Colombo FC defeat Cops to regain momentum
Colombo FC, last year’s table leaders who suffered a surprise loss against minnows Super Sun last week in the Dialog Champions League 2014, bounced back in commanding style by inflicting a 3-1 defeat over Police. Colombo FC’s players combined perfectly and set about attacking their opponents right from the beginning of the game. This resulted [...]
Local referees did the honours on Day 1 at Koggala
The Carlton Super Sevens reflected over the skies near the beach of Koggala the Southern tourist resort. Unrated Western Warriors took honours in the first leg and will look to take the second leg of the tournament as Carlton 7s shines over the lights of Racecourse ground this week. George Simpkin who was responsible for [...]
Seniors prove why they are indispensable
Four players held centre stage on day three of the second Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the SSC grounds yesterday.Undoubtedly, the biggest achievement was the magnificent bowling of the persistent, patient and consistent Rangana Herath who became the second bowler following Muttiah Muralitharan to snare nine batsmen in an innings. His figures of [...]
Madura, Ashan, Ishan put Navy on top
Half tons by Madura Madusanka, Ashan Ranasinghe and Ishan Abeysekera helped Navy SC to come out on top against Bloomfield in the second day’s play in their SLC Under 23 Division I cricket encounter played at Welisara yesterday. Madura cracked a top knock of 83 which included eight boundaries and three sixes while Ashan made [...]
Army Para Sports from August 20
The 17th Inter-Regimental Para Sports Festival conducted for differently-abled athletes of Sri Lanka Army will be held at the Sugathadasa Stadium from August 20 to 22. Top athletes who had represented Sri Lanka at international events are expected to take part in this competition which opens doors to those who are capable of bringing glory [...]
Sayer to captain Trinity
Trinity College allrounder Ravin Sayer who was awarded with the Cricket Lion recently was appointed the First XI captain of the school outfit in the forthcoming 2014/2015 season. Ravin also represented the Sri Lanka Under-17s tour of England and made some remarakable performances for his team. He is one of the best in the trade [...]
47th Saints Quadrangular on August 23 and 24
All arrangements have been finalised to conduct the annual Saints Quadrangular contested by the old boys of four premier catholic schools St. Peter’s, St. Joseph’s, St. Benedict’s and St. Anthony’s is scheduled to be held on August 23 and 24. The main cricket tournament will be played at St. Peter’s and St. Joseph’s grounds while [...]
WTA & ATP ‘call the shots’
If you have been watching this year’s North American Hard court Tennis season on television, now on, you would have noticed a sign saying “US OPEN SERIES” with a sponsor’s name, on the side-screens of the courts. In the US-Open there were additional prizes – one, for winning the “US-Open title” and a second prize [...]
Lanka Plate carrom final today
Ishan Kannangara and Pramod Ashendra will meet Charith Nilanka and Kaveen Nimneth in the finals of the Men’s Doubles of the Lanka Plate Carrom Championships at 1 p.m. today. This will take place at the Carrom Headquarters at Maharagama. In the first semi-final match Ishan Kannangara and Pramod Ashendra beat M.A.M. Azhar and J.H.M. Nisthar [...]
Rimzan, Farshad advance to quarters
The knockout stage of the 62nd National Snooker Championship got underway at the Billiards and Snooker Association headquarters billiards table at the Sugathadasa Hotel in Colombo yesterday. Two pre-quarter finals are being worked everyday and in the matches that were played yesterday saw Mohamed Rimzan of Army and T.H.M. Farshad of MICH advancing to the [...]
Petes meet Zahira in soccer final
Either a historic victory or an ignominious defeat awaits St. Peter’s College and Zahira College as the two teams prepare to meet in the first-ever Kotmale Chox Football Finals, being played at the Sugathadasa Stadium on August 21 from 3.30 p.m.The tournament, which is being conducted by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka, featured riveting [...]
Cricket cold war Blood on the dance floor
There are some things that capture the imagination of the masses more than any other social norm. In this tiny island nation, the game of cricket is such a massive social pastime that the people have come to believe in the game and the result is that they advertise the fact that they are proud [...]
Sri Lanka strikes gold at Chess Olympiad
Sri Lanka won the Gold in the team category at the Chess Olympiad which ended on Thursday in Tromso, Norway. This was the first time that a Sri Lankan team returns with a Gold from an Olympiad in over 30 years. The team, comprising Prasanna Kurukulasuriya, G.C. Anuruddha, Chamika Perera, Isuru Alahakoon (Captain) and Rajeendra [...]
