Munaweera breaks into the international fold
Without the usual razzmatazz and the fanfare of a global event launching, the fourth edition of the ICC T-20 Championship gets off the shelf on Tuesday with hosts Sri Lanka taking on Zimbabwe on a Group ‘C’ match at the Mahinda Rajapakse Stadium in Sooriyawewa at 7.30 p.m. Asantha de Mel – the Lankan chief [...]
Gutsy Afghans thump hapless Sri Lanka ‘A’
Afghanistan who of late have been making big news in cricket showed their opponents what to expect when the fourth edition of ICC World Twenty20 gets underway on September 18 onwards. The gutsy Afghanistan cricketers coming into action in a warm up against a strong Sri Lanka A side came out victorious with a massive [...]
Sorry no LG awards
The Sunday Times is sorry to tell its readers that it decided not to cover the LG World Cricket Awards that were held at the Waters Edge Hotel yesterday. Though the organisers, the International Cricket Council (ICC), extended an invitation to the newspaper, gave a prior warning that they would not be able to be [...]
Hey! Mommy they are murdering Test cricket
One evening last week I happened to be in the company of a beautiful cricket speaking lady whose interests extended also to Greek sculpture, Tchaikovsky and the Beatles. Yet, by bed time what took the train of thought in my mind was not the relaxing idlechat with the nice lady, but, an article by a [...]
Hail the rugby ready programme
The Sri Lanka Youth Under 19 rugby team recording a convincing 37 points to 15 win over the Singapore Youth Under 19 side in the Junior Asiad Division Two rugby encounter played on Wednesday. Yesterday they met Chinese Taipei in the decider to determine he top team in this league. To coincide with this tournament [...]
Taipei through to Division I in Rugby Asiad thriller
Sri Lanka missed out on a golden opportunity of getting promoted to the top division in the Under 19 Youth Rugby Asiad Division II when they could not find the try line in the last 5 minutes of the game despite of 4 penalties being awarded. In the end Taipei got the better of Sri [...]
Second half rally sees Malaysia through
A gallant second half rally enabled Malaysia to safeguard their slot in the Division II segment of the Youth Rugby Asiad when they defeated Singapore by 18points -13 points in the third place playoff played at the Havelock Park yesterday. The star for the winners was fullback Hafeez Ahamed who contributed 13 points with a [...]
Dhoni and Pathan star in India’s warm up win
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Rohit Sharma starred in India’s 26 run win over Sri Lanka in their warm up match played at the P. Sara Stadium yesterday.Dhoni slammed an unbeaten 55 in 42 balls with four boundaries and three sixes. Dhoni in the process put on a valuable 78 runs for the fifth [...]
Bangladesh secure five wicket win
Bangladesh secured a five wicket with ten balls to spare against Zimbabwe in their warm up game played at the Colts ground yesterday. Zimbabwe in fact crashed to their second successive defeat having earlier lost to Ireland.Zimbabwe who were invited to take first lease of the wicket got off to a sedate start with the [...]
Australia record easy 56 runs win
Australia recorded an easy 56 runs win over New Zealand in their warm up game played at the NCC ground yesterday. But even then the runner-up of the last championship Australia cannot be satisfied with their batting performance. The openers David Warner and Shane Watson though adding 28 runs, their middle order batting failed as [...]
S. Thomas’ begin season on winning note
S. Thomas’ began their 2012/13 Under 19 inter-school cricket season on a winning note with a crushing innings and 84 runs win over Mahinda Galle at Mt Lavinia yesterday. The foundation for the Thomian win was initiated on day one by Javed Bongso and Helakamal Nanayakkara who cracked half tons helping the side to amass [...]
The inside story of Karu’s legend
The 2012 London Olympics is over and apart from a few ardent followers, many have already forgotten the episodes of the most anticipated international sporting event. For most Sri Lankans everyday life is so eventful that it prompts many to forget what happened a minute ago; recalling names like R.K.J. Karunananda or just ‘Karu’ could [...]
Bishop’s girls win Fatima Hussain Rowing C’ships
Bishop’s College bagged the ‘Fatima Hussain’ overall women’s trophy at the Association of Schools Rowing in Asia (ASRA) regatta held at the Karachi Boat Club in Pakistan last Saturday. Yet again the Sri Lankan school girls dominated ASRA regatta overpowering some of the leading sides in the region. Bishop’s College led by Captain Amashi De [...]
Kingswood fund- raising dinner
The Past Cricketers Association of Kingswood College has organized a fund-raising dinner on September 30 at the Kandyan Art Residency. In a two-pronged effort to collect funds for the provision of some side turf wickets, a Raffle will also be held on the same day at 3.30 pm at the Kingswood Auditorium. Kingswood is currently [...]
