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Gerald Coetzee (5) The South Africa A cricket team toured Sri Lanka in June 2023 to play the Sri Lanka A cricket team. [1] The tour consisted of three List A and two first-class matches. [2] In April 2023, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed the full itinerary for the tour, with South Africa A arriving in Sri Lanka on 1 June 2023. [3]
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat. Sri Lanka were set a revised target of 265 runs from 41 overs due to rain. George Linde (SA) made his ODI debut. Keshav Maharaj captained South Africa for the first time in ODIs. Tabraiz Shamsi (SA) took his first five-wicket haul in ODIs. World Cup Super League points: South Africa 10, Sri Lanka 0.
The Sri Lanka women's cricket team toured South Africa in March and April 2024 to play three One Day International (ODI) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. [1] [2] [3] The T20I series formed part of the teams' preparation for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup tournament. [4] The ODI series formed part of the 2022–2025 ICC Women ...
There are currently around 1,000 African Sri Lankans. They live in pockets of communities along the island's coastal regions of Trincomalee, Batticaloa, and Negombo. The Portuguese colonists used them to fight the Ceylonese Kings. [4] The main African Sri Lankans are known as Kaffirs. This term is not used as a racial pejorative as in other ...
AROSA Sri Lanka in South Africa in 1982. In October 1982, a representative team of Sri Lankan cricket players undertook a so-called "Rebel tour" to South Africa, to play a series of matches against the South African team colloquially called the 'cuckoo tour'. At the time, the International Cricket Council (ICC) had placed a moratorium on ...
Sirisena Amarasekara is a Sri Lankan public servant and diplomat. He is the former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Angola, Botswana, and Eswatin. [1] He had functioned as the secretary to the Prime Minister on two occasions, and as the secretary to the Cabinet of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest ...
China and Sri Lanka also share a military relationship, with China selling a range of modern armaments to the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. In July 2019, UN ambassadors from 50 countries, including Sri Lanka, have signed a joint letter to the UNHRC defending China's treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang region.