Lankans are having home gardening in home quarantine
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Being into self-isolation cricketers are giving challenge to their mates and foreign players, like David Warner giving head shave challenge to his mate Steve Smith and Indian skipper Virat Kohli. Sri Lankan cricketers are also having a challenge of stay home, be safe and harvest for tomorrow.
Due to coronavirus sports calendar worldwide has been shattered and cricketers are forced to be in self-quarantine until the situation gets better. Sri Lankan players are not only trying to be at home but also doing a campaign through a challenge. The campaign is on food sustainability in Sri Lanka. And the challenge is to plant trees in the surrounding of their home and challenge three friends to do so.
So now the mantra for the Sri Lankan player is Stay home, be safe and think better for the future. The three skipper of the Sri Lankan team
Dimuth Karunaratne, Dinesh Chandimal and Thisara Perera accepted this challenge and started gardening at home and using this isolation time in good use. They named this challenge as 'Home Garden Challenge.'
Meeting his own challenge, Thisara wrote on Twitter, 'What you planted today, tomorrow will be your harvest. Thanks Chandimal (Dinesh Chandimal) for this home garden challenge nomination. I now nominate Upul Tharanga, Jeevan Mendis, Dilshan Munaweera and Angelo Mathews for this challenge.
Left-arm opener Dimuth Karunaratne challenged wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal. Chandimal then challenged five others to meet his own challenges. Theresa Pereira was one of them.
Chandimal wrote on Twitter, 'To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. Thanks, Dimuth (Dimuth Karunaratne) for the home garden challenge nomination. I am now nominating Kumar Sangakkara, Thisara Pereira, Kalindu Karunaratne, Dhammika Prasad and Rex Clementine. Join with us to be a part of food sustainability in Sri Lanka.
Dimuth Karunaratne has started this home garden challenge among the Sri Lankan cricketers. He was nominated in this challenge by Namal Rajapaksa. Karunaratne later nominated Mahela Jayawardene, Dinesh Chandimal and journalist Chatura Alvis for planting trees.
There is no definitive information as to how the home garden challenge started with the slogan 'Sri Lanka's food is self-sufficient.' However, the home garden challenge has already been done by the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa himself.
