Haturusinghe as head coach?
Former Sri Lanka Shadow Coach Chandika Haturusinghe is likely to join Sri Lanka cricket as its Head Coach before next month’s West Indies inbound tour, the Sunday Times reliably learns. The move to get Haturusinghe, who is at present coaching the high-riding Bangladesh team, was in the air for the past few weeks and it [...]
Kaushal to be tested in Chennai
Sri Lanka off-spinner P.H.T. Kaushal, who was reported to the ICC over questions about his bowling action by the match officials during the third Test against India at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, will fly to India to undergo a test on his action at an ICC-accredited facility. The tests will be done at Sri [...]
Tamil Union home with a day to spare
Tamil Union demolished Air Force SC by an innings and 226 runs with a day to spare in the Under 23 Division One cricket encounter concluded at the Air Force ground in Katunayake yesterday. The foundation for the win was laid by openers Pabasara Waduge and Sithara Gimhan after the bowling trio Madushan Ravichandrakumar, Devin Pathmanathan [...]
Gymnasiums at most International venues
Sri Lanka Cricket in its bid to broadbase the game will be equipping several of their International Stadiums with gymnasiums. Speaking about the project SLC’s Interim Committee Chairman Sidath Wettimuny said “We are hoping to balance the gym facilities that we have. At the moment we have such facilities only at the Max Academy at [...]
Sri Lanka wins both preliminaries on day one
Sri Lanka will take on Malaysia in the Cup quarter-final of the first leg of ARFU Rugby Sevens Series after winning both their pool games in Beijing, China yesterday. If Sri Lanka wins the game against Malaysia they are set to take on the winner of the second Cup quarter-final between Hong Kong and China. [...]
Past athletes to do a special lap
A dozen athletic greats of yesteryear met last week at the auditorium of the Director General of the Ministry of Sports, to officially launch the National Champions of Sri Lanka Athletic (NCSLA) spearheaded by former national long jump and triple jump champion Gregory de Silva. The inaugural meeting was attended by De Silva, who is [...]
Ravishka steers Galle to massive win
Ravishka Wijesiri scored a brilliant 123 to steer Galle Zone II to a massive 217-run win over Hambantota District in the Under 15 Inter-District cricket tournament played at the Sooriyawewa Stadium. Galle Zone II taking first lease of the wicket made a formidable score of 322 and then bundled out Hambantota District for 105. Kasun [...]
Sinha regiment win wheel chair tennis
Sinha Regiment represented by Upali Rajakaruna and Lionel Senaratne emerged champions at the Inter Regiment Wheel Chair Tennis Doubles of the Sri Lanka Army Para Sports Festival in the finals played at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association courts on Friday. In a final played over for two hours the Sinha regiment pair beat Gamini Dissanayake [...]
Rugby rumbled at Longden Place
Yesterday at the CR&FC ground proved to be quite a treat to all rugby enthusiasts and past ruggerites as the Royal Rumble came to town with their catch line ‘reunite the pack and relive the wonder years’ and according to the kaleidoscope of players of all ages and sizes who were present a brilliant day [...]
Let the jerseys dry – we can talk the aftermath
A pack of guys who had some insight to the game of cricket were having a serious discussion about the present status quo of Lankan cricket. Then suddenly one of them came up with a good argument that no one could disagree. He said, “Well, I see that opener Upul Tharanga has perfected that snick [...]
New York praying for rain record high ‘heat toll’
Tennis matches are won overcoming the challenge of the opponents but when it comes from elsewhere, planned and practiced game plans of the players become less effective. Many good players lost having won the opening sets, unable to sustain the game in th heat. With the high heat and humidity the enclosed stadium became a [...]
Need of the hour to overcome the traditional mistake of the game
The club season though not started. A game was played between Havelock’s and CR&FC for the Havelock Centenary Cup and was won by CR. The first match between two leading clubs showed that teams are getting into shape for having a steady scrum, release at the tackle and avoiding foul play. Yet in a 60-minute [...]
STC, SPC and Trinity hockey triangular on Sept.12
The inaugural Hockey Carnival organised by the past hockey players of S. Thomas’ College, S. Peter’s College and Trinity College will take place at the S. Thomas’ College Junior grounds on September 12, 2015 commencing at 8.30 a.m. Past hockey players of the three institutions have rallied together in organising this TPT Hockey Carnival and [...]
