Elusive final – a reality in Thailand for Tuskers!
Sri Lanka is pursuing a realistic vision of becoming a force to be reckoned within Asia, in sevens rugby. Already tagged a ‘dangerous’ opponent, the Sri Lankan Sevens team has fallen agonizingly short of a final slot in four attempts at the Asian Sevens Series rugby tournament and have ended up as the fourth best [...]
Sayer guides Trinity to win over St. Anthony’s Wattala
A match haul of 10 for 87 by Trinity skipper Raveen Sayer ensured an easy nine wicket win for his team over St. Anthony’s Wattala at Asgiriya. The first day’s play was limited to a couple of hours, and with uncertain weather, Trinity had to do a lot of planning. They rushed to 151 for 8 [...]
Jubilee high jump for Bens
In a high jump to mark its 150th jubilee, St. Benedict’s College, Kotahena, for the first time won the Sir John Tarbet Junior Athletics Championship for boys at the four-day national meet concluded in Anuradhapura on Friday. The premier competition in which more than 6,000 athletes from all over the island took part saw Kegalle’s [...]
Colts and SLPA take day offs with early wins
Colts CC and SLPA CC recorded outright wins with a day to spare in the SLC Under-23 Division I cricket tournament encounters played at Colts and Welisara yesterday. Colts CC outclassed Moratuwa SC by an innings and 75 runs while SLPA CC defeated Navy SC by ten wickets. The foundation for Colts was laid on [...]
Wesley College Walk of Grit 2015
The days drawing near “Walk of Grit 2015”, will be held on October 3, beginning at the College premises in Borella at 3.00pm, it will wind its way to the CR&FC grounds at Longdon Place where a grand fun fair and musical extravaganza is planned. This year’s walk – “Walk of Grit” – is expected [...]
Jeep Wrangler Southern Night Rally to cover 455kms
The 17th Southern Night Rally known as the Journey through the wilderness of the South organised by the Southern Motor Sports Club (SMSC) will rev off from opposite the entrance to the historic Matara Fort at 7 pm on the 25th of September. ‘Jeep Wrangler’ represented by DIMO have graciously consented to sponsor the grueling [...]
Foreign tours — Bane of Sri Lanka football
There is no topic in sports in Sri Lanka on which there has been so much controversies, disputes and allegations of abuse and corruption that on the subject of sports tours undertaken by various sports bodies. The recent tours by our netball, badminton, karate and football teams have come in for much comment and criticism [...]
Lankan cricket through the looking glass
The players are having a break and so are the coaches. Everything (though not hunky dory) seems calm on the surface. Or, is it? In the post Mahela, Kumar era, Sri Lanka has some major issues to deal with. The techniques of a few batsmen have been called in question. Had we batted just that [...]
Visvanathan appointed to Asian Hockey Federation
Perumal Visvanathan, Vice President of the Sri Lanka Hockey Federation, has been appointed as a Member of Coaching, Development and Education Committee of the Asian Hockey Federation for four years, starting from March 28, 2015 to 2018. His appointment has been made based on the nomination from Sri Lanka Hockey Federation which had met the [...]
MCA Premier League from Wednesday
The 23rd Singer-MCA Premier League 2016 will get off to a start on Wednesday with seven teams in the fray. They are MAS Intimates Unichela, the defending ‘League’ champions, MAS Active Trading, the defending the knockout champion, John Keells Group, HNB, Sampath, Seylan and Commercial Credit and Finance. The tournament openers are: HNB Vs. Unichela [...]
Settled batting order will see results
Sri Lanka is currently facing a very awful time in cricket specially, having lost last two test series against Pakistan and India at home. Sri Lanka could have won the last test match against India and won the series, if they had a proper batting order. They made a mistake by doing so many changes [...]
Veteran sports journalist Asoka comes out with Palamuveniya
Asoka Goonetilleke, the regular contributing editor to the field of sports literature in Sri Lanka will soon be launching his fifth book titled ‘Palamuveniya’, which gives the meaning ‘The First’. Palamuveniya is first of its kind portraying life and times and achievements of 20 sports luminaries of Sri Lanka in the international sports field, including [...]
