Sri Lanka Cricket provides Cricket Bags for 424 schools

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Sri Lanka Cricket Vice President Ravin Wickramaratne (4th from left) handing over the cricket bag to Ananda Shasthralaya, Matugama Captain Hesitha Anuhas Rangana at the Panadura Cricket Club. Kalutara District Cricket Association President Prasanna Amarasekara , Sri Lanka Cricket Vice President and SLSCA President Thilak Waththuhewa and SLSCA Treasurer Manjula Vaz are also present

Sri Lanka Cricket distributed Senior Cricket Bags for schools playing in the U17 and U19 cricket tournaments organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association.

The cricket bag consists of 2 bats, 4 pairs of batting gloves, 3 pairs of batting pads, 3 thigh guards, 2 helmets, 1 pair of pads, 1 pair of wicket-keeping gloves, and a team material bag. The bags were distributed to island-wide schools in collaboration with the District Cricket Associations, which are affiliated with Sri Lanka Cricket.

Schools in the districts of Colombo, Gampaha, Kalutara, Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Kandy, Kegalle, Nuwara Eliya, Badulla, Monaragela, Ratnapura, Matale, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Kurunegala, Puttalam, Ampara, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Jaffna, Vavuniya Mullativu, Killinocchi, and Mannar, received the cricket bags. This move proposed by the Executive Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket, taking into consideration the current high prices of cricket equipment and the lack of affordability of schools and school cricketers to individually buy such materials, was launched under the “National Pathway Development Program” of Sri Lanka Cricket and focuses on developing the game across the island. Under the initiative, 650 junior cricket bags were distributed to schools participating in the U13 and U15 school cricket competitions of 2022, organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association. The program is aimed at helping youngsters from across the country have the opportunity to play the game and create a path for them to represent the country.