Who is to be blamed for missing the cricket bus?
How big is big or, how small is small are two unfathomable poses that a person could ponder on. They say the universe borders on infinity. But at the same time, they also say that the big bang occurred when a minute particle exploded way back in time, and the universe is still growing. Yet, [...]
Kandy retains Clifford Cup in a thriller
In one of the closest Clifford Cup finals, in its history of more than 100 years, with both finalists engaged in fascinating rugby, defending champions Kandy Sports Club survived unscathed to record a thrilling win over a gallant CR and FC outfit, by 31 points to 28 at the Racecourse grounds yesterday. At ‘lemons’ it was [...]
Royalists excel at Junior Carrom c’ships
Royal College, Colombo carrom players excelled at the National Junior Carrom Championship organised and conducted by the Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka by winning three junior championship titles and four runners-up titles at the Carrom Federation Headquarters last weekend. Over 350 players representing different areas and schools in the island participated in this year’s championship exhibited [...]
GENEROUS OR WHAT?
An 18 member sports team to Malaysia, had to meet the Boss of this sport in order to request for some funds for a forthcoming tour of Malaysia. The Boss berated the officials (one of them was a principal of a school) but in the end of an hour long discussion after ranting over his [...]
Tennekoon Memorial Judo Championship
The Tennekoon Memorial Judo Championship will be held at the Sports Ministry Indoor Stadium at Torrington today at 4.00pm. A dedicated student of late Tennekoon at YMBA, Judoka Raja Fernando (6th Dan black belt) has arrived in Sri Lanka as a respect to his late master, coach and mentor. All judo enthusiasts are welcome and [...]
DSI Supersport Schools Volleyball after two years
DSI has come forward after a two year break to stage a national school level volleyball tournament from May 7 to July 16 at district and national level.The contest was not held in 2014 and 2015. According to the secretary of the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation A.S. Nalaka there is a possibility that the number [...]
Fei Quando International conducts Grading Test
Members from schools, International Schools, organisations, institutions and clubs took part in the Grading Test for members of Fei Quando International headed by martial arts and fitness expert Grandmaster M. Hassen Khalid (the founder of Fei Quando – Way of the Flying Fist Martial Arts) at the Royal College Sports Complex, Colombo 7. The guests [...]
Gateway Colombo protests against Lyceum International Wattala winning overall title
Lyceum International Wattala emerged overall champions at the 16th International Inter-School Athletic Championships for the eighth successive year at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex, Diyagama. Gateway College Colombo lost the event after a tough fight by two points. Lyceum Wattala collected 981 points while Gateway Colombo obtained 979 points. In the wake of this Gateway College’s [...]
Dazzling speed and new faces
Any Tennis event gets its rating by the number of good matches. Indiana-Wells lived up to its reputation this year too. In the women’s draw the two semi-finals and finals will definitely go down in history. WTA’s successful campaign to get equal prize money as the men was long and was never easy but they [...]
Schools’ Rugby gets underway
Schools rugby is season has begun. The games take a break for the Holy Week and there will be two more breaks for the New Year and for Wesak seasons. Considering the heat wave the country is facing the breaks are good. Even without a heat wave breaks is good for young athletes who are [...]
A pitched battle for supremacy expected in coming weeks
Week after week Lahiru Thambawita of Holy Cross College Kalutara is closing the gap but Pawan Dias of Royal College Panadura still holds on to the lead of the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 as the competition completes its seventh week. Last week the deficit between Pawan and [...]
Colombo Mountain Bikers on the rampage to clinch top awards
The Colombo Cycling Fun Ride 2016’, organised for the fifth successive year by the Pedal Pushers Cyclists, saw an overwhelming participation of over 300 cycling enthusiasts as Colombo Mountain Bikers went on a rampage to clinch top awards. The group of six members of the Colombo Mountain Bikers won the Corporate, Group, Clubs and Professionals [...]
