Sri Lanka’s crushing defeat of Bangladesh is reiterating of President Shammi Silva’s dynamic leadership 🩷💜

Posted by Editor in Chief June 29, 2025 5 Views

CRICKETERS HAVING THE GREATEST POTENTIAL GRANTED THE OPPORTUNITY Of REPRESENTING THEIR MOTHERLAND

SLC President Shammi Silva

Sri Lanka’s crushing innings and 78-run humiliation of Bangladesh in the Second Test Match for a 1-nil series triumph in the starter to the ICC World Test Championship was hailed by Lakith Peiris, Owner of the popular GO FOR GOLD Website as a big step forward by Sri Lanka Team in it’s initial thrust for valuable points in the ICC Test Championship.
While congratulating the Captain Dhananjaya de Silva and his team on the great achievement, he was quick to salute the President of SLC Shammi Silva for his dynamic and energetic successful leadership of the Governing Body of Cricket in SL, cricket in the country from the grassroots level during his great rein which had paid off in a big way.

“I wish to single out President Shammi Silva who as the President of SLC has identified and developed the various areas in the game that need to be upgraded. Today, under his far sighted vision for Cricket in Sri Lanka he has put in place every single detail required to enhancing national cricket in the four corners of this cricket loving country. He has importantly ensured that cricket is firmly rooted from the very cradle of schools’ cricket in a tremendous take off to getting the exact right talent onboard from all age groups to feeding the national grid. Under President’s leadership every player irrespective of his connection has the opportunity of being identified and nurtured under top expertise to representing the country at the highest level. These players have been well armed by Sri Lanka Cricket with all modern facilities at their disposal to performing from the school to the domestic club level covering all three formats to optimising their talents under the best possible local and foreign expertise,” observed Lakith Peiris.

He further observed that one of the greatest virtues during his Presidency had been his open heartedness to helping athletes in other sports to go up the ladder by assisting them financially.
“Im sure that the game of Cricket in Sri Lanka is moving forward to impacting the International Arena in a big way. This can be seen when you look at the Lanka Premier League introduced in Sri Lanka where the President has seen to it that every cricketer gets that golden opportunity of playing alongside the best of foreign players by which they have sharpened their game,” he said 🩷💜🩵