Sri Lanka Cricket and clubs on collision course
The SLC Cricket Committee’s vision of pulling alley-driven local cricket and making its national unit the number one team by the year 2015 seems to be challenged by the clubs. The Cricket Committee in its proposal has emphasised that the changes proposed by it would guide the country’s cricket side “to be the number one [...]
Sharmal extends his Tennis empire
Teaming up with German Torben Hornung, Sri Lanka’s top-ranked junior tennis player, Sharmal Dissanayake made sure that he would complement his ITF Junior Circuit Under 18 singles title with a doubles medal, when the pair decimated the Korean duo of Jinwoo Bae and Yong Seak Jang 6-1, 7-5 in their finals clash at the SLTA [...]
Sri Lanka in Cup quarters
Sri Lanka reached the Cup quarterfinals stage in the HSBC Asian Rugby Sevens Series, Mumbai Sevens played at the Gymkhana Club in Mumbai yesterday. The Mumbai Sevens which is the third of the Asian Series is tipped to be won by favourites Japan who won the first of the series played in Borneo. They skipped [...]
Joes Rule the Pool – Diamond Anniversary
St. Joseph’s College won the Sri Lanka Swimming Championships for the ninth consecutive year, at a time when the Darley Road School coincidentally celebrates its 60th anniversary in the sport. The Josephians consider this feat as a great achievement that will certainly go down in history. The Josephian team has won many local and international [...]
Little known Debarawewa MMV knockout defending champs
Young cricketers from the outstation dominated the proceedings on day two as little known Debarawewa MMV and S de S. Jayasinghe MMV Dehiwela pulled off the biggest upsets on day two of the 20th OWSC Munchee Glucofit Invitation School Sixes played at Campbell Park, yesterday. Debarawewa MMV knocked out defending champions Mahanama by four wickets. [...]
SLC says they have acted accordingly
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is of the view that they have acted within the law regarding the allegations that are leveled against the SLPL. Regarding the news that part of the revelations made by India TV on their programme on the sting operation that exposed the umpires also claimed evidence on how SLPL’s managing partner, [...]
Anderson wants KP on India tour
England fast bowler James Anderson says it would be ‘brilliant’ if batsman Kevin Pietersen could be included in the squad for the tour to India, saying the Three Lions need the Surrey man if they’re to regain their number one Test ranking. Pietersen has been out of the England fold since July, after being dropped [...]
Javed and Deelaka save Thomians
Javed Bongso and Deelaka Herath saved S. Thomas’ with an unbroken stand of 142 runs for the third wicket helping them to draw their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter against Prince of Wales in the Inter-School cricket game concluded at De Zoysa Stadium, Moratuwa yesterday. Javed cracked an unbeaten 103 which included eight boundaries and [...]
Thirteen new records established
Thirteen new records were established as Western Province won the 2012 All Island Schools Athletics Championship at the D.A. Rajapaksa Stadium with 874 points yesterday. Central Province emerged runners up with 612 points. A.D.A. Fernando of Joseph Vaz College Wennappuwa was adjudged the best male athlete of the meet for his performance of 7.43 meters [...]
St. Bridget’s overall winners
St. Bridget’s Convent, Colombo won the overall field events championship title at the 83rd Sir John Tarbet senior athletic championship organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Athletic Association at the Mahinda Rajapakse International Stadium, Diyagama recently. They gained 49 points to secure the girls overall field event championship trophy. The medallists of the champion St. [...]
‘Jira’ the sprint king from Kandy
Meeting Tilak Buwenakumara Jirasinha (Jira) after 40 years brought back memories of Central Province and Public Schools sprinters Charles Nayagam, Farisz Jiffry, Prins Nayagam and a host of others too numerous to mention. Jirasinha (Jira to all his friends) held sway at that time with his powerful running in the 100, 200 and 400 meters [...]
Proud Kandy rugby marches on
Kandy Sports Club continued their winning streak of the Clifford Cup for the 6th consecutive year with a close win over Havelocks Sports Club last week-end in the grand final. This was Hill Country Club’s 18th occasion of keeping the Clifford Cup in Kandy. This is the only trophy Kandy won this year after they [...]
Citadel agent’s folly
Citadel agent’s folly The Big Man had told his Citadel agent to call him when Sri Lanka was on the verge of winning a key final. The agent thought it was a good time to call him and promptly gave him a buzz. The Big Man turned up at the game only to see his [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET Wesley 6s at Campbell Park RUGBY Milo-Presidents KO final Trinity vs Isipathana at Royal Sports Complex HOCKEY Blue & Gold 7s at Royal Cricket Ground TENNIS ITF U-18 Junior Circuit Championship at SLTA International RUGBY Mumbai International 7s at Gymkhana Club, Mumbai CRICKET Champions League T20 Chennai Super Kings vs Delhi Daredevils at [...]
