Season opens with a gaping yawn at SSC
It was a repeat of last year’s encounter in the 53rd Big Match between traditional rivals Thurstan and Isipathana which concluded at the SSC ground yesterday where the two teams ended proceedings by batting an innings each both days which saw the game ending in another drab draw.The outcome of the match was known when [...]
Tournament intended to achieve new levels of participation
The second Thomians Sevens 2016 7-a-side Hockey Tournament for invitation schools conducted by Matale Old Thomians Hockey Association (MOTHA) will get underway at Edward Park hockey ground in Matale on Saturday, March 5, commencing at 6.45am. Speaking to the Sunday Times, the Secretary of MOTHA, Eric Hulangamuwa said that this tournament is intended to achieve [...]
It’s an even-stevens clash
Two of Sri Lanka’s leading Buddhist institutions Ananda and Nalanda will confront each other in their annual Battle of the Maroons encounter scheduled to be played on March 6 and 7 at the SSC grounds with play commencing at 9.30am each day. This traditional clash between these two schools will be the 87th in the series [...]
Pawan Dias continues to dominate
As the third week of the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 contest proceeds, Pawan Dias of Royal College Panadura continue to dominate the All-Island Schools category with a comprehensive lead over close rivals. Pawan received 210 votes during the ended week and sits 327 votes ahead of his [...]
Trinity crushes Royal by innings in pre-big-match calamity
Trinity enjoyed their most outstanding success of the season when they inflicted a crushing innings and two runs win on Royal at Asgiriya yesterday. Trinity openers Nushan Weerasinghe (112) and Sanogeeth Shanmuganathan (73) set the tone for the innings with a rollicking 190 run stand for the first wicket. The punishing Dilan Jayalath capitalised on that, [...]
India overcomes early shudders to post comfortable win
India trounced bitter rivals Pakistan by five wickets in a one-sided affair at the Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Saturday. Hardik Pandya claimed a career-best 3-8 as India bowled out Pakistan cheaply for 83 runs in 17.3 overs. India too were struggling at 3 for83 before reaching 85-5 with 27 balls [...]
Kaushal, Mahela double tons, High scoring games in three matches
The completion of the third day’s play of the AIA Premier League cricket tournament saw three matches ending in high scoring games and in two of them of ether were double century knocks. The first to score a double ton was Kaushal Silva who made a 225 for SSC against CCC in the match at the [...]
Peterites have the upper hand over rivals Josephians
All roads for the past and present boys of St. Joseph’s and St. Peter’s will lead to the P. Sara Stadium on March 4 and 5 when the two traditional rivals clash in their annual Battle of the Saints big match. The clash which is the 82nd in the series is fought out for the Rev. [...]
Dilshan, Deshan, Lahiru tons, Bloomfield amass 477 at Panagoda
Tons by Dilshan Munaweera, Deshan Dias and Lahiru Madusanka helped Bloomfield, resuming on their overnight score of 253 for 5, to amass 477 for 9 declared on day two against SLPA CC in the Premier Plate Championship encounter played at Panagoda. The foundation for the massive score was laid by Dilshan who made a quick-fire [...]
Kandy must guard against that end of term feeling
That Kandy SC was bound to win the league title and extend its dominance for a 17th year was a given even before the first-whistle was blown. When you consider the preponderance of national players in their ranks (some even adorn the bench!), anything less would have been a disappointment. The thing that stands out in [...]
Chamil ‘white slams’ the rest of the gang
Chamil Cooray maintained his rank as No. One player of Sri Lanka when he won his 9th“Grand Slam’ Men’s Singles defeating World Champ Nishantha Fernando at the ‘Grand Slam’ Carrom tournament 2016 organised and conducted by the Sri Lanka Carrom Federation concluded at the Carrom Federation Headquarters, Kohuwela last weekend. In the Women’s championship Chalani Lakmali [...]
What an occurence?
Definitely the worst nightmare any Lankan cricket lover would ever want to wake up is to read in the morning that Angelo Mathews is leading a side to “blighty” for a Test series against England and Lasith Malinga is leading a side “Down Under” for a T-20 series against Australia, with all matches scheduled to [...]
Shot in the arm for Sri Lanka Cricket
The new administration driven by Thilanga Sumathipala have made some excellent changes so far and one of the most important factor is to put the cricket board headquarters in order and clean up the mess that the consecutive Interim committees have brough about for cricket. We understand that, a fine proven strong administrator Chrisantha de [...]
FFSL identifies three players from St. Henry’s Ilavalai as future stars
St. Henry’s College Ilavalai, Jaffna a leading school in the Northern Province has shot into the limelight as a revolutionary team in schools football. This school came into the limelight at the Kotmale under 19 schools football tournament when they toppled frontrunners Zahira, Maradana to win a national level trophy. St. Henry’s a Roman Catholic Mission school [...]
Udaya and Hansani were trail blazers
Open Ranking All Island Table Tennis Championship 2016 for the Mayor’s Cup came to a close on February 22 at the Bandula Gunawardene Indoor Stadium, Lumbini College when young table Tennis sensation from Vidyartha College, Kandy Udaya Ranasinghe and Visakian Hansani Piumila were crowned Most Outstanding Players in the Men’s and Women’s categories. Udaya Ranasinghe [...]
Police prevail over Army
Police Sports Club defeated a rudderless Army outfit, in their Dialog Division ‘A’ League Club Rugby second round game, worked out at Police Park yesterday. At the short whistle Police led 15-10. The Cops collected their winning points from two goals, two tries and a penalty to the loser’s two goals and a penalty. This [...]
