Moreton Cricket Brisbane to Lankan tour after a three-year lapse

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Moreton Cricket Brisbane will be undertaking their 19th tour of Sri Lanka after a lapse of three years, having been interrupted by COVID-19 epidemic in the year 2020.

This year in partnership with the Royal Thomian Golfers Guild the Charity Project undertaken was to raise funds for the College of Anaesthesiologists Sri Lanka. At a fund-raising ceremony held on 25 February at South Brisbane Cricket Club a sum of $ 13,000 was raised. The Chief Guest at the function was Brendon Gibson, President of The South Brisbane District Cricket Club.

Moreton Cricket will be arriving in Sri Lanka with 120 players and supporters and playing games in Colombo, Kandy and Galle. The Moreton Cricket tour this year would be one of the biggest cricket tours to have visited Sri Lanka bringing much wanted tourist revenue to the island.

The tour is organised by Baba Sourjah, old boy of Royal College who represented CH and FC and Havelock Sports Club at rugby in the 1960s and is a Cricket Australia Level 3 High Performance Coach and managed by Athula Unantenne who captained Trinity College at Cricket and represented the college at Rugby.

The tour is handled by Shiyam Mohamed and Asian Adventure.