‘Shortsightedness, false accusations are of no use’ – NOC chief
Hemasiri Fernando, the incumbent President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC) reiterated and warned the authorities to fall in line with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) charter or face the consequences. In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times Fernando made it clear that his era in sports administration has definitely come [...]
Cricketing is not for sissies
“That’s the way the cookie crumbles”. Oh! Yes I have seen it many times before and I am sure I even have used that phrase before. Yet, reoccurrences like what I am going to jot down below could well afford to carry phrases which are being reused. It was not many moons ago that the [...]
National Baseball League championships begins
The National Baseball League Championship for the year 2013 will pitch off at the Japan-Sri Lanka Baseball ground in Diyagama, Homagama today. Only eight teams will be eligible to compete at this championship, which is the most important among baseball tournaments played in Sri Lanka. According to Sri Lanka Baseball Association officials the National Baseball [...]
Antons Bridge champs
Antons, a team made up of Anton Selvanayagam, Rex Perera, Dr. Dilanjan Soysa, Asoka Jayasinghe and Ismeth Magdon Ismail emerged champions at the annual Bridge Championships, conducted by the Bridge Federation of Sri Lanka held at the Women’s International Club. The competition was sponsored by Multiform Chemicals and directed by Gajen Thillainathan. Shans comprising of [...]
Navy maintain unbeaten record by a whisker
Navy recorded their sixth successive win in the Dialog Division ‘A’ Club Rugby tournament while maintaining their unbeaten tag by a whisker, with a close 31-27 win over CR&FC played at Longden Place yesterday. The Sailors after conceding a 12-17 lead to the Red Shirts struck back in the second half and accumulated their points [...]
Tennis Trends of 2013
Two sports in the world enjoy the status of being the most popular with their presence in over 200 countries. One is Football and the other is Tennis. As an individual sport, arguably Tennis is the most popular in the world. Every sport is unique in character, challenge, intensity and appeal that cannot be matched [...]
Club rugby flows with Havelocks and Navy remaining unbeaten as schools adopt new structure for 2014
Whilst the club rugby season is gathering momentum, last week the Dialog Division ‘A’ competition saw the two unbeaten teams, Havelock’s and Navy maintaining their records. CR&FC, a side that started sloppily, seem to have dusted the feathers and upset Army who had lost only one match up to week five. The Soldiers may have [...]
35th Bata-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2014 to kick off
As our readers are aware, the Sunday Times and the Bata Shoe Company has made all necessary arrangements to kick-start the 35th Bata-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year competition for 2014. With this progress, our readers will be able to get involved with one of the important segments of the competition, the Most [...]
Samarasinghe’s mastery sends Silva scuttling to defeat
Navin Samarasinghe demonstrated the full depth of his on-court mastery and technical brilliance with a raft of scintillating strokes, which sent S.K Silva scuttling to a 11-4, 11-1, 11-1 defeat in a quarterfinal clash of the 33rd Squash National Championship, played at the Air Force Squash Complex yesterday. Samarasinghe, the competition’s defending champion, used his [...]
Angelo’s unbeaten knock steers NCC to final
Angelo Perera cracked an unbeaten 64 which helped his side to record an easy seven wickets win over Colts in the first semi-final played at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday to steer NCC to the final of the Premier limited over cricket tournament. Angelo whose knock came off just 50 balls comprised four boundaries and [...]
A win in Sharjah crucial for Sri Lanka today
With a win each to their tallies both Sri Lanka and Pakistan will make sure to treat the third game with importance as a win will be a crucial factor on their quest to clinch the five-match ODI series. The third ODI match between the evenly poised visiting Sri Lankan and hosting Pakistan sides will [...]
Sports Diary
Local CRICKET: MCA-DPMC Division ‘E’ League – Orient Finance vs AMW Group at St. John’s Panadura – ExpoLanka Group vs Hemas Group at Ananda Mawatha – Commercial Bank ‘B’ vs DPMC ‘A’ at St. Sebastian’s Moratuwa RUGBY: Dialog Division ‘A’ – Police vs Upcountry Lions at Police Park – Kandy vs Air Force at Nittawela [...]
Sri Lanka Army honours big names in athletics
Setting a valuable example to its parent body, the athletic wing of Sri Lanka Army held a felicitation ceremony to honour the big names in athletics at the Musaeus College auditorium in Colombo last week. The felicitation ceremony was held to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of Army athletics. While Sri Lanka Athletics Association (SLAA) [...]
What about a Lankan cricket High Commission in China?
China has given Sri Lanka a helping hand on many fronts so perhaps it might be timely if this gesture can be reciprocated in the form of much-needed help to lift the fortunes of cricket in China. Cricket is as unfamiliar to the Chinese as chopsticks might be for many Sri Lankans. But that hasn’t [...]
Sylvester’s death leaves a void which cannot be filled
One of the legendary fast bowlers in Sri Lanka in the yester year – Sylvester Dias died a week ago at the age of 75 years. He was ill with diabetes for few years which spiraled into a chronic stage. His demise is a sad event not only to his family, but also to the [...]
Halliday recalls tsunami 2004
“We were to play a Galle district combined schools XI at the Galle Cricket Ground on December 26, 2004. The match was to start at 10.00am and Simon had the boys on the field in front of the pavilion when we heard people screaming and when I looked that way, I saw a mass of [...]
Janadhipathi BV to celebrate 10 years in hockey next year
Janadhipathi Balika Vidyalaya will be celebrating ten years of existence in the hockey field next year (2014). They have been performing commendably for the past nine years, which is a creditable performance. Most of their senior and junior players have represented Sri Lanka in their respective age categories. Some of their outstanding performances during the [...]
A road race at last
A road race at last After a long time, approximately six years, a leading track and field club is to hold a road race. It is strange that this club with several former top athletes in their ranks have not been able to hold a sports meet or any such event. Now that the year [...]
Certain individuals are ruining bodybuilding claims SLVBOC
The Sri Lanka Veterans Bodybuilding Officials Committee (SLVBOC), which comprises a convoy of former national champions, bodybuilders and officials who held numerous positions at the controversial Sri Lanka Bodybuilding Federation (SLBBF), has made an official protest to the Minster of Sports for being partial on them. Speaking to journalists on Thursday at a specially arranged [...]
An evening of pure magic as Kandy confront Air Force
It is accepted with demur that the scars of war had healed quickly after the earlier Naval skirmish and that Kandy SC acquitted themselves well against the Hambantota Sharks. Some of the plus points were that they continued the phases, that the forwards were very mobile and that they were at the breakdowns quite quickly. [...]
Renown eye a repeat but Airmen determine to upset
Air Force Sports Club will stand a rare opportunity to grab their first-ever renowned silverware in football when they take on former champions Renown Sports Club in the Dialog Champions League 2013 final showdown which will be played at Kalutara today. The curtains of the longest running top league football championship will come down at [...]
Can we stay T20 top dogs?
The Sri Lankan team is currently perched at the top of the Twenty20 ladder as the number one side in the format. But will they be able to hold this status heading into next year’s Twenty20 World Championships and if they do, will they be able to live up to their top rank billing at [...]
