Aussie university raises doubts over ICC integrity
Has the International Cricket Council (ICC) stolen or copied a system that was developed by the University of Western Australia (UWA) to detect and remedy illegal bowling actions and is it manipulating this method to please the Big Three. These questions have arisen following a report circulated among Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee members. The [...]
Lessons from Incheon
Some years ago I was at Isipathana College on a weekday, chatting up with a teacher during the school interval. Something that I noticed at that point never left my memory. Down the school yard several little boys were running in motion. While on the trot, they were passing an object that looked like a [...]
Twelve new meet records established
Twelve new meet records were established on the first day of the 31st Mercantile Annual Athletic Meet yesterday at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Diyagama. Forty mercantile establishments took part in this year’s competition with an invited team of athletes from India. The championship was conducted for men and women in seven segments – novices, [...]
Dimuth’s timely ton spurs Lanka ‘A’
Opener Dimuth Karunaratne and Lahiru Thirimanne starred on day one for Sri Lanka ‘A’ who ended the day boasting of a score of 261 for 2 against West Indies ‘A’ in their first unofficial Test match that began at the Sooriyawewa Stadium yesterday. After skipper Upul Tharanga won the toss and elected to take first [...]
Incheon deserters blacklisted
While the South Korean Police are on the hunt for the two Sri Lankan athletes, who jumped from the Games Village of the 17th Asian Games in Incheon on two separate occasions, the Sri Lankan sports authorities have made arrangements to blacklist their travel documents according to athletic sources. The two Sri Lankan athletes, Wasantha [...]
Thomians win both legs to secure famous win
S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia were too hot for Royal College to handle at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium Swimming Pool Complex in Colombo yesterday. The Thomians pulled off another sensational win by 9 goals to 8 in the second leg of the 23rd Annual Water Polo encounter and thus retained the R.L. Hayman Trophy with [...]
Nigerian striker Ebenezar scores hat-trick for Super Sun
Foreign players took the spotlight at four Dialog Champions League 2014 football games which took place at different venues around the country yesterday. The remarkable performance of all came from Nigerian striker Ebenezar who struck a hat-trick for Super Sun in their commanding 4-0 win against Crystal Palace at the CR&FC ground in Colombo. Ebenezar’s [...]
Windies implode in Delhi
Virat Kohli 62, Suresh Raina 62 and skipper Mahendra Sing Dhoni 51 hit half centuries while left arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja bagged 3 for 44 to guide India to a 48 run victory in their second One Day International against West Indies at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, yesterday. Batting first India scored 263 [...]
AIDEX sports meet on Oct. 19
AIDEX 2014, the annual Sports Festival for amputees who are users of Jaipur limbs, organised by the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society will be held at the Wesley College ground in Colombo on October 19. This will be the 183rd anniversary of the Colombo Frien-in-Need Society which organizes the AIDEX Sports Festival for the 25th successive year. [...]
Bishops-Visakha Water Polo clash
Bishop’s College and Visakha Vidyalaya will meet again for the eighth occasion at their annual Water Polo encounter which will commence at 2.30pm at the Police Pool Complex in Narahenpita tomorrow. The two leading girls’ schools will battle in two age categories with the inclusion of a Under-19 encounter from this year, which will be [...]
Mercantile TT on Oct 30-31
The Mercantile League Table Tennis Tournament 2014, organised and conducted by the Mercantile Table Tennis Association will be held on October 30 and 31 at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium tables commencing at 5.00 p.m. both days. Entries will be received upto October 17 and the draw will be held on October 24 (Friday) [...]
Drab draw at Darley Road
The Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter between St. Joseph’s and Nalanda played at Darley Road ended in a drab draw yesterday. Nalanda resuming from their overnight score of 86 for 2 went on to make 208 with Kasun Sandaruwan making a top score of 62. He put on a 53 run partnership for the third [...]
Orville Fernando resigns
The President of Sri Lanka Society of Rugby Football Referees (SLSRFR), Orville Fernando, has resigned from his post according to an email addressed to the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU). An official of SLSRFR confirmed that he had received an email forwarded by the SLRFU which was sent by his President, Fernando. The official [...]
