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TENNIS: ESTORIL, Portugal, May 5 (AFP) – French second seed Richard Gasquet defeated Daniel Munoz-de la Nava 7-6 (7/1), 6-2 on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the Estoril Open, as he plays his first clay event of the season.

Gasquet, who lost the 2007 final to Novak Djokovic on his last visit to Estoril, beat the lowest-ranked player remaining in the field in number 148 de la Nava. He now faces another Spaniard, Albert Ramos, the fourth seed who saw off local favourite Joao Sousa 6-2, 6-3.

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TABLE TENNIS: Sri Lanka Junior National Table Tennis Team is participating in the Thailand Junior & Cadet Open International Table Tennis championship and ITTF World Junior Circuit Table Tennis championship that started yesterday and goes on till 9 May 2012 in Pattaya, Thailand.

The 18-member team dominating outstation schools have to compete in under 12, 15 & 18 age categories.

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OBSERVER/MOBITEL SCHOOLBOY CRICKETER OF THE YEAR: Comments of past winners

The foundation laid by talented schoolboy cricketers will be further consolidated by conducting contests like the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year as these contests will give the necessary confidence for the player to go up the ladder of success. These sentiments were expressed by wicket-keeper Romesh Kaluvitharana who won the Best Fielder’s prize at the 1987 contest there Josephian Rohan Weerakkody became the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year.

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Half centuries by Amila Aponso 78 not out (7 fours) and Amal Fernando 65 (8 fours) helped St. Sebastian’s College Moratuwa to force a draw in their inter school cricket match against St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy at the University Grounds, Peradeniya yesterday.

The Sebastianites in reply to the Sylvestrian total of 314 for 9 declared folded up for 161 with only Amila Aponso resisting with a defensive 48.

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Former Sri Lanka Schools Under-15 skipper and Cambrian opener and stumper Kusal Mendis hit up a magnificent 206 runs against Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa which enabled Prince of Wales to beat them by an innings and 162 runs and register their fourth victory for the season played at Moratuwa.

Kusal’s double hundred consisted of 29 fours and one six and faced 214 balls and occupied the crease for 244 minutes and thus became the fourth Cambrian to notch up a double hundred and others were Lantra Fernando, Wivantha Fernando and Nayana Ranjith. Also he joined the select band of 1,000 brigade Cambrians and so far he has scored 1,015 runs in thirteen matches and the only schoolboy to score a double hundred this season.

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This is my seventh visit to Australia and third to Perth and I must say that it’s a stimulating place to be in, having covered Test cricket and one-day tournaments since 1986/87.

At the time of writing, Sri Lanka is set to play two Commonwealth Bank series games against India and Australia. Here in Perth there is a lot of excitement and anticipation among the Lankans residing here.

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Wesley College with a superior team effort beat Royal College by 10 wickets after 43 years to regain the Sir Frank Gunasekera Trophy in their 119th school cricket encounter ended at Campbell Park yesterday.Wesley last beat Royal in 1969 under the captaincy of Amaresh Rajaratnam and lost to Royal in the following year (1970) also under Amaresh Rajaratnam.

The two oldest cricket playing schools have played 119 matches where Royal had won 53 and Wesley 21 with 48 ending as draws.The main cause for Royal’s defeat was their paltry 89 runs scored in the first innings.

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CIRKCET: For the Sri Lankans victory was so near and yet so far in the Commonwealth Bank Tri series against Australia under lights at the WACA against Australia. After the bowlers and fielders had done exceedingly well to hold the Australians to 231′ had the batsmen been more positive early on, victory would have been a certainty.

Captain in waiting Angelo Mathews played a great innings considering the circumstances in which the team was placed at 180 for nine, when last man Dhammika Prasad walked in. The Australians were cock a hoop when Lasith Malinga was dismissed. But the home team did not bargain for a match winning last wicket stand of 46 that nearly brought an unlikely victory.

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Batsmen made merry producing 700 runs for the loss of 12 wickets during the first two day’s play in their Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) conducted Inter-Club Premier League Tier ‘A’ tournament match continued at Maitland Place yesterday.

A stubborn 123-run last wicket partnership between Chilaw Marians last pair of Shaminda Eranga (100 n.o) and Arosh Janoda (68) helped the visitors to make a healthy 425 all out.

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CRICKET: Champion off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, the highest wicket taker in both versions of the game (Test and ODI) and former New Zealand skipper Stephen Flemming along with Dialog launched yet another first to transform and revolutionize cricket by introducing DialogCricHQ.Com at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Oak Room .

Muralitharan and his company M Sports with the collaboration of Dialog Axiata launched the concept of CricHQ for the first time in Asia, even ahead of India. It provides information of all players, of all cricket matches, domestic, including schools ,clubs ,statistics ,graphics and many more through an Ipad which will be utilised during all matches. All information will be fed into the outside world and the cricket enthusiats will be able to gather the information by browsing the website.

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