Nalanda strike back to record third outright win
Nalanda struck back after conceding a first inning lead to DSS to record an outright win by four wickets in the low scoring Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter at DSS ground in Wijerama Mawatha yesterday. The hero of the Nalanda win was left arm spinner Kavindu Bandara who ended with a match bag of 9 for [...]
Match-fixing probe: Kusal asked to get out below 18
Sri Lanka’s cricket captain Angelo Mathews was summoned on Thursday to the Financial Crimes Division (FCID) and asked to appear again tomorrow to give his views on the match fixing issue that has taken local sports by storm. National cricketers Kusal Janith Perera and Rangana Herath had been grilled by the FCID for about six [...]
One captain for national cricket to be adopted
Once again the national cricket team will adopt the one captain policy instead of one captain for the Test and ODIs and a separate captain for the T-20 segments. In all possibility this change would happen before the Lankan team tours India for a short three T-20 match series from February 6 to 16. A [...]
Professionalism into cricket: Thilanga outlines vision
Deprivation sometimes could transform into gallantry. It was a make-or-break affair for Thilanga Sumathipala, a man who was turned into a doormat of ‘interimism’ (a word that we coined under the given circumstances) for more than a decade through constant shutting down of the elected power base through the installation of interim committees. The newly [...]
Australian Tennis season 2016
Ambition to achievements Ambition is the energy that propels players to succeed. In the first week of the international circuit, Djokovic, Wawrinka, Raonic, among men and Radwanska and Slone Stephens registered title wins. Last year, some promising new comers ambitiously set their goals to reach top thirty of the ranking and succeeded doing it. This [...]
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Kandy SC was expected to be at the top of the heap come the end of round one and that’s exactly how things panned out. This was no surprise at all to the chairman of the Kandy SC Rugby Committee, former National Player, Lasantha Wijesuriya. Says Wijesuriya: “as champions, we were organised and ready. We [...]
Ragama CC demolish Saracens in just one day
Ragama CC demolished in what could be a record in local domestic cricket, Saracens SC in just one day in the three day AIA Premier league inter-club cricket encounter by an innings and 159 runs in the match played at Surrey Village grounds in Maggona. The morning session of play on day one saw Ragama [...]
Thushira 101 as Lankan CC makes 364
An unbeaten 101 inclusive of 20 boundaries by Thushira Madanayake was the highlight of the morning session of play on day two in the Emerging Trophy cricket encounter between Lankan CC and Air Force SC played at the Air Force ground in Katunayake. The proceedings on day one saw Lankan CC taking first lease of [...]
If there were no temples sports would be doomed
“Sports are no longer the domain of the Sports Ministry. It is now in the hands of Buddhist priests.” This is the view of former swimming star Julian Boling. The reason for this is that when outstation athletes come to Sri Lanka, the well-to-do reside in hotels. The others have to rely to Buddhist priests [...]
HOW COME?
A leading lady athlete has been named in the tour party for the fast approaching games. This lady, a past athlete of repute, has been on tour parties very often but the association that she represents has been inactive for a long time. No AGMs. No meets. But the lady concerned makes all the tours. [...]
Jaswar Umar appointed International Match Commissioner
Sri Lanka Football reached a remarkable milestone when Jaswar Umar was appointed an International Match Commissioner. Umar, the incumbent elected Deputy General Secretary has successfully gone through the match commissioner examination held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2015 and at present he is appointed as a Match Commissioner of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). [...]
Kandy SC files a claim for the League title
The short challenge to Kandy SC Rugby in the recent past seems not to exist any longer with them winning all matches of the first round. They have earned bonus points by the scoring of tries and are much ahead of the others in filing a claim for the league title. As the second round [...]
SLAS to flag off annual events with SLARDAR 100 Rally
The Sri Lanka Automobile Sports (SLAS) will flag off their annual events for 2016 with the SLARDAR 100 Rally on February 19, 20 and 21, the first among 23 events to be held during this year. The planned 23 events include nine meets conducted by six different clubs which are considered for the SLAS National [...]
Prabagaran to face tough opposition at Open Golf Championship
Defending champion K. Prabagaran is likely to face stiff challenge from other top contenders as the Sri Lanka Golf Union (SLGU) announced that the Sri Lanka Open Golf Championship would be held at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) in Colombo from January 31 to February 5. This year, SLGU has tied up with Bally’s [...]
S. Korea presents USD 25,000 to improve junior football in Sri Lanka
Under the South Korean-Sri Lanka friendship, the Korean Football Federation has decided to donate USD 25,000 to the Sri Lanka Football Federation for the second successive year. The President of the Korean Football Association Mong Gyu Chung has handed over the said sum to former Sri Lanka Football President Ranjith Rodrigo due to a request made [...]
Sri Lanka to send 10 members for Brazil Paralympics 2016
The Sri Lanka Para-Olympics is hoping to field at least ten athletes for the Paralympic Games to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from September 7 – 18. Sri Lanka will be sending athletes from four sports to Rio Paralympics. On the ‘Road to Rio 2016’, one of the selection trials for the final athletic [...]
Girls Schools U 19 cricket enters final round
Sri Lanka Girls Schools Under 19 Cricket Tournament 2016 enters its final round with the pre quarter-final matches to be worked off from this weekend. Organised and conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association in collaboration with Sri Lanka Cricket was participated by twenty six girl schools. Sixteen teams advanced to the pre quarter-finals stage [...]
Lankan juvenile TT players excel in Pakistan
Sri Lanka’s juvenile table tennis players excelled at the recently concluded South Asia Hopes Week and Challenge Table Tennis programme held at the Toyota Gymnasium of the Habib Public School in Karachi, Pakistan organised by the Pakistan Table Tennis Federation in collaboration with the International TT Federation’s Development Department. The programme was dominated by Sri [...]