Sri Lanka go out favourites in Asia Cup

Sri Lanka, which showed good form in the recent Commonwealth Bank Tri-Series, eliminating world champions India from the final and giving a close run to Australia, will go out favourites at the 2012 Asia Cup cricket tournament which begins in Bangladesh today.

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Chamod (99) excels as Royal-Thomian ends in a tall-scoring draw

In a match that produced an avalanche of runs, the 133rd Battle of the Blues cricket encounter between traditional rivals Royal College and S. Thomas' College ended in a high scoring draw at the SSC grounds yesterday. The match produced 765 runs in the first two days and ended up with 1,089 runs on the third-day as the match was called off around 5.15 pm due to bad light with 21 overs still to be bowled. Royal were set a victory target of 242 runs to get in 23 overs. They were 22 for 1 in 4 overs when play stopped prematurely due to fading light.

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Trinity beat Antonians to break 26-year hoodoo

Trinity College broke a 26-year-old hoodoo and also established a new record of outright wins in school cricket when they beat their traditional rivals St. Anthony's College by an innings and one run in their 96th "Battle of the Blues" played for the John Halangoda Memorial Trophy at the Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy yesterday. As pre-match predictions indicated the Lions completely outplayed the Eagles. The Antonians had chances of saving the match, but they threw away them at crucial times.

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A keen tussle in the offing ...:

54th 'Battle of Babes'on March 16 and 17

St. Sylvester's vs Vidyartha: A keenly fought out battle is expected when the unbeaten St. Sylvester's College takes on Vidyartha College in their 54th 'Battle of Babes' which will be played at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on March 16 and 17. Of the 54 matches played so far, the Sylvestrians are in the lead winning 14 matches and their last win was in 2009 under Chanaka Colombage when the umpires awarded the match to the Sylvestrians after Vidyartha College refused to continue the match, following a stoppage due to bad light. The last Vidyartha Victory was in 1967 under R.M. Lafir which was 44 years ago. Vidyartha has won 3 matches in the series.

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