Ashen and Sriyalatha — the cycling idols of 2016
Twenty-two-year old Ashen Tharuka of Sri Lanka Air Force emerged as the men’s overall champion at the Tour De Air Force which concluded in front of the SLAF Headquarters in Colombo Fort yesterday. The event was held in three stages. The first stage was to a distance of 163 km from Colombo to Embilipitiya. The [...]
A close for CR; but close the tourney at third place
As the final week of the Dialog Division ‘A’ Inter-Club League Tournament reached an end, CR and FC escaped from the jaws of defeat before scraping through to a thrilling 19-17 victory against a spirited Air Force team at Longdon Place yesterday. The win assures Red Shirts the third place in the league standings as [...]
Football ‘Abey’ speaks of his past
The tragedy which has fallen on G.A.K. Abeysekera (78 years) popularly known as ‘Football Abey’ and better known as ‘Kule Aiya’ during his playing days, is now continuing his life in silence. Football has been his life. But now he has lost both legs. One leg due to diabetics after a terrific struggle. The other he [...]
Fired-up Lahiru Nishantha puts Wadduwa Central in box seat
The 2nd Battle of the River Kalu encounter between Wadduwa Central College and Gnanodaya Maha Vidyalaya is heading for an early finish today at the Panadura Esplanade. Wadduwa Central dominated the first day’s play when they posted a massive 304 for the loss of seven wickets (49 overs) and skittled out the Kalutara school for [...]
SAG airmen promoted
Sri Lanka Air Force felicitated its sports stars with service promotions and cash awards at a ceremony held at the SLAF Headquarters, Colombo. Fifty three Air Force personnel who excelled at the recently concluded South Asian Games in various track and field events who brought fame the country and to the Air Force were felicitated [...]
Shuttle team C’ships to be worked off today
The final rounds of the Western Province Badminton Association’s 42nd Inter Club Badminton Team Championships 2016 will be worked off today at the St. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium commencing at 8.00am. The grand finals will be held at 2.00pm followed by the awards presentation ceremony at 5.00p.m.The main sponsor of this year’s event will be [...]
Wheelchair tennis – a hectic schedule, but going great guns
The Sri Lanka Tennis Association did a yeoman service by hosting three back to back International Wheelchair Tennis futures and a World Cup qualifying Asia region tournament. It was a shot in the arm especially for the local players by participating and urther improving their rankings. The concluded tournaments were the 5th Negombo open which [...]
Udaya, a good material for the future – Coach Jothipala
Sri Lanka national Table Tennis team that took part in the South Asian Games in India returned to the island having won 10 medals, a silver and nine bronze medals. In the 2010 games the national paddlers won two silver and seven bronze medals. In this edition too Sri Lanka would have won two silvers if [...]
Sixth straight win for gusty Vallibel
Vallibel Finance scored their 6th win on the trot beating Aitken Spence PLC by a massive margin of 136 runs in the 13th Ceylon Cold Stores PLC sponsored, ‘Elephant House Lemonade’ Trophy, MCA ‘D’ division 40 over League Tournament 2016, continued during the long weekend. Vallibel skipper, Adeesha Nanayakkara hit a hurricane 175 in 111 [...]
Maldives requests netball coach, umpires immediately
Maldives Islands has requested a netball coach and two umpires with immediate effect. This request has been made to the Sri Lanka Netball Federation by the Maldives Netball Federation with immediate effect. This request has been made with the intention of sending a team to the Tenth Asian Senior Netball Championships to be held in Thailand [...]
PAID HOLIDAY
The talk still centers on the recently concluded Games in India. This time the focus is on the amount of observers who had gone to witness the event. The amount seems to have exceeded 70 and most of them did not do the job they were supposed to do – Observe – the sports that [...]
Fighting the school cricket monster
Has anyone in authority who loves the game of cricket seen the plight of teen cricket in Sri Lanka? Once again the Lankans ended with an empty bowl in the ICC under 19 World Cup tournament – ending up at fourth place while losing to Bangladesh in the play-off for the third place. Please could [...]
Shallow back-line theories are sound, as long as the ball is delivered
At the end of a rugby season despite one game remaining Kandy SC are league champs. Looking over the shoulder; what lasting moments has the trail left behind? Did the club season provide great entertainment and or competition? Did the skills provide hope for standing up to the three top giants of Asia? Is there [...]
The ‘fire’ within
Millions take to Tennis. Only a hand full becomes prominent. ‘Working out what wins and doing it successfully’ is the definition of being smart in sports. It is that simple. While there is no way to define the challenge on a Tennis court, it is possible to define what a player should be as a [...]
Asia’s Top Billiards and Junior Snooker players at the table
Fifty five top players comprising of 23 in the billiards and 32 in the U21 snooker in the Asian region involving 12 countries will be in action from March 1 to 8 when they vie for the 15th Asian Billiards title and the 17th Asian U21 Snooker title conducted by the Billiards and Snooker Association [...]
Samin Attanayake breaks SLARDAR 1000 hoodoo
Defending champion Samin Attanayake co-driven by Rahal Uluwita broke the hoodoo of ‘winners never win again’ at the Jeep SLARDAR 1000 motor rally. The duo completed the time-speed-distance (TSD) format rally with 112 debits in his Toyota Bigfoot single cab. The toughest test of man and machine covering nearly 850 km had never seen a [...]
20th CEAT Southern Eliyakanda Hill Climb today
The 20th Southern Eliyakanda Hill Climb organised by the Southern Motor Sports Club (SMSC) and sponsored by CEAT which also is the first event of the SLAS National Championship in 2016 will take place at Browns Hill Matara today. The Eliyakanda Hill climb was first held in 1997 and has been held continuously ever since. [...]