The launch of a new cricket book, " CRICKETER'S RECORD BOOK," compiled by Nelson Mendis will take place on Tuesday, July 15 , 2008 at 4.30 p.m at the C.C.C. Gymkhana Club, Maitland Cresent , Colombo 7.

Roshan Mahanama, the former Sri Lanka Cricket Captain, and presently Member of the I.C.C. Elite Panel of Match Referees, will be the Chief Guest and Kumara Dharmasena Former
Sri Lankan All-rounder and presently Class I umpire, will be the Guest of Honour at the launch.
The handy book, meticulously compiled, provides the young cricketer the facility of maintaining records of his/her individual performances, match by match, for a whole year / season. It also enables a player to set one's personal targets for the year, and provides an opportunity to analyze one's performances during the season whilst working towards achieving such targets with confidence, and with the guidance of the Coach.

This 'Record Book' will not only list the statistics of your achievements, but also, more importantly allow you to record the details of your batting, fielding and wicket -keeping performances with emphasis on WHY or HOW you succeeded or failed.

The great cricket personality, Roshan Mahanama, writing the Foreword for the book, says, "from the formative years of my school cricket career, until I retired from this great game in 1999, I followed this discipline of maintaining records with great interest. In fact, maintaining such records had a great self-motivating impact on my whole cricket career."

The format of the book is so simple and well laid out by the author, Nelson Mendis, the well-known Cricket coach, who counts 47 long years of coaching, that even an under 11
cricketer would find it simple to use the book.

The book is printed in both Sinhala and English languages, to enable a wider range of cricketers to use this book to their advantage. A copy is moderately priced at Rs. 375/= each. All Cricket enthusiasts are cordially invited to be present at the launch.