SLC’s downsizing programme on the way
The new administration of Sri Lanka Cricket is taking a serious look at its various components and is also considering at ways to make the whole cartwheel more manageable. The hierarchy of the Lankan cricket administration has carved itself into six pillars so that each top administrator would be in-charge of one important channel. President [...]
Sammu Ashan guides Lankans to comfortable win
Sri Lanka Under-19s recorded a comfortable 4-wicket win against New Zealand Under-19s in a warm up match of the ICC Youth World Cup played at the Krira Shikkha ground in Savar, Bangladesh yesterday. Put into bat New Zealand posted 204 for the loss of eight wickets while Sri Lanka chased down the victory target with [...]
Chanderpaul ends 22-year international career
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, Jan 23, 2016 (AFP) – Veteran West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the seventh highest Test match run maker in history, announced his international retirement on Friday, 22 years after his debut. The 41-year-old former captain from Guyana ends his Test career on 11,867 runs, just 86 short of the West [...]
Major upset as Soldiers floor SSC by 5 wickets
Army created a major upset when they beat the much fancied SSC by five wickets while an unbeaten 95 in just 55 balls that included nine boundaries and five sixes by T.M. Dilshan helped Tamil Union record a three wicket win over NCC in the first semi-finas of the AIA Premier T20 cricket tournament played [...]
St. Joseph’s dominate proceedings
St. Joseph’s dominated proceedings against S. Thomas’ in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter played at Darley which ended yesterday in a first inning win for the Josephians. The keen tussle between St. Sebastian’s and St. Anthony’s Katugastota at Moratuwa too ended in a first inning win for St. Anthony’s. The opening day’s play saw [...]
BRC on course for fifth successive win
BRC put themselves in a strong position of securing their fifth successive outright win of the Emerging Trophy cricket tournament when they had Air Force SC struggling on day two in the match played at the Air Force ground in Katunayake. BRC completely dominated the opening day’s proceedings as they chalked up a score of [...]
CR by the skin of their teeth
It was an enthralling encounter at the Welisara Naval Base where the crimson clad from Longdon Place had 80 minutes of nail biting before coming on top. In reality CR and FC escaped from the jaws of defeat from the formidable Navy outfit by 27 points to 25 points in their Dialog Division ‘A’ Rugby [...]
Confident Kandy lads grab another opportunity
Kandy SC withstood some brave attempts by the Air Force to take the game to them and eventually triumphed by 60 points (5 goals, 5 tries) to 16 (1 goal, 3 penalties) in their Dialog Division ‘A’ Rugby League second round match played at Ratmalana yesterday. Air Force were certainly not disgraced. At the start [...]
Anil Jayalath sets his eyes on Rio after record breaking effort
Anil Prasanna Jayalath of the Commando Sports Club established a new Asian record in the T42 Open Men’s 200m with a time of 25.63secs. It was the highlight of the Sri Lanka National Para Athletic Championships concluded at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex Diyagama yesterday. Prasanna lowered his own record of 25.81secs which he set [...]
This sports doctor uses his bare hands to heal
Negligence and overstrain, has become key causes for the high number of sports related injuries nowadays according to Dr. Sunil Kulasekara, who has an art dispensing of his own treatment. Dr. Kulasekara, still in his late thirties, has treated over 75,000 patients who have been afflicted with sports related injuries. Interestingly, the cause of almost [...]
Park Clubs lads looking for a win
The Havelocks-Army clash at Havelock Park, should serve as an opportunity for the Park Club to sustain their challenge for the Big Prize. The Army cannot be taken lightly. They lost to these same opponents 22-27 in the first leg. Last Saturday they were beaten by the CR&FC 19-13, but that, after a very stiff fight. [...]
Please enable me to work…
“I am not willing to hold on to the Athletics President’s post for a long period. The maximum is four years,” this is the frank view of Sugath Tillekeratne, President of the Athletics Association of Sri Lanka. “That too if the others would like me to be in this post,” he emphasized. “During this period, [...]
Team of twelve paddlers off to India
A twelve member Table Tennis contingent comprising six men and six women paddlers will take wings shortly to take part in the 12th South Asian Table Tennis Championships 2016 scheduled to take place at the Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Complex, Indoor Hall, Shillong in India from February 6 to 10, 2016. Led by Rohan Sirisena, a [...]
Sports and Health Promotion week
The sports ministry has announced a ‘Sports and Health Promotion week since 25th to 30th January 2016. A news item revealed that, the sports ministry plans to establish walking paths and fitness centers in all Divisional Secretariats Islandwide. It is timely, that the ministry takes these steps in promoting sports and aerobic exercises among the [...]
Warnaweera should be punished
”The ICC has banned cricketer and curator of Galle stadium Warnaweera for three years from taking part in cricket related activities for his failure to co-operate with the ICC for match fixing allegations. He has failed to meet ICC anti corruption officals on appointed dates to give evidence and connected documents. This amounts to admission [...]
