Twenty five leading travel agencies are expected to participate at this tournament and the chief guest will be the former Australian Test off spinner and the present Sri Lanka cricket coach Bruce Yardley and Mrs. Yardley will distribute the awards. There are valuable trophies for the champion team plus replicas, the runners -up trophy, Man of the tournament, Woman of the tournament as two ladies are permitted to compete in a side of six Best Batsman and Best Bowler.
* The annual quadrangular cricket tournament played among Old Peterites, Old Josephians, Old Benedictines and Old Antonians has been enlarged from this year and will feature eight old boys' teams that will be engaged in a six-a-side tournament this year to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Old Boys Union of St. Peter's College.
This tournament will feature old boys associations' teams of St. Peter's, St. Joseph's, St. Benedict's, St. Anthony's Katugastota, Royal, S. Thomas', Ananda and Nalanda. It will be played on October 19 at St. Peter's College grounds, with the official ceremonies scheduled to start at 8.30 a.m.
* Basilica College Ragama beat Christ King College Tudella on the first innings in their under- 13 division three Horlicks Trophy Cricket tournament match played at Basilica Ground Ragama. Chamara Pietersz excelled for Basilica capturing 5 wickets for 34 runs and Sampath Silva top scored with 40 runs. Chief scores; Basilica College 176 for 8 decl. Christ King College 124 all out. (Abroad):
* Former New Zealand cricket captain Lee Germon has rejected a series of stinging character attacks on him by pace bowler Danny Morrison. In his soon-to-be published biography, ``Mad As I Wanna Be'', Morrison has 'bowled' several bouncers at Germon, including questioning his ability at top level, his siding with management on issues, plus the physical barrage he claimed some Kiwi pace bowlers targeted at Germon in the nets.
However, Germon yesterday said some of the claims Morrison made in his book were factually incorrect. Germon said only Morrison had peppered him with bouncers off 18m at a net practice in India during a tour after Germon had given Dion Nash and Chris Cairns the new ball in the previous match. ``He was the only player who did that.'' Germon admitted he and Morrison also had some differences of opinion.