Kohli magic works for India in crucial game against Pakistan
KOLKATA, March 19 (Reuters) – Virat Kohli helped India survive a top-order collapse and beat Pakistan by six wickets in a tight game on Saturday to revive their World Twenty20 campaign and maintain their impeccable World Cup record against the arch-rivals. Kohli’s magnificent 55 not out was the difference between the sides in the rain-hit [...]
Mahinda hold Richmond to a draw
In a great come back Mahinda College did well to hold the strong Richmondites to a draw at the 111th Lovers’ Quarrel which ended at the Galle International Cricket Stadium yesterday. Richmond did well to restrict the Mahindians to a first innings score of 121 with Avindu Theekshana grabbing four wickets while Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya Lakshan [...]
Lankans will look for a win against the West Indies
How to solve a riddle like Chris Gayle– is the question facing Sri Lanka today in Bengaluru and if they solve it as early into the game as possible, the defending champions could win and throw a real claim to a semi-final spot. England certainly couldn’t as the marauding opener smashed a record 11 sixes [...]
Hapuhinna’s 65 not out sees the Thomians through
S. Thomas’ College retained the Mustangs Trophy after cruising to a comfortable 4-wicket win against Royal College in their annual Limited Overs encounter played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Despite a spirited captain’s knock of 59 by Geeshath Panditharatne, S. Thomas’ spinners Ravindu Thilakaratne and Dineth Kannangara spun a web to restrict [...]
Major domestic Cricket overhaul
Sri Lanka Cricket will revive the aborted Provincial Cricket Tournament in place of the Zonal Cricket Tournament which was drawn-up by the Sidath Wettimuny-led interim administration. This was revealed by the incumbent Sri Lanka Cricket President Thilanga Sumathipala who says that they are aiming to infuse a new culture and a way of thinking to [...]
Arjuna’s team triumphs over All Stars
The 1996 World Champion team led by Arjuna Ranatunga pulled off a one run win over the All Stars captained by Roy Dias in the 20 over game played at the CCC ground yesterday. The game was organised to mark 20 years of winning the Wills World Cup. Like the tough game against Australia in the [...]
Bangladesh’s Arafat and Taskin suspended from bowling in international Cricket
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that independent assessments have found the bowling actions of Bangladesh’s Arafat Sunny and Taskin Ahmed to be illegal and, as such, both the bowlers have been suspended from bowling in international cricket with immediate effect. Arafat’s analysis revealed that the elbow extension for majority of his deliveries had exceeded [...]
Tame draw on the cards
The fifth Battle of the Golden Lions the big match between Rahula College Matara and Dharmapala College Pannipitiya was heading for a draw. Rahula batting first scored 213 runs in their first innings mainly due to patient knock by left hand opening batsman Piruna Hewamadduma who was unlucky to be out on 97. Dharmapala were 61/3 [...]
Kingswood take first innings lead over Dharmaraja
An improved Kingswood team came up with a bit of a stunner to take a 33 run first innings lead in their 110th Big Match against Dharmaraja at Pallekele. Thanidu Liyanage produced the big knock that helped his team to go past Dharmaraja’s 167. Skipper Ruwantha Hathurusinghe (36) and Dilshan Walisundera (38) also tamed the Rajan [...]
Trinity overpower St. Anthony’s in one-sided game
Trinity overpowered St. Anthony’s by nine wickets in their limited over clash for the Sir Richard Aluvihare Trophy at Katugastota. Trinity who displayed ruthless efficiency, finished the match in the ‘the last’ over before the break. Raveen Sayer (3), Lahiru Kumara and S. Sanogeeth (2 each) combined to bowl out the home team for 89. Mohammed Alfer, [...]
St Anne’s defeats Maliyadeva after seven years
St Anne’s College Kurunegala defeated home town rivals Maliyadeva College Kurunegala by 31 runs in their 21st ‘Battle of the Rocks’ one day limited overs encounter concluded at the Welagedara Stadium in Kurunegala. After put in to bat first St Anne’s made 267 in 48 overs thanks mainly to middle order batsman Tharinda Wijesinghe who hit [...]
Pawan leads but Thambawita closing in
Despite Pawan Dias of Royal College Panadura holding on to the lead of the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016, Lahiru Thambawita of Holy Cross College Kalutara continues to build up momentum as the contest approaches its sixth week. While Pawan takes his tally to 2193 votes, with the [...]
Roshan’s theory of cleaner Cricket
It is not every day that a person in the calibre of Roshan Mahanama decides to take a stroll along with you to share a few thoughts on cricket in general. However in this instance we had a special reason. The reason being it is now a score of years since Sri Lanka won that [...]
‘Stars of tomorrow’ showcase
Career options available to ‘ex Tennis players’ today are never a clear one. In the late seventies and early eighties it was worse than today. It was the tail-end of the amateur era and USA’s number one of the seventies’ Charles Passarell of Puerto Rico used his wisdom extremely well to secure for himself a [...]
The not-so-ethical practice of changing schools to play Rugby !
I learnt from a reliable source in the Schools Rugby Football section of a new, not so ethical, practice in the process of changing schools and playing rugby. This is when School Rugby will be on show this week in the midst of a big match cricket period. Big matches make the news these days. I [...]
