Sri Lanka Women cagers receive rousing welcome

The Sri Lanka Women’s Basketball Team received a rousing welcome yesterday after their heroics in the Maldives where they successfully defended the South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) Championship for the second time.

The Sri Lanka Women’s Basketball Team, led by Anjalee Ekanayake, put up a tremendous performance to beat Bhutan 98-33 and the host nation the Maldives 72-59 before finishing on top of the points table.

Sri Lanka, who had won the inaugural SABA Tournament in 2016 in Kathmandu, Nepal were under tremendous pressure after they suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Nepal in their second outing.

However, Sri Lanka came back magnificently and displayed their supremacy in the South Asian region with a clinical performance against the Maldives, that helped them to retain the title once again.

Sri Lanka Skipper Ekanayake revealed that her team was really fired up and were inspired to give their best in this tournament after the national cricket team and the netball team had performed exceptionally well in the recent past.

“As you all know, we are a struggling nation, so we badly wanted this Trophy to boost the morale and the image of our country,” Ekanayake revealed shortly after arriving on the island. “The cricketers did it and our netballers did it and so this was our turn to give this important victory to our motherland,” Ekanayake stressed.