Lankan selectors hold back team selections
The Lankan selectors will on Tuesday to name the stand-in captain for the first two ODIs against the visiting Proteas and the rest of the squad. The Lankan captain Angelo Mathews was banned for two ODIs in the West Indies for maintaining a slow over rate in their final against India at Port of Spain. [...]
What’s good for cricket and the hangers-on
When we were in school Social Studies were known as civics. Then, there was our civics teacher who taught us a lesson that stayed in me for the rest of my life. He explained that a human hand reads out a fine lesson. First is, like the people in society all five finger are not [...]
Can the Lions devour the Baseline lads
The curtains of the Under 20 inter-school rugby season for the year 2013 will come down today with the final of the Milo President’s trophy between Wesley and Trinity scheduled to be worked from 4.30 p.m. onwards at the Royal Sports Complex ground in Reid Avenue. Of course with this going to be the final [...]
Tamil Union in line to secure early win
Tamil Union have put themselves in line to secure an early outright win against Colts when play resumes today in their Under 23 cricket encounter at the Colts ground. Tamil Union having bowled out the home team for 96 and ending on 279 on day one continued their domination as they bowled out Colts, for [...]
Joes leap higher to pip Gateway
With a place in the finals of the Under 19 ‘A’ Division Basketball Championships at stake, St. Joseph’s College’s flung themselves into the driving lane with devastating effect to peg back a fighting Gateway College and walk away 60-50 victors, at the Henry Pedris basketball court yesterday. St. Joseph’s launched into the lead early in [...]
Lucky, Marlon re-elected to the helm at NCC
Lucky Fernandez and Marlon Fernandopulle were re-elected as President and Secretary respectively of the Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) at the 124th Annual General Meeting held at the Club Pavilion on Friday. The Nondescripts Cricket Club will be celebrating its 125th Anniversary this year and has already made arrangements to commemorate the event in September. The [...]
Blue Star regain top spot
Blue Star toppled Navy Sports in Group ‘A’ and Solid Sports Club continues to maintain their leadership in Group ‘B’ as the Dialog Champions League 2013 completed its tenth week. Blue Star’s narrow 1-0 win against giant killers Matara City was enough for them to regain the top spot of the group. Navy SC, who [...]
Murray lives the ‘English dream’
Fred Perry was the last Englishman to win Wimbledon, 77 years ago. Many English players appeared in the Wimbledon draw since then. Andy Murray a Scotsman got his act together to give England what it has been yearning for, the Wimbledon title. Even Englan’s Prime Minister, David Cameron was in attendance when Murray beat Novak [...]
We should take citing seriously
The news of the resignation of the Secretary of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Association, Rizvy Ilyaz, was a bolt from the blues. The sudden resignation has resulted in many explanations being concocted. Ilyaz confirmed that he has decided to resign due to the pressures of business and his present lifestyle which do not give [...]
How good is Angelo as captain?
After a rollercoaster campaign in both the ICC Champions Trophy and the triangular series in the West Indies, many have called into question the performance and decision-making of skipper Angelo Mathews. So is Mathews too young for such a huge responsibility and is he relying too much on the old warhorses of Sri Lankan cricket? [...]
Four Wings post 55 to 45 win over Moratuwa BC
Four Wings (a unit of the Sri Lanka Army) posted a 55 to 45 point win over Moratuwa BC in their men’s Colombo Super League fixture organized by the Colombo District Basketball Association at Nugegoda recently. At half time Four Wings held a 31 to 18 point lead. Nuwan Sameera led the scoring for Four [...]
President’s College overcome Dharmadasa
President’s College Rajagiriya overcame Dharmadasa College Peliyagoda by four wickets in their under 17 division three cricket encounter played at Rajagiriya. Dharmadasa College batting first scored 143 in 44 overs. Mohamed Aslam and Nilanka Pushpakumara scored 27 and 26 runs each. Chamod Senevirathne captured three wickets while Kushan Kolambage and Kavindu Weeratunge captured two wickets [...]
Defence Services trounce Kandy HA
Defence Services trounced Kandy HA by four goals to nil and emerge champions at the 23rd Women’s Hockey Nationals that was conducted by the SLHF at the Astro turf on recently. At the short whistle the scores were deadlocked at nil all. In the 39th minute of the second half, centre forward Chathurika Wijesooriya found [...]
Heterogeneity in the traits of a team
“Heterogeneity in the traits of a team helps to improve performance,” said Janaka Edirisinghe Sri Lanka Cricket’s Physiotherapist in the Southern Province discussing sports psychology with school cricket coaches and players at the Deshamanya H K Dharmadasa pavilion. Topics relating to personality, concentration and attention, mental imagery, arousal and motivation, stress, stress training and the [...]
Our expectant mother country confident of another successful delivery
Andy Murray delivered. So did the British and Irish Lions. Chris Froome might, and Kate Middleton is about to, any royal minute now. This is a fecund time in the United Kingdom. Now all eyes in this now permanently expectant country will turn to the Ashes series, to see what Jimmy Anderson delivers. Or will [...]
