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The Colombo Cricket Club Ground is the home ground of the Colombo Cricket Club, the oldest first-class cricket club in Sri Lanka. [2] The Ground is one of the three cricket grounds located in Maitland Crescent, Colombo, the other two being the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground and the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground. [3]
077. 078. Hutch. 079. Unallocated. Mobile numbers in Sri Lanka consist of 10-digits in the xxx zzzzzzz format where: "xxx" represents the mobile operator code when contacting a mobile number. All mobile operator codes begin with 07. "zzzzzzz" represents the main telephone number of seven digits.
Nondescripts Cricket Club, founded in 1888, moved to the ground in 1910 after reclaiming it from swampland. [1] It first hosted first-class cricket in 1926, and has been in constant use as a first-class venue since 1989. [2] Three One Day International matches were played there in 1986–87, and three Women's One Day Internationals in 2010–11.
Construction of the Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque commenced in 1908 and the building was completed in 1909. [ 2][ 3] The mosque was commissioned by the local Indian Muslim community, based in Pettah, to fulfill their required five-times-daily prayer and Jummah on Fridays. The mosque's designer and builder was Habibu Lebbe Saibu Lebbe (an unlettered ...
Colombo was the capital of the coastal areas controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British from the 1700s to 1815 when the British gained control of the entire island following the Kandyan convention. From then until the 1980s the national capital of the island was Colombo.
Galle Face Green. Galle Face is a 5 ha (12 acres) ocean-side urban park, which stretches for 500 m (1,600 ft) along the coast, in the heart of Colombo, the financial and business capital of Sri Lanka. The promenade was initially laid out in 1859 by Governor Sir Henry George Ward, although the original Galle Face Green extended over a much ...
Maradana Railway Station ( Sinhala: මරදාන දුම්රිය ස්ථානය, Tamil: மருதானை ரயில் நிலையம்) is a major rail hub in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, with many inter-city and commuter trains entering each day. It is the terminus of several ...
BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI. August 15, 2024 at 3:53 AM. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s elections commission on Thursday accepted applications from a record 39 candidates to run in next month ...