Could the stout pommies stall the cock a hoop Indians?
England is the cradle of cricket but has never won an ICC 50-overs tournament. It is a position the host team will be desperate to change at today’s Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston but will come up against a mighty obstacle on their path in the form of a mincing opponent in all conquering world [...]
Even the genie finds it difficult to grant these wishes
Wherever I go these days I look at every nook and cranny to see if I could find and old abandoned lamp. If I do find it, I am going to rub on it till my fingers turn sore or a genie comes fizzing out and grants me three wishes. I have already made up [...]
Lankans to open tri-series on June 28
The Lankan team after their encouraging show at the Champions Trophy limited over tournament in England will fly across to the West Indies to take part in the tri-series involving the West Indies and India. The tour opener will be on Friday June 28 with hosts West Indies taking on Sri Lanka at the Sabina [...]
Old Bens’ 109th AGM on June 30
The 109th Annual General Meeting of St. Benedict’s College Old Boys’ Union will be held on Sunday June 30 at the Collage Hall commencing at 9.30 am with Holy Mass, which will be concelebrated by Old Benedictine Priests Rev. Fr. Noel Dias, Rev. Fr. Lalith Felix and newly ordained Rev. Fr. Kamal Nishantha Fernando. All [...]
HARFA on July 6 and 7
The Hisham Abdeen Rugby Football Academy better known as HARFA will conduct its fourth annual Rugby Extravaganza on July 6 and 7 at Havelock Sports Club grounds in Colombo. As a new addition to the demanding annual sports event of HARFA, the organisers have decided to include a Veterans Over-35 ‘Evergreens’ 7-a-side tag rugby tournament. [...]
Pathana keeps best for the last
Magnificient Isipathana reserved their season’s best for the last as they scored a close 20 points (1 Goal, 2 Tries, 1 Penalty) to 14 (2 Goals, 1 Penalty) win over the fancied Trinity side at Pallekelle last evening. Isipathana were first on the board in the 18th minute, but by lemons Trinity had taken the [...]
MAS Intimates’ men and women bag TT double
MAS Intimates created a grand double when they emerged the men’s and women’s A-Division Champions, at the recently concluded Mercantile Table Tennis Knockout Championships, held at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium. In the men’s final MAS Intimates had a close 3-2 win over Seylan Bank, while the women complemented them with a 2-1 win [...]
IRB bigwig Lapasset’s praise has hollow ring for ‘talented Sri Lanka’
It was good to hear the encouraging words the head of the International Rugby Board Bernard Lapasset had for Sri Lanka’s sevens team on his recent visit to Colombo. Lapasset who was at the Singapore Sevens last November which doubled up as the Asian qualifiers for this weekend’s Rugby World Cup Sevens in Moscow said [...]
Remembering a craftsman who stopped the world with his bat
Mahadevan Sathasivam is considered one of the most naturally gifted batsmen the world has seen. He has stirred such vigorous sentiments among the local and foreign cricket enthusiasts that even several decades after his death there are quite a number of eople who still talk and write about his deeds on the cricket field in [...]
Lorenz Pereira furious at Haka push
Famed Royal sportsman, Lorenz Pereira, voicing his views on his school’s aggressive disruption of a Trinity College Haka during the second leg of the Bradby last week, expressed disgust at the brief confrontation, saying that it had brought the traditional encounter into disrepute. “It was not warranted under any circumstances. The huge spectator presence was [...]
Ahamed and Udamalage the match winners
S. Ahamed with 23 points and P.Udamalage 16 were the match winners for Commercial Credit when they defeated Union Assurance by 63 points to 53, to clinch the men’s A division league final, which was conducted by the M.S.B.A at the Otter Aquatic court on Friday. At halftime the winners held a 30 -15 lead. [...]
Sri Lanka’s first international win at football
It was in the year 1952, to commemorate the visit to then Ceylon by their majesties king George the VI and Queen Elizabeth to declare open the Colombo Plan Exhibition, the Government had approached the major sports controlling bodies in the quest to hold a few international sports competitions in Colombo. Football being the most [...]