We lack good cricket administrators
As a former Sri Lankan Cricketer, I feel so sad, that different administration that was responsible to develop our National Cricket could not perform, there task due to various changes in the administration structure from 1996 onwards. Every change in administration, appointed capable people to selection committees. The new chairman of selectors promise the Cricketing [...]
Minister messes up match-fixing probe
Foot-in-the-mouth is a common ailment afflicting especially the glory-seeking gentry by the Diyawanna Lake. The latest victim of this communicable disease seems to be Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera who, apparently, has carried the ill effects of his ailment to a segment of the national cricketers. At the turn of the New Year, Minister Jayasekera complained [...]
Rat Race in Rugby — for whose benefit?
Kandy SC is in front of the Club Rugby League Tournament 2015/16 and are in total control while Havelocks SC are hanging on with a rare possibility of springing a surprise. CR and FC is running for the third slot. Navy SC after their defeat by Police SC are getting behind and chances depend on [...]
Money ball and players
The first Grand Slam of the year rolled off in Melbourne Australia, with delightful exhibition of Tennis by the seeded players and exciting new faces sending fancied names home. However, the global spotlight also fell on the questionable ethics of Tennis players. This week in an unprecedented scale the news media spelled out that Tennis [...]
LARGER SPACE PLEASE!
All new bosses want new and larger offices. One of the new bosses of a very popular sport is no different. He had requested for a huge office and to find space for these constructors have to push to the limit, meaning that the desks of other officers have to be pushed closer to the [...]
State of our football
It is with deep concern that I read the article in the sports page 19 of the Sunday Times of 10th January 2016 under the caption “Sampath keen to review Lankan football skills” In this article Sampath Perera, the present National Football Coach has mentioned, that in the year 2013 when Sri Lanka crashed into [...]
Harshitha smashes 150 n.o. as Anula become favourites for Girls cricket title
A swashbuckling unbeaten innings of 150 by Anulian Harshitha Madhavi helped Anula Vidyalaya, Nugegoda to book a berth to the semi-finals of the ongoing Inter-Schools Girls Under 19 cricket tournament quarter final match played at the Dharmapala Vidyalaya grounds last weekend. Anula the defending champions scored a cake walk victory over Pindeniya National School by [...]
Kavindu Jayarathne Under-9 best player
Kavindu Jayarathne (U- 9), Isuru Gunasekara(U- 11), Indula Delpagoda ( U – 13) and Shasika Bandara(U – 15) were adjudged as the best players in their respective age groups at the inaugural Windies Cricket Academy Matale Mini Cricket (6s) carnival concluded at Bernard Aluvihare Stadium , Matale on January 17th . The event conducted by [...]
Sri Lanka win two and lose two at Blind Cricket
The final of the first T/20 Asia Cup Cricket for the Blind will take place today at the Jawaharlal International Stadium, Kochi, between India and Pakistan. Five countries took part in the competition. They are: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh. In the 40-overs 2014 World Cup held in South Africa India emerged champions with Pakistan [...]
Travel Trade Volleyball
The ninth edition of the Travel Trade Sports Club Beach Volleyball Championships 2015, sponsored by Mt. Lavinia Hotels Group and hosted by Club Bentota for the fourth successive year, will be held February 6, 2016 at Paradise Island, Aluthgama. Entries have been called from the TTSC affiliated firms and will close on January 29, 2016 [...]
21 Lankan swimmers ready to win medals at SAG
Twenty one swimmers have been selected for the 12th South Asian Games (SAG) Swimming Championships to be held in Assam, India from February 5 to 16. Nine men and 12 women has been selected to the team. The final Selection Trial was conducted on December 27, 28, 30 and 31 of December 2015 at the [...]
Kankahewa helps Docs beat Architects
A fine allround performance by Charuka Kankahewa, skipper of the Sri Lanka Doctors team helped his team to register a 92 run victory over Sri Lanka Architects team in the inaugural Doctors-Architects limited over cricket encounter played at the BRC Grounds recently. Organised by the Sports Committee of Sri Lanka Institute of Architects and sponsored [...]
Dialog make explosive start amasing 416
The MCA ‘D’ Division 40 Over League Tournament 2016 got off to an explosive start last week-end, as Vallibel Finance and Dialog Axiata ‘A’ sent their opponents on a real leather hunt. Vallibel Finance making their first appearance in this division scored 314 for 9 in 40-Overs and went on to overwhelm DPMC by 227 [...]
Shaminda ton props McLarens
Opening batsman, Shaminda Fernando from McLarens Group hogged the limelight, as he registered the first century of the tournament in the ongoing 5th Prestige Auto Mobile (Pvt) Ltd sponsored ‘BMW- Hyundai’ Cup, MCA ‘C’ division 50-Over League Tournament, continued over last week-end. Fernando who hit a swashbuckling 114 in 94 deliveries inclusive of six sixes [...]