Jaffna cricket team in Britain

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 July 2002, 04:03 GMT]
A cricket team from Jaffna is touring Britain ahead of a guest appearance at a Tamil expatriate sports festival, according to a London press report. The Tamil team, comprising students from Jaffna university, beat a Welsh team last week, the Tamil Guardian reported.

The Jaffna University team beat Newtown CC in Wales on July 16 and are playing other teams in Britain. The tourists are to play at the Tamil Sports Festival in London next weekend, the paper said.