Shivantha Vivekanandan re-elected President for 14th time
Well known former Sports Star Shivantha Vivekanandan was re-elected uncontested as President of the Deaf School Past Pupils’ Association, the School for the Deaf, Ratmalana for the 14th successive year at the 66th Annual General Meeting held at the Stanley Hall, the School for the Deaf, Ratmalana recently. A distinguished past pupil of the School [...]
Isipathana and S. Thomas’ in final showdown
The curtains of the Milo Under 18 All Island schools rugby tournament conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association and sponsored by Nestle Lanka Ltd will come down with the clash between Isipathana and S. Thomas’ with the kick off set for 5.00 p.m. at the Sugathadasa Stadium today. The Pathanas led by [...]
Lankan women off to New Zealand
In preparation for Sri Lanka women cricketers New Zealand tour Sri Lanka Cricket had selected a pool of twenty players of which the finals team will be picked for the tour. Sri Lanka is scheduled to play five One Day Internationals and three T20 matches in the Kiwi tour starting from October 27 to November 23, [...]
Wesley College “Walk of Grit 2015”
“Walk of Grit 2015”, the Wesley College annual walk will be held on Saturday 3 October 2015. Starting at the College premises in Borella at 3.00 pm, it will end at the CR&FC Grounds and Longdon Place, Colombo 07 in a grand fun fair and musical extravaganza. This year’s walk – “Walk of Grit” – [...]
SLT bags Merc athletic crown
Sri Lanka Telecom with an aggregate of 418 points won the Overall Championship at the 32nd Mercantile Athletics meet concluded at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Athletic Stadium Homagama recently. Telecom had a clear lead over the first runner-up Sampath Bank (235 points) and second runner-up SriLankan Airlines. Sri Lanka Telecom dominated the meet by winning [...]
Harinda takes Wado Kai bronze
Harinda Fonseka won the bronze medal at the World Wado Kai Karate Do Tournament held in Nagoya, Japan. He won the medal competing in the under 84kg Men’s Kumite event where Japan won the gold and Northern Ireland claimed the silver medal. France claimed the bronze medal alongside Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was one of [...]
Rajiva with sprint queen
Rajiva Wijetunga was awarded the Best Athletes Trophy for his record establishing throw of 10.78m at the 55 age category Putt Shot event in 2014. In this year’s meet Rajiva clinched the first place in the Discuss Throw event with a throw of 25.68m in the same age category. Here Rajiva receiving the Best Athletes [...]
Inter-company netball from Oct 17
All plans have been set afoot to host the annual Inter-Company Netball Championship, conducted by the SriLankasports.com, on October 17 at the St. Joseph’s College Indoor Stadium in Colombo. Inaugurated in 2006, the tournament held for establishments reached a new pinnacle after being hosted for four consecutive years. “Since 2010 the Inter-Company netball tournament reached the [...]
Ashan Silva cuts a niche at the Gajaba Supercross
Ashan Silva continued his dominance to earn the best driver’s award while promising biker Jacques Gunawardena plucked his maiden best rider’s title at a top event as the 14th Gajaba Supercross motor racing event came to an end at the Saliyapura Camp last Sunday. The team titles of the event were won by Team TVS [...]
Isipathana rugby felicitation night
Isipathana College Rugby Committee have organised a felicitation ceremony for some key contributors in the history of College Rugby, on Monday 7th September at Waters Edge – 7.30 pm. All past rugby captains, players and old boys who wish to join this event could contact the below. Hassan: 0777 637113, Rajeeve: 0777 729009, Manchanayake: 071 [...]
Gerry at the top of the bridge
Gerry Hidelaratchi was elected President of the Bridge Federation of Sri Lanka for the period of 2015/17 at its Annual General Meeting held recently. Sarath Radalage was elected the Secretary while D.P. Senaweera, Lalith Ganlath and Cera Fernando are the Vice Presidents. Following are the office bearers for the upcoming term of two years. President: [...]
MGC- ECL family fun
MG Consultants (MGC) and Engineering Consultants (ECL) hosted the entire staff and their families of over 600 people to a day filled with fun and frolic at their annual ‘MGC- ECL Family Fun and Sports Day’ at the Bloomfield grounds. The traditional cricket tournament was played between nine teams comprising of MGC-ECL Head Office and [...]