Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

The flyover at the Dehiwala junction was ceremoniously opened this morning by His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Seen with the President is the British High Commissioner Dr. Peter Hayes and Ministers Susil Premajayantha, T.B Ekanayake, A.H.M Fowzi, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga and Secretary to the Ministry of Highways Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda.

The Dubai Cricket Stadium is ready to produce exhilarating cricket. For the first time Dubai will have a world class cricket stadium, which may be become the hub of international cricket due to its strategic location and the presence of the International Cricket Council and their Global Cricket Academy in the same venue at the Dubai Sports City.

A lot of effort had gone into the making of this stadium.

Under the guidance of Tony Hemming, a renowned curator from Australia, they have transformed a desert into a splendid green oasis.

Cricinfo staff
March 4, 2009

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has attributed his players` immediate reaction in taking cover when terrorists attacked their team bus in Lahore to the situation in his country. `We have been brought up in a background of terrorist activities,` Jayawardene said after the squad returned to Sri Lanka late Tuesday night. `We are used to hearing, seeing these things - firing, bombings. So we ducked under our seats when the firing began. It was like natural instinct.`

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Hi Everyone,

Here are some of the pictures taken by me at Bandarawela and wanted to share with all of you.

Hope it may prove useful whenever you plan to go on a holiday to experience the salubrious climes of this beautiful place.

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Out of the collection of many Dubai pictures.....wanted to share some of them with all of you.

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Rubber Balloons

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And Best Wishes To MrBrown, My Friends and All The Other Members At LNP..........

`A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2008`

Sanath Jayasuriya, who has now retired from Test Cricket, will be always remembered for his marathon 340 runs scored against India, which innings immensely contributed for Sri Lanka to create another World Record.

Just to recap here, that Test match and Sanath`s last Test innings for all the Sri Lankan Cricket Lovers, and here we go..........

This is my slide TEST run