Sanga sets the field for Lanka’s cricketing future
A powerful provincial system with clubs being given the decision-makers role together with some fine-tuning of our school cricket system could rejuvenate Sri Lanka’s cricket and make it one of the best in the world, says Kumar Sangakkara, the ICC’s ‘Cricketer of the Year 2012’, member of the ICC’s Cricket Committee and one of the [...]
The murder of Test cricket has begun
Sri Lankan cricket authorities have created a Test drought next year, when Sri Lanka will play only two Test matches. This is a direct result of the Lankan authorities cancelling/postponing its Future Tours Programme listed Test matches to make way for T-20 windows. In the 2012 fixtures the Lankans in spite of hosting the T-20 [...]
Should Malinga make a Test comeback?
Test cricket is considered the ultimate proving ground for any team looking to attach its name to immortality. Yet Sri Lanka’s most potent bowling weapon, Lasith Malinga, opted to withdraw from this traditional form of the game due to injury concerns. With the two Tests of the New Zealand tour of Sri Lanka inching [...]
Royal pride bitten by Thoras
S. Thomas’ College avenged their previous year’s embarrassment to Royal College by trumping their traditional rivals at the 39th annual Royal-Thomian Regatta, with an overall tally of 38 to 14, plus a nail-biting victory in the prestigious Boat Race, at the Colombo Rowing Club, yesterday. The best was truly saved for last as the Royalists, [...]
Lankans flying high with three wins
Sri Lanka remained as the only unbeaten team as they ended the first day recording comprehensive wins against group rivals Netherlands, India and Pakistan at the annual KARP Group Hong Kong Cricket Sixes yesterday. With the three wins Sri Lanka moved to the Cup segment of the competition and are slotted to open today’s campaign [...]
Close call for St Peter’s
Coming out for the first time, the Trinitians produced an impressive allround performance to all but defeat the Peterites at Asgiriya. The loss of around three hours due to rain and bad light was crucial. Ron Chandragupta and Rajitha Jayatunga batted well in tandem to add 78 for the third wicket. Then skipper Dinuk Wickramanayake [...]
S. Thomas’ vs. Trinity soccer battle on Tuesday
The 3rd Thomian – Trinitian soccer encounter which is to be held on Tuesday, October 30 at the S. Thomas’ College, Grounds is a relatively new fixture in the soccer calendar. The Thomian team will go all out to register their first win in the series after the inaugural fixture in 2010 ended in a [...]
Royal Rugby Fiesta 2012
The Royal College Group of ’91 is holding their annual Touch Rugby tournament, ‘Royal Rugby Fiesta 2012’ for the eleventh consecutive year on Saturday 3rd November 2012 at CR & FC grounds, commencing at 12.00 noon. The first Royal Rugby Fiesta was organized in 2002 with the prime objective of bringing various groups of [...]
Amritraj was not a minnow in a giant’s world
For every Lankan tennis lover from the seventies and eighties, the striking image of a tall and lanky Vijay Amritraj prowling the baseline or racing to the net for a rasping volley is as vivid a tennis memory as any they may have. For them the tenacious Indian represented the region’s principal force in tennis, [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET MCA-Singer Premier League HNB vs ETI at Braybrooke Place John Keells vs Seylan Bank at De Soysa Park Moratuwa Sampath Bank vs MAS Unichela at Bloomfield MCA-Elephant Lemonade Div ‘D’ league MAS Silueta vs Sri Lanka Telecom ‘A’ at MCA ground Pan Asia Bank vs MAS Linea Aqua at Thurstan ground Colombo Dockyard [...]
SriLankan Airlines retain swimming Championship
The 28th Men’s and Women’s Swimming Championships 2012, sponsored by Akquasun Lanka, for the second successive year was conducted at the Thurstan College Pool recently. Altogether 12 teams participated in a programme of 54 events. SriLankan Airlines retained the team championship, followed by Cinnamon Lakeside, Cinnamon Grand, the combined team from Walkers Tours and Whittalls [...]
