Lankans to try out new combination
Literally it’s a dead rubber. After nine long years, a completely new look Pakistani team walked all over the Lankans and stomped them to a 3-1 defeat. Today they are down to perform the last rites of a forgettable tour, where the Lankans failed in all three disciplines of the game – especially fielding. For [...]
BMICH turned into an aisle to the future
Friday night was never meant to be forgotten for some, who had worked hard and done exceptionally well above the rest with the leather and willow. The night belonged to all those young lads who had made it big and their schools proud by being selected as the best schoolboy cricketers of Sri Lanka. It [...]
One new Sri Lanka record, one meet record on day two
The second day’s proceedings of the 93rd Athletics National Championship held at the Diyagama Stadium yesterday saw a new Sri Lanka record being established and one new meet broken — both in the women’s category. The first record for the day was in women’s pole vault event where Anoma Karunawansa of Army broke her own [...]
Nor-Lanka create huge upset
Nor-Lanka manufacturing (Group ‘A’ No. 4) created a huge upset by eliminating the high-riding, unbeaten Stafford Motors (Group ‘B’ No.1) beating them by a huge margin of 51 runs, in the 5th ‘Honda’ Trophy MCA Division ‘G’ 25-over League Tournament pre-quarter-finals last weekend. A match-winning third-wicket partnership of 116 by Chamath Silva (56 in 66 [...]
SOZZLED TO GLORY
The incident which took place at Khettarama a few days back shocked the nation. However investigations reveal that a certain official had been allocated to spot such happenings. This official, who is said to be drawing a fat salary for practically doing nothing, had been in a special box with some friends watching the game. [...]
The Rt. Royal Ashy Cader defied the laws of gravity
Appreciation By M.V. Muhsin If Sri Lanka rugby had a Hall of Fame, there is no question that Ashroff ‘Ashy’ Cader would have been occupying it without peer in the very front row for sixty years. And if among those celebrities there was one who was admired for his leadership as the Captain of the [...]
Is Malinga an over-the-hill icon?
Who’s afraid of Virginia Wolf? Though this is just a pun on Edward Albee’s 1962 play about a breaking up of a marriage, my narration is based upon the breaking down of an icon who is gradually fudging himself to zero. When Lasith Malinga first broke into the international arena from almost total obscurity, he [...]
Looking back on the accomplishments
The fiasco at the One Day cricket match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan was a good enough excuse for some rugby fans to point that spectator deviant behaviour is not limited to rugby. What happened nevertheless is no excuse or a reason to justify unsavory behaviour in rugby where the spirit of the game is [...]
Status quo of Davis-Cup?
The quarter-finals of the century old men’s Inter-nation Tennis championships — the Davis-Cup was worked out last weekend. Davis Cup steered the popularity of the game of Tennis through lean periods of the 20th century which included two world wars and lived up to the objectives of its founder the American diplomat Dwight Davis. His [...]
SLBA mess emits big stink
The Sri Lanka Badminton Association (SLBA), which the Badminton World Federation (BWF) suspended from its membership on Wednesday, dug its own grave and scripted its own fate according to experts from the local sports field. The BWF finally had come to this decision after months of deliberation, citing two reasons – political interference and an [...]
Pawns and Kings battle it out at Waskaduwa
Chess Federation of Sri Lanka will be organising the Asian Cities Chess Championship 2015 to be held at the Citrus Hotel Waskaduwa from July 21 to 29 for the prestigious Dubai Cup. In this biggest Chess event for the year organised on behalf of the Asian Chess Federation, already sixteen teams — India, Mongolia, Brunei, [...]
Zone ‘C’ remain unbeaten and favourites after three wins
Zone ‘C’ recorded three wins in the U19 Zonal Quadrangular limited over cricket tournament which is in progress now to remain unbeaten. In the first match they beat Zone ‘D’ by three wickets and then followed it up with a 27 runs win against Zone ‘A’ before overcoming Zone ‘B’ by five wickets on the [...]
Schools Netball Championship gets underway
The 24th Milo All Island Schools Netball Championship with the participation of nearly 4000 girls representing 400 teams got underway at the Bernard Aluvihara Stadium in Matale yesterday. The participating teams playing in the tournament qualified from the qualifying tournaments which were held in 14 centres around the island.The tournament began with the preliminary round [...]
Royal patronage for track and field
Royal College, Colombo, a school that feed national level players for almost every sports discipline in the country are planning to go a step further this time in the field of athletics. The Old Royalists Athletics Club plans an inaugural Quadrangular Athletic Championship 2015 to be held on August 1st at the Royal College Senior [...]