St. Anthony’s grabs close win over Thurstan
The Antonians, coming out for the first time, scored a fairly close first innings win over Thurstan at Katugastota yesterday. Nimesha Gunasinghe, put a lean patch behind him, to score an entertaining century that propelled his team to a reasonable total. However half centuries from Ravindu Lakshan and Kavindu Kulasekera ensured that the Thurstanites made [...]
Marapana won the Kandy GC Open for seven years
Spending the evening of his life in Menikhinna, a fairly remote Kandyan village, is a once tall and sturdy tennis player F.C.B. Marapana. His tennis career spanned thirty years: from 1947 to 1977, and at one time he was one of the country’s leading players. FCB was one of the few outstation players to be [...]
India, Nepal set for SAFF slugfest
A truly scintillating clash is on the cards in the finals of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s Championships, when defending champions India, who have swiftly demolished all who have stood in their way, meet an equally-dominant Nepali team, at 3.30 p.m. at Longden Place today. The Indians virtually waltzed into the finals with [...]
Ananda storm through
With a furious late rally, Ananda College stormed to victory in the Boat Race of the inaugural Sri Lanka Schools Rowing Championships Regatta, organised by the Schools Rowing Association together with the Colombo Rowing Club, at the Beira Lake yesterday. This year’s boat race was indeed exciting as from the crew from Asian International School [...]
Heartbeat of twenty million
Just only two days more to go to the commencement of the 4th edition of the World T20 cricket championship which will begin at the lush greens of Sooriyawewa, picturesque Pallekele and at the bustling capital of Colombo. Sri Lanka having played in three World Cup finals with all the matches taken place away from [...]
Trinity will find it hard to repeat
With the school rugby season almost done and dusted, attention will once more be focused on the ‘in’ sport – cricket. As regards school cricket in Kandy, the obvious starting point is Trinity, last year’s champion side. Five leading lights – Akila Jayasundera, Niroshan Dikwella, Janishka Premasinghe, Heshan Wanniarachchi and Alvin Fernando – will be [...]
Nepal looking to learn the intricacies of cricket
Although still an ICC Associate nation, Nepal, like many of its Asian neighbours, is blessed with an enormous bounty of cricketing talent and an equally large following for the sport. What they lack is the international experience that regional counterparts like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh possess in abundance. To meet this end, they [...]
Dribbling their way to the free world
Afghanistan is a country that has been battered by the wars for centuries shunning their sporting talents from the international stage. But with the defeat of the Taliban who ruled Afghanistan for many years under strict laws sports activities in Afghanistan is gradually back on the rise. First it was the Afghan cricketers who started [...]
Hansani and Lithmina take honours
Hansani Kapugeekiyana of Anula Vidyalaya, Nugegoda and Lithmina Mahanama of Wesley College swept the tables at the Western Province 2012 table tennis championships that was organized and conducted the Department of Information Technology of the University of Jayawardenapura at S. Thomas’ Indoor Stadium recently. Hanasani Kapugeekiyana who is also a member of the Western Province [...]
12 Airtel Rising Stars to train at Old Trafford
Airtel announced the conclusion of its Rising Stars programme at a colourful awards ceremony held at the Sinhalese Sports Club at which the 12 best young footballers from Sri Lanka were selected by independent coaches from Manchester United to visit Old Trafford in England for an opportunity to meet and interact with the Manchester United [...]
Zahira celebrates 120 years in style
Zahira College Colombo celebrated their 120th anniversary in style when their cricket team emerged champions in their own Schools Invitational 6-a-side cricket tournament which ended last Sunday at Maradana. The two-day tournament saw Zahira outsmart 23 other participants to clinch the championship title which would stay in their own trophy cabinet. In the final the [...]
Extraordinary skills by Buddhika
Fourteen-year-old Buddhika Kasun, a student attached to St. Thomas’ College Pitakotte showed extraordinary skills on his motorcycle at the motor sports exhibition held at the Maliduwa Public Playground, Boosa. Buddhika has been training under the guidance of his father D.K.de. S. Silva from a tender age. So far Kasun has taken part in 20 Supercross [...]
International schools football on Thursday
The 12th successive Dialog International Schools Football Championship, jointly organized by Royal Institute and the Football Federation Sri Lanka, is set to kick off on September 20, at the Henry Pedris grounds. The tournament will bring together 12 International Schools who will fight it out for title glory over the course of two weeks. Among [...]
Shahir rapidly forging forward on field
For Shahir Haniffa, the sport of rugby represents many things: an outlet for his competitive drive, a stage to demonstrate his prodigious skill, an opportunity to share victory and defeat with teammates. However, most of all, it is the only activity which he truly feels comfortable engaged in and derives the most enjoyment from. This [...]