Vital outing for Lankans today
Today’s match – a day game is vital for the Lankans. If they are to keep their nose ahead of the Englishmen, they have to win this game on the R. Premadasa turf. The loss at Hambantota was rather disturbing. On a wicket that was tailor-made for batting, the Lankans were exposed once again. First [...]
Sanga: The rock of our age
He is the rock of Sri Lankan cricket. The word ‘resolve’ in its own right has a meaning, but, when one coins that word with Kumar Sangakkara it takes a different perspective altogether. Cricket-wise it becomes a statement so strong that not even the cricket establishment of Sri Lanka could move it from what it [...]
National Baseball C’ships today
The final of the Sri Lanka Telecom National Baseball Championship 2014 will be held from 11.00am today at the Japan-Sri Lanka Baseball ground in Diyagama, Homagama. Four teams qualified for the final round including hot favourites Ranabima Royal, Old Royalists, Sri Lanka Navy and Kandy Baseball Club will vie for the top two slots in [...]
Sunshine and tea party
Sunshine Tea held its annual Inter-Company cricket competition at the University ground in Colombo. Over 500 staff members representing teams from Plantations, Packaging, Manufacturing and Marketing firms affiliated to Sunshine Tea competed at the tournament, which was conducted in a friendly atmosphere. The day’s events came to an end with a fun-filled sports meet which [...]
We intend reversing the status quo says Ranjith Rodrigo
Responding to the remark made by FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter, who stated that he was not satisfied with the development of football in Sri Lanka, Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) chief told the Sunday Times that steps are already underway to address the demands. While asserting that he was keen to help Sri [...]
TTSC swimming today
Kalu’s Hideaway, Udawalawe and Cinnamon City will be making their debut at the 30th Travel Trade Sports Club Swimming Championships 2014, to be held today Sunday, December 7 at the Thurstan College Pool, commencing 1.00pm. The rest of the teams are, Sri Lankan Airlines (2013 winner), Hotel J, Negombo, Cinnamon Grand Colombo, Cinnamon Wild Yala, [...]
Dialog Axiata bestowed football partner award from FIFA
FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) President, Joseph “Sepp” Blatter presenting an award in appreciation for a decade long partnership sponsoring the ‘Dialog Champions League’ at the 75th Anniversary of FFSL (Football Federation of Sri Lanka). In the picture are — L-R: AFC President Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Dialog GCMO Amali Nanayakkara, President [...]
More ‘Laugfs’ for Ananda
The 1st XI cricket team of Ananda College Colombo will be bolstered by the sponsorship by Laugfs Holdings in the 2014/2015 season. Ananda College is currently enjoying a good season after their success from last year. Their 1st XI team finished third in the Schools League last season and became the best team from the [...]
Old Bens AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Old Benedictines Sports Club, will be held today, 6.30pm onwards at the Old Benedictines’ Sports Club premises. All members are cordially invited.
SriLankan flies high in Bangalore
A team of swimmers from national carrier SriLankan Airlines brought glory to the country at the Indo-Sri Lanka XVI State Masters Aquatic championships held in India. The swimming meet held on November 1 and 2, organised by the Karnataka Swimming Association was worked off at the Nettakallappa Aquatic Centre in Padmanabhanagar, Bangalore with the participation [...]
Magic-portion of 1% to win
This is the time of arrival and departure of coaches in the Tennis world. Reputed Australian players Lew Hoad, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and others who dominated the ‘World of Tennis’ in the fifties and sixties were called the ‘Hopman’s Boys.’ Harry Hopman who was the Davis Cup captain and coach for Australia left an [...]
Manjula leads Old Antonians to victory
A valiant all court performance by skipper, Manjula Jayaratne gave old Antonians, Wattala a handsome 36/22 win over Old Devans, Kurunegala, in the Final of the Masters Basketball Sri Lanka, Inaugural Schools Old Boys Tournament 2014 Over-35, five-a-side Tournament, concluded under lights at the MCA Courts last Sunday. Old Sokians, Ambalangoda superbly led by 54-year-old, [...]
Yohan sets wet weekend ablaze
Rain gods were not kind to the ongoing BMW-Hyundai Trophy, MCA Division ‘C’ 50-Over League Tournament 2015 for the 2nd successive weekend as two matches were abandoned without a ball being bowled. All four matches billed for the weekend were affected by bad weather, with two games getting completely washed out. Commercial Leasing took the [...]
NO WAY!
NO WAY! Still on the same event an official had got on stage and had spoken about a top official in the sporting scene but got his wires crossed and had referred to him as a member of a terrorist organisation! The guests were shocked but just imagine how this official would have felt? These [...]
Rugby in mud-larkers paradise
Two mud-raked venues, Welisara and Ratmalana, reminded me of a Denzel Washington quote. “You pray for rain, you got to deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it”. Those who were able to deal with the mud won their game this week. At Welisara the soggy conditions never allowed the Navy to spread [...]
SLC to take turf cricket to North and East
Sri Lanka Cricket has launched a programme to develop the game of cricket in the North and East in their quest to discover new talent from the provinces. Last week SLC officials mooted this programme with the opening of four turf wickets at St. Patrick’s Collage Jaffna. SLC secretary Nishantha Ranatunga said that the programme [...]
