Sri Lanka gets Thrashed in Cricket World Cup

Sri Lanka Overview

Just in case you don't know Sri Lanka is a small tropical island that lies off the southern tip of India. It's surrounded by warm seas (getting ever hotter due to global warming), has stunning beaches and is home to the likes of elephants, leopards, crocodiles, monkeys and cricket fanatics.

The Cricket Club Colombo

Sri Lanka A Nation of Cricket Fanatics

Sri Lanka is an island obsessed by cricket, they play it everywhere and I do mean everywhere. If you take a backpacking tour of Sri Lanka keep an eye out for the cricket maniacs, check out the beaches, the jungle clearings and watch out for flying cricket balls amongst the traffic in the busy streets of Colombo. As a nation they are fiercely proud of their cricket team that's why everyone turned out to watch the T20  World cup match on Saturday. Giant screens were erected in some of the more populated cities like Colombo and popular beach resorts such as Negombo and people arrived in truck loads

Sri Lanka Defending Champions Get Thrashed!

On Saturday evening the defending champions Sri Lanka or under dogs as they had decided to call themselves played England. Sri Lanka had to win to stay in the competition and the atmosphere around the big screens (and small ones) was tense. England put on a really good show and batted first.

As Sri Lanka came out to bat the crowds went wild with excitement. There was singing and dancing, drum playing and much drinking of Arrack and extra strong beer.  Huge cheers went up for Dilshan as he came out to save them, everyone had been so upset when he was dismissed against the West Indies with claims it had been an unfair dismissal that cost them the match, now he was here to win for them.  2 runs later and everyone was crying in their Arrack as Dilshan left the field. England went on to thrash Sri Lanka and took one step closer to winning.

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