Nondescripts make it 125 not out
Perhaps the most appealing quality of the Nondescripts Cricket Club is the fundamental philosophy enshrined in its name. Nondescripts. It succinctly informs all its cricketers that whatever feelings of entitlement they harbor should be left outside its gtes, and that all that really matters inside is strength of character and depth of will. The club [...]
CHOGM, CCC and the cricket legacy
There is no doubt that when you enter the pavilion of the Colombo Cricket Club you get that feeling that you have walked into a place where you would have felt a foreigner even on your own land, sometime way back in history. Prominent among its many striking features, the wooden floor adds to the [...]
Discarded Aroos tells his side of the story
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has spent a staggering amount of Rs. 575, 000 to conduct a series of inquiries which lead to hand a five year ban on the former women’s cricket team manager A.R.M. Aroos, for accepting Rs. 56,000 from a player. This was evidently disclosed by an SLC source who went on to [...]
How should we devour the Kiwis?
The New Zealand side which is scheduled to play Sri Lanka soon is nowhere near full strength with several key players absent from its ranks. This week the Sunday Times set out to discover if this presented an opportunity to test out new talent or should ri Lanka capitalize on their weak opposition and play [...]
Rakitha: Lion in Kiwi feathers
Spotting the surname Weerasundera in a foreign batting lineup is guaranteed to send most local eyebrows arching high in curiosity. But throw in the fact that the lineup belongs to the New Zealand Under 19 team, the name is at the top of it and the score in front of it is 92; well it [...]
The dislocated shoulder
The dislocated shoulder Recently a lad had dislocated a shoulder whilst taking part in a game in Moratuwa. The concerned parent had confronted the lad’s coach and there had been a tussle between the coach and the parent in the middle of the ground. What is more the situation had gone beyond control and the [...]
How to select the best cricket team to the national team
Is the best eleven playing in the National Team? This is a million dollar question. Once in a while it is good to discuss and argue this point. In order to play the very best there should be a criterion for selection. I am going to put forward twenty points as to how we could [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET: Sri Lanka vs New Zealand 1st ODI at Sooriyawewa Schools U-19 -St. Servatius vs S. de S. Jayasinghe MV at Uyanwatte 21st MCA-Singer Premier League 2014 -Sampath Bank vs MAS Active Trading at P. Sara Oval -Seylan Bank vs MAS Unichela at NCC ground MCA-Elephant Lemonade Div ‘D’ League -MAS Linea Aqua vs [...]
Sri Lankan TT veterans excel in Australian Masters at Geelong
Three Sri Lankan veteran table tennis players, Dr. Nimal Lucas, Mohamed Laffeer and Pushpa Colombathanthri won a tally of 10 medals at the 14th Australian Masters Games held in Geelong, Australia on 11th and 12th October 2013. In the 65-74 year old team event, Dr. Nimal Lucas (captain), Mohamed Laffeer and Dr. Buddy Reid (Australian) [...]
Isuru guides Ananda to innings win
Left-arm spinner Isuru Gunasekera wrecked the Wesley batting with impressive figures of 7 for 40 to guide Ananda to an innings and 37 runs win in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Campbell Park yesterday. Ananda had put themselves in a match winning position after the pre-lunch session of play on the second [...]
Gunasekera stars for Commercial Credit
Centre forward D.C.T. Gunasekera was the star for Commercial Credit when he fired four goals when they defeated Virtusa by seven goals to one in a MFA football fixture at the Railway grounds, Ratmalana recently. At half time Commercial Credit were well n their way to victory with a 3-0 lead. Gunasekera fired his four [...]
RPCA under 17 team shine against Nepal
The Ravi Punchihewa Cricket Academy of Matale won the Under-17 Twenty20 Cricket Series against the touring Dhangadh Cricket Academy of Nepal which was held between October 22 and 28 in Matale. The Ravi Punchihewa CA won the series by 6 games to 3 where all matches were played at the Bernard Aluvihare Stadium in Matale. [...]
It’s time to take a look at the next-in-line
While still in school playing cricket, Bandula Warnapura was a contemporary at my brother school Nalanda. By then we already had assumed that his walk into the national team was just a matter of time. Then one day one of my colleagues asked me if I had seen this young Nalandian by the name of [...]
Men’s ATP Masters Tennis – London
The Physical grind The first ten months of 2013, had 64 tournaments squeezed into the ATP Men’s Tennis schedule. The final was the ATP Masters which started on 4th November in London. It is only for the top eight in the world ranking who survived this year’s ‘professional physical-grind’. Reaching and staying at the top [...]
