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30 school teachers take part in cricket seminar at Hatton by S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen - Kandy Sports Correspondent Over thirty school teachers participated in a cricket seminar organised by the Central Province Cricket Association at the request of the Department of Education of the Nuwara Eliya District and held at Sri Pada College, Hatton. The School Masters who attended this clinic was of mixed variety as some of them had good cricketing background while others had little but the enthusiasm displayed by them was great. Department of Education of the Nuwara Eliya District which sponsored this programme with a view of improving the cricketing knowledge of the School masters in schools under its purview, so that they in turn could impart the knowledge they had acquired to their tutelages and thereby a larger area could be reached. The seminar team was led by the Central Provincial coach Sunil Fernando, and district coaches Chaminda Kodikara, Migara Ekanayake, Bernard Perera, and K. Karthigesan and D.M.M.A.D. Dissanayake. The school masters were given individual attention on all aspects which included batting, bowling and fielding. At the conclusion of the clinic Provincial coach Sunil Fernando spoke on leadership and decision making at crucial moments in the cricket field without being everawed by the situation. He said that the match is not lost or won until final run is scored or the final wicket falls. Cricket is a game of fluctuating fortunes and therefore that the fight must go on till the very last moment of the game. You can say that a side cruising towards victory could collapse under late pressure applied by the losing team. Field changes are important and equally important are field placing. A wrong fielder at a particular place could be costly. Umpre D.M.M.A.D. Dissanayake spoke on the laws of cricket and the unwritten laws arising from it which the cricketers should acquaint themselves. Cricket is a gentleman's game and the noble traditions of the game must be upheld. The General Secretary of the CPCA Janaka Pathirana said that the Department of Education of Nuwara Eliya District had requested for similar clinics to be conducted every month at the various Educational Zones in the Nuwara Eliya district. Spurred by this unqualified success Pathirana said that similar clinics will be conducted in the Kandy and Kegalle districts. The objective behind this is to promote cricket in the rural areas. |
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