Joes to felicitate Angelo and the rest
St. Joseph’s College, Colombo has decided to felicitate and honour Angelo Mathews and his fellow Josephian teammates Thisara Perera and Dimuth Karunaratne along with bowling coach Chaminda Vaas for their exceptional and historic performance in England this year, where the Sri Lankan team emerged winners in all formats of the game, namely test, one day [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET: Sri Lanka ‘A’ vs West Indies ‘A 2nd Day of 1st Unofficial Test at Sooriyawewa MCA-Singer Premier League – MAS Active vs Seylan Bank at MCA MCA Division ‘B’ League – MAS Linea Aqua vs Textured Jersey at BRC – Kanrich Finance ‘A’ vs LB Finance ‘A’ at Moratuwa – PABC Bank vs [...]
CSN by nine wickets
A T20 cricket match organised by the Grand Hotel, Nuwara Eliya in view of their Staff Welfare Day celebrations was played between the hosts and Carlton Sports Network (CSN) recently. The match was played at the Public Grounds, Nuwara Eliya for the Raju N. Veerasingham Mercantile Cricket Challenge Trophy. Batting first the Grand Hotel team [...]
Beach Volleyball Games commence in Hambantota
The Beach Volleyball Games of the 40th National Sports Festival commenced at the Hambantota Beach yesterday with teams representing each province of the country battling it out for supremacy. The opening game of the event was held between Central Province and Eastern Province with the preliminary rounds games being held at a specially made floodlight [...]
Ladies’ College continues winning spree
The winning streak of the Ladies’ College (LC) continued as Museaus College (MC) struggled to give chase on the Beira waters at the 11th Annual LC vs. MC regatta, yesterday. LC rowed to earn a handsome 48 points against 4 points scored by their opponents MC. LC Crew got off to a good start with Ishara [...]
Making of a Tennis Maestro
For many players in International and Local competitions, mid-October is the end of the season. The year would have taught valuable lessons, sweet tastes of success, and some daunting memories. In all, every player would have made their own history. All these will not be in vain in the journey of a player. In fact, [...]
Are we killing the goose that lays the golden egg?
If we are to give meaning to a Rugby club there will be many different views or interpretations that may stand up. As the new rugby season is around the corner one must realise that a rugby club more than anything else, is a community: the fans that turn up to cheer, cry and curse; [...]
Matale honours 10 hockey greats
The Golden Awards Ceremony to pay tribute to ten past hockey players of national and international fame produced from Matale, organisd by the Matale Old Thomians Hockey Association (MOTHA) took place at the Grand City Hotel in Matale last Saturday. The president of MOTHA, P. Vasudevan is his welcome address expressed his sincere and deep [...]
3000 athletes vie for honours at John Tarbet Athletic meet from October 13 to 15
The annual Sir John Tarbet Athletic Meets for the year 2014 will kick off on October 13 with its Senior Championship at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Diyagama. The three-day meet which ends on October 15 has drawn over 3000 athletes from all parts of the country as the organisers of the event, the Sri [...]
WNS had a field day
WNS the largest BPM provider in the country, with over 800 professionals providing a broad range of finance and accounting, customer care, travel, public sector, banking, revenue audits serving a large clientele gathered at the Otter Aquatic Club for the fourth year. The basketball tournament is the most eagerly awaited event of the calendar owing [...]
Deteriorating standards of sports a disgrace
The deteriorating standards of most of our national sports is a disgrace to our country and its people. It is tragic to see the unconcern of the officials to the steeply deteriorating performing standards. It is simply incredible that there are amongst us, people who don’t care a damn for death or destruction damage or [...]
Sri Lanka football from frying pan to fire!
Former national player and national coach Subhani Hassimdeen keeps writing regularly in newspaper columns about Football. His contribution, I feel is to remind the present generation of the state of football in yesteryear. Secondly is to see that the gam gains its past glory. But, it is unfortunate that those at helm are deaf and [...]
Travelling back to that 1948 ‘Silver’ moment
When Duncan White won the 1948 Olympic silver medal in the 400m hurdles he was just 28-years-old. He was most probably past his physical prime at that time. Would he have performed better at the 1944 Olympics when he was 24 years old? Sadly WW2 put an end to that! Duncan White, MBE (1 March [...]