Big step forward in quest for honours
Sri Lankan rugby has made a giant stride in the quest for greater honors. Despite being beaten by Madagascar they came back strong to beat Poland, a strong force in European rugby. Ronnie Ibrahim, the coach of Sri Lanka, was jubilant. He was particularly happy with the performance of a team which consisted of several [...]
Nandimithra breaches Solid defence
Nandimithra were made to labour endlessly against the aptly named Solid SC before eventually pouncing on a rare defensive lapse to register the fixture’s sole goal, which towed them to victory in their Dialog Champions League match, played at the St. Benedict’s College grounds yesterday. Both teams were air-tight in their halves and, as the [...]
Ruined track at Sugathadasa Stadium: Who is the culprit?
The fortunes and fame of one party and the careers of the other are at stake according to the Minister of Sports, Mahindananda Aluthgamage, who firmly said that ‘someone has to take the blame’ for the calamity of the newly laid synthetic track of the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo. The authorities of the Sugathadasa Stadium [...]
Four more Interim Committees to face elections in December
The Ministry of Sports has taken steps to disband four sports governing bodies run by interim committees in order to hold fresh elections before the end of this year. Accordingly the Sri Lanka Gymnastic Association, Sri Lanka Bodybuilding Federation, Sri Lanka Cycling Federation and Sri Lanka Shooting Federation have been dissolved. According to Director General [...]
Kandy lawyers and doctors to meet in annual cricket clash
The Kandy Law-Medical cricket match, a longstanding, closely-contested traditional encounter, is set to be worked off at the Asgiriya International Stadium today. This 30-over fixture has been in existence for over 60 years and is generally staged annually, although there have been years when it was not held. The Guests’ of Honour at the match [...]
Sri Lanka Kayaking team impressive
Participating in their first overseas competition, the Sri Lankan Kayaking team showed very few nerves as they generated an impressive stream of solid performances at the 15th Asian Sprint Canoe Championships, which was worked off in the city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan last month The four-member team comprised of three athletes, R. Wijerathna, K. Kumara, [...]
Sashikumar and Qin Ami bag SriLankan Golf Classic titles
Malaysian R. Subramaniyam Sashikumar won the Men’s title while Pakistan’s Qin Ami emerged the Women’s champion at the prestigious 14th SriLankan Airlines Golf Classics conducted by and held at the Victoria Golf and Country Resort in Digana, Kandy. A large contingent of golfers both local and foreign competed in the four-day competition as Sashikumar scored [...]
Tharanga’s ton gives debutants Commercial Credit stunning win
Upul Tharanga’s 120-ball knock of 127 inclusive of 19 boundaries saw Commercial Credit record their third win in the 21st Singer Premier League cricket tournament. Commercial Credit scored a stunning 6-wicket win over defending champions MAS Active at the P. Sara Stadium yesterday. Commercial Credit in pursuit of 216 runs for victory was given a [...]
Mark or Marvan: Coach decision on cliffhanger
The toss-up between Marvan Atapattu and South African born Sussex coach Mark Davis for the position of Sri Lanka’s Mark Davis (left) and Marvan Atapattu, the two finalists picked by SLC national cricket coach in January has posed a dilemma for cricket authorities. At the presentation held at the SLC headquarters on Wednesday, Davis and [...]
Sanath asks why we should be at full strength against the injured Kiwis
The Lankan chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya said that the Lankan team will be at full strength for today’s first ODI which will be played the Sooriyawewa Stadium from 2.00 p.m. onwards. Jayasuriya said “For the first game we will go at full strength and how the game goes on. If it becomes an one-sided affair [...]
Marija’s merry men still on cloud nine
Fazil Marija and his Sri Lanka Sevens band came out with a stupendous performance to record two contrasting wins and book a quarter-final berth in the Cup segment at the HSBC Asian Sevens Series final leg in Singapore yesterday. Presently ranked at third, Sri Lanka will now meet China in the fourth quarter-final aiming to [...]
Hambantota Sharks out for the first time
The Dialog Inter-Club Division ‘A’ League Rugby tournament is set to kick off next Friday with ten teams in the fray, including the exciting titleholders Havelocks Sports Club and debutants Hambantota Sharks, who will inaugurate the action. The curtain-raiser, to be played at Havelock Park, will be a testing battle for the defending champions, whose [...]
KPMG Lions maul E & Y Seven Stars
The KPMG Lions defeated the E & Y Seven Stars in the final of the Softball Day and Night Cricket Sixes tournament, conducted by the Member Events Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, at theBloomfieldgrounds recently. Lakshitha Bandara of the KPMG Lions won the award for the Best Batsman and Rasika [...]
