Twenty/20 cricket carnival at Ukuwela

Kandy Sports Corr.

CRICKET: A twenty-20 overs cricket carnival has been organised by the Ravi Punchihewa Cricket Academy (RPCA), Matale at the S.B. Yalegama Stadium in Ukuwela on May 27 and 28.

Ravi Punchihewa briefing the media said that this cricket carnival has been shifted to the suburb of Ukuwela as the only Public Ground available at Matale which is the Bernard Aluwihare Stadium is still not fit to play cricket as there is no proper pitch to lay the matting.

This has inconvenienced schools and clubs in Matale for the past six months. The Matale Municipal Council should do something to expedite this matter and keep alive cricket in Matale. In the absence of a proper ground, schools and clubs are compelled to play their home matches away or at the Dambulla Stadium which is over 40 kilometres away.

This cricket carnival is sponsored by Kumar Samarasinghe Managing Director of Samrasinghe Opticals, Matale.

The teams which will participates in this cricket carnival are from the Ravi Punchihewa Cricket Academy (RPCA). The under-15 tournament will see RPCA 'Greens', RPCA 'Blues', RPCA 'Crange', RPCA 'Silver', RPCA 'Golds', RPCA 'Whites'. The under-17 championship will see a straight fight between RCPA 'A' and RPCA 'B'.

Gracing the occasion as the chief guest will be Minister of Samurdhi Rohana Dissanayake while the President of the Matale District Cricket Association Nandimithra Ekanayake, Secretary of the MDCA Sujeewa Godaliyadde and the Central Province Minister of Health Champika Wiejratne will grace the occasion as the guests of honour.