Coach quandary: From Whatmore to what’s next
It was a different era in cricket in Sri Lanka, yet the same blue skies hovered over the island, though the evening shadows were just about to cast in. Even if the most junior cricketer in today’s context walks into that setup he certainly would not recognise the ambiance; in short the Lankans were a [...]
Simon Taufel to coach Lankan umpires
The ICC’s umpires coach Simon Taufel has been invited by Sri Lanka Cricket next month to conduct a series of programmes with a view to enhance the skills of local umpires. Taufel will be in Sri Lanka from October 14 to 22. SLC’s Cricket Operations Manager Carlton Bernadus explaining the programme to the Sunday Times [...]
Abeysinghe’s rule of the pool
Matthew Abeysinghe continued to carve through his opposition with the same ease with which he glides across the water, as the newly-crowned Milo Most Outstanding Schools Sportsman of the Year tore to a record-setting victory in the men’s 200-metre freestyle event of the National and Junior National Aquatic Championships, held at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. [...]
Kalu warns Sri Lanka ‘A’ – “Don’t let your guard down”
Sri Lanka ‘A’ coach Romesh Kaluwitharana warns his players not to be over confident against the visiting Kiwis during the three match One Day series, starting at Pallekele International Stadium, today. Having won the two match un-official test series, 1-0, Sri Lanka ‘A’ strengthened its bowlingunit by adding two test fast bowlers, Suranga Lakmal and [...]
Priyamal wrecks DSS to give St. Joseph’s a thrilling win
Right arm spinner Priyamal Perera wrecked the late order batting of D.S. Senanayake College to give St. Joseph’s a thrilling four run win in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Darley Road yesterday. DSS chasing 238 runs for victory was sitting pretty with the score on 222 for 4 when Priyamal came into [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET: -Sri Lanka ‘A’ vs New Zealand ‘A’ 1st unofficial ODI at Pallekele -37th Travel Trade Sixes at Shalika and DSS grounds FOOTBALL: Dialog Champions League 2013 -Renown vs Upcountry Lions at Sugathadasa Stadium (3.30pm) -Ratnam vs Colombo FC at Sugathadasa Stadium (5.30pm) -Super Sun vs Java Lane at Zahira Beruwela -Army SC vs [...]
Zahira sports gala today
The Group of 90s of Zahira College will hold its Annual Sports Festival today at Zahira College Grounds from 7.30am onwards. This is the 7th consecutive year the event is being held. Accordingly, there will be a 6-a-side softball cricket tournament and the Organizing Committee has decided to increase the number of teams from 16 [...]
IRB steps up anti-Doping campaign
The International Rugby Board (IRB) on Saturday stated that it would undertake the process of increasing Anti-Doping awareness across all affiliated Unions and Regional Associations. As an initiative the IRB has developed an e-learning programme highlighting the dangers and consequences of doping, strict liability, related important topics and the list of prohibited substances by the [...]
Rugby Tri-nation in Sri Lanka next month
Sri Lanka will host a Tri-Nation International Rugby Series from October 26 to November 1 according to official sources. The renovated Race Course ground has been selected as the venue for the Tri-Nation International, where Sri Lanka will vie against Poland and Madagascar. In the International Rugby Board (IRB) ranking Poland is placed at 28th [...]
Dialog Champions League 2013
Don Bosco, Air Force, Kalutara Park and Nandimithra recorded wins in their four second round matches of the Dialog Champions League 2013 club football tournament yesterday. The highlight of the day was Don Bosco’s smashing 4-0 win against Pelicans at Negombo. After a scoreless halftime, Nandimithra returned to score the solitary goal of the match [...]
Halambage and Hettiarachchi win openers
Rashith Halambage and H.D.L. Hettiarachchi won the boys and girls opening fixtures of the 61st National Badminton Champions that is now in progress at the Royal College Sports complex. While Rashith Halambage beat Santosh Tilakaratne 21/18, 21/11 in the boys under 15 age group, H.D.L. Hettiarachchi defeated S.M.S. Banadara to win the opening fixture of [...]
Roads less travelled
This year will see a few more additional international and local tournaments, before the close of the long competitive season. But of course, for the enthusiast, the tennis season never ends. For them any good afternoon is for Tennis. I am of the opinion that the 2013 competitions would inspire and make aware salient aspects [...]
