Chéthaka

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[Chéthaka @chethaka]

𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝑺𝒓𝒊 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒂 - 𝒀𝒂𝒍𝒂

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#Srilanka #YalaNationalPark

[Tim Adams @TimAdams76]

Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage is a former fast bowler in cricket, which is pretty interesting when it comes to transferable skills in the javelin.

One of the fastest bowlers Sri Lanka had at junior level, he has clearly used that speed on the runway in the field.

Sri Lanka has never won an Olympic gold medal (they've got two silvers from athletics at London 1948 and Sydney 2000). He's got every chance with this form at LA 2028.

[Mohammed Jammal @whitenigerian]

Kids want more dad time. Wife wants more husband time. Parents want more son time. Work wants more of your time. And you still show up. Shoutout to the men doing it all. 🙌

[Ceylon Catalyst 🇱🇰 @SethFromColombo]

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka language literacy: 2012 vs 2024 - after the 2012 national trilingualism policy (Sinhala, Tamil, English) requiring all students to learn all three

Sinhala
2012 - 79.7 %
2024 - 85.2 %

Tamil
2012 - 26.4 %
2024 - 45.3 %

English
2012 - 30.8 %
2024 - 57.3 %

[Rasikalink 𝕏 @Rasikalink]

බොනස් එකෙන් 1/3 ක් Tax විදිහට කැපිලා තියෙනවා දැක්කහම 🤌🙂

[Abhishek AB @ABsay_ek]

30 years ago today, if you were lucky enough to be watching, you saw something that shouldn't have been possible.

People were still drunk on the 1996 World Cup. Still carrying the glow of that win in Lahore, the one that made a tiny island believe it could own the cricket world. Two weeks of celebration before Sanath Jayasuriya walked out to bat in Singapore & decided that mere mortals needed new numbers to chase.

He reached his fifty in 32 balls. Fast, sure, but we'd seen fast before. Then he reached a hundred in 48 balls. Before that afternoon, no one, who'd swung a heavy bat in anger; had reached three figures in less than 60 balls in ODIs. Sanath did it in 48.

And he wasn't done. At one point; he was batting at 134 from 58 balls. 84 runs scored in 26 balls. Even in 2026, with all our T20 finishing schools & shrinking boundary ropes, that sequence still sounds like fiction in ODIs.

11 sixes, First time anyone had cleared the rope 10 times in a one-day innings. The ground in Singapore wasn't big enough to hold what he was doing. The game itself wasn't big enough.

You'd think that would be enough for one lifetime. One week, even. But Sanath was playing a different sport than the rest of the world. Just one game later, he made a fifty in 17 balls. The fastest ever. 3 weeks after a World Cup victory, he held the records for fastest fifty & fastest hundred in the same breath.

We didn't know it then, but we were watching the future arrive early. The openers who came after; Sehwag, Gilchrist, the whole thundering herd, they were all running down a path that Sanath hacked through the jungle that day in Singapore.

[Asela Waidyalankara @aselawaid]

Somewhere, someone is going to switch off the AC in a server room, and we are going to see another crash.

[hIRU @lahirunirmala]

නිකන් කුනු කතා අහගන්නෙ නැතුව පෙට්‍රල් වල රුපියල් 20 ත් අපෙන්ම ගත්තා නම් හරි

[Shaggy | ෂැගී™ @igurupanmalli]

ඉස්සර තිබ්බ twitter විදිහට ආය මේක හදන්න බැරිද 🥺🙁

[Chéthaka @chethaka]

Twitter used to be the best for any real time updates of any event.

Now this “X” is showing only 2 days old posts shared by blue badges.
#MissedOldTwitter

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

We will have a FIRST-TIME CHAMPION on Sunday 🙌

[Cricinfo @cricinfo]

Australia's 15-match winning streak at the Women's ODI World Cup is OVER ❌

[Chéthaka @chethaka]

Congratulations India-W!
Beating Australia-W at any condition is an impossible task always 👏👏👏💐 #ICCWomensWorldCup2025

[Shaggy | ෂැගී™ @igurupanmalli]

ලංකාවේ ක්‍රිකට් විතරක් නෙවෙයි ඉස්සර ක්‍රිකට් හොඳට ගහපු රටවල් වලත් ක්‍රිකට් වලට කෙලවුනෙ වෙන මොකක්වත් හින්දා නෙවෙයි IPL නිසා 💔 පිළිගන්න අමාරු උනත් ඒක තමා ඇත්ත 😑

[Naveen Peiris @_Naviya_]

In every edition of the Asia Cup, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka are forced to battle it out in the tougher group just to reach the Super 4s, while India and Pakistan are placed in the easier group—only to preserve that overhyped rivalry every year.

#AsiaCup2025

[Chathura Ranasinghe @Chaththa_R]

🇱🇰 HISTORY MADE! ♥️🫵

For the first time ever, a Sri Lankan male athlete breaks into the World Top 10!

(Susanthika came Top 5, Duncan White- no records- according to reports)

#WorldAthletics #SriLanka #History

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

"Today, tuition starts as early as 4 a.m. They only go to school after finishing extra classes. What kind of life is that for a child? After school, they return to more tuition. Where is their childhood? Do we really want to raise children who don’t enjoy poetry or music? Children who don’t read novels, who grow up without a literary foundation, without social engagement, children who are like machines? A society built on such a foundation cannot move forward" President AKD highlights importance of new Educational Reforms