Army BC looking forward to retain title
The 89th Men’s and Women’s National Boxing Championship conducted by the Amateur Boxing Association is scheduled to be worked off from Tuesday at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium. The five-day meet due to end on December 13 will see the participation of Sri Lanka’s top pugilists hailing from the three security forces, Slimline BC, Police BC [...]
Sirisoma seeking to clinch title for record 23rd time
Sri Lanka Ports Authority’s (SLPA) K.H. Sirisoma, the defending national billiards champion who has won the national title on 22 occasions will be seeking to win the title for a record 23rd time. He will come out as the hot favourite at the 69th National Billiards Championship which is due to get underway from December [...]
National Youth Festival called off – No reason given
The 26th National Youth Sports Festival organised and conducted by the National Youth Services Council has been abandoned due to untold reasons reports say. The four-day event was scheduled to be held from November 28 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Diyagama, Homagama but was called off at the eleventh hour by the organisers without [...]
Lankan blind cricketers in the semi-finals
Sri Lanka Blind cricketers taking part in the World Cup 2014 for the Blind Cricketers booked a berth in the semi-finals with three wins and two losses in their group. This year’s world cup being played in South Africa where the Lankans beat Australia in the curtain raiser by six wickets and suffered a massive [...]
CH should have it easy
CH & FC take on Hambantota Sharks in their first round encounter and in all probability should net not only the Sharks but also haul in a handsome win in their first round Dialog sponsored ‘A’ Division inter club league tournament game scheduled for kick off at 4pm this evening at the Race Course Rugby [...]
Navy should sink Airmen at Ratmalana
Navy should not have any problems at all and their performance today would easily keep rattling the scoreboard when they take on the Airmen at their home grounds at Ratmalana in their first round encounter of the Dialog sponsored ‘A’ Division inter club rugby league encounter with kick off scheduled for 4 pm this evening. [...]
Kandy confident, but are mindful of the cops
In recent times, the Police match merely served as an aperitif for the oft-crowned Kandy SC. With that out of the way, the players were able to focus on the tougher games that followed, with confidence at a high. The Police team’s defeat of the CR and FC by a nineteen point margin has put [...]
Celebrating the Right to Play
The Lankan and the English cricketers took time off their busy schedule to celebrate the right to play and coached around 40 children at the R. Premadasa International cricket Stadium last morning. This was done on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) a UNICEF programme. [...]
Hooters banned at all venues
After the Sunday Times brought the matter into focus Sri Lanka Cricket took steps to ban ‘Portable Horns’ / “Hooters” at all venues with immediate effect. The ban came into effect from the 3rd ODI which England won at the Hambantota Stadium. SLC said “Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee arrived at this decision to generally [...]
Bhathiya slams quick fire double ton
Bhathiya Ratnayake slammed the first double ton of the ongoing SLC Sara Trophy cricket tournament when he made a quick-fire 216 against Singha SC Ambepussa on day one in the match played at Veyangoda yesterday. The right handed batsman’s knock which was made in just 162 balls comprised 18 boundaries and 15 towering sixes. He [...]
Barry Brothers grab 15 medals at Swimming Gala 2014
Barry brothers, Murthaaz and Nabeel of Wesley College stole the limelight winning 15 medals at the Wesley College Swimming Gala 2014 held recently at the College swimming pool at Karlsruhe Gardens in Borella. At this meet two brothers Ahamed Murthaaz Abdul Barry and Mohamed Nabeel Abdul Barry performed well to grab 15 medals. Murthaaz while [...]
Vidura wins inaugural rugby big match
Vidura College Colombo emerged victorious against President’s College Maharagama at the inaugural Big Match Rugby encounter launched at the CR&FC grounds in Longdon Place Colombo last week. Two games were played on the big day where rugby players, students, officials,teachers, parents and well-wishers of both schools gathered in numbers to celebrate the event. Vidura College [...]
Samanalie and Haveesha doing well
Two Sri Lankan siblings Samanalie and Haveesha Perera, now living in New Zealand with their parents are showing great progress in the field of sports. Samanalie, the older sister who is 12-years-old, is making headway in netball and swimming while Haveesha, 10-years-old, is excelling in cricket as well as karate. Samanalie represents the Mighty Magic [...]
Lionel House champs at Gateway Sports Meet
The annual Inter-House Sports Meet of Gateway College in Colombo was held at the Sports Ministry Grounds in Torrington, Colombo on October 11 and 12. The meet witnessed the participation of over 300 students in nearly 150 track and field events over two days of intense competition. Former National Cricket Captain Mahela Jayawardena was the [...]
Lookout for these Gampaha lasses armed with racquets
Holy Cross College, Gampaha is a school showing tremendous improvement in schools badminton winning several Zonal and other age group tournaments. The lasses from Gampaha being coached by the internationally trained coach Mahesha Ekanayake, a former Nalandian badminton stalwart always exhibit their standard in every tournament which proves that there are in par with every [...]
Maris Stella College emerge soccer champions
The under 19 Soccer Team of Maris Stella College, Negombo emerged all Island Inter School Soccer Champion 2014. The final match between Maris Stella Vs St. Benedict College, Colombo was played at Negombo where Negombo lads won the 3-1. Maris Stella won the game through three penalties. The Champions were led by Anthony Nadishan Fernando. [...]