Getting out of the third place shackle
Sri Lanka moved a neck ahead in the Thailand leg of the Asian Sevens series. Having beaten Korea and placed 3rd they are now neck to neck in the overall third place as they lost to Korea in sudden death, during extra time in Malaysia. The tuskers are narrowly apart as we go into the [...]
The vanishing photos
The vanishing photos It is the normal practice to hang photographs of past presidents at their offices after they have served their terms. This is done to remind the public of the services that these past presidents have rendered. Recently, however, visitors to the sports office were left wondering about the vacant places at the [...]
Royal aiming to stick to their guns
For eleven years the Blue and Gold Hockey Sevens has acted as an assembly for the country’s top school talent in a unique format of the sport, which brings with it a broader berth of competition and excitement than its conventional incarnation. This year’s tournament too, which is set to ignite on October 12, will [...]
Why are we minnows in the shuttle game
With badminton courts present in most parts of the country and the local population largely familiar with the sport, Sri Lanka should be keeping competitively abreast with its Asian neighbours, who rule the world stage. Disappointingly however, this is not the case, with Niluka Karunaratne’s display at the London Olympics still the only noteworthy performance [...]
Scene moves away to Nawalapitiya
The 61st National Badminton Championship will make its way out from Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka, to Nawalapitiya, the hometown of the Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage. The competitions which will be held under nine different categories will begin on October 1 and finish on October 6, setting two new records in the [...]
Lawyers in with ease
The high-riding Sri Lanka Lawyers cricket team under the captaincy of Asela Patabendi thrashed Sri Lanka Doctors by 6 wickets in their annual cricket encounter, to defend the Law-Medical title for the fifth consecutive year, at Colts grounds. The Doctors batting first were shot out for 118 runs. Yohan Jinasena picked three scalps and skipper [...]
Old Royalists Cricket on October 6
For the 13th consecutive year, the Royal College Old Boy’s Inter Batch ‘Cricket Carnival 2013’ will take place at the NCC Grounds on October 6th, from 8.30am onwards. Event will be organised by Royal College Group of 2001. Old Royalists from the Group of 69 to the Group of 2011 will be taking part and [...]
Local soccer back on the road
The second round of the Dialog Champions League 2013, inter-club football championship kicked off this week after a delay of two months, but with three more first round matches to be completed. From Group ‘A’ Colombo Football Club snatched the leadership as Solid Sports Club continues to lead the Group ‘B’, giving them the much [...]
Havies in for a treat
Defending Division A Clubs Rugby champions, Havelocks Sports Club received backing from Prima Treats, who has come forward as a co-sponsor and nutrition partner. The sponsorship was confirmed last Monday at a press briefing held at the club premises in Havelock Town where officials from both parties were present. Shun Tien Shing, General Manager of [...]
Indoor cricket blooms again with Tri-nation
After a lapse of nine years Sri Lanka will host an indoor cricket international tournament in the form of ICL (Indoor Cricket League) Tri-Nation Series 2013. This tournament which will feature Sri Lanka, current World Cup holders Australia and India will be held from October 2 to 5 at the Austasia International Indoor Cricket Stadium [...]
OTHU hold OSSC
Making a comeback after a lay off of five years, Old Thomians Hockey Union (Mount Lavinia) held Old Senanayakians Hockey Club to a one all draw in their Pioneer Shield fixture at the Astro turf recently. At half time OSSHC held a one nil lead. In the 21st minute of the game OSS HC scored [...]
Hearty runners trot for worthy cause
The Flora ‘Heart for Hearts’ charity run, jointly organised by the Ministry of Sports together with the Sirasa/MBC network, drew an enthusiastic group of runners, which also included well-known cricket personalities Kumar Sangakkara and Romesh Kaluwitharana, to ramble across the Sports Ministry Grounds recently for a worthy cause. The event, which featured a 3 km [...]
Usain Bolt runs in Sinhala
This may even surprise the legendary Usain Bolt himself. The well know bilingual sports journalist and author Sampath Bandara has come up with a Sinhala language journal on the world’s fastest man titled “Mihimatha Bihiwu Wegawathma Minisa — Usain Bolt’ (Usain Bolt, the fastest man to be born on earth). This interesting 76-page book covers, [...]
Thomians take their first NSGB Tennis title
S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia won the Nationals Schools Games’ Boys Tennis championship for the first ever time beating St. Peter’s College at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association courts in Colombo. According to official confirmation this was the first occasion S. Thomas’ qualified for a final in this competition which is over 20-years-old. On their [...]
