The 7th Lawyers’ Cricket World Cup 2019/20, organized by the International Lawyers’ Cricket Council, is set to commence on the 30th of December 2019.
The 7th edition of the tournament will be held in New Zealand. The World Cup has previously taken place in India, England, Barbados, Australia and Sri Lanka. The tournament is played every 2 years and is organized on a grand scale. This year the tournament will be organized by New Zealand Lawyers Cricket Association and Australia Lawyers Cricket Association with the leadership of the International Lawyers Cricket Council.
Lawyers representing 8 nations, Sri Lanka, England, Australia, West Indies, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and New Zealand, will be taking part in the tournament this time. The tournament will be played on league basis and the top two teams at the end of the first round will play a final at the Snedden Park International Cricket grounds in Hamilton.
There will also be a Lawyers Cricket World Cup Plate Tournament which will be played simultaneously to this tournament which is held for the veterans of the tourney, usually players over 40 years of age.
Photos: Sri Lanka Lawyers Cricket Team for Lawyers World Cup 2019 Preview
Sri Lanka is going in with a very experienced outfit for the tournament which contains 2 players who have played all 6 previous editions of the tourney and 3 other players who have played 5 world cups.
Among them the most experienced player is Priyantha Rajapaksha who has played first class cricket for NCC back in his heyday. The team is led by the right-handed middle-order bat, Yohan Jinasena who is playing his fourth World Cup. He was also the Man of the Tournament in the 2013 edition in India.
The vice-captain of the team comes from down-south who represented Mahinda College Galle before moving to Law College. The opening batsman is also playing his fourth World Cup.
Asela Patabendi is another vital cog in the outfit who has been playing since the inaugural World Cup. He captained the team in Delhi in 2013. Right-arm seamer Manesh Wevita is another player who has played all the editions of the tournament and captained the Sri Lankan contingent in 2015 in Brisbane. All-rounders Tharanga Abeykoon and Buwaneka Basnayake are two other players who were a part of the Sri Lankan outfit in all the World Cups played so far.
The freshers in the squad are the left-arm spinners Kulunu Rodrigo and Tharindu Peiris.
Sri Lanka has never won the Lawyers Cricket World Cup yet but has won the runner-up title twice. This year, the team is in fine form with them having a wonderful pre-season in the country. The strength of the team is the bowling unit with the spinners and speedsters doing an exceptional job for the team.
The Lawyers won the annual Law-Medical encounter this year and were the runners-up in the Professionals Cricket League which includes six teams of several professions. With all these preparations back home, the team will hope to end the tournament on top and return home as champions.
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