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Sri Lankan Cricket Team In India In 1975–76
The Sri Lanka cricket team toured India from October to December 1975. Sri Lanka did not then have Test cricket, Test status, but three four-day unofficial Tests were played, India cricket team, India winning 2–0. The tour also included six other first-class cricket, first-class matches."Sri Lanka's tour of India, 1975-76", ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Wisden'' 1977, pp. 928–29.S. S. Perera"Tour Summary" ''The Cricketer'', February 1976, pp. 14, 36. The Sri Lankan team *Anura Tennekoon (captain) *David Heyn (vice-captain) *Dennis Chanmugam *Amitha de Costa *Somachandra de Silva *Ajit de Silva *Roy Dias *Ranjit Fernando *Mahes Goonatilleke *Russell Hamer *Lalith Kaluperuma *Duleep Mendis *Tony Opatha *Anura Ranasinghe *Daya Sahabandu *Bandula Warnapura *Sunil Wettimuny The manager was Neil Perera and the assistant manager was Abu Fuard. References External links Sri Lanka in India, 1975-76 at Cricinfo 1975 in Indian cricket 1975 in Sri Lankan cricket Sri Lankan cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka Cricket Team
The Sri Lanka men's national cricket team, (; ) nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in men's international cricket. It is a full Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International (T20I) status. The team first played first class cricket (as Ceylon) in 1926–27 and became an associate member of the ICC in 1965. They made their international debut in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and were later awarded the Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket-playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket. Sri Lanka's national cricket team achieved considerable success beginning in the 1990s, rising from underdog status to winning the Cricket World Cup in 1996, under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga. Since then, the team has continued to be a force in international cricket. The Sri Lankan cricket team reached the finals of the 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups consecutively. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Hamer
Russell Hamer (12 June 1947 – 27 March 2024) was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played first-class for the Sri Lanka national team from 1968 to 1977. Biography Hamer attended Wesley College, Colombo, and played cricket for Ceylon Schools in 1964. He played his first match of first-class cricket in the Gopalan Trophy in 1967–68, and made his highest score of 52 in the Gopalan Trophy match in 1970–71. Hamer was Sri Lanka's main wicket-keeper in the early 1970s. He toured India with the Sri Lankan team in 1975-76 and played in two of the three matches against India. He also played two limited-overs matches for Sri Lanka against touring MCC teams in the 1970s, both of which Sri Lanka won. In 2017, Hamer was one of the first players to receive financial assistance under a new scheme to help former national players with medical expenses. He had recently suffered a stroke. In September 2018, he was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lankan Cricket Tours Of India
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Assamese, Meitei ( Manipuri), Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, Balinese, Sundanese, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Assamese, Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Malayalam, Kannada, Sanskrit, Pali, Khmer, and also among Philippine languages. It is usually transliterated as ''Sri'', ''Sree'', ''Shri'', ''Shiri'', ''Shree'', ''Si'', or ''Seri'' based on the local convention for transliteration. In Tamil it evolved to Tiru. The term is used in Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia as a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." in written and spoken language. "Shri" is also used as a title of veneration for deities or as honorific title for individuals. "Shri" is also an epithet for Hindu goddess Lakshmi, while a ''yantra'' or a mystical diagr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 In Sri Lankan Cricket
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11. * January 20 ** In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam. ** Work is abandoned on the 1974 Anglo-French Channel Tunnel scheme. * January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cricinfo
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a Sports journalism, sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including Liveblogging, liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present. , Sambit Bal was the editor. The site, originally conceived in a pre-World Wide Web form in 1993 by Simon King, was acquired in 2002 by the Wisden Grouppublishers of several notable cricket magazines and the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. As part of an eventual break-up of the Wisden Group, it was sold to ESPN Inc., ESPN, jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Communications, in 2007. History CricInfo was launched on 15 March 1993 by Simon King, a British researcher at the University of Minnesota. It grew with help from students and researchers at universities around the world. Contrary to some reports, Badri Seshadri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Fuard