Medhira in semis, aiming for double
Medhira Samarasinghe who won the Girls Un18 title three days ago is aiming to clinch a double and has put herself in contention when she qualified to the U16 semi-finals defeating Oshani Wickramasinghe in the quarter-final encounter which was played in the mornings session at the SLTA hard courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday. Medhira had [...]
Desert Cubs to build an oasis in Lanka
Ten teams will go down in history books as being proud participants of the inaugural Desert Cubs Invitational Junior Cricket Tournament which is set to take place at four cricketing venues from coming Wednesday. The tournament organised and conducted by the Desert Cubs Cricket Academy in the United Arab Emirates will see five teams each [...]
Sean to look after Kandy rugby interests
For the past 21 years or so, Kandy Sports Club has always prided itself on its near invisibility. Double crowns and even triple crowns have come their way year in and year out. So much so that rugby enthusiasts wanted a change from the monotony.The emergence of the Navy Sports Club spelt danger. However, it [...]
Fifteen countries to take part in 10th Youth Volleyball championships
The coordination of schools associations with the National Bodies is very vital for the upliftment and improvement to any sport in Sri Lanka as well as in the other countries. This will be very important for the schools bodies, as some are engaged in a tug-of-war with their respective national bodies, to work hand in [...]
Solid SC solid as ever
After three weeks of competition Solid Sports Club Anuradhapura has taken the top spot of the Dialog Champions League 2014 points table. Solid SC shares nine points with Navy SC but their number of goals being nine from three games gives them the top position from 20 other teams of the tournament. Both Solid SC [...]
Assetline Leasing and LB Finance ‘B’ in final
Assetline Leasing and LB Finance ‘B’ booked their berths to the Final of the 4th Stafford Motor Co. ‘Honda’ Challenge Trophy, MCA Division ‘D’ 25-Over League Tournament, when they won their semi-final matches last weekend at the MCA grounds. With the finals scheduled to be played at the MCA grounds this weekend the curtain comes [...]
Waruna and Emdad steal the show at karting
The Speed Drome Karting Centre in Battaramulla hosted its first ever last weekend as Waruna Ranatunga and Emdad Hussain stole the show with their manoeuvering brilliance. The event which was held as a night race brought down the curtains of the inaugural national level karting meet a major success. Though the event had only two [...]
Sportsman Shivantha Vivekanandan re-elected President DSPPA
Well known former sports star Shivantha Vivekanandan was re-elected uncontested as the President, Deaf School Past Pupils’ Association, The School for the Deaf, Ratmalana for the 12th successive year at the 65th Annual General Meeting, held at the Stanley Hall, The School for the Deaf, Ratmalana recently. He was the past pupil from the school [...]
Avinda Adikari on song for Sampath Bank
Centre forward Avinda Adikari was on song when he fired two successive goals in Sampath Bank’s 3-0 win over Seylan Bank in a MFA ‘C’ division soccer fixture at the CR and FC grounds recently. At the short whistle the winners held a 1- 0 lead. In the 15th minute of play, Avinda Adikari opened [...]
Royal Under-16 sweeps through to win league rugby crown
The Royal Under-16 ruggerites continued with their winning streak during the knockout stage of the All-Island Schools Rugby Sectors ‘blended’ tournament conducted by the Sri Lanka School Rugby Football Association, after they completed the league sector by winning all games. This follows the winning run of this same combination in the last year’s Under-14 Knockout [...]
The sobbing black coat
The sobbing black coat We always have a lot of respect for the black coated gentry. The incident which we are going to highlight this week is about such a gentleman and it took place in Rob Roy country. There was a reception after one of the day’s events at the great sports show and [...]
Event to bring the cycling fraternity together
A host of former greats are expected to take part at the inaugural Cycling Festival organised by the Veterans’ Cycling Association (VCA) which will be held around the Vihara Maha Devi Park in Colombo today. The event, aimed at the bringing the cycling fraternity of Sri Lanka together after a long lapse, through an occasion [...]
Sri Lanka shooters win world championship
Sri Lanka won the overall championship at their maiden appearance in the 11th International Metallic Silhouette World Shooting Championship 2014 held at Udvicovich in the Czech Republic recently. The fifteen member Sri Lanka contingent captained by Brig. D.S.D. Welikala comprised six shooters from the Sri Lanka Army, two each from the Special Task Force, Negombo [...]