Rain plays havoc
The MCA Division ‘B’ 50-over League Tournament 2016 got off to an unfortunate start on Wednesday, when rain played havoc, as three of the five games billed for the day ending in no-results. In the two matches that barely escaped the rain, John Keells ‘B’ beat Singer Sri Lanka ‘A’ and DIMO beat Mobitel. Hans [...]
TTSC softball cricket tourney on October 4
The most popular and most participated event in the Travel Trade Sports club Calendar – the 38th Men’s and Women’s Softball Six-a-side Cricket Tournament to be held on Sunday, October 4, 2015 at the Shalika and D.S. Senanayake College grounds (Five pitches), commencing 8.00 am. The tournament is revived after a lapse of one year [...]
Puttalam and Kurunegala districts win volleyball titles at National Youth Games
The Volleyball tournament of the 27th National Youth Games conducted by the National Youth Service Council came to a conclusion on a high note when Puttalam District clinched the Men’s championship while lasses from the Kurunegala District emerged winners in the Women’s segment. A total of fifty teams Men and Women took part in this [...]
Matale and Mount Thomians inaugurate hockey big match
St. Thomas’ College Matale and S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia will lock horns when they battle for the Eric Hulangamuwa Challenge Shield in their inaugural hockey encounter, which is scheduled to be played on Saturday, September 26, at the Edward Park Hockey ground in Matale. Both schools, two of the island’s leading hockey-playing schools, have [...]
Sharon Hall clinches HSBC Premier Challenge Trophy 2015
Sharon Hall emerged victorious outsmarting over 100 other competitors in the HSBC Premier Golf Tournament held at the scenic Victoria Golf and Country Resort in Kandy last Saturday. Sharon Hall became the overall winner to clinch the HSBC Premier Challenge Trophy 2015 and also the overall winner in the C Division, Seniors and Ladies category [...]
Doctor on board to treat carrom
Sri Lanka Carrom Federation, a busy sports body engaged in various tournaments right round the year came under a new management at the Annual General Meeting held recently. A game which catches popularity fast specially among the schoolboys and girls was shown at the last Nationals where the youngsters created huge upsets in toppling ranked [...]
Task before Lanka ahead of meeting Holder’s men
In one of my recent columns I said that the Lankan mercurial lefthander Kumar Sangakkara was an under achiever. For a person who has been associated with his career, almost in its entire length, I beg to alter my opinion. For a person who began the game with less skill in his formative years, and [...]
Italy’s Vinci fires a Cannon
In disbelief, it took us a moment to grasp and then it hit everyone like a cannon-ball as the unseeded Roberta Vinci beat the invincible Serena Williams in the US-Open semi-final. Roberta, when compared with the top twenty of the world’s ranked players, does not measure up to be in the final rounds of any [...]
How actions then are remembered as chronicles today
The written word of one day will become stories and pictures will become photographs in history. That is if somebody pieces together the writing and pictures and presents a book of history. Recently published ‘Havelock Sports Club – Journey of a Hundred Years’ is a book patched together by Neil Wijeratne with text that narrates [...]
Vidyaratana UC Horana clinch title for eighth year
Vidyaratana University College Horana retained the Stubbs Shield boxing title when they emerged champions at the 98th Stubbs Shield Boxing Championship which ended at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium. Vidyaratana UC bagged two gold, two silver and five bronze medals while St Sylvester’s took the second slot by winning two gold, two silver and three bronze [...]
Young Kushan steals the limelight at Uda Walawa Supercross
The 5th Uda Walawa Supercross organised by the Sri Lanka Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (SLEME) in collaboration with Sri Lanka Motor Cycle Club (SLMCC) which concluded at the Craftsman Autodrome Sevanagala saw Kushan Peiris steal the limelight by recording two wins. Eighteen year old Kushan continued his winning spree having had success in the [...]