The Annual Soft Ball Cricket Tournament organized by Sri Lanka Food Processors Association was held on 15th of March 2025 at the Colombo Colts Cricket Club Grounds. Thirty Seven (37) teams comprising both men and women playing together from 30 member companies vied for the SLFPA challenge Shield. The tournament was conducted on league basis. It was helpful in creating a high degree of interaction, relationship, understanding and fellowship among the employees of the participating member companies.
Front Row: The Winning team of 9th SLFPA Six-A-Side Cricket Carnival – C. D. De Fonseka & Sons.
Back Row (From left to right): Mr. Hamilton Diaz (Past President of of SLFPA), Mr. Deepal De Alwis (Chairman of Cricket Committee), Mr. Thusith Wijesinghe (Presidentof SLFPA), Mr.Delano Dias (Immediate Past President of SLFPA), Mrs.Sandhya Fernando(Staff Member of SLFPA), Mr. Niroshan Dalpethadu(Committee Member of SLFPA), Mr. Vijitha Govinna(Committee Member of SLFPA) Mr.Aruna Senanayake (1st Vice President of SLFPA) Mr.Thusitha Ekanayake ( Committee Member of SLFPA)
The participated company teams represented the following categories- Processed Food, Processed Beverages, Machinery & Packaging, International Food Certification, Food Ingredients and Casual Dining. The tournament is a key event in the calendars of all members of Processed Food Industry, bringing professionals from various organizations together in a spirit of fun and sportsmanship taking the participating teams’ families into account this year.
Team C.D. De Fonseka & sons were the winners and Team CBL Foods International (Pvt) Ltd were the runners up. The Plate winners were the Varun Beverages Sri Lanka . Man of the Match award was presented to Mr. A.A. Mujitha Udara of C.D De Fonseka & Sons & Woman of the Match award was won by Ms. M.D. Niroshangani of CBL Foods International (Pvt) Ltd.
Participants were showing immense interest on participating and grabbing gifts in parallel events such as Karaoke competition, dancing competition, and best marquee competition. Best Male Singer was the Dayal Fernando & Best Female Singer was the Nipuni Gallage SGS Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. Dancing Competition was so hot, and judges went troubled when selecting the best out of the best. Thus, they decided to select Winner & Runnersup – Male Winner was the Madawa Dissanayake from Perfetti Van Melle Lanka (Pvt) Ltd and Female winner Ms.Madushika Madumali from CBL Convenience Foods Lanka and male runnersup Mr. Nuwan Kumara from Cargills Convenient Foods (Pvt) Ltd & female runnersup Ms. Madushani from Cargills Convenient Foods Lanka and Best Tent was the Control Union Inspections (Pvt) Ltd
The sponsors of this year’s tournament include Analytical Instruments Tech (Pvt) Ltd as the Platinum sponsor, Cargills Convenient Foods (Pvt) Ltd, Control Union Inspections (Pvt) Ltd & CBL Group as the Gold sponsor, Elephant House, SMR Consolidated and SGS Lanka as Silver Sponsors, Lanka Exhibitions & Conference Services Limited (LECS) as the service partner of the event. CMC Engineering GMBH, Nestle Lanka Limited, Coca Cola Beverages, Visvaka Marketing & Country Style (Pvt) Ltd are also sponsoring the event.