Gauging ones sports talents at a young age – it’s a possibility now
The future of Sri Lanka Sport appears to be a promising one with the latest invention, SportUnleash, a revolutionary talent tracking system, set to undertake an island wide talent search for true sports potential to breed Sri Lanka’s next generation of world class champions. A sport talent and physical attribute identification algorithm for children aged [...]
MAS active in Merc Premier league
MAS Active started their campaign with back-to-back wins over Sampath Bank and HNB in the ongoing 22nd Singer – MCA Premier League, continued last weekend. Defending Champions, MAS Intimates Unichela, too scored back to back wins, to remain unbeaten after five matches, beating Commercial Credit by three wickets and Seylan Bank by four wickets. Sri [...]
Harsha at the 18th hole
SriLankan Airlines’ 15th Golf Classic has been the most diverse in country-wise participation registering almost 200 players from 18 countries, who battled it out on four days, with each playing on two consecutive days between September 25 and 28. The response from the Far Eastern countries was the most impressive with China bringing in the [...]
Outstanding sport personalities to be rewarded
Sri Lanka’s top national mobile service provider Mobitel has drawn up plans to reward the top sport personalities in both the boy’s and girl’s categories who have been outstanding in their respective sports for the year 2014. This was revealed by Nalin Perera, Senior General Manager, Mobitel Lanka Ltd at a press briefing held recently. [...]
Mavians marvel at carrom
Mavians (Orange), R&AC (A), Mavians (Pink) and R&AC (B) booked their berths to play in the Women’s ‘C’ Division semi-finals of the Inter-Club League Carrom Tournament 2014 organised by the Carrom Federation and worked-off at the Carrom Federation Head-quarters Maharagama over the week-end. The semi-finals matches will take place at the same venue on October [...]
Mahela’s football hat-trick at Zahira College
Former Sri Lanka Test cricket captain Mahela Jayawardene made a hat-trick as his team, the Cricket Stars thrashed an All Star team 6-1 in a Celebrity Football match organised by the Past Prefects Association of Zahira College at Maradana last Wednesday. The Cricket Stars led by Sri Lanka bowling coach Champaka Ramanayaka had a great [...]
Dudley Senanayake MV win maiden rugby plum
Dudley Senanayake Maha Vidyalaya Narahenpita won their first-ever major championship at rugby, winning the SLSRFA-Singer Inter-School Under-18 7s Rugby Tournament worked off at the Science College ground in Mt. Lavinia last weekend. The champion side beat Welagedara Maha Vidyalaya Kurunegala by 28-7 in the Cup final after scoring from four converted tries while conceding one. [...]
STC retains Monty Gopallawa Memorial Tennis Trophy
S. Thomas’ College retained the Monty Gopallawa Memorial Trophy when they registered a 5-0 clean sweep over Trinity College in their annual tennis tie at Mount Lavinia last weekend. This was the third occasion the two schools met for the Trophy and S. Thomas’ were winners in 2012 and 2013. The Thomians were led by [...]
Undergrads in Malaysian waters
University of Colombo Rowing team will be the only Sri Lankan University team at the Varsity Boat race, in Malaysia this year as well. Taking part for the fifth time the oarsmen and oarswomen hope to maintain their winning standards. This will be the fifth year that University of Colombo will be rowing in the [...]
St Peter’s takes gold-completes rare tennis double
St Peter’s tennis players spearheaded by national junior tennis champion Nishangan Nadarajah and Chehan Fernando completed a rare tennis double having earlier won the All Island Overall Inter-Schools tennis title when they clinched the All Island National School Games tennis gold medal concluded at the SLTA courts in Greenpath recently. In fact they had won [...]
Joint champs declared
The annual hockey encounter between Ladies’ College and Bishop’s College has a long lasting memory. It was started in the year 2005.Ladies’ College has won the shield for 6 times and Bishop’s College has won the shield twice. Both teams were declared joint champions in 2010 and 2014. The Ladies’ College Under-17team was captained by [...]