Friday, March 22, 2013

Richmond Mahinda Big Match 2014 -109 Lovers Quarrel

Richmond Mahinda Big Match 2013 Galle 108 Lovers Quarrel
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The 109th Lovers Quarrel will be started on 21st of March,2014 at 9am at the Galle International Cricket Stadium.

ගාල්ලේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ සටන මහින්ද රිච්මන්ඩ් - ww.loversquarrel.org






Last Year Match Details

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Draw- 108th LoversQuarrel Mahinda & Richmond Colleges at Galle ends in a Draw (RC-175/7 & ) (MC-198 & 91)

RCG - 2nd Inning 86/1 
Sithara Gimhan 50

RCG - 1st Inning 175/7  Declared
H.Madushan 50

MCG - 1st Inning 198  ( 73 overs)

Eranga Sageeth 50
A.K Tyron 6 Wkts
MCG - 2nd Inning 91


Mahinda College Won the Toss & Decided to Bat First.

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The 108th big match between Richmond College and Mahinda College known as the lover’s quarrel will be played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium on the 22nd and 23rd. Live Match

The match was first played in 1905 and was won by Richmond College. Mahinda College registered their first win in 1908 and led the series with 23 wins to Richmond’s 21.

Mahinda College registered a ten wicket win in 2008 while Richmond have been deprived of a win for the last 43 years and will be out to break the hoodoo this year.

Sri Lanka caps DLS de Silva, Jayananda Warnaweera, Athula Samarasekera, Upul Chandana and Lasith Malinga hail from Mahinda College while Champaka Ramanayake, Chamila Gamage and Suranga Lakmal hail from Richmond. 

Mahinda Richmond Big Match 2013 108 Lovers Quarrel P H K H Ranasinghe of Mahinda holds the record for the highest score in the series with 162 runs scored in 1972 while fellow Mahindian Somasiri Ambawatte scored a century and captured all ten wickets of the Richmond innings in 1953 to hold the bowling record and also the best all round performance to-date.

Richmond has performed extremely well this season registering seven outright wins against Maliyadeva, St Servatius, Revatha, S de S Jayasinghe, Ananada, Dharmaraja, Dharmasoka and a first innings win against Royal College Panadura in the schools under 19 cricket tournament.

In the traditional games they won outright against S. Thomas’ Mt Lavinia, St Thomas Matara and Kingswood College Kandy.

A first innings win was registered against Prince of Wales Moratuwa and lost the first innings to Dharmapala College Pannipitiya and Royal College Colombo.

ගාල්ලේ ආදරවන්තයන්ගේ සටන (Lovers' quarrel) 108 වැනි මහා කිරකට් තරගය මෙම 22-23 දිනවල ගාල්ල ජාත්යන්තර කිරකට් කීරඩාංගණයේදි පැවැත්වේ.
මෙතෙක් පැවැති තරග අතරින් මහින්දය තරග 23 ක් හා රිච්මන්ඩ් පිල තරග 21 ක් ජය ලබා තිබේනිර්වන්ත තික්ෂිල  සිල්වා මහින්දයටත් හසිත මධුශාන් රිච්මන්ඞ් විදුහලටත් මෙවර නායකත්වය ලබාදේරිච්මන්ඩ් විද්යාලය 1969 වර්ෂයෙන් පසු තරඟය ජයගෙන නැතමහින්ද විද්යාලයීය කණ්ඩායම 2008 වර්ෂයේදී අවසන් වරට ජය ලැබුවේයරිච්මන්ඞ් පිල මෙවර තරග වාරයේදී පූර්ණ තරඟ 11 ක්  මහින්දය පූර්ණ තරග 03 ක්  ජයගෙන තිබේ . තරගය පිළිබඳ සජීවී විස්තර www.loversquarrel.org වෙතින් ලබාගත හැකිය.



The Richmond–Mahinda Cricket Encounter is an annual cricket big match played between the first XI cricket teams of Richmond College and Mahinda College in Galle, Sri Lanka. It is one of the longest cricket match series in Sri Lanka, having played for 107 years.The match is also known as the "Lovers' Quarrel" in public and it is played at the Galle International Stadium. Lovers' Quarrel was begun in 1905, under principals Rev. James Horne Darrel of Richmond and Frank Lee Woodward of Mahinda

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