Match fizzles out to a tame draw
As expected the 52nd Battle of the Brothers big match encounter between traditional rivals Thurstan and Isipathana fizzled out to a tame draw at the SSC ground yesterday. The outcome of the match was evident at the end of the first day’s play as the proceedings got off to a late start only at 1.00pm [...]
World Cup: GABBA’s convict drain beat Marcia’s rain
Even in the midst of cyclone Marcia, the World Cup tie between Australia and Bangladesh was nearly played at the GABBA, Queensland, last Saturday, thanks to an old convict drain. The Courier Mail of Australia claimed that in spite of the belting the ground had the previous night and the morning of the match from [...]
Royal-Thomian Past Cricketers’ Dinner on March 11
The 25th annual Royal-Thomian Past Cricketers’ Dinner will be held on March 11 from 7.30pm at the Atrium Lobby of Cinnamon Grand Colombo. Past cricketers who have represented Royal and S. Thomas’ colleges in the annual Battle of the Blues encounter, are expected to get together at this annual gala dinner. Participants are requested by [...]
Ananda record win over St. Joseph’s after seven decades
Ananda recorded an outright win over St. Joseph’s after a lapse of 77 years when they coasted through to an innings and seven runs win in the Under-19 inter-school cricket encounter ended at Darley Road yesterday. Ananda’s last win against St. Joseph’s was in 1938 and this is also only the second time that they [...]
Lankans ready for the England challenge
Notwithstanding the impressive win on Thursday over Bangladesh, the Lankans go in today to face the tentative Englishmen a bit weary. The day after the match the Lankans left for Wellington on Friday and opted to have a day off from cricket. The Lankans take on England at the Westpac Stadium, Wellington, today. Explaining the [...]
Melbourne felicitates World T-20 champions
The Victoria Cricket Foundation — the SLC representative in Melbourne is now headed by David Cruse replacing its longtime head Dr. Quintus de Silva. This was revealed by SLC’s senior Vice President Mohan de Silva who headed the Lankan delegation to their felicitation to the Lankan team. De Silva said “This is the first occasion [...]
Battle is won; but the war is far from over
There is a kind of hush in this part of the world. Maybe walking into the stadia and seeing the officials in their tuxedos walking about briskly – I, at times, want to know what they are up to, but their very business-like stance keeps me off – give you a hint of an important [...]
From ‘gentleman’ to battle-hardened warriors’
The 2015 Colombo-Futures assembled very good players from nearly 20 countries worldwide. This provided a rare treat of good Tennis right from the first round itself. It really has been a long time since Colombo spectators saw the world’s men’s top 500 players live in action. The ‘Colombo-ITF Futures’ was a refreshing reminder as to [...]
On what basis was the Sevens Rugby Coach appointed?
When the hierarchy of Rugby Governance in Sri Lanka pleads ignorance, one wonders whether it is by convenience or choice. The latest “we don’t know” is about the appointment of a coach for the National Sevens team that is to play in Borneo in the Asia Pacific Series. This tournament was on the calendar for [...]
Competition kicks off with eight contenders going beyond 500 mark
The 36th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2015 contest, which kicked off on February 15, has made sturdy progress within a matter of a week. So far names of 20 schoolboy cricketers are in the list and out of them 16 have already reached the triple figure. Eight out of [...]
Colts 485/6, Ragama CC make bold reply of 220/2
Sachith Pathirana and Angelo Jayasinghe cracked unbeaten tons helping Colts resuming on their overnight score of 312 for 6 make a formidable score of 485 for 6 declared against Ragama CC in the morning sessions play on day two in the Premier league cricket encounter at the Colts ground. But Ragama CC in their turn [...]
Navy SC amass 467 for 9
Navy SC batsmen went on a leather hunt against Police SC in the morning session of play on day two in the Emerging Trophy cricket encounter at Welisara. Two valuable partnerships helped them to amass 467 for 9 declared after having resumed on their overnight score of 293 for 5. Overnight pair Ashan Ranasinghe who [...]
Ananda have the advantage over arch rivals Nalanda
Two of Sri Lanka’s leading Buddhist institutions Ananda and Nalanda will confront each other in the annual Battle of the Maroons encounter scheduled to be played on March 7 and 8 at the SSC grounds with play commencing at 9.30am each day. This traditional clash between these two schools will be the 86th in the [...]
St. John’s seeking to break ten-year jinx
It’s big match fever in the Jaffna peninsula as all arrangements have been finalised for the 109th Battle of the North big match between St. John’s Jaffna and Jaffna Central scheduled to be played over three days from March 5 to 7 at St. John’s College grounds. According to records available from the 108 matches [...]
Petes have upper hand over rivals Josephians
All roads for past and present boys of St. Joseph’s and St. Peter’s will lead to the P. Sara Stadium on March 6 and 7 when the two traditional rivals clash in their annual Battle of the Saints big match. The clash which is the 81st in the series is fought out for the Rev. [...]
Round 1 in Bandaragama
The biggest ever karting showdown in Sri Lankan history will be held at the Sri Lanka Karting Circuit in Bandaragama next Saturday with the six-hour endurance race. The race is expected to attract a lot of teams including a top unit from India. The Indian team includes Armaan Ebrahim, Sandeep Kumar, Vishnu Prasad, Raghul Rangasamy [...]
