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The Chance Sports Chairman Lasantha Samarasighe rewarding Hasitha Boyagoda for his brilliant performance. Sportsinfo Chairman Thilan Rangana and Minister and former Sri Lanka Cricket Captain Arjuna Ranatunga are also present
The Inaugural Sportsinfo Cricket Inspiration Gamini Dissanayake Lecture, organised by Sportsinfo, Sri Lanka’s premier sports promotion network, was delivered by Minister Arjuna Ranatunga at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Memorial Center-Lighthouse recently.
Sports Minister Faiszer Musthapha, parliamentarian Mayantha Dissanayake, Hashan Tillakaratne and many more distinguished guests and young school cricketers from Under-19 Division 1 schools were present to witness a very inspirational speech from Ranatunga.
Hasitha Boyagoda, who broke a world record at the recently concluded world cup and got 9 As at the GCE O/L and 3 As from Commerce Stream at the GCE Advanced Level Examination, received the Sportsinfo Spirit of Cricket award from Ranatunga while the 1996 World Cup winning captain was formally inducted into the Sportsinfo Legacy of Legend by Sports Minister Mustapha and Sportsinfo Chairman Thilan Rangana for his achievements as one of the legends of cricket and for the service he has rendered for Sri Lanka during the last three decades.
The Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association and the SILK Sports for Children Foundation were the official resource partners of this cricket lecture. The lecture is a tribute to the late Gamini Dissanayake for his remarkable effort to earn Test status for Sri Lanka in 1982 and the establishment of the Asian Cricket Council. This annual cricket lecture is organised by Sportsinfo with the objective of boosting the morale and developing the competitive mindset of emerging schools, helping them to produce successful players in the future.
Jerusalem (Reuters): Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club who has found himself without a visa to Britain, took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has bought a property, an Israeli media report said.
Abramovich has been counted as one of the richest men in Britain since he bought the English Premier League soccer club in 2003. His British visa expired last month and sources have told Reuters it was taking longer than usual to get it renewed. The British government has declined to comment on his case.
The Ynet website that belongs to Israel’s biggest selling daily, Yedioth Aharonoth, said Abramovich, who is Jewish, jetted into Tel Aviv on Monday and had received documents confirming his status as an Israeli citizen.
An Israeli immigration absorption ministry spokeswoman declined to comment on the report citing individual privacy but a spokeswoman for the Population Administration which oversees border control confirmed that Abramovich was in Israel.
A spokesman for Abramovich also declined to comment on the report.
Israel grants citizenship to any Jew wishing to move there, and a passport can be issued immediately. Israeli passport holders can enter Britain without a visa for short stays, although they require visas to work there.
Relations between Moscow and London have been strained since the poisoning of former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal in Britain in March, an act Britain has blamed on Russia but in which the Kremlin denies any involvement.
Abramovich has been a regular visitor to Israel and Ynet said he had bought a property that was formerly a hotel, in an old Tel Aviv neighbourhood close to the Mediterranean shore.
