Inaugural South Asia Lawyers’ Cricket Cup in Colombo

The inaugural South Asia Lawyers’ Cricket Cup will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from March 30 to April 5 at four different venues. The tournament is being organised by Cricket Association of Advocates in CAAI in conjunction with Sri Lanka Lawyers’ Cricket.

This novel initiative involving zonal representative teams from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has been introduced with a view to create greater cricketing competition amongst lawyers on a global scale. AVR group in Bangalore, India is the principal sponsor of the event.

This initial edition of South Asia Lawyers’ Cricket Cup will feature teams from Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata from India, Lahore and Karachi from Pakistan, Dhaka from Bangladesh and Colombo from Sri Lanka.

The first round of the tournament will be worked off from March 31 to April 2 on round robin basis and the semi-finals will be played on April 4. All these matches will be played at Colts cricket ground, Burgher Recreation Club (BRC) and Thurstan College cricket ground. The grand finals will be held on April 5 at the Colombo Cricket Club ground.

All matches will be streamed live through the YouTube channel of Sri Lanka Lawyers’ Cricket. This is the second major international lawyers’ cricket tournament hosted by Sri Lanka Lawyers’ Cricket in its history with the first being the sixth Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup which was held in Colombo in August, 2017.

The tournament will kick off in grand style with the opening ceremony being scheduled for March 30 at the Colombo Cricket Club ground. The dignitaries who are expected to grace the occasion will include the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Jayantha Jayasuriya, Judges of the Supreme Court Buwaneka Aluwihare and Yasantha Kodagoda, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry, Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando, Attorney General of Sri Lanka Sanjay Rajaratnam, President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka Kaushalya Nawaratne, President of Sri Lanka Cricket Shammi Silva and former captains of the Sri Lanka cricket team -- Arjuna Ranatunga and Aravinda de Silva.