HARFA ends successfully
The 4th annual HARFA Rugby Extravaganza ended successfully at the Havelock Sports Club ground in Colombo last Sunday. The two-day rugby carnival, which featured competitions under eight age categories, attracted closer to 900 players from the ages of 10 to 50. An overall count of as many as 70 rugby teams competed with great enthusiasm [...]
It’s big match time in Matale
The inaugural under 17 & 15 twenty/20 cricket encounters and net ball fixtures(under 17 & 15) between two international schools, Matale international school in Matale and Royal international school Kurunegala organized by Matale international schoo will be played at the Bernard Aluvihare stadium Matale on Thursday July 18th from 9.00 am on wards. The cricket [...]
Size doesn’t matter says Pallister
Celebrated former Manchester United defender Gary Pallister, who was in the country to promote the second Airtel Rising Stars initiative, said that if Sri Lankans wholeheartedly commit to football, and focus on skill development, then they will easily surmount any physical barriers that may exist between players from the South Asian region and those from [...]
Next schools rugby season in a new format
The Secretary of the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association (SLSRFA), Susantha Mendis said that the Schools League for 2014 will bring a totally different setup. He explained the proposed format to the Sunday Times and said that they welcome comments to help to improve the tournaments. The Under-20 Schools Rugby Division I will comprise [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Sports Diary – Local CRICKET: SLC Under-23 Division I Colts vs Tamil Union at Colts NCC vs CCC at NCC Singha SC vs Army at Galle Air Force vs Moors at Moors Moratuwa SC vs Leos at De Zoysa Negombo CC vs Bloomfield at Kadirana Division II Kurunegala SC vs SSC at Ambepussa Antonians vs [...]
Objective – 2019 World Cup in Japan
The President of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) Asanga Seneviratne announced the introduction of professional changes to the rugby structure in Sri Lanka, at a press conference held on July 9, at the Olympic House. Introducing Alastair Saverimutto, the new CEO, Seneviratne said that Alastair has the rugby background and commercial capability of [...]
All-rounder Daniel powers Joes to fifth win
All-rounder Jehan Daniel smashed a powerful unbeaten century against President’s College to guide St Joseph’s to their fifth successive win in the All Island Under 15 Inter Schools Division One tournament. Chasing 175 runs to win in 30 overs, the Josephian openers, Jehan Daniel(115 n. o.) and Revan Kelly (52 n. o.) saw their side [...]
Venturing into the Duckworth/Lewis system
The D/L method was devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis (D/L method). This is a digital engine designed to calculate limited overs matches those are interrupted by weather or other circumstances. This is generally accepted to be the most accurate (closest) method of setting a target score thereafter. The guide is [...]
Excellence in the area of fielding
“Our national teams and all other representative teams have generally made us proud when it comes to fielding and we have earned a reputation of being one of the foremost fielding teams in the world. It has been hard work but the results have been very rewarding,” said Jerome Jayaratne the Head of Coaching for [...]
Mahamayan swim mill
Mahamaya College in Kandy continue to excel in swimming by claiming a number of championships this year, with the latest achievement being the overall championship (girls category) at the 40th Milo All-Island Schools Swimming Championships which was held recently. The girls from the hill country scored 614.5 points while Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo came second with [...]
Chanaka awarded Douglas de Silva Scholarship
Chanaka Perera, a 19-year-old schoolboy from D.S. Senanayaka College Colombo received the Douglas de Silva Scholarship awarded for the Most Promising Young Golfer for 2013/14, at the Royal Colombo Golf Course on July 8. The award is presented jointly by the Sri Lanka Golf Union President, Lal Dias and the son of Douglas de Silva, [...]
CCC SC beat Trinity Grammar School
The CCC School of Cricket posted a convincing 122-run win over the touring Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne in a limited over cricket fixture at the Colts ground recently. Batting first, the home side, with a hard hitting 81 runs by Thanuka Dabare, amassed a match-winning score of 242 for seven wickets in their quota of [...]
LIS shuttlers ‘D’ division champs
Lyceum International School Nugegoda performed extremely well to emerge champions in the ‘D’ divison of the All-Island Schools Under-15 Doubles Badminton Championship, held at Maliyadeva College in Kurunegala. The championship was organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Badminton Association. At the tournament Lyceum Nugegoda beat St. Peter’s College Gampaha, Welagedara Maha Vidyalaya Kurunegala and St. [...]
Royal emerge victorious at inaugural Inter-School golf championship
Royal College ‘B’ emerged victorious at the inaugural Inter-School Golf championship organised by Dons Golf in collaboration with the Royal Colombo Golf Club. Thus the Royalists walked away with the RCGC Inter-School Golf Championship Challenge Trophy awarded by RCGC Club Captain Nimal Piyaratne at a star studded awards ceremony held recently, followed by the action at [...]
Stamford High School arrive on short tour
The sports arm of Butterfly Vacations, Mount Lavinia (Kreeda Holidays) in collaboration with Stamford High School, England has brought down a girls’ Under 17 hockey and netball team for a short two week tour. The organizers believe that this will be a great opportunity for the students from both countries to socialize with each other [...]