Mohamed Abdal Hassain "Abu" Fuard (6 December 1936 – 28 July 2012) was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played first-class cricket for Ceylon from 1957 to 1970 and served for many years as a national cricket administrator. Playing career Fuard was educated at Wesley College, Colombo, and played in turn for Moors Sports Club, Colts Cricket Club and Colombo Cricket Club. An off-spinner who sometimes opened the batting, he made his first-class debut in the Gopalan Trophy in 1956–57, taking two wickets and two catches and making 15 runs in a low-scoring victory for Ceylon. In the 1960-61 Gopalan Trophy match he top-scored in Ceylon's first innings with 68 batting at number 10, then took 3 for 44 and 2 for 75 in a 169-run victory for Ceylon. He toured India with Ceylon in 1964-65 and played in all three matches against India but had little success with the ball, taking only two wickets. In the third match, however, when Ceylon needed 112 to win and the regular opener was injured, Fuard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Wettimuny
Sunil Ramsay de Silva Wettimuny (born 2 February 1949), or Sunil Wettimuny, is a Sri Lankan former cricketer who played three One Day International (ODI) matches in the Cricket World Cup tournaments of 1975 and 1979 as an opening batsman. Sunil is the elder brother of two other Sri Lankan cricketers, Mithra Mithra ( ; ) is an ancient Iranian deity ('' yazata'') of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun, contracts, and friendship. In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth ( ... and Sidath. After his cricketing career ended, he became a commercial pilot. He was the pilot of the special flight which brought the 1996 World Cup winning team from Lahore, in Pakistan, to Sri Lanka. References External links * 1949 births Living people Alumni of Ananda College Sri Lankan cricketers Sri Lanka One Day International cricketers All-Ceylon cricketers Cricketers at the 1975 Cricket World Cup Crick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandula Warnapura
Bandula Warnapura (; 1 March 1953 – 18 October 2021) was a Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He played four Test matches and twelve One Day Internationals (ODI) during his international cricketing career from 1975 to 1982. He was a right-handed opening batsman and a right-handed medium pace bowler. Warnapura captained Sri Lanka's first Test match, and also faced the first delivery and scored the first run for his team. He also had the rare distinction of opening the bowling and opening the batting in the second innings for Sri Lanka in their first ever Test match. He captained Sri Lanka in all the Tests he played, although he could not lead his team to victory in any of them. However, Sri Lanka won the first ODI match he captained. He scored one half-century in ODI cricket. Personal life Bandula Warnapura was born on 1 March 1953 in Rambukkana. Malinda Warnapura, who played for the Sri Lanka national cricket team, is his nephew. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daya Sahabandu
Dayananda Sahabandu (28 March 1940 – 9 August 2023) was a Sri Lankan cricketer who played first-class cricket for the Sri Lankan national team from 1968 to 1975. He was nicknamed as the "King of Viharamahadevi Park" mainly referring to his bowling heroics. Cricket career Daya Sahabandu attended Royal College, Colombo, where he played in the First XI from 1957 to 1960. A left-arm spin bowler who could also bowl a little faster and open the bowling, he began playing senior club cricket in Ceylon in the early 1960s, and in 20 seasons, mostly playing for Nomads Sports Club, he took more than 1000 wickets with his left-arm spin at an average of just over 14. He played 253 matches, bowling 6552.1 overs of which 1919 were maidens, and he conceded only 14,787 runs. Sahabandu was selected to tour England with the Ceylon team in 1968, but the tour was cancelled just before it was due to begin. After the English veteran Test player Tom Graveney was dismissed by Sahabandu in the 1968â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anura Ranasinghe
Anura Nandana Ranasinghe (13 October 1956 – 9 November 1998) was a Sri Lankan cricketer, who represented Sri Lanka at international level 11 times. School times Ranasinghe won the best schoolboy cricketer award during the 1974–75 cricketing season when he first played cricket for Nalanda College Colombo. International career Ranasinghe created history in 1975 when he became the first schoolboy to play in a World Cup when he represented Sri Lanka in the inaugural tournament in England at the age of 18 years. He played in all three matches against West Indies, Australia and Pakistan in the 1975 World Cup for Sri Lanka, scoring a total of 19 runs in three innings and conceding 65 runs from ten overs. A shoulder injury meant that he was not considered for the 1979 World Cup. He was named in the 12 for the inaugural Test match where England played against Sri Lanka, but was left out on the morning of the game in favour of Lalith Kaluperuma. He did play in two ODIs against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Opatha
Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (5 August 1947 – 11 September 2020) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. A right-arm medium pace bowler, he played five One Day Internationals at the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups. Educated at St. Peter's College, Colombo, Opatha joined the Royal Ceylon Volunteer Air Force in 1968. He had played for his college cricket team and went on to play for the air force cricket team until 1977. He first played for Ceylon in 1971 and was a member of the Sri Lankan teams in the World Cups in England in 1975 and 1979. He later played club cricket in Ireland for one season in 1979 and was offered the post of coach of the Holland team. As player/manager of the rebel tour to South Africa in 1982–83 in defiance of the sporting ban against the apartheid state, Opatha and the other tourists received a lifetime ban from international cricket. The name of the team, "Arosa Sri Lankan XI", derived from Opatha's initials ARO plus SA for South Africa. The ban was lifted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
