Dropped catches leave Lankans facing uphill task
Two dropped catches and positive batting saw England consolidating on the second day of their second Test against Sri Lanka at lunch at the Riverside Ground at Chester-le-Street, yesterday. At lunch England reached 408 for 8 with allrounder Moeen Ali looking for the three figure mark at 85 not out with Steven Finn not out on [...]
School Cricket format likely to be revamped
The Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association (SLSCA) is seriously contemplating on revamping its Under-19 Division I tournament structure in the forthcoming season after the inaugural three-day final failed to accomplish its objective according to its Secretary Kapila Jayalath. Jayalath revealed this in the aftermath of the first-ever Under-19 Division I Championship three-day final, postponed a [...]
A word of caution — Isipathana should not underestimate this opposition
The Isipathana – Wesley rugby encounter, in the Cup championship round of the Singer Schools Uner-20 League,will be worked out tomorrow at the Royal College Sports Complex. Kick off is at 4.15pm. The encounter is expected to produce sparkling rugby. However the unbeaten ‘Green Shirts’ with their present form go as favourites. At the same [...]
Wanasinghe elected SLSHA President
Dampiya Wanasinghe, Principal of St. Thomas’ College Matale was unanimously elected as the President of Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association (SLSHA) at its Annual General Meeting held at St. Peter’s College Auditorium. Former Sri Lanka player and present National Hockey Coach Anuruddha Herath Bandara of Vijaya College Matale was elected as Secretary with Padma Navaratne [...]
Schoolchildren’s sports tours to be regularised soon
The Education Ministry is looking to regularise all foreign tours made by organisations using school children. Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has advised the new Special Consultant of Sports in the Education Ministry Sunil Jayaweera to look into this matter. Explaining Jayaweera said “There are many spurious foreign tours taking place at the moment, but, [...]
University Flag Football tournament in June
University Flag Football Tournament for the SAGT trophy will take place for the 3rd year on the 4th and 5th of June 2016 at Race course grounds from 9 am to 6 pm. This year the tourmanment will be contested by 20 local university teams from Colombo, Jaffna and Rajarata. Extending its support for the [...]
All Island Schools Athletics in Matara in October
The Sri Lanka All Island School Games will be held in Colombo and the Outstations this year. This was disclosed by the Education Ministry. According to the National School Games concept one year it was held in Colombo and in the following year in the Outstations. After 1994 the system was stopped. Now the Education [...]
Platypus has more questions than answers
I am sure that once ‘the creator’ had finished all his work and was just about to have a wash for the evening he stumbled upon some unfinished fragments. He just stopped in his tracks and took time to assemble the puzzle. Then when he finished it, he found it to be so funny and [...]
Are TMOs really needed?
Do we need a TMO (Television Match Official) or a timekeeper was a question that was tossed to me. At first I decided to leave it alone as their seemed to be little truth in it. Thinking about it I thought may there could be some truth in it. The answer more appropriate was that [...]
Flair of addictive Red-Clay Tennis
France on the whole and Paris in particular did not have the best of times this year. The last week of May and the first week of June are changing the mood of the city and bringing back the mood of the well known musical track of ‘I love Paris every moment’. The French-Open on [...]
Only one more step for the much awaited announcement
The tradition of selecting the topmost schoolboy cricketer of the island was once again held — this time for the 37th year at Hotel Galadari in Colombo last Friday. Going by the tradition the strong selection panel headed by cricket expert Jayantha Seneviratne. The process was a hectic one, of course, for the 20 odd [...]
New leader as Yohan dethrones Pawan
After continuously dominating from the very first week Pawan Dias’ crown comes down after Yohan Mendis claimed the supremacy of the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 contest. As the competition reaches its 15th week Yohan took charge of the top spot in the All-Island contest, pushing Pawan to [...]
Six airmen and women honoured
Six sportsmen and women from the Sri Lanka Air Force won Presidential Awards at the ceremony held at the BMICH last week. Air Force Commander Gagan Bulathsinghala honoured them at a ceremony held at the Air Force Headquarters on Wednesday. The SLAF achievements at the Presidential Awards Ceremony are as follows: Most outstanding Sportswoman of [...]
Rupee for your thought
In a letter to the Sunday Times Sports, rugby coach Preethikumar Fernando claims that his statement which he gave over the phone has been misinterpreted. He says that on May 12, one of our sports correspondents spoke to him over the phone and sought his views on TMO at a rugby match. He says he [...]
Third Sports Science workshop conducted
The third workshop organised and conducted by the Western Province Institute of Sports Science to uplift training and sports skills of coaches and sportsmen and women of the province in various sports disciplines commenced on May 11, 2016. The first workshop for 2016 was conducted for badminton coaches and players were held from May 11 [...]
Summa the great –91 not out
It was such a joy and honour to meet up with an active living legend, Sumathiran Navaratnam (popularly known as Summa amongst his friends) at his residence recently before I emplaned to Australia. During in the 1940s and 50s Summa was the cynosure of all eyes as he streaked through at lightening speed to score [...]
Lampkin on the mythical trail of Sita
In spite of the dampening weather pattern in Sri Lanka, which led to devastating floods and landslides leaving thousands displaced and hundreds dead, internationally acclaimed Trial World bike champion, Dougie Lampkin braved the odds to move on with his schedule in the island nation. Inspired by the legendary Ramayana, famed Red Bull athlete and 12-time [...]
Kayaks not only for sport
Kayaks proved their worth in the recent floods, with some athletes from Sri Lanka canoeing and kayaking team working together with the military to rescue people trapped in their houses and also to deliver food to homes in need. The paddlers in their kayaks were able to get to people in areas that were inaccessible [...]
TTSC Archery postponed to June 10
The 2nd Travel Trade Sports Club (TTSC) Archery Championships 2016, sponsored by Yenesha Travels, Seeduwa scheduled to be conducted on May