Charith’s unbeaten ton seals 5-wicket win for Richmond
A chanceless unbeaten 100 off 78 balls with eleven boundaries and two sixes by Richmond skipper Charith Asalanka sealed the 24th one day encounter against big match rivals Mahinda College at the Galle International Cricket Stadium yesterday. Electing to bat first Mahinda College were dismissed for 174 runs. Suresh Kumara contributed a 59 ball 67 [...]
University colours for De Silva and Koswatte
At a colourful ceremony of the University of Peradeniya, the outstanding Sportsman of the year 2015 for the Sir Nicholas Attygalle Challenge Trophy was awarded to P. E. M. De Silva of the Faculty of Engineering was presented by Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya Professor Upul B. Dissanayake. The outstanding Sportswoman of the [...]
Sigera guides Ananda to semi-final stage
A superb allround performance from Asel Sigera helped Ananda College record a convincing 67-run win against Prince of Wales College as they booked a berth in the semi-final of Singer Schools Under-19 Limited Overs Tournament after the quarter-final clash played at St. Peter’s College ground in Bambalapitiya yesterday. Sigera contributed with 24 after Ananda elected [...]
Kavindu and Ramesh help St. Servatius to 24-run first innings lead
A determined 80 runs off 125 balls with ten boundaries by wicket keeper batsman Kavindu Umesh and a half ton by Ramesh Nimantha helped St. Servatius College to a twenty four run first innings lead over St. Thomas’ College Matara in the 116th Battle of the Blues. St. Thomas’ were 48/2 at the end of [...]
Joseph Vas hold Christ Church College
Joseph Vas College Wenappuwa held defending champions Christ Church College Matale to a scoreless draw to be declared joint champions at the second Thomians Sevens Invitation School Hockey Championship 2016 for boys’ Under-19 concluded at Edward Park hockey ground in Matale. The closely contested final ended with a blank scoreboard and even an introduction of [...]
Was he another victim of the system?
Almost all his career as a specialised middle-order batsman Thilina Kandamby’s fortune was overshadowed by misfortunes. So was his untimely retirement, by the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 Championship 2016 in India. For Kandamby, who will turn 34 in 69 days, misfortune has been part and parcel during his not-so-impressive and unutilised career, which spanned for [...]
Agoal International youth Rugby carnival kick off today
Two Overseas Rugby Clubs , will visit Sri Lanka during latter part of March, on the invitation of Agoal rugby academy of Sri Lanka, to play games against local teams, in four age groups. The age groups are U12, U14, U16 and U19. The two visiting teams are Heart beat Tigers of Dubai and Al [...]
Old Thomians’ Cricket Sixes
Following the success in 2015, the past cricketers of S. Thomas’ College is set to host its second successive International and School Cricket Sixes for the SAGT Trophy, on April 9 and 10 at Mt. Lavinia.This tournament is intended to attract foreign teams as well as local mercantile teams along with leading school cricket teams. [...]
Sri Lanka Premier League Twenty20 to be revived
It indicates that the once aborted Sri Lanka Premier League T-20 tournament will be revived and will take top billing in the local cricket calendar when Sri Lanka Cricket reorganises its tournament structure from the 2016/17 seasons. An SLC insider told the Sunday Times “Yes, we are in the process of exploring the possibilities of [...]
Mahela, Cricket pundits lament Lankan cricketing woes
Sri Lanka’s regular run of defeats, despite the odd spark, has left cricket pundits in complete disappointment, as they have now called on the Island Nation to replace the misfiring cricketers with new blood, to inject life back into its game. Sri Lanka, a team going through a major transition phase, following the retirement of [...]
9th Defence Services Sports Games commence at Panagoda
The colourful opening ceremony of the ninth Defence Services Sports Games commenced on March 24 at the Panagoda Sri Lanka Army indoor stadium with the chief guest being State Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardena. The games will conclude in August. The games is being organised by the Sri Lanka Air Force and features 37 sports. Sri [...]
