Sri Lanka Cricket launched a programme under its National Pathway to donate cricket equipment on Friday to 650 schools across the country, in a bid to enhance school cricket.
Speaking during the occasion, Minister of Sports Namal Rajapaksa commended Sri Lanka Cricket led by Shammi Silva for the work done in order to promote the game, both at School and National level. Commencing the national program, 66 Schools in the Colombo District were given cricketing equipment during the inaugural event. Sri Lanka Cricket will start distributing cricket equipment to rest of the schools in the country, with immediate effect.
Apart from the donation of cricketing equipment, Sri Lanka Cricket will also take steps to enhance its programme towards developing cricketing infrastructure among the schools.
Under this program, schools playing in the U13 and U15 Cricket tournaments conducted by the Schools Cricket Association in collaboration with Sri Lanka Cricket will receive the donation of cricketing equipment.
Oshara Panditharathna, Deputy President of the Schools Cricket Association, was also present during the event. (D.R)
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