Akhila Gunawardena

🇱🇰 | Mostly just retweets about cricket and F1 stuff 🏏 🏎

[Akhila Gunawardena @a_killer_99]

#nofilter I swear😍

[Numbers.lk @numberslka]

🏆 Men’s Javelin Throw World Rankings – Top 10

1. 🇩🇪 Julian Weber — 1,360
2. 🇱🇰 Rumesh Pathirage — 1,333 ❤️
3. 🇬🇩 Anderson Peters — 1,326
4. 🇹🇹 Keshorn Walcott — 1,314
5. 🇮🇳 Neeraj Chopra — 1,308
6. 🇺🇸 Curtis Thompson — 1,283
7. 🇰🇪 Julius Yego — 1,276
8. 🇧🇷 Luiz Maurício da Silva — 1,268
9. 🇮🇳 Sachin Yadav — 1,258
10. 🇵🇰 Arshad Nadeem — 1,234

After an impressive run of performances, Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage has made an impressive rise to second place in the world, with Julian Weber holding on to the top position.

#WorldAthletics #SriLanka

[Akhila Seneviratne @AkhilaSene97]

Sri Lankans be saying "මේ හය හත නොදන්න දරුවෝ"

Meanwhile Western kids be like "SIX SEEVEEEEN"

[Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart]

Casa de Silva by ICONCAST

Malabe, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

[Viran Corea @ViranCorea]

"Twentieth Century Impressions of Ceylon: its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources", edited by Arnold Wright (first published in 1907) gives insights into what it was at the turn of the Twentieth century.

It is now made available online ⬇️
https://t.co/ciJiyXUGhs

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

There was a time when Sri Lankan cricket felt like watching the same tragedy on repeat. Different stages, different villains, same ending.

Sangakkara & Jayawardene had seen Gilchrist demolish them in Bridgetown, 2007. Had seen Afridi pull miracles in London, 2009. Had seen Gambhir & Dhoni chip away in Mumbai, 2011 until nothing remained. Had seen Samuels stand & destroy in their own backyard in 2012.

Each time they shook hands & smiled for cameras. Each time they returned to hotel rooms & stared at ceilings until morning came.

Then came the ultimatum from the board, right before 2014 T20 World Cup. Sign away your rights or stay home. Let someone else wear your colours in Bangladesh. They packed their bags without guarantees. Played for a country that could not promise to pay them.

In Dhaka, they dropped Kohli when he was on 11 in 16 balls. They missed a run-out chance of Rohit Sharma too. On any other night, this would be the story of failure. But they had learned something bitter & true. Wickets make pretty pictures. Dot balls buy you time.

So they kept the field in. Kept the pressure breathing down Indian necks. Wide yorker after wide yorker. 19 runs in the last 4 overs. Kohli ran himself out off the final ball, desperate for a second that existed only in his head. India ended on 130 which should have been 160.

The crowd in Dhaka knew what this was. 20 million watching across the island knew. Last dance for the two who had given their adult lives to this game. No going back. No second thoughts.

When Perera hit the winning six, Jayawardene was not at the wicket. Raina had taken him, Ashwin had held the catch at mid-wicket. But he was there in the dugout. Waiting. Sangakkara was there at the non-strike end.

Then the stumps were not the only things uprooted.

They lifted Sangakkara first. Then Jayawardene. Two men who had lost so often that losing had become part of their skin, finally holding something that cannot be bought, cannot be signed away on board papers, cannot be counted in rupees or dollars or anything except the weight of finally, finally, finally.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The ending of Rush (2013) just hits. That final Niki Lauda monologue over Hans Zimmer’s score feels honest and earned, like the rush finally settling in your chest.

[The GrandStand Podcast🎙️🇱🇰 @GrandStandPod]

Murali has the streets (and New York)!

[Tiff Needell 🏁 @tiff_tv]

Had one of our best family holidays in Sri Lanka.
Lovely people and now they've beaten the Aussies at cricket I love them even more!!

[Caltech @Caltech]

Meet Caltech's tenth president, Ray Jayawardhana!

[Vince Rugari @VinceRugari]

I know these are just names, but you really shouldn’t be able to say this on TV #ashes

[Progress Bar 2026 @ProgressBar202_]

2016 is 1% complete.

[Holiness @F1BigData]

Bahrain 2014 | 2 laps after a SC restart

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Google rolls out a beta tool on Android that delivers live translations in over 70 languages — including Sinhala — via the Translate app and any headphones.

[⁶Tremas⁴⁴🎢🧸|| @TrakenEntropy]

His tweet got ruined by modern day twitter💔

[Nuwan @nuwnjay]

Sinhala 🇱🇰 makes a cameo in the latest Google live translation ad

[Formula 1 @F1]

To this 🧡

#F1

[Daniel Valente 🏎️ @F1GuyDan]

Max Verstappen’s 1457-day championship reign is over 🤯

Dec. 12 2021 - Dec. 7 2025

A reign that had incredible victories, records smashed & dramatic comebacks.

An unprecedented era in Formula 1.

[Progress Bar 2019 8 @ProgressBar19]

2019 7 is 86% complete.