Over 200 golfers at Independence Day Cup RCGC Tournament
Over 200 golfers participated at the Sri Lanka Independence Day Cup Golf Tournament held at the Royal Colombo Golf Club on January 31. The tournament was organised by Wizcraft for Tata Housing in association with SriLankan Airlines and Pernod Ricard Lanka. The tournament was held under four groups for men; the Division ‘A’ 0-19 handicap, [...]
Int.Women’s Open Chess from March 3 to 9 at Public Library
The Paul Morphy Chess Club (PMCC), one of the premier chess clubs of Sri Lanka, under the guidance of Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, will organise the first-ever International Women’s Open which is set to be held from March 3 to 9 at the Public Library Auditorium in Colombo. The tournament will coincide with the [...]
Wesley cricketers who “Will not be seen again”
Edmund Dissanayake, former Wesley College Principal and Captain of the Wesley College Cricket team in 1946, 47, presently 88 years old, has sent us the following list of Wesley College cricketers, whom he says, “ will not be seen again.” They are: S. Abeysekera, M. Cassim, Sella Nagendra (Capt 1940),O.R. Kvltzheim, V. Nagendra, Henry Duckworth [...]
‘Hora’ Police
‘Hora’ Police The new sports boss summoned a meeting of all the associations that he has not met so far. Spotting a face which he said was often seen on Facebook, the new boss asked him why he was often referred to as ‘Hora’? It looks as if the new boss is a Facebook fan [...]
Is the ICC controlled by money and influence?
Sri Lanka’s aspirations to win the 2015 World Cup is being tested to the utmost by the ICC scheduling which has given them the hardest possible route to glory and fans here question whether there was an underlying plot to put them out of the equation in favour of pre-selected favourites. The ICC which is [...]
MCA Div E Cricket to commence from March 5
The Division ‘E’ 30-over League Cricket Tournament conducted by the Mercantile Cricket Association (MCA) for the David Pieris Group of Companies Challenge Trophy will get underway from March 5. The tournament will get off to a start with the round-robin stage from next Thursday and after 102 half day matches, will come to an end [...]
Prof Arjuna de Silva to deliver keynote speech at WCSMC
Professor Arjuna de Silva, the Chairman of Sri Lanka Anti Doping Agency (SLADA) has been invited to deliver the keynote speech at the World Congress of Science and Medicine in Cricket (WCSMC) 2015. The WCSMC will be held at Luna Park in Sydney, Australia coinciding with the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 from March [...]
Asela, Sachin, Dhanuka and Shehan hogs limelight
Batsmen, Asela Wewelwela from AMW Group and Sachin Bulathsinghala from NDB Bank and bowlers, Dhanuka Edussuriya from NDB Bank and Shehan Wijetunga from Brumpy’s International hogged the limelight in the ongoing 12th MCA-Elephant House Lemonade Trophy, Division ‘D’ 40-over League Cricket Tournament 2015, continued last weekend. Wewelwela became the top scorer of the tournament when [...]
Athena carries away Mariam Iqbal Memorial Challenge Trophy
Athena House carried away the Mariam Iqbal Memorial Challenge Trophy after winning the overall championship of Wycherley International School’s Inter-House Swimming Meet 2015. The annual swimming competition held among students of Wycherley International School took place at the Royal College Swimming Complex on February 13. A keen competition was witnessed among the competitors of the [...]
SLCF champs at Hyderabad Twenty20 contest
The Sri Lanka Cricket Foundation (SLCF) team led by S. Thomas’ College all-rounder Thilaksha Sumanasiri emerged champions at the 2nd Rajiv Gandhi Under-19 Twenty20 International Cricket Championship held in Hyderabad, India last month. The championship, besides Sri Lanka and hosts India, featured teams from Bangladesh, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. The competition was held [...]
Adithya the STAR
While St. Peter’s College fared overwhelmingly, Adithya Nanayakkara went on to make his team proud by clinching the Under-15 championship at the 8th annual Sri Lanka Schools All-Island Age Group Novices Aquatic Championship 2015. Adithya won a gold medal competing in the 50-metre freestyle event and went on to win a silver medal in the [...]
Cordova outsmarts the rest
Cordova House outsmarted the rest to win the championship title at the Zahira College Annual Athletic Meet 2015 held at the college ground in Colombo. Overall champions Cordova House collected 136.5 points while Istanbul House finished second with 117 points. Angora House finished at third with a tally of 92.5 points while Baghdad House finished [...]
Nobel House cricket champions at British School Inter-House contest
The British School Colombo, inter-house cricket championship saw the up-and-coming cricketers of the school demonstrating their amazing talents at the Health ground. After a closely contested tournament, cricketers of Nobel House clinched the title pushing Scott House to the second slot. The winners started off well with an easy win over Newton. Chasing 38 to [...]
Gateway Kandy wins all-Gateway Under-15 soccer final
Gateway College Kandy has risen in soccer in the recent past by emerging as champions of the Under-15 Inter-International School Soccer Competition. The tournament organised by Royal Institute saw keen interest among the boys of all leading international schools in Sri Lanka. At the Under-15 final, Gateway Kandy beat Gateway Colombo by 1-0. At the [...]
