Get ready for tough challenges ahead: Lorgat tells Lanka
Former ICC Chief Executive Officer Haroon Lorgat, now in Sri Lanka to study and advise the Board on the present status of cricket in the country, feels that the country should immediately start reshaping its game to face the competitive challenges that are coming in world cricket in the near future. The Sunday Times met [...]
Ceylonese golf history – Priceless! Golfing laws take shape
(Contd. from last week) The bounds of the Golf Links as now shown on the plan were adopted and certain bye-laws came into force as a result. The main rulings being that a penalty of stroke and distance was imposed on balls going out of bounds.All water through the greens was to be treated as [...]
Havelocks’ resurgence – a healthy sign for rugby
Havelock’s Sports Club claim to the league championship was decided even before yesterday’s match against the Navy. Just as much as the emergence of Havelock’s is sweet music to most rugby lovers the dissemination of hate mail has begun by some others. It is another part of our system to build another story that would [...]
Oyez, Oyez… the man is awake
“Oyez, Oyez, Oyez ….. Hear ye……The kingdom of Sri Lanka (Cricket) is now glad to pronounce that the President of Sri Lanka Cricket Upali Dharmadasa is now awake and is ready for business”. From his six-month-long slumber on the hot seat of local cricket he has now awoken just like the fabled Sleeping Beauty did. [...]
Jamshed helps Ruhuna Royals to end on winning note
The 17th match of the Sri Lanka Premier League cricket tournament played at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday ended in contrasting results for two teams. Ruhuna Royals and Basnahira Cricket Dundee who were playing their last match saw Ruhuna Royals ending their campaign by recording their second win with an easy four wicket win over [...]
Kanthan power too hot for Ashiq
Thangarajah Dineshkanthan produced a near perfect combination of sensible offense and tenacious defense to batter Tanveer Ashiq into submission and send him tumbling towards a crushing 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 defeat to take the Men’s Singles title at the 97th Tennis Nationals at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association courts yesterday. Dineshkanthan was in complete command of [...]
Unstoppable Tharjini shoots Lanka to victory
Reigning title holders Sri Lanka started the 8th Asian Netball Championship in style at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, thrashing Hong Kong by a massive margin of 81-38 yesterday.Six-foot-nine inch tall Tharjani Sivalingam who emerged as the netball queen in the 7th edition of the competition in Singapore, made the bulk of scoring when [...]
Karunaratne and Erandi emerge top in the ring
Police pugilist Sameera Karunaratne and MAS Southern’s B.N. Erandi came out on top at the 71st Layton Cup Boxing Meet concluded at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium recently when they emerged the best boxer in the men’s and women’s category. Karunaratne contesting in the Lightweight Under 60kgs bout prevailed against another top boxer N.S.P. Silva of [...]
Zen Dharmaratne youngest to win RCGC championship
The Royal Colombo Golf Club Championship is the significant signature Tournament which crowns the Club Champion for the year. First introduced in 1914, R.J.Elliot won the inaugural Championship and the Match Play format played on level terms without strokes, logically produced the best Golfer in the Club. Throughout the long and illustrious history many Golfing [...]
Kandy overturns Lions in second half
Kandy SC playing like the former champions in the second half overturned a deficit of 17 points to score a hard fought 19 points (2 goals, 1 try) to 17 (2 goals, 1 penalty) win over the Up Country Lions in a rousing game at Nawalapitita.Sansoni set the pace in the 11th minute when he [...]
Trishan and Pathum guide Joes to pre-quarters
An unbroken 118 run partnership for the 8th wicket between Trishan Thanuja (74 not out) and Pathum Madusanka (63 not out) helped St. Joseph’s defeat Trinity in an Under-17 Division one, 2nd round game played at Asgiriya. With this win the Darley Road lads go into the pre-quarter finals scheduled to be played this week. [...]
There’s money in rubbish
There has always been the belief that there is money in rubbish. Whether the money comes from feeding rubbish into plants and the fruit that these plants bear is yet to be determined. Anyhow a contract has been given to a leading firm to get rid of the rbbish after a major sports tournament to [...]
Havelocks crowned League champions
In Welisara what turned out to be a lacklustre match, Havelocks Sports Club beat Navy Sports Club by 22 points (2 goals, 1 try and 1 penalty) to 13 (1 goal, 2 penalties) after leading by 12 (1 goal and 1 try) points to 10 (1 goal and 1 penalty) at half time. With no [...]
‘Winning PGTI is good yet must try to do better’ says Mithun
Lankan golf sensation Mithun Perera expressed feeling “very happy and honoured” to have won the first ever Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) tournament to be held in Sri Lanka, where he spectacularly outshone several of Asia’s top golfers and forever etched his name in the country’s golfing annals. “I feel very happy and honoured [...]
126th Annual Gold Medal Golf Tournament next weekend
The annual Gold Medal Golf Tournament which will be played for the 126th successive year will be held at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Course August 31 to September 2. The event is expected to be a spectacular as the long weekend in the hill-station will see the participation of members of the Nuwara Eliya Golf [...]
Centenary cricket match – Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind
The Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind which comprises three schools, namely the School for the Blind and the School for the Deaf Ratmalana, and Nuffield School for the Deaf and Blind Kaithady Jaffna, celebrates its centenary this year. A series of events were held to commemorate this historic event. The Grand Finale of [...]
Englishman Gollings likely to take over as national rugby coach
Ben Gollings the former England Sevens Skipper and IRB (International Rugby Board) highest try scorer in sevens games is billed to be the Head Coach of the Sri Lanka Rugby. With Negotiations underway he is likely to sign up with his new contract with the SLRFU in the near future. With the Sri Lanka having [...]
Good morning Mr. Selector!
Way back in 1975 when Sri Lanka getting ready to host the mighty West Indies led by Clive Lloyd, the Sri Lankan Cricket Board organized two trial matches to select the final XI. For the second trial match the then Nalanda skipper the late Anura Ranasinghe – a talented all-rounder was selected to play. If [...]
Laga groomed a pack of rookies to do the impossible
Thirty one years for any cause is a long wait indeed but the Park Club boys have proved that the wait is worth a cause. At last the long overdue wait of Havelocks Sports Club for a rugby league title came to an abrupt end, with newly reformed set of youngsters proving that they on [...]
Don’t let the Cup harm the game
Rugby football is a global sport. It’s all over after the long whistle with a glass of a chilled drink followed by a social and musical extravaganza. Don’t allow unruly elements to raise there heads in some quarters to mar its values. This scribe has seen quite a lot of the game in Australia as [...]
Hisham’s hour of rugby glory was Lanka’s hour too
The fascinating game of rugby may serve at different levels depending on ones objectives and desires but in Sri Lanka, where the sport has roots running for over 133 years, it is still at a striving stage. After many have made attempts at different stages and eras under varying circumstances, the greatest ever achievement of [...]