Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation of Victoria
Picture by - Johann Jayasinha (Snni) Melbourne

KANIKSHA is another promising Sri Lankan fast bowler who arrived in Melbourne on Monday 23rd April. He injured his right shoulder whilst fielding in Colombo and will have arthroscopic surgery at THE AVENUE HOSPITAL in Windsor on Saturday 28 th .

Kanishka is aged 21 and joins the breed of pace bowlers that Sri Lanka is turning out in numbers. He did his schooling at Homagama Maha Vidyalaya and later at Thurstan College where he played for the first eleven team for four years. He joined the Colts Cricket Team and has been trained by Jayalath Aponso and Dinesh Weerasinghe. The head coach of the Colts Cricket Club is Romesh Kaluvitharna and the President of the Colts Cricket Club is K Mathivanam of East West Marketing.

Kanishka will be at Moorabbin and can be contacted through any trustee of the Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation of Victoria. He will be a guest of the Sri Lanka Association of Victoria at their annual dinner dance at the Moorabbin Town Hall on Saturday 5 th May. He is looking forward to meeting with the old boys of Thurstan College.

Kanishka lives with his mother and father at Homagama.

Sri Lanka's emergence as a finalist in this years ICC World Cup has been attributed to their fearsome pace attack with Vaas, Fernando and Malinga joining the ever reliable Murali to make one of the best bowling combinations world cricket has seen for many a year. Ruchira Perera and Prabath Nissanka are two other pacemen who have been guests of the Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation of Victoria when they visited Melbourne for surgery under Dr. David Young. They have all recovered so well to spearhead Sri Lanka's awesome bowling attack – now spoken of more than their batting capabilities of years gone by.

Bring on the Aussies in the final and watch them bite the dust against this all-conquering Sri Lankan team.