Female player hospitalized after being hit by a leather ball during a women's cricket match

A female cricketer who sustained serious injuries after being hit by a ball during a girls' leather ball cricket match held at the Ambalangoda Urban Council Cricket Ground has been admitted to Balapitiya Base Hospital. Balapitiya Base Hospital sources state that the player admitted to the hospital is M. from Prajapathie Gothami Girls' College, Ambalangoda.

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The said cricket match was played between Ambalangoda Prajapathie Gothami Girls' College and Galle Sanghamitta Girls' College. It is reported that a player from Prajapathie Gothami Girls' College attempted to catch a shot hit by a player from Galle Sanghamitta Girls' College as a high ball, but the ball slipped through her hands and hit her nose. School authorities immediately took steps to call a 1990 Health Service ambulance to hospitalize the player who was bleeding from her nose after being hit by the ball.