Commercial Bank, HSBC and RR Donnelley win top honours at CBB Sixes 2016

December, 10, 2016

The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) recently organised its annual Inter Sport Triangular, at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium. This annual event brings together many corporates to compete for top honours in Cricket, Netball and Badminton. Mrs Laura Davies, the Deputy British High Commissioner graced the event.

This year’s event saw Commercial Bank walk away with top honours for Netball, HSBC winning the Badminton and RR Donnelley winning the Cricket tournament. Runners-up in each event were MAS Active Shadeline, MAS Active Linea Intimo and HSBC respectively.

Speaking on the event and the teacher training project it benefits, Committee Chairperson, Michael Koest explained, “All proceeds from the day go towards financing the CBB’s English Language Teacher Training Project, which is managed by The British Council in collaboration with the National Institute of Education and the Ministry of Education. The project has been built up and refined over a number of years and its primary objective is to upgrade the English language skills of pupils in schools throughout Sri Lanka. This is achieved by building the capacity of local English teachers so that they deliver lessons that are more effective. By the end of 2015 the project completed training close to 1886 teachers which in turn has had an impact on more than 238,000 students island-wide covering the North, East and also the South of Sri Lanka.”

The event was supported by MAS Holdings who came in as the principal sponsor, with Hilton Colombo Residences and Finlays as Silver Sponsors and E FM as the Media Sponsor.

Photo caption: (Above) Winner of the CBB Cricket Sixes 2016 – RR Donnelley

[caption id="attachment_27531" align="alignnone" width="675"] CBB Committee Members with Cricket Sub-Committee[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_27532" align="alignnone" width="675"] Mrs Laura Davies, Deputy British High Commissioner congratulating the participants[/caption]