This will be the game to watch
The Royal Sport Complex today will host one of the most decisive rugby encounters to be played in the recent times when Trinity College and Isipathana College clash in the Milo-President’s Trophy Schools Knockout final. What makes the Trinity-Isipathana clash more interesting and intensive was the fashion the Schools League Championships concluded. Favourites Trinity was [...]
It’s now or never
In the aftermath of that fateful day, my sixteen-year-old niece received an SMS from one of her friends. It read, “What did Malinga have for dinner today? He ate the freaking match.” Then elsewhere in Sri Lanka two young lads, who could not come to terms with the loss of face after Sri Lanka’s weak-kneed [...]
Sri Lanka’s World Twenty20 heartbreak
I headed out to South Africa on Tuesday evening to take part in the Champions League, barely 48 hours after our bitterly disappointing loss on Sunday to the West Indies. The enormous disappointment runs across many fronts, chief among them being our inability to provide our fans with a unique chance to celebrate a World [...]
Take more note of women’s rugby
The news about the Sri Lankan Women’s Rugby can be considered as a development success though they did not bring home the bowl having reached the final. The lasses did well on day one beating Korea and but had to be content having to play in the bowl segment. The girls did well to win [...]
“Sappers 4×4 Gympo” at Embilipitiya
The ‘Sappers 4×4 Gympo’ off-road challenge conducted by the Sri Lanka Army Corps of Engineers in association with the Four Wheel Drive Club (FWDC) will be worked off for the second successive year on 20th October 2012 at the Sri Lanka School of Military Engineers (SLSME) in Tunkama, Embilipitiya. The Sappers are no strangers when [...]
It was so close and yet too far
After Sri Lanka beat Pakistan in the Semi Final all Sri Lankans expected our national team to engrave Sri Lanka name in 2012 T20 world cup. On Sunday 7th October all had lots of hopes to see our lads carry all before us and become kings of T 20 world criket. But after the match [...]
Hosts Zahira clinch Super 16 Soccer 7s
Hosts Zahira College, Colombo, beat Maris Stella College, Negombo 1-nil, after a thrilling battle, clinched the Schools Super 16 Invitational Soccer 7s played at Maradana last weekend. Both teams dished out fast and moving football while playing exceptionally well providing a fitting battle for a final. The crowd that came to witness the grand finale [...]
Anula Vidyalaya clinch U-10 TT C’ship
Anula Vidyalaya clinched the Under-10 ‘C’ Division team championship at the All-Island Schools Junior Table Tennis tournament held at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Complex in Mt. Lavinia last weekend. The Anula Vidyalaya team remained unbeaten throughout the competition on their way to grab the table tennis plum and they are awaiting a deserving promotion [...]
Cambrian rowers do well in Pakistan
Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa won 15 medals including 2 Gold, 4 Silver and 9 Bronze at the 4th Asian Schools Rowing Regatta held in Karachi, Pakistan recently. A gathering took place to felicitate the team on their arrival to Sri Lanka recently. Thirty five groups participated in this event in Karachi and five schools [...]
Where the Lankans went wrong
After a heartbreaking defeat to the Windies in the finals of the World T20 championships, many Sri Lankans are at a loss over what happened to their team after they got off to such a promising start. Many theories have been proposed with yet more still being conjured.
ICC’s Best Umpire Dharmasena
Honoured by ACUSL Sri Lanka’s ICC Elite Panel umpire Kumara Dharmasena Who was Awarded the “ICC’s best umpire 2012” was honoured by the Association of cricket umpires –Sri Lanka at its 68th Annual general Meeting on 7th October 2012. The picture shows Nihal Pathirage the president of Association of Cricket Umpires Sri Lanka Presenting the [...]
Defending champions Royal unbeaten
Defending champions Royal College produced a brilliant performance to win three of their matches on the first day of the 11th Blue and Gold Hockey Sevens held at Royal College Hockey grounds yesterday. Royal, vying for a hat-trick after winning the trophy in the last two consecutive years, won against Mahinda College Galle (4-0), Sri [...]
SLC batting machine collapses
A frivolous collapse by our frontline batsmen miserably transformed a jolly making, beaming spectator crowd to dumbstruck bemusement and crestfallen abandonment. How about the plight of the countless TV viewers being sent to unscheduled retirement to their beds from the cozy sofas and chilled drinks they were royally enjoying? What a dismal disruption! Dilshan was [...]
