SLC to take turf cricket to North and East
Sri Lanka Cricket has launched a programme to develop the game of cricket in the North and East in their quest to discover new talent from the provinces.
Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Nishantha Ranatunga, Chief Cricket Selector Sanath Jayasuriya and the school authorities inaugurating the turf wicket at St. Patrick’s College Jaffna.
Last week SLC officials mooted this programme with the opening of four turf wickets at St. Patrick’s Collage Jaffna.
SLC secretary Nishantha Ranatunga said that the programme which was launched last week would be continued and they have earmarked two more schools in Jaffna and two schools in the Eastern Part of the island.
The next two turf tracks will be built at St. John’s College Jaffna and Jaffna Central. In the East the two recipients are Hindu College, Trincomalee and Irinimalu Vidyalaya Batticaloa.
He said that each of these tracks will be done at a cost raging from Rs. 2-2.5 million. Besides they will also build ten more concrete wickets – 5 each in the two provinces.
“We were encouraged by the talent and the Interest shown by the youth in these areas and they have doing pretty well especially at the under 23 level. At present there are two SLC Provincial coaches each in the two provinces and in addition we are also hoping to appoint a curator who would be looking after the turf wickets in the two provinces.”
