Sri Lankan cricket legend Kumar Sangakkara opened the 4th edition of the Murali Harmony Cup on Tuesday (6th October) afternoon.
Sangakkara travelled up to Kilinochchi to meet the 24 teams participating in the 5 day tournament, and interacted with the teams including a special Question & Answer session emphasizing that the tournament was about building friendships with teams from all across the island.
The Murali Cup is a reconciliation cricket tournament that promotes unity, goodwill, teamwork, the spirit of fair play and service to disadvantaged rural communities in post-war Sri Lanka. The 2015 tournament takes place from the 7th to the 11th of October.
The tournament has been jointly organised by former Sri Lanka cricketer Muthiah Muralidaran’s charity the Foundation of Goodness, travel company Red Dot Tours and the Sri Lanka Army.
The 5-day event featuring U19 schoolboys and U23 women cricketers is being played at five grounds across Northern Sri Lanka in the towns of Jaffna, Oddusuddan, Mankulam and Kilinochchi.
This year’s tournament, the fourth since the inaugural event in 2012, has been expanded to a total of 24 teams meaning a total of 360 cricketers, most from disadvantaged rural schools, will be participating.
