Dialog Powers 17 schools’ cricket encounters
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Dialog Mobile CEO, Supun Weerasinghe(centre left) and Dialog
Group Chief Marketing Officer, Nushad Perera(center right) with
Abdul Rauff, Secretary Schools Cricket Association together with
Principals of 34 schools from all over Sri Lanka at the
sponsorship awards ceremony.
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SchoolS CRICKET: Sri Lanka’s flagship telecommunications services
provider, Dialog Telekom, will power 17 annual cricket encounters in 14
towns around the island including the North and East, in Sri Lanka’s
biggest-ever schools’ big match season.
The season kicked off on 25th February and will come to a close on
28th March. Demonstrating its commitment to foster local sporting talent
in an equitable manner, Dialog has pledged its support to a total of 34
schools and 374 players from across all provinces of the country, making
way for several new outstation schools to enter the schools’ big match
arena.
Commenting on the company’s association with this year’s big match
season, Nushad Perera, Group Chief Marketing Officer of Dialog Telekom
said, “Dialog has a longstanding relationship with Sri Lankan cricket.
We have powered many local and international cricket tournaments in the
past and also hold the hounor of being the first national telco to
sponsor the Sri Lankan cricket team.
Thus we see this association as part of our continued commitment to
uplift and develop the sport in Sri Lanka. What’s unique about this
year’s season is that we have joined hands with many outstation schools
with the objective of uncovering and promoting Sri Lanka’s sporting
talent in line with our company’s philosophy of inclusion. We wish all
of them success.”
Dialog will power the Thurstan - Isipathana (one day), Joe - Pete
(one day) and Royal - Thomian T20 encounters in Colombo, the Kingswood -
Dharmaraja big match and Trinity - St. Anthony’s one day encounter in
Kandy, the Rahula- St. Aloysius big match in Matara, Richmond - Mahinda
encounter in Galle, Dharmasoka - Devananda big match in Ambalangoda,
Kalutara Vidyalaya - Tissa Vidyalaya encounter in Kalutara,
St.Sebastian’s College - Prince of Wales (One day) in Moratuwa, Jaffna
Central - St. John’s big match in Jaffna, Hindu College - Vishananda
Vidyalaya big match in Trincomalee, St. Mary’s - Zahira College
encounter in Hambantota, Seevali Central - Gankanda Central big match in
Ratnapura, St.
Thomas - Science College in Matale, St. Mary’s - Kegalu Vidyalaya in
Kegalle and the encounter between Bandaranayake College Gampaha and
Bandaranayake Central College Veyangoda. |
