Dhanushika Muhandiram plays both leather ball and softball cricket for Mahamaya

by Upananda Jayasundera, Kandy Sports Special Corr.

Dhanushika Mahandiram plays both leather ball and soft ball cricket for Mahamaya girls school

The game of cricket is very popular in Kandy and the schoolgirls have taken to the game in a big way and they have done as well as the boys.

Mahamaya is a girls school well renowned for many sports. The school has taken to cricket in a big way and there is a girl in grade 13 of Mahamaya - Dhanushika Mahandiram who is turning out to be a good allround cricketer.

Dhanushika is a allround cricketer - a right-arm medium - pace bowler and a right-hand middle-order batswoman. Dhanushika Muhandiram plays both types of cricket and now concentrates on leather ball.

From 2009 to 2011 she represented Mahamaya girls school to win the Kandy District Cricket Tournament.

She was selected to the Sri Lanka Junior Pool when she participated in the All-Island Leather Ball Cricket Tournament held at Maharagama in 2011. In 2012 she captained both leather ball and softball cricket teams of the school, after having played for 8 years.

Dhanushika is a very active girl and besides her interest in cricket, she has been in the school cadet platoon for the last 3 years and she received the medal for being the Best Sergeant in 2014 at the annual Camps held at Rantambe.

Dhanushika is thankful to the Principal of Mahamaya Indo Withanachchi and other members of the staff for helping her with her sporting activities including cadeting to be a very active girl.