Leaders stay put while Colombo FC stuns Negombo Youth
Navy Sports Club snatched the leadership from Blue Star while Solid Sports Club remain on top for the third week running in their respective groups as the Dialog Champions League 2013 football competition completed its seventh round this last weekend. From Group ‘A’ unbeaten Navy SC marched two notches up to end Blue Star’s dominance [...]
Rajans rejoice as the Lions bite the dust
After a two-week standstill caused by the pull-out of the referees, the Singer Schools Under-20 Rugby League Championship resumed this weekend. Table leaders of Division I ‘A, Dharmaraja College’s celebration time has been still put to hold as the winner of the competition is left to be determined for the coming weekend. But with the [...]
The ‘Perahera’ of officials
The Perahera A ‘perahera’ of officials are making arrangements to accompany the local team for an athletic meet to be held in Pune next month. At the time that this item was written the amount of officials stood at 25. Even the body in charge of these events is at a loss for words to [...]
Champion shuttler Thilini
Champion shuttler Thilini Sudhara Jayasinghe represented Sri Lanka at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and had the distinction of doing so at the London Olympics in 2012, having qualified on merit. Thilini, a former National Champion was the first badminton player to represent Sri Lanka at the Olympics when she competed in Beijing in 2008. Thilini [...]
What’s the ‘Haka’ happened that day?
Was performing Haka or a similar version nonsensical and out of place in our culture? There has been much talk about what happened before the Bradby Shield 2nd leg and the performance of Haka. International Rugby Board (IRB) has a protocol clause in its tournament rules that dictates that teams must face the haka, and [...]
Rugged road to ‘Winning Tennis’
Winning Tennis has three guide rules. Rule one – Plan, Prepare and Perform to win. Rule two – Follow rule number one. Rule three – Remember rule number two. These rules emphasize ‘individualism, motivation and responsibility’ to be the necessary lifestyle attributes to win. The winning kick in Football, deciding 50 runs in cricket, a [...]
Beyond fun and games
Sports in general, and cricket in particular, have been targeted in recent times by external elements looking to convey their individual interests and political messages, with the most recent incident occurring at Sri Lanka’s Champions Trophy semifinal last week. So should sport, with its potential to engage a wide and diverse audience, be used as [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET: Stafford Motors/MCA Div ‘G’ League H3NB Assurance vs United Tractor; Asia Assets vs TechOne Global at MCA Amba Research vs Expo Lanka; Assetline Leasing vs Informatics at St. John’s Panadura Glaxo Smithkline vs Vallibel Finance; ACL Cables vs MJF Exports at Thurstan ground Akbar Bros vs Nippon Paint; Janashakthi ‘B’ vs McLarens at [...]
Moors SC begin campaign on winning note
Moors SC began their Under 23 Division one cricket tournament on a winning note when they crushed the hapless newcomers Negombo CC by an innings and 128 runs in the match concluded at Kadirana yesterday with the match ending before the lunch break. The highlight of the match was a swashbuckling unbeaten knock of 214 [...]
Old Bens’ 109th AGM on June 30
The 109th Annual General Meeting of St. Benedict’s College Old Boys’ Union will be held on Sunday June 30 at the Collage Hall commencing at 9.30 am with Holy Mass, which will be concelebrated by Old Benedictine Priests Rev. Fr. Noel Dias, Rev. Fr. Lalith Felix and newly ordained Rev. Fr. Kamal Nishantha Fernando. All [...]
Wijeratne 109 props SSC
Vishwa Wijeratne cracked a determined 109 and C. Gunasinghe picked a five-for as SSC thrashed Royal Knights by 145 runs in a SLC Inter-Club Division III cricket match played at the Surrey ground in Maggona. The match which was played as a 35-overs-per-side affair produced some good efforts from the SSC players as they wholly [...]