Mathew’s ready to begin his journey
Sri Lanka’s newly appointed T20 skipper Angelo Mathews speaking to reporters on Friday at the Taj Samudra in preparation for their clash against New Zealand stated that he is confident that the team provided to him by the selectors will play to their potential. He added that he was satisfied with the well balanced team [...]
Joes register third win
St Joseph’s College trounced Sri Jayewardenepura MV on the first innings to register their third win in the All Island Under 13 Division one tournament game played at Kotte. Sent into bat the home team was bundled out for just 41 runs with the Josephian spinners Nipun Sumanasinghe, Jehan Fernandopulle and Sheahan Rodrigo sharing the [...]
Hamilton confident despite slow start
NEW DELHI, Oct 27, 2012 (AFP) – Lewis Hamilton said he felt confident ahead of Sunday’s Indian Grand Prix despite a relatively slow start in Friday’s opening practice sessions. The Briton was fastest in his McLaren for much of the opening morning session but drifted away in the afternoon when defending champion German Sebastain Vettel [...]
Armstrong’s ordered to cough out
GENEVA, Oct 27, 2012 (AFP) – The 1999-2005 Tour de France races will have no winners attributed to them, embattled world cycling officials announced, ordering doping-tainted icon Lance Armstrong to repay his prize money. The International Cycling Union (UCI) this week effectively erased Armstrong from the cycling history books when it decided not to appeal [...]
Pumped-up Kruger puts Tiger in the shade
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 2012 (AFP) – South Africa’s Jbe Kruger said he wanted to play with Tiger Woods every day after upstaging the American legend with a “dream” round at the CIMB Classic in Malaysia on Friday. Kruger, ignoring big galleries, soaring temperatures and the intimidating presence of the 14-time Major winner, put together [...]
Azarenka seals year-end top spot, faces Sharapova
ISTANBUL, Oct 26, 2012 (AFP) – Victoria Azarenka at last made sure of the year-end world number one ranking, just two matches from the finish of the 2012 season, when she overcame Li Na to reach the WTA Championships semi-finals Friday. The Australian Open champion from Belarus claimed a 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 win over the [...]
Wright says Test cricket is right
Former Kiwi cricket captain and one-time India and New Zealand coach, John Wright, stressed the importance of cricket officials from various world governing bodies striking the right balance between Twenty20 and Test cricket, in order to cater to fans of the sport’s traditional format as well as its proper development. “I think that’s a challenge [...]
Seylan and Unichela win their openers
MAS Unichela and Seylan Bank won the curtain raiser games of the 20th edition of MCA-Singer Premier League cricket competition which kicked off yesterday in Colombo. After overnight rain in Colombo both matches got off to late starts with wet outfields delaying the proceedings. At the Bloomfield ground in Reid Avenue MAS Unichela thrashed ETI [...]
CFSL still in the red
While the officials of Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka (CFSL) strive to meet their financial requirements to stage a trouble-free World Cup, the Director General of the Ministry of Sports, Ranjani Jayakody stated that attracting sponsors to fund certain sports has become a difficult task. Jayakody, made this statement at the launch of the 6th [...]
Basil’s love for northern rugby
After having helped immensely to nurture rugby among schools in the North of the country, whose progress in the sport was for so long stymied by civil war, former CH&FC player and veteran school rugby coach, Basil Rodrigo, says that the region, although teeming with talent, is in dire need of support from the Sri [...]
Drysdale’s eye-wetting row to the pinnacle
When Mahé Drysdale pulls his beautiful Olympic gold medal out of the back pocket of his jeans, it is greeted by a happy gasp from all the journalists in the room. It’s been just over 10 weeks since New Zealand’s legendary rower stood on the winner’s podium in London and the heavy, gold medal suspended [...]