Launch of Sarath Jayasinghe’s latest book on ICC Twenty20
Veteran sports journalist Sarath Jayasinghe’s latest installment of books on cricket ‘ICC Twenty20 Cricket’ was launched recently. The first copy of the book was presented to President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat last week in presence of Ministers Dayasiri Jayasekara and Arjuna Ranatunga. This was Jayasinghe’s eighth book on cricket.
STC Kotte win limited overs encounter
St. Thomas’ College, Kotte annexed the Dr. G. N. Perera Challenge Trophy when they scored an easy six wickets victory over traditional rivals Sri Jayawardenapura MMV in their annual Limited over encounter played at the St. Peter’s College grounds over the weekend. Sri Jayawardenapura batsmen failed to continue their batting performance displayed at the Battle [...]
Ranatunga – match winner
Debutant, all rounder, Ranjan Ranatunga made a memorable entrance, as he spun Rukmalgama CC to a comprehensive eight wickets win over Old Senanayakians SC in the Colombo District Cricket Association (CDCA) Division III 50 Over League Tournament 2016, at the Poragedera Grounds, Padukka. Batting first, ODSS from 82 for 4 in 16 overs, slid to [...]
A determined lot out to make an impact this season
D.S.S has no long history in the rugby field, unlike most of the schools playing in this year’s Division 1, segment A and B. When tracing back the history of D.S.S rugby, the game was introduced in year 1977, by prominent names of those days, including DIG Ranmuthugala, Ramzi Raheem , T. Chang and J. [...]
Army and MAS Southern top Boxing nationals
Sri Lanka Army and MAS Southern won the Men’s and Women’s championships at the 88th ABA Boxing nationals 2015 held at the Sports Ministry Indoor Stadium, Torrington Square Colombo recently. Sri Lanka Army clinched five Gold medals to be the champions and Sri Lanka Navy won three gold medals to be the runner-up in the men’s [...]
Sweet revenge for Com Credit & Finance
Poor fielding followed with a pathetic display of batting by Central Finance Co. gave Commercial Credit & Finance PLC ‘B’, the full satisfaction of sweet revenge and a cake walk 138 runs win, in the 13th Ceylon Cold Stores PLC sponsored ‘Elephant House Lemonade Trophy’, MCA ‘D’ division 40-Over League Tournament 2016 final concluded at [...]
Inauguration of Nugegoda Bridge Club
Plans are afoot to inaugurate the formation of a Bridge Club which will cater to Bridge aficionados in and around Nugegoda. The objective is to popularise the game of Duplicate Contract Bridge which is being promoted aggressively by the Bridge Federation of Sri Lanka headed by Gerry Hidelaratchi. The Bridge Federation is recognised by the [...]
Junior matches on the card
Gold Coast Junior Cricket Academy of Australia will be making a tour of Sri Lanka to play a series of matches with Sri Lanka Junior Cricket academies and schools from March 25. The touring junior Aussies will take on Panadura Cricket Coaching School’s Under 17 team today at the Surrey Cricket Grounds, Maggona. On March 30 [...]
‘Bonnie’ is 67; his cycling spans 50 years
Renowned cycling champion Boniface Perera who has reached 67 years, will be celebrating half a century of participation this year. Boniface, who started his cycle racing career as a schoolboy of Wattala St. Anthony’s in Weligampitiya. Winning Jayalath Sports Club annual race event made his entry into the field of cycle racing in 1966. To date [...]
DIMO to support Engineering students
Diesel and Motor Engineering (DIMO) will support the engineering students from the Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Moratuwa to participate in the world’s biggest student motorsport competition, the Formula Student 2016 to be held at Silverstone Circuit in the United Kingdom later this year. A total of 156 teams from 34 countries will compete [...]
Crystal Palace FC overcome Red Sun SC on penalties
After an exciting and eventful final, which ended in a 1-all draw, Crystal Palace FC overcame Red Sun SC 9-8 on penalties to clinch The Traveler Football Championship in the final played at the Jayathilake Stadium in Nawalapitiya. Played in front of a large crowd, both teams displayed high skills of football as Red Sun [...]