How Sanga inspired Royal to conquer what seemed insurmountable
A week prior to the 137th Battle of the Blues, former Sri Lanka captain and cricketing great Kumar Sangakkara had a morale boosting chat with the Royal College First XI squad, which contributed to their stunning 4-wicket win against traditional rivals S. Thomas’ College. Sangakkara, now a national selector, had met the Royal cricketers, who [...]
Kandy favourites but, remember the cup, lip and the slip
It’s sudden death time. After today’s expected blockbuster between the champion Kandy side and the Navy, one team will go through to the final at the Racecourse. Given their invincibility thus far, that team is likely to be Kandy SC. Yet, nothing should be taken for granted, as the Sailors, too, have some very talented [...]
69 schools across 3 divisions vie for Rugby honours
SINGER Sri Lanka PLC, the nation’s leading consumer durable retailer , has continued the tradition of being in the forefront of Sri Lanka’s rugby, by powering the 2016 SINGER schools rugby league, organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association( SLSRFA).This is the 13th successive year that SINGER Sri Lanka is backing this prestigious, [...]
Give me 12 good players and I will show what I am capable of says Netball Coach Deepthi Alwis
Deepthi Alwis has been appointed as the National Netball Coach by the Sri Lanka Netball Federation, thus ending the uncertainty which hovered over the selection of a netball coach. Her main task will be to train the Sri Lanka team for the next Asian Senior Netball Championships to be held from July 30 to August [...]
Play the game within the laws and spirit
The preamble to the laws of cricket states that ‘Cricket is a game that owes much of its unique appeal to the fact that it should be played not only within its Laws but also within the Spirit of the Game and any action which is seen to abuse this spirit causes injury to the [...]
Gemunu Watch and Women’s Corp win Novices Athletic Meet
Gemunu Watch Regiment (GW) with 146 points and 2 (V) Sri Lanka Army Women’s Corps (SLAWC) with 205 points emerged champions respectively in separate Men’s and Women’s categories at the 19th Army Novices Athletics Championship held at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Diyagama on a grand scale, followed by the awards ceremony. Major General Sumedha [...]
Root-cause for the downfall of Sri Lanka Football
Let me first of all congratulate the sportsmen and the sportswoman who won medals and those who performed extremely well to bring fame and glory to Sri Lanka at the South Asian Games held recently in India. However when our football team beat the host nation India by one goal to nil in the qualifying [...]
Darin Weerasinghe conquers Eliyakanda challenge
Darin Weerasinghe driving a Subaru WRX STI X 2000cc established a new course record of 32.80 seconds at the 20th CEAT Southern Eliyakanda Hill Climb held last Sunday to keep the Preethi Palliyaguru trophy for ever while Sachira Rajakaruna riding a Yamaha aYZ 250 was the fastest on two wheels with a time of 35.64 [...]
Major plans to boost Netball
The Sri Lanka Netball Federation has launched a programme to put Sri Lanka as the Number One Nation in Netball. The reason to launch this programme is due to the fact that Sri Lanka has won the Asian title on four occasions. They were in 1989, 1997, 2001 and 2009. From 2009 onwards Sri Lanka lost [...]
School Cricket! Where is it heading?
It is a proven fact that the current School Cricket format is not structured towards nurturing Schoolboy Cricket. This is no surprise when you look at the manner in which the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association has scheduled its matches. Schools have been requested to play eight tournament matches in addition to their traditional games [...]
Sports Minister expects more medals at Rio Paralympics
The Sri Lanka Paralympic Committee has plans to field a contingent between 10 and 12 participants for the Rio Paralympics from September 7 to 18 in Brazil. Among them will be eight athletes, two rifle shooters, two archers and one Table Tennis player from four sports. “Hopeful participants have time until July this year to qualify for [...]
Centurions hog the limelight at ‘DPGC’ Challenge Trophy
The centurions, Aravinda Kumara from Brandix Apparel Solutions, Pathum Madusanka from UB Finance, Kavindu Cooray from DFCC Bank and Mahesh Gihan from Astron Lanka, hogged the limelight in the ongoing 14th David Pieris Group of Companies sponsored, ‘DPGC’ Challenge Trophy, MCA ‘E’ division 30-Over League Tournament 2016, continued last week-end. Brandix No. 3 batsman, Aravinda [...]
HNB wins inaugural badminton super league
Hatton National Bank emerged champions at the first ever Sri Lanka Badminton Super League (SLBSL) 2016 the ‘Battle of the Bankers’ tournament organised by the Seylan Bank and concluded at the Mercantile Badminton Headquarters courts last weekend. Fourteen teams comprised of ten licensed commercial banks participated in this first tournament where teams were grouped into four [...]
CFC and CCF advance to the final
Central Finance Co. and Commercial Credit & Finance ‘B’ advanced to the Final of the 13th Ceylon Cold Stores PLC sponsored, ‘Elephant House Lemonade’ Trophy, MCA ‘D’ division 40-Over League Tournament 2016. In the semi-finals played last Saturday, Central Finance beat the giant killers, Commercial Leasing by two wickets and Commercial Credit & Finance ‘B’ beat [...]
Butterfly ‘A’ and Uni SC emerge winners
Butterfly ‘A’; and Uni Sports Club emerged winners at the Veterans All Island League Table Tennis Tournament 2016 organised by the Veterans Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka worked off at the St. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium recently. Fifteen teams took part in this tournament where the veterans exhibited that they have not lost the touch [...]