Former Sri Lankan Captain Angelo Mathews was seen training individually in his hometown in Wattala, through videos posted on his official social media platforms. Mathews, who last played for Sri Lanka in May against Bangladesh at Pallekelle, informed Sri Lanka Cricket in July that he’s considering retirement in the wake of selectors taking a hard stance on the senior players. ...

Coaching is a passion. Once you get onto it, there’s no way out. St. Peter’s basketball legend Clifford Grieg shares his knowledge on the game with a few underprivileged schools and he’s quite good at it. But he never gets into coaching. If you ask him why, he would say coaching is addictive, far worse than drugs. Time was when ...

The final of France Cricket League – Regional T20 championship will be played today (25th) between ‘AS EVRY’ team and ‘UIF EVRY’ team.   The tournament organized annually featured 18 teams under three groups. GROUP A – AULNAY, TUSKERS ASNIERES, USCA, FRANCE STAR, SARCELLES, BENGAL TIGERS GROUP B – DREUX, PARIS KNIGHT RIDERS, ROYALS 94, COLOMBES, UIF EVRY, FRANCE GYMKHANA GROUP ...

Sri Lanka Cricket has appointed Former Captain Mahela Jayawardene as consultant to the Sri Lanka National Men’s Cricket team for the First Round of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, a media release said. Jayawardena, who is currently the Head Coach of the Mumbai Indians, will join the Sri Lanka team in UAE (Bio Bubble to Bio Bubble) immediately after ...

Fans around the world are invited to ‘Live the Game’ with today’s global premiere of the official anthem and promo film for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021. The 16-team tournament is the biggest sports event ever in the UAE and Oman and takes place between 17 October and 14 November.  Hub – ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 ...

Sri Lanka Men’s national cricket team will tour India for 2 Tests and 3 T20Is in February-March next year (2022). Read More : ICC confirms details of next World Test Championship The two-match Test series is scheduled to be played from 25th February to 09th March. The first Test match will be played at Bengaluru Cricket Stadium, a venue that ...

14th March 2020 – the last day where we witnessed schools rugby in the country. Since then, we’ve had three more severe outbreaks of the covid-19 in the country, schools closed indefinitely, and sports halted. But, with the vaccination drive coming up for children aged 12-18, will we see schools rugby back in 2021? The Dialog Schools Rugby League of ...

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) via a media release announced the commencement of the ‘Overseas Player Registration Process’ for the second edition of Lanka Premier League which will be held from 04th to 23rd December 2021.  Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to announce the commencement of the ‘Overseas Player Registration Process’ for the 2nd Edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) starting ...

The Pakistan ‘A’ team and Bangladesh U19 team are set to tour Sri Lanka in October 2021. The Pakistan ‘A’ team will play two four-day matches and three one-day games in Dambulla while the Bangladesh U19s are scheduled to play five Youth ODIs at the R. Premadasa Stadium, according to Sri Lanka Cricket. This is the first tour since the ...

Galle Gladiators, one of the franchise teams of Lanka Premier League have brought on Mr. Aziz Abdul Rahim Kassamali and Mr. Majid Bashir as co-owners of the franchise team for the next edition of the tournament, a media release said.   Mr Nadeem Omar brings onboard, Mr Aziz Abdul Rahim Kassamali and Mr. Majid Bashir as co-owners Mr Omar also owns ...

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is planning to commence the 2021/2022 domestic season, from the 20th of October, ThePapare learns. In an email sent recently to all the participating clubs in the Major League tournament, SLC has set 20th of October as the proposed starting date of the tournament, with the expectation of the current quarantine curfew rules to be relaxed ...

Sri Lanka Cricket set to host the Bangladesh U19 Team during October 2021 for a limited-over series, a media release said. Read More : Mahela Jayawardena appointed Consultant to the Sri Lanka National & U19 Teams The Bangladesh U19s will arrive on the 07th October 2021 and will play 05 ODIs with Sri Lanka U19s during the tour, which will ...

Former Sri Lankan cricketers Russel Arnold and Farveez Maharoof and Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal have picked their favorites to win the upcoming T20 World Cup which will be held in UAE and Oman next month. Arnold, Maharoof and Iqbal appearing on the fomer’s YouTube channel “Chilling with Russel” discussed the upcoming T20 World Cup and favorites to win the ...

Quietly, sit next to a coach giving a pep talk to Under-13 cricketers before a game and you will be left with anger and bewilderment as you eavesdrop. Coaches teach young kids some new tricks in the trade. ‘Appeal three times vociferously and there’s a good chance that you will get a decision in your favour that would have been ...

England have withdrawn their men’s and women’s teams from series in Pakistan that were due to take place in October. The men were set to make their first trip to Pakistan since 2005, while the women had never before played there. On Friday, New Zealand’s men abandoned their tour of Pakistan because of a “specific and credible threat”. An England ...

South Africa’s love affair with Vancouver continued as they followed up their 2019 tournament win there with another title. With a strong contingent of Olympians in their squad, the Blitzboks went into the opening round of the HSBC Canada Sevens at BC Place as one of the favourites to lift the trophy and they lived up to their star billing ...

Mcc has today announced amendments to the laws of cricket to use the gender-neutral terms “batter” and “batters”, rather than “batsman” or “batsmen”. These changes have been approved by the MCC Committee, following initial discussion by the Club’s specialist Laws sub-committee. Read More : England’s men’s and women’s team withdrawn from Pakistan white-ball tour MCC believes that the use of gender-neutral ...

Former Sri Lankan cricketers Russel Arnold, Farveez Maharoof and Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal pick the favorites to win the upcoming T20 World Cup 2021. The post Video – India and Paksitan favorites to win T20 World Cup – Tamim Iqbal appeared first on ThePapare.com.

Former Sri Lankan cricketers Russel Arnold, Farveez Maharoof and Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal pick the favorites to win the upcoming T20 World Cup 2021. The post Video – India and Pakistan favorites to win T20 World Cup – Tamim Iqbal appeared first on ThePapare.com.

How China grew faster and longer than any country in human history“It does not matter if it is a yellow cat or a black cat, as long as it catches mice.” Deng XiaopingIf you read The Economist you get the sense that China just copied western capitalism. If you read economic history, however, that's not what happened at all. China ...