Sri Lanka 7's squad...Radhika Hettiarachchi, Chanaka Chandimal, Mithun Chamil, Gayan Iddamalgoda, Fazly Mohamed, Rajitha Sansoni, Charith Seneviratne, Dilan Soysa, Lakith Perera, Prabath Jayalath and Milinda Jayasinghe, Saliya Handapangoda Gayan Ratnayake ,Ashen Karathelis, Dinusha Chaturanga, Ishan Noor, Lasintha De Costa, Reza Mubarak, Vishwa Mithra Jayasinghe, Dhanushka Perera and Srinath Sooriyabandara, Thusitha Somathilake, Pradeep Liyanage, Gayan Weeraratne, Saliya Kumara, Mohamed Sheriff, Sanjeewa Jayasinghe, Fazil Marija, Sajith Saranga, Roshan Weeraratne, Chamara Vithanage, Kasun De Silva, Dilip Selvam and Dharshana Ethipola, Nuwan Hettiarachchi, Niranjan Wickramaratne, Chula Susantha, Ravindra Pushpakumara, Kalana Amarasinghe, Romesh Archirige, Devinda Prasad (Isipathana), Mayura Sanjeewa (St. Josephs) Shenal Dias, Sandun Herath, Dhanushka Ranjan, Banuka Nanayakkara and Keith Gurusinghe (all from St Peters), Anurudhdha Wilwara, Shaveen Kapuwatte, Sudharshana Muthuthantri (S. Thomas’), Shehan Pathirana (Royal) Kanchana Ramanayake (Trinity) Chethiya Wadugodapitiya (Kingswood) Christopher Jordashe will be the manager of this squad whilst Inthi Marikka and George Simpkin share the coaching duties.

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Monday, October 4, 2010

An uphill climb for Lankan sevens squad

The Sri Lanka sevens team led by veteran Radhika Hettiarachchi left the shore today and will have a daunting task ahead of them. Sri Lanka who will be competing in group ‘D’ will have some heavy artillery with last year’s tournament runner’s up England and commonwealth games fourth seed Australia going up against the inexperienced Islanders from Lanka. 
 
 
During the last commonwealth games finals it were the New Zealand All-blacks who secured their third successive title beating a strong English line up with a final score of 29-21 at the famous Telstra Dome stadium in Melbourne. 
 
During the last commonwealth games Sri Lanka failed to impress and were giving a battering at the hands of Australia, England and the Cook Islands. The Lankans who met the Ausies in their first match received a thumping welcome going down by a whopping 73-00. Another interesting fact was that the Lankans were not able to cross the line during the tournament suffering to a 61-00 drubbing against England and 47-00 loss against the Cook Islanders. 
However the inexpert Lankan squad will be up against some of the legends of the game with players in the caliber of England skipper Ben Gollings, and Mathew Tait (England rugby union player) and Wallabies winger Lachie Turner representing their respective countries. Ben Gollings who is a legend of the shorter version of the game has an astonishing 2374 points in the IRB Sevens World Series and is by far the highest by any player. 
 
Uganda who will be the fourth member of group ‘D’ will also be a tough competitor. They had a commendable 2006 CWG by beating a strong Tongan side 24-14 after Tonga beat the South Africans 26-19. The East African nation will go without Allan Musoke, who captained the side at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 
 
Australia is in England’s pool again this time with the key Day 1 game in Delhi following clashes with Sri Lanka and Uganda.
“It’s going to be a big game against Australia, who are a massively improved side, so that’s exciting,” added Gollings
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“The other teams in our pool will cause us problems but hopefully we’ll be in the second day in a quarter final and pushing for the medal spots.”
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