AT DISTRIBUTION OF CRICKET EQUIPMENT<\/p>\n
Our aim is to create a common Sports Culture, Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage<\/p>\n
By Srian Obeyesekere<\/p>\n
Sujeeva Godaliyadda, Treasurer of Sri Lanka Cricket and Executive Member delivering the keynote address this morning at the distribution of cricket equipment under its National Pathway Program at the Duncan White Auditorium of the Ministry of Sports emphasized the fact that the development of SLC as a viable financially equipped organisation had not happened overnight, but that it was a type of sweat, blood and tears journey of going out to the international cricket world under its Logo and Name to finding adequate finances through diverse initiatives to administering the game of cricket in the length and breadth of the country. This had verily been its success story by which cricketers, both men and women were very well armed by way of the necessary cricket equipment to performing from the schools\u2019 to the mainstream domestic and national levels to performing for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
\u201cSri Lanka Cricket is not a big wealth as such, but has over the years evolved itself to becoming financially viable. SLC has not been funded by the sports ministry or any other organisation What we at SLC have built has been by our own initiative to going out to the international cricket world under our Logo and Name to working tirelessly to raising the much needed finances to running the game in the country. That has been our success story to standing on our own by which SLC has been able to finance the game from the very grassroots level covering every district in the length and breadth of the country by which young cricketers have benefitted by way of every facility from cricket materials to every other modern facility required to evolve their game,\u201d he said while making the point that this huge success story was the result of \u2018our cricket thinking President at Sri Lanka Cricket, Mr. Shammi Silva who formulated a far sighted plan since 2019 to take cricket forward at all levels with the right expertise at hand both, local and foreign.\u2019 At school level alone an estimated 60,000 school cricketers had benefitted from SLCs national Pathway Program. The entire gamut of human resources involved in the game including coaches, scorers and district cricket associations was around 3 million supported by SLC while private schools too were supported as well.<\/p>\n
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