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A 135 ball 125 by skipper Sangeeth Cooray and a seven wicket haul by Murvin Abinash powered BBK Partnership to a 105 run win against MODE Engineering in the MCA Super Premier League encounter played at NCC ground yesterday. Sangeeth batted throughout the innings and his 125 comprised seven boundaries and four sixes and helped…

Former Sri Lanka Cricketer Chaminda Vass has taken up the challenge of coaching BBK Stallions.

Jaffna Stallions won the first ever Lanka Premier League (LPL) tournament in Sri Lanka. The tournament was played in a secure bio-bubble with local and international cricketers in Hambantota. The final was played against the Galle Gladiators and batting first the Stallions posted 188-6, with crucial knocks from veteran Shoaib Malik, Dananjaya de Silva, Thisara…

In outlining plans for future and in fielding the Jaffna-bred Viyaskanth, the franchise has indicated a seriousness to their intentions In January 2018, Sri Lanka Cricket’s then-president visited a large plot of vacant land near Sri Lanka’s northern city of Jaffna, and pledged to build a cricket stadium there. Among the headline-grabbing proposals tossed into…

Dec 10, 2020 (LBO) – The Jaffna Stallions announced today that they will participate in the Hour of Code campaign, a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify coding. The timing of the announcement comes during Computer Science Education Week and the team’s participation in the inaugural Lanka Premier League (LPL).  Code.org will now be a…

Jaffna Stallions’ CEO Ananthan Arnold (middle) in conversation with the team’s overseas signing Shoaib Malik. COO Paven Savuntharasa is also in the picture. With most cricket playing nations initiating a franchise based tournament in their calendar, Sri Lankan cricket was left stranded for years not being able to start something of their own.…

He is the first born-and-bred cricketer from his city to appear in an internationally televised game. Legspinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth played for Jaffna Stallions on Friday, and in an unbroken spell of four overs, returned creditable figures of 1 for 29. These are the cricketing facts of Viyaskanth’s Lanka Premier League debut. But they are not…

Skipper Thisara Perera hit a career-best 97 not out to help the Jaffna Stallions beat the Dambulla Viiking by 66 runs in their Lanka Premier League (LPL) T20 Cricket Tournament match played at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Hambantota yesterday. The 31-year-old dashing left-hander was in tremendous form as he collected his runs from just…