Inspired Peiris propels BRC to victory
After conceding a 1-0 lead at half time, BRC’s Gihan Peiris exploded to fire his side to a 3-1 win over Old Anandians, in their CHA conducted Andriesz Hockey fixture, at the Astro Turf on Thursday. Old Anandians drew first blood when centre half Geepal Dias, receiving a pass from right inside Prabath Jayasuriya, put [...]
Djokovic says he’s ‘at his peak’ as Wimbledon looms
PARIS (AFP) – Novak Djokovic believes he is at the peak of his powers as he targets a second Wimbledon title with his confidence buoyed by avoiding Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal in the draw. The world number one and top seed captured the All England Club title in 2011 before Federer reclaimed [...]
Spurs let NBA title slip, slide and away
MIAMI, June 22 (AFP) – In a span of just two days, the San Antonio Spurs went from being seconds away from winning their fifth NBA title to losing a heartbreaking game seven to the Miami Heat. “The obvious word is disappointing,” said Tim Duncan of the Spurs 95-88 loss late Thursday to the Heat, [...]
HARFA on July 6 and 7
The Hisham Abdeen Rugby Football Academy better known as HARFA will conduct its fourth annual Rugby Extravaganza on July 6 and 7 at Havelock Sports Club grounds in Colombo. As a new addition to the demanding annual sports event of HARFA, the organisers have decided to include a Veterans Over-35 ‘Evergreens’ 7-a-side tag rugby tournament. [...]
Royal to apologise over ‘Haka’ fracas
The Principal of Royal College, Colombo Upali Gunasekera made a formal apology to his counterpart at Trinity College, Kandy this week for the behaviour of the school’s First XV rugby football team at last week’s second leg Bradby Shield game and tomorrow, the team’s captain and vice captain accompanied by the Head Prefect will travel [...]
Confident Lankan lasses off to Ireland
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Friday named a squad of 14 members and four additional players as stand-ins for the ICC Twenty20 Women’s World Cup Qualifiers which will be in Ireland during late July. The Sri Lanka women’s cricket team was ranked fifth in the ICC Global ODI standings after their overwhelming performances at the [...]
Cricket wine in a new wrapper
Much of what is said and done about cricket in Sri Lanka is debatable. For instance when one group of cricket visionaries is entrusted with the task of shaping the country’s cricketing future, they sit together and moot a plan and preach to the rest of the country that it’s gospel and that’s that. Yet, [...]
Carlton Sevens comes with an IRB flavour
As the heat, intensity and focus of the ongoing Schools Rugby League competition weans, the diverged rugby fans of Sri Lanka will ready themselves to embrace the upcoming Carlton Super Sevens International Rugby tournament. By the time Sri Lanka’s most elite rugby competition reaches its fifth version, it has come across many alterations and improvements, [...]
Colombo University kicks through all comers
Karate is one of the newest sports to enter the university games arena and Colombo University (UoC) continues to reign as champions in the sport. Since the introduction of Karate as a sport in universities, the University of Colombo’s karate team has won the Karate Championship at three tournaments. Their most recent achievement was at [...]
S.B. Senanayake SC reach finals
The S.B. Senanayake School of Cricket waltzed into the final of the inaugural Under 13 cricket tournament, conducted for the Palawatta Challenge Trophy, when they defeated Mahinda Rajapakse CA by seven wickets, in the second semifinal played at the Ananda Sastralaya ground in Kotte recently. Winning the toss, S.B. Senanayake SC gave Mahinda Rajapakse first [...]
Royal win at Tennis
Royal College won the Under 19 All Island Public Schools Tennis tournament concluded on the 18th of June 2013 at SLTA Hard Courts in Grand Style without dropping a single match. The team included 03 former Junior Davis Cup players namely world Junior ranked and Former Captain Sharmal Dissanayake, Vice Captain Dhanushka Abeyawardena and Eroo [...]
BSC and AIS share cricket Quadrangular honours
The British School in Colombo and Asian International School emerged joint champions when their Under-13 Quadrangular cricket tournament final was washed out due to bad weather at the Health Grounds in Castle Street last Sunday. This inaugural tournament was organized and conducted by The British School in Colombo. The other two teams that competed in [...]
