Carlton Super 7's with a IPL flavour

To be played in two legs:

by Ranjan ANANDAPPA

The third Carlton Super 7's Sri Lanka 2011 Rugby Tournament will get the flavour of the Indian Premier League cricket (IPL) touch , for the first time in the country, and may be in the world in a rugby contest, when it gets underway in two 'legs' from October 29.

The first 'leg' of the championship will be played at Nittawela , Kandy on October 29 and 30 and the second 'leg' on November 5 and 6 at the Royal College Sports Complex grounds. The idea of conducting a tournament of this nature is to uplift the standard of the game with thirty 'A' grade international rugby players taking part in ten franchises.

Three rugby international players will be permitted to be included in each team. The two weeks tournament will consist of ten teams from nine districts. There will also be an additional combined team.

The teams will be also coached by ten International coaches who are experts in coaching 'sevens' teams

[Rugby teams.]

The following Franchises will compete in the tournament.

The teams and the captains.

Group 'A'. Western Province Warriors (Dushan Lewke)

Central Province Kings (Fazil Marija)

Eastern Province Eagles (Lasintha de Costa)

Sabaragamuwa Stallions (Saliya Handapangoda)

Uva Vipers Kosala Thisera

Group 'B' North Central Typhoons (Thanuja Seneviratne)

North Western Blacks (Chanaka Chandimal)

Jaffna Challengers (Yoshitha Rajapakse)

Northern Gladiators (Sanjeeva Jayasinghe)

Southern Sharks (Ajmad Buksh)