Leeds: The Sri Lanka cricket team will be making a donation of one million Sri Lankan rupees (£4,662, $6,816) in a bid to help victims of flooding on the island, it was announced yesterday.
While Angelo Mathews’s team were preparing for the first Test in England, which started yesterday, many of their compatriots have been affected by several days’ of torrential rain and landslides back home.
At least 38 people have died in Sri Lanka weather-related disasters since the weekend and yesterday’s first day of the first Test at Headingley saw players on both sides wear black armbands as a mark of respect.
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