Chandrishan appointed Baseball trainer
Sri Lanka Baseball Association (SLBA) has appointed former national rugby player and veteran fitness trainer, Chandrishan Perera as the official fitness trainer for the Sri Lanka senior and youth baseball squads. Chandrishan well known in the sport’s circle as a rugby coach, fitness trainer, and a commentator will initially take care of the 40-member Sri [...]
Twenty eight teams vie for honours
All arrangements have been finalized for the much looked forward to Munchee 6-a-side Cricket Tournament organised by the Old Wesleyites Sports Club (OWSC) which is scheduled to be held on October 5 and 6 at the Campbell Park. The tournament conducted by the OWSC for the 21st year is being sponsored by Ceylon Biscuits Limited [...]
All-conquering Medhira thirsts for more success
Over the space of just two weeks, Medhira Samarasinghe showed people all the finest qualities of her enviable brand of tennis. There was skill, perseverance, tenacity, power and grace all in prodigious and equal supply, punctuated by a fluent and emphatic victory in the girls’ finals of the Asian Tennis Federation Under 14 tournament’s second [...]
Marija and his men must believe in being the best in Asia
It is easy to get caught up in all the hype and hoopla following Sri Lanka’s ‘best-ever’ performance in the HSBC Asian Sevens Series and forget the fact that we will once again fail in our bid to reach the promised land for one more year. But first it has to be acknowledged that our [...]
Melbourne Rebels to fly with Lankan rugby
Sri Lanka’s love for Rugby Union and its honeymoon with international players in recent times at the local International Carlton Sevens has reaped the rewards for effort with one of the top teams in world rugby, the Melbourne Rebels, pledging their unstinted support towards lifting the country’s profile on a global scale in this very [...]
Rumal and Dewmini clinch U-18 TT title
Rumal Intikab of Royal College defeated his schoolmate Virunaka Hendahewa in straight sets, while Dewmini Weerasena of Musaeus College downed Chamathsara Fernando of Visakha Vidyalaya in a three setter to emerge the Under 18 boys and girls champions at the Western Province Open Ranking Table Tennis Championships, which was conducted by the I and D [...]
Visakha Vidyalaya emerge girls’ squash champs
Visakha Vidyalaya Colombo became the girls overall squash champions at the annual all Island Inter School Squash Championships, held at the S. Thomas’ College Sport Complex on September 17 and 18. This is the second time that Visakha Vidyalaya was able to win this title. It was Sirimavo Bandaranayaka Vidyalaya Colombo that held the championship [...]
J.P. Nagar CA to tour Sri Lanka
The J.P. Nagar Cricket Academy, which is based in Bangalore, India, will arrive in Sri Lanka in early October to participate in a series of matches to be played in Colombo, Negombo and Wattala. The Nondescripts Cricket Academy will host the visitors on October 7 at the NCC grounds, Maitland Place. They are scheduled to [...]
Medira and Aadavan excel at ATF U-14 second week
Medhira Samarasinghe and Aadavan Pushparaj produced some masterful exhibitions of tennis in the girls’ and boys’ finals of the Under 14 Asian Tennis Federation tournament’s second week respectively, to register exciting wins at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association recently. Samarasinghe, who lost to her finals opponent, the much-touted Adithya Karunaratne during the ATF’s first week, [...]
IIT pursues firmer foothold in sports
In order to strengthen its success in the field of sports, the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) is planning to offer scholarships for talented school sportsmen and women. Basketball, rugby and cricket are the main sports at IIT and members of their present teams, apart from focusing on their academic work, are practicing for future [...]
Ananda’s Buddima rowing a balanced boat
Buddima Wickramarathne has fashioned a reputation for himself as a quick learner and hard worker in both his alma mater, Ananda College, as well as the school fraternity at large. This year, after captaining the Anandian rowing team to victories in the Under 18 and Under 20 age groups of the Sri Lanka Schools Rowing [...]
Trinity’s cubs roar at rugby carnival
Trinity College earned major honours by winning three group championships at the Inter-School Milo Under-12 10-a-side Rugby Carnival, held at the Royal College Sports Complex in Colombo last weekend. The tournament was played as a friendly competition with the top performers from each group being considered winners. Close to 1000 young rugby players took part [...]
