Wenty Leagues Cricket Sri Lanka Tour
Wenty Leagues Cricket is organising a cricket tour to Sri Lanka for a selected group of promising young talented cricketers from 24 December 2018 – 8 January 2019.
The tour shall provide the boys opportunities to compete against cricketers from leading Sri Lankan schools. The competitors include teams from St Joseph’s College and Wesley College in Colombo; Trinity College in Kandy; Richmond College in Galle; and St Thomas’s College in Mt Lavinia. The tour will enable our young cricketers to experience playing conditions in the sub-continent and compete against the boys who are part of the Sri Lankan junior representative cricket pathway. The matches will be played at Nondescripts Cricket Grounds and P Sara Stadium (some of the Sri Lanka’s test venues - Sri Lanka played their 1st test match at P Sara Stadium against England in 1985). They will also play at the Asgiriya Stadium where Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara played most of his cricket as a school boy. The boys will also have the opportunity to play at the picturesque Galle Stadium and finally at the tsunami affected Surrey County funded and maintained Maggona Surrey Monty Cricket Ground.
Besides participating in the tournaments, there will be various activities and excursions to enrich the boys with Sri Lankan history and culture revolving around the Portuguese, Dutch and British who colonized Sri Lanka over 4 centuries between 1505 to 1948. For example, climbing UNESCO world heritage listed Sigiriya Rock Fortress, visiting tea and spice plantations in Hill Town of Matale and the Last Kingdom in Sri Lanka before the first colonization by Portuguese - Dalada Maligawa in Kandy.
The tour itinerary also includes a visit to SOS Children’s Village. SOS Children's Village focuses on family-based, long-term care of children who have lost their parents. This non-profit organization provide impressive care, training and support to the orphans with a mission to help them shape their own futures. To further advocate the organization’s mission statement, we have proposed to fund the building of a cricket facility and the supply of cricket equipment.
