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Hewage Jayaweera (born 8 June 1976) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club. He was born in Colombo.
Jayaweera made a single first-class appearance for the side, during the 1995–96 season, against Galle Cricket Club. From the lower order, he scored a single run in the only innings in which he batted. He bowled seven overs in the match, taking figures of 2-46.
Neville Jayaweera was a member of the Ceylon Civil Service (1955-1972). He was handpicked by the Prime Minister of Ceylon, Dudley Senanayake, to be both Chairman and Director-General of the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1967. Jayaweera drafted the legislation for setting up the CBC and headed the new Corporation for three years. Under his leadership the Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation followed very strictly the values and ethics of public service broadcasting. The CBC is now known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
Champaka Priyadarshana Hewage Ramanayake, or Champaka Ramanayake, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 18 Test matches and 62 One Day Internationals from 1986 to 1995.
Nondescripts Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The team plays at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground.
Deshabandu is the third highest national honour awarded in Sri Lanka. It is awarded "for meritorious service". The title is held by no more than 150 living holders at any time. It is conferred with a citation and a silver medal with a symbol of a peacock. It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name.
Ranjan Silva is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler who plays for Singha Sports Club. He was born in Kalutara.
Muhudugama Hewage Gunaratna Weerakoon was a Sri Lankan teacher and politician.
Malith Kumara is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and leg-break bowler who plays for Police Sports Club. He was born in Panadura.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team stand in front of either wicket, with one player from the fielding team bowling the ball towards the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one run for each exchange. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches or crosses the boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled illegally.
Galle electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Galle in the Southern province. The district currently elects 10 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 761,815 registered electors in 2010.
Dilith Susantha Jayaweera is a Sri Lankan Businessman, Entrepreneur, Media mogul, Lawyer and Politician. In 2011, he was named by the LMD as one of the ten ‘Business People of the Year’. In 2020, Dilith Jayaweera was among 100 corporate leaders named by the LMD on its A-list of businesspeople who continue to drive the engine of growth in Sri Lanka. He is the Chairman of George Steuart & Co., Sri Lanka's oldest mercantile establishment and Derana, one of Sri Lanka's largest media networks. He entered Politics officially in September 2023, and was appointed the leader of the Mawbima Janatha Party.
Serasinghe Pathiranage Sachithra Chaturanga is a Sri Lankan cricketer who plays for the Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club. Sachithra has scored eight centuries and taken nearly 100 wickets for the Tamil Union club, Sri Lankan A team and the Sri Lankan Board XI.
The Kala Keerthi is a Sri Lankan national honour awarded "for extraordinary achievements and contributions in arts, culture and drama". It is the highest national honour for arts, culture and drama in Sri Lanka. It is conventionally used as a title or prefix to the awardee's name. Kala Keerthi ranks lower than Vidya Jyothi.
Jayaweera Bandara is a Sri Lankan former first-class cricketer who played for Colombo Cricket Club.
The 2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament was a List A cricket competition that took place in Sri Lanka. It was the seventeenth edition of the Premier Limited Overs Tournament, and the first since the 2015–16 edition, after the 2016–17 tournament was cancelled following a legal challenge and replaced by the 2016–17 Districts One Day Tournament. The tournament started on 9 March 2018 and finished on 25 March 2018. Rain affected the first few days of fixtures, with several games ending as a no result.
Balapitiya Hewage Hasaru Liyam Chaamikara is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He made his List A debut for Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club in the 2017–18 Premier Limited Overs Tournament on 10 March 2018.
Palahennedi Hewage Charles Silva was a rubber plantation owner and a Ceylonese politician.
Alexander Francis Molamure was a Ceylonese politician.
The 2017–18 Premier League Tournament Tier B was the second division of the 30th season of first-class cricket in Sri Lanka's Premier Trophy. The tournament was contested by nine teams, starting on 15 December 2017 and concluding on 18 February 2018.
Jayaweera is a Sinhalese name that may refer to the following people:
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