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| Best chance since 1996
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| “Since of late the wickets all over the world have been getting slower and heavily uniformed also the ICC’s curators have been involved with the preparation of wickets and the World Cup wickets in the West Indies are not going to be fast tracks. Then at the same time taking the recent changes that the Australian team has been going through the past few months, even they are not going to be the same lethal force that they have proved to be at home”, observed Sri Lanka cricket stalwart Sidath Wettimuny when Musing confronted him with a barrage of questions about the pros and cons of the impending cricket showdown in the Caribbean. |
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| A tough tour ahead |
| All the test playing nations and the other countries who have qualified to play in the World Cup are currently going through the last preparation stage. Sri Lanka and India will lock horns over four ODI’s as their last outing before the big outing in the Caribbean. |
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| Thomians have the better of exchanges |
| S. Thomas’ dominated the proceedings of the drawn Elephant Lemonade inter-school encounter against St Joseph’s which was also played for the Gilmour Jayasuriya trophy at Darley Road, yesterday. The Thomians had the Josephians struggling on 70 for 4 after making a formidable score of 250 on day one. |
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| Cricket Stars to open ‘Seenigama Oval’ |
| Once they were devastated by the cruel tsunami. Now they are inundated with a very modern facility where Cricketing superstars Muttiah Muralidaran and Chaminda Vaas are teaming up with local players for the grand opening of the Seenigama Oval on Thursday 8 February. |
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