.
Although a huge winning margin, Brazil’s overall win does not compare with Argentina’s record after they beat Chile by 364 runs in 2023. The Argentinians had struck 427-1 to set up their victory.
Lesotho’s part in the record extends to no further than Cardoso’s haul, with the record-lowest total belonging to Mali, who were bowled out for 6 in 2019 by Rwanda.
Brazil, who lead the six-team tournament with five straight wins, play Mozambique on Friday.
[Aljazeera]
| Date | Match |
|---|---|
| May 3 | 1st ODI |
| May 6 | 2nd ODI |
| May 9 | 3rd ODI |
| May 12 | 1st T20I |
| May 14 | 2nd T20I |
| May 15 | 3rd T20I |
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