Under-17 cricketers depart for Pakistan tour
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The Sri Lanka Under-17 team left the island to take part in a three-day match and a five-match one-day series to be played in Pakistan from the 9th of this month.
The 15-member squad will be led by Stevon Peiris of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia. A talented top-order batter, he finished as the leading run-scorer of the recently concluded Sri Lanka Youth Under-17 tournament, making 365 runs with 4 half-centuries in 6 matches.
Sandaru Malshan of Devapathiraja College, Rathgama, has been named vice-captain. In that tournament he scored 308 runs in 6 matches with a century and a half-century to be adjudged the best player of the tournament, and he was also named the best player of the Under-23 cricket tournament organised by Sri Lanka Cricket.
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, supplies the most players to the squad, with captain Stevon Peiris joined by Methuka Gunaratne and Reshon Solomons.
Kalindu Sachinthana of St. Andrew's College, Puttalam, and Chenul Hatharasinghe of Debarawewa Central College are also part of the squad, representing the outstations.
Sri Lanka Under-17 squad
Stevon Peiris (captain – S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia), Sandaru Malshan (vice-captain – Devapathiraja College, Rathgama), Methuka Gunaratne (S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia), Yenula Hewawitharana (St. Anthony's College, Kandy), Shannon Silva (De Mazenod College, Kandana), Reshon Solomons (S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia), Chenuka Dodangoda (Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte), Mahiru Kodithuwakku (Royal College, Colombo), Thisaga Perera (St. Joseph's College, Colombo), Shashith Bandara (Dharmaraja College, Kandy), Tharuka Saminjith (Sri Sumangala College, Panadura), Chenul Hatharasinghe (Central College, Debarawewa), Adeesha Lakshan (St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa), Raveen Sachintha (St. Thomas' College, Matara), Kalindu Sachinthana (St. Andrew's College, Puttalam)
Match schedule
October 9 to 11: Three-day match in Multan.
October 15: 1st one-day match in Multan.
October 17: 2nd one-day match in Multan.
October 19: 3rd one-day match in Multan.
October 21: 4th one-day match in Multan.
October 24: 5th one-day match in Multan.
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