English course for Southern Province Cricket Umpires
by Priyan de Silva - Matara Sports Correspondent
Members of the Southern Province Cricket Umpires Association (SPCUA)
will benefit if Sri Lanka Cricket give the nod to hold a 6-month
training course in spoken English. The game with a history of over 250
years has its laws written in English by the Marylebone Cricket Club
(MCC). It is essential that the umpires who are responsible that these
laws are upheld on field should be conversant in the language that they
were written.
The Southern Province Cricket Association has proposed that Mahil
Liyanage who was a premier and first class cricket umpire way back in
2002/3 and has followed the Innovative English Teaching Diploma
conducted by the British Council be contracted to conduct the course.
Mahil proposes to conduct weekly classes in Ambalangoda, Galle, Matara
and Hambantota.
Weekly classes should be for groups of 12 to 15 and of 2 1/2 hours in
duration. He is confident that it would be possible for a student to be
able to converse fluently in English on completion of the 24 session.
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