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Caltex sponsors Indoor Cricket and Sri Lanka tour of England starting April 15 by RANJAN ANANDAPPA Kishu Gomes,the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Caltex Lubricants pledged his full support for the upliftment and development of indoor cricket in Sri Lanka at a Media briefing to unveil the Caltex Austasia Indoor Cricket and the Sri Lanka's Indoor Cricket tour of England at the Thalawathugoda Complex last Thursday. The England tour party will leave Sri Lanka on April 15. The Indoor World Cup Cricket Championships will be held in Sri Lanka in October 2004. The positive approach of Caltex towards this rapidly developing sports has put Sri Lanka in the number three ranking in World Indoor Cricket in a short period of time. Caltex sponsored the previous World Cup team which toured New Zealand in 2002 and are continuing to provide the Caltex power in this years Championship too. The CICA has obtained the services of an Australian coach Craig Slocombe and have also build up a new indoor stadium for the purpose of staging the World Cup in October. "We are a different organisation when sponsorship matters are concerned. Our criteria is to work with the people who really need support in terms of funds and we thought of coming to assist indoor cricket which is a worthwhile cause", said Kishu Gomes. "Indoor cricket is a new game and is gathering momentum and popularity and it should soon go to the rural areas and we should bring the sport up to international level", the Caltex boss added. Indoor cricket is quite exciting, unlike playing for days and not obtaining a result. Kishu Gomes in conclusion said that in some sports bodies the officials humble themselves at the beginning of sponsorship, but later start demanding whilst the particular sport gained popularity, he said that he was proud to associate with the CICA who don't fall into that category. Former Josephian and NCC cricketer Asela Pathirana will lead the Sri Lanka Indoor Cricket Team to England and his deputy will be former Peterite Chrishantha Pieris. The tour party: Asela Pathirana (captain), Chrishantha Pieris (v. captain), Thushendra de Zoysa, Sanjeeva Jayaratne, Dilshan Witharana, Roshan Weerasinghe, Iroshan de Silva, Tharindu Mendis, Duncan Arnolda, Kamal Kuruppu, Hiran de Mel (Manager), Craig Slocombe (Coach). The team will leave on April 15, 2004 and will play a practice game at Derbyshire on April 17. The first Test match will be played at Derby on April 18, the second on April 21 at Sports Stadium Ipswich and the third and final Test on April 23 at Birmingham. |
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