A newly formed cricket team Seenigama Ladies have turned women’s cricket on its head within just four months of their existence.The Seenigama Ladies havemade it to the final of the B division championship by beating three teams, Shakthi Ladies (Colombo), Kandy Ladies and Cambridge Ladies from Anuradhapura.

They have been formed under the care of the Foundation of Goodness, a humanitarian organisation headed by former Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Kushil Gunasekera and backed by Australia Sports Outreach Programme and Surrey County Cricket Club with support from the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

The project aims to involve both girls and boys, aged from 6 to 20, in ongoing sports competitions at village level. An estimated 800 participants can take part in the project through various inter-village sports leagues, with matches and training sessions taking place once a week. Sport is used as the means to tackle a wide range of social issues generating a positive impact on the region as a whole by building leadership and teamwork skills, introducing stability and a sense of enjoyment, increasing confidence and participation of females in community planning, increasing collaboration and information sharing amongst the villages involved and enabling the post-Tsunami healing process to continue.

This was a week for the big boys. They showed us that form is temporary but class is permanent, that the cream will always rise to the top, that the business end of the season is upon us and that the world of sport loves a good cliche. So here’s our countdown:

1) Golf – Tiger Woods produced a Tigerish performance to overhaul Padraig Harrington and win the World Golf Championship at Firestone. It all happened at the par-five 16th hole where Woods struck a magical 8 iron to give himself a birdie and the lead, after the Irishman carded a disastrous triple bogey. Luckily for the rest of us we’ll get to see the two of them pair up at the USPGA Championship on Thursday.

That 8 iron…

2) Cricket – Australia levelled the Ashes series in emphatic fashion on Sunday afternoon by inflicting an ‘innings and 80 runs’ defeat (that’s huge if you’re not much of a cricket fan) on England. Plenty of great moments from the Aussies but we’ll go for Marcus North’s century as our favourite.

3) X-Games – Travis Pastrana is an X Games legend. Unfortunately even legends get it wrong occasionally, as happened with this Toilet Paper Roll attempt at X Games XV. Read more

1. Golf – Tom Watson didn’t win The Open Championship but he captured the hearts of millions around the world with an unbelievable performance at the age of 59. If Watson had won it would have been one of the sporting stories of the century, but his bogey at the 18th hole on the final day saw him slip in to playoff with Stewart Cink, which he eventually lost.

2. Cricket - After scraping a draw in Cardiff, the England cricket team managed to post their first win over the Australians at Lords since 1934. Read more