Rugby violence – please tell us who is responsible
The curtains for the schools rugby season was drawn with success as some think while others may say that it has had its bad days. The reflection of the contribution to the game in terms of numbers in attendance is very much encouraging. Supporters mostly consisting of stakeholders related to schools believe that their school [...]
YASL moves to the sea
The Yachting Association of Sri Lanka (YASL) will be a contended governing body when they get the opportunity to conduct the annual National Sailing Championship on the seas for the first time in history. As related by YASL official Asanka Goonawardena, they will be delighted to host the competition on November 3 and 4 with [...]
Junior double for Wesley at Mini Rugby carnival
Wesley College Colombo earned major honours at the Mini Rugby Carnival, organised by the Ananda College Junior Rugby Development Group for the second successive year with the participation of 19 leading schools from Colombo and Kandy. The tournament was held on October 13 at Havelock Park in Colombo. Wesley College clinched the Cup championships of [...]
Zahira Group of 90 stages Sports Festival
The Group of 90 (G90) of Zahira College Colombo held its Sports Festival 2012, for the sixth consecutive year, at the college grounds in Maradana last weekend. The intention of organizing a festival of this nature is primarily to foster goodwill among the Old Boys and to generate funds for the development of the college [...]
Ace pupils shine at Sports Day
Ace Early Education and Daycare, with its vision to be a much sought-after educational institution, which continuously strives to address the constant need of providing quality education and care and instilling core values in a child, held its very first Sports Day on October 6. The Sports Day, being fundamental to educational culture, was held [...]
The TT queen of the President’s team
Nethmi Asaktha of President’s Girls’ School, Nawala has more than a few reasons to be happy. She will undoubtedly have pride in boasting to be the captain of the school’s table tennis team ever since the game was introduced there in 2008. Nethmi would be a barely-surprised individual to learn that a sport totally strange [...]
Sandali –A star athlete
Sandali Ranasinghe, a student of Vishaka Vidyalaya in Colombo 05, has been a keen athlete with outstanding achievements. At just fourteen years of age, she has added an array of achievements in the field of athletics. In 2012, Sandali emerged first-place in the high-jump event at the Western Province Education Zone – Colombo, Divisional sports [...]
Thomians rule the pool
The Under-15 water polo team of S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia comprehensively beat Royal College at the 21st annual Royal-Thomian water polo encounter, held at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex recently. The young Thomians drew first blood when they beat the Royalists to record a first leg score of 14 goals to 2. The boys from [...]
Queen Mary’s cricketers tour Lanka
The under 15 Queen Mary’s Grammar School cricket team from England have arrived for a short tour of Sri Lanka, where they are scheduled to play fixtures against, Trinity College, RSA Academy, Wesley College, Thurstan College and Sri Wimala Buddhi College. The team comprises Matthew Doyle, Sam Dewsbury, Harvin Bhogal, Krishan Patel, Simran Patel, Jujhar [...]
Lionel House champions at Gateway sports meet
Gateway College, Colombo, an international school renown for producing high-quality athletes, recently held its annual Sports Meet at Torrington Grounds, where Lionel House emerged overall champions with a tally of 889 points. Solomon House came in a distant second with 780 points, followed by Dudley House (747.5) and Stephen House (614.5). The following students [...]
Veteran Athlete Rupasinghe felicitated
Veteran Sri Lankan athlete Sunimal Rupasinghe , athletic coach and Vice Patron of the OBA of St John’s College, Nugegoda, was felicitated by the OBA of St John’s College, Nugegoda. Mr. Rupasinghe organised a Kids’ Talent Identification Programme for children of Grade 1 to 5 at St. John’s College, Nugegoda recently, where nearly 1000 children [...]
Rich haul of medals for Rainbow
The Rainbow Swimming Academy returned from the Senior and Junior National Swimming Championships that was held at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex recently with a rich haul of 54 medals. The seniors pocketed 40 medals and the juniors 14. The seniors tally comprised 11 golds, 23 silvers and 13 bronze. The juniors claimed four golds, three [...]
