Carrom’s ‘big five’ appointed
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National Carrom Selection chief Dudley Goonawardhane
Ministry of Sports has appointed a five member Carrom Selection Committee headed by Dudley Goonawardhane. The other four members of the committee are: Shirley de Silva, Sunanda Kodagoda, J.N. Abeywardhane and Wasantha Wickremasinghe.
Goonawardhane was a Junior National Champion for several years and is a well respected umpire. Shirley de Silva is a former Chief of the Selection Committee. Kodagoda, the Secretary of Nationalised Services Carrom Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the Sri Lanka Carrom Federation and also serves as a senior umpire and the Media Officer of the Carrom Federation.
J.N. Abeywardhane, was a national champion in 1980s and was the national coach in the 1990s. Wickremasinghe was a champion carrom player who had won the Goverment Servicrs ‘A’ Division title.