Trinity maul Royal to win Bradby
A Royal College beast that had been bloodied in the first leg of the Bradby had its heart pierced by a surgical performance from Trinity College, who surged to a riveting 36 (3 goals, 3 tries) 20 (1 goal, 2 tries, 1 penalty) second leg victory to clinch the coveted shield at the Pallekelle grounds [...]
Easy win for St. Thomas’ Matale
St. Thomas’ Matale beat Maliyadeva Model School Kurunegala by 7 wickets in their Inter-School Under-15 Division I cricket encounter played at Matale lat Wednesday. Electing to bat first Maliyadeva MS were bowled out for 125 runs in 30.5 overs with the Thomian spin trio, skipper and right-arm leg-spinner Pandula Udupihilla (4/29) and left-arm leg-spinner Amal [...]
Royal, St.Peter’s declared joint champs
The Sri Lanka School Rugby Football Union has decided to award joint championship to St. Peter’s College and Royal College at the 2010 Milo Inter-school Rugby Tournament. This came after the District Court of Colombo gave an order, dismissing with costs a case filed by parents and some supporters of Isipathana College players. They went [...]
Proposed changes in club cricket format runs into heavy weather
Speculation is rife that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is contemplating on reshuffling its top premier domestic tournament for good. According to reliable information Sri Lanka’s First Class tournament will be cropped down to a 14-team competition replacing the two-tiered format which features 20 teams. While a good number of hands are in favour of the [...]
Women’s ‘Mahalu Madama’
For those who do not know there is a pool for women to be in constant training for foreign meets here and abroad. The strange thing is that they have not taken part in any meet for the past two years but keep enjoying all the facilities that the authorites have been doling it out. [...]
Do as the Ruler Says
Looking at the former Sri Lanka Coach Davnell Whatmore — who has exchanged his blue jersey for a green one — writhing in anger made me feel a bit uncomfortable while watching the proceedings of the first Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the Galle Stadium. He seemed to be turning purple while looking [...]
In goes Bandara and out comes another Bandara
The school rugby season is over and the league winners have virtually been decided. Virtually because Trinity College, the table leaders, now have to wait for the off field battles to be completed. Off field antics are not limited to the few crowd invasions that have occurred in a couple of matches. The issues are [...]
Zen captures the Ridgeways in style
Young golfing sensation Zen Dharmaratne, ironically a citizen of Malaysia produced a scintillating performance in the traditional South West Monsoon Meet at the Royal Colombo Golf Club Ridgeways Golf Course over the last two weekends. Ever since the late Pin Fernando arguably the best Amateur Golfing member Sri Lanka has ever produced, won the Aggregate [...]
Moratuwa SC, Army and Air Force upset fancied teams
Six fourth round matches of the Under 23 inter-club cricket tournament which is in progress now saw six teams – Moratuwa SC, Bloomfield, Moors, Ragama CC, Army and Air Force – take first innings lead when play ended on day two in the matches played around the metropolis. Moratuwa SC’s lead was initiated by Chathura [...]
Wesley beat Royal in hockey final
Imad Muzamil the right inside enabled Wesley College to defeat Royal College by one goal to nil and win the Cup Final of the seven-a-side hockey championships conducted by Zahira College to celebrate their 120th anniversary. The goal by Muzamil was scored in the seventh minute of play. In the Plate Final, Nalanda Vidyalaya defeated [...]
St. Paul’s Milagiriya Sports re-union next month
The Past Pupils Association of St. Paul’s Girls’ School, Milagiriya, Colombo 5 has extended an invitation to all who studied at St. Paul’s Girls School to take part in a re-union sports tournament scheduled to take part in July, 2012. The tentative date, time and venue for the contests as follows: Basketball; July 7 at [...]
Sampath Bank beat HSBC to win ‘B’ final
Samapath Bank inflicted a 2-0 defeat on Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank to clinch the final MFA ‘B’ segment football championship concluded at the City League Football complex recently. At half time neither side had opened their account. After the change of ends, in the 36th minute of the game Janitha Perera found a gap [...]
St. Joseph’s and Mahamaya in the lead
Defending champions St. Joseph’s Colombo and Mahamaya Kandy took the lead at the end of the third day’s proceedings of the four day 39th Sri Lanka Schools Swimming Championships at the Ananda College swimming pool in Colombo. St. Joseph’s ended day three having accumulated 482 points with Royal in second securing 431 and Ananda in [...]
Husky St. Joseph’s pummel S. Thomas’
Husky St. Joseph’s pummelled a relatively fragile yet gritty S. Thomas’ to score a commanding 37-26 win and retain the Lady Jayatilleke Shield in their traditional rugby encounter played at Longdon Place yesterday. Both the Josephians and Thomians were equally good at loose play but relatively the former was much stronger than the latter. The [...]
All arrangements finalised to crown Niroshan Dikwella
All arrangements have been finalised to crown Niroshan Dikwella as the Bata-the Sunday Times Schoolboy All-Island Cricketer of the Year and all-rounder Tharindu Kaushal as the Emerging Schoolboy Cricketer for 2012. The gala event will take place on July 27 at the Museaus College Auditorium in Colombo. Dikwella, the skipper of Trinity College Kandy and [...]
The decision where Mahela went wrong
Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardena’s decision to send Pakistan to bat first went horrendously wrong last morning. The visitors propped by a huge knock of 172 not out by opener Mohammed Hafeez ended day one of the second Test on an astronomical 334 for 1 at the Sinhalese Sports Club grounds. Hafeez who had not scored [...]
