Flashback 2017 - March

Flashback 2017 - March

Mar 1: Sri Lanka Cricket appointed former national cricketer Asanka Gurusinha as Manager Cricket of the national team

Mar 1: Sri Lanka Cricket named a 15-man squad for the 2-match Test series against Bangladesh under the captaincy of left-arm spinner Rangana Herath

Mar 3: Commercial Credit and Finance 'B' beat Standard Chartered Bank by 89 runs to win the MCA Division 'C' Championship

Mar 4: Colombo Football Club beat Renown 3-1 to win the Dialog Champions League Football Championship, for the second consecutive year

Mar 5: Badulla Men and Gampaha Women teams won the Inter-District Beach Kabaddi Championship held at Unawatuna, Galle

Mar 7: Chamil Cooray and Yasika Rahubadda won the Men's and Women's titles at the 49th National Carrom Championship

Mar 11: Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 259 runs in the first Test at Galle

Mar 11: The 138th Battle of the Blues, the annual Big Match cricket encounter between Royal and S. Thomas' ended in a draw, after rain abandoned play after the tea break, at the SSC ground in Colombo

Mar 11: The 67th Battle of the Golds, cricket encounter between St. Sebastian's and Prince of Wales colleges of Moratuwa, ended in a draw at the De Zoysa Stadium

Mar 12: B.A. Sanjeewa won the CAT-Solar February Grand Prix Golf Championship

Mar 13: Sri Lanka Air Force and Mercantile Services Basketball Association won the Men's and Women's titles at the 51st Senior National Basketball Championship 2016 held at the Police HQ Courts in Bambalapitiya

Mar 13: Sri Lanka Rugby named a 12-man squad under the captaincy of Danushka Ranjan for the Borneo 7s Rugby Championship

Mar 14: Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation named 12 players to represent Sri Lanka at the 11th Asian Youth Boys Volleyball Championship to be held in Myanmar from March

Mar 16: Sri Lanka Cricket announced that it will host a Triangular One Day International Series featuring Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh to celebrate the country's 70th Independence Day in 2018

Mar 18: Sri Lanka Cricket appointed Upul Tharanga as captain for the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh after regular skipper Angelo Mathews was not cleared fit from his injuries

Mar 19: Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by 4 wickets at the SSC to level the two-match Test series 1-1

Mar 19: Sri Lanka Women's 7s Rugby team won the Borneo 7s Championship while the Men's team failed to impress

Mar 23: Sri Lanka Deaf Cricket team emerged runners-up at the 3rd Asia Deaf Cricket Tournament held in Hyderabad, India, where the hosts won the championship 

Mar 25: Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka by 90 runs to win the first ODI at Dambulla

Mar 26: Adithya Karunaratne, the 14-year-old Sri Lankan earned World Ranking in Tennis when she reached 205th in the ITF Under-18 Junior World Rankings

Mar 27: Sri Lanka Cricket named a 15-member national Under-19 squad under the captaincy of Richmond College allrounder Kamindu Mendis for the Youth Cricket Tour against Australia

Mar 28: The second ODI between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh ended in No Result at Dambulla

Mar 28: Ministry of Education revealed that it has made plans to introduce new laws to be enacted from the 2018 season for the cricket Big Match season, after receiving complaints from Girls' Schools and the general public

Mar 29: Sri Lanka made major strides when they beat fancied Pakistan by 4-2 to win the 13th West Asia Baseball Cup in Islamabad