Sri Lanka, Oct. 27 -- Under the 'National Cricket Pathway' programme, which aims to provide equal opportunities to every cricketer with innate talent to represent the national team, Sri Lanka Cricket SLC) recently distributed 22,684 cricket balls and cricket equipment kits to the Under-13 and Under-19 boys and Under-19 girls school cricket teams across the country.

It is noteworthy that this equipment was distributed at the same time to all 24 district sports associations, in parallel with the programme held at the association headquarters, led by the Colombo District Cricket Association.

According to a concept of the Executive Committee led by Sri Lanka Cricket President Shammi Silva, these balls were distributed to 900 teams comprisin...