SportThe Sri Lanka Indoor Cricket Association had taken a huge step by organising a four nation cricket tournament to be played from September 15 to 24 at the Austsia International Stadium, Thalawatugoda. Hiran de Mel, Head of Technical and Operations at the Ceylon Indoor Cricket Association, who also the first umpire in Indoor Cricket and the first Sri Lankan umpire to officiate in a World Indoor cricket tournament is taking a great effort in seeing the tournament a success and is closely watching the progress of our cricketers along with the coaches. Encouraged by that the body was enrolled as a member of the World Indoor Cricket Federation. The spice of the the matter was when a Lankan indoor team made a tour Down Under in 2001/2 -- where Indoor cricket concept was born. Sri Lanka made history by playing in the finals with Australia and went down fighting to lose by just 15 runs.

Source: Sunday Times September 03, 2018 06:22 UTC