Sri Lanka can still force a win

In another day of drab cricket, enlivened only towards final hour of play, Pakistan were 291 for 6 wickets, still trailing by 137 runs and Sri Lanka still having a stranglehold on the third day of the Third and final Test at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, here today.

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OBSERVER-MOBITEL School Cricket contest on again

OBSERVER-MOBITEL CONTEST...... The ever popular Sunday Observer/Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of The Year 2014 contest is back again. The voting for the 36th Sunday Observer/Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of The Year 2014 competition will begin from next Sunday (26 January) with coupons appearing in the Sunday Observer, Daily News, Dinamina and Thinakaran as last year in three segments namely Platinum,Gold and Silver. School cricket is conducted in three divisions,namely division 1,2 and 3. In division one there are 36 schools, in division two there are 33 schools and in division 3 the highest number of schools (151) covering almost all parts of the country.

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Royal take honours

A top score of 80 runs off 97 deliveries with five fours and four sixes by Thiran Dhanapala and a further 61 runs by Randev Pathirana and an useful 43 by Chamika Karunaratne helped Royal to take a first innings win over Ananda in their drawn school cricket encounter played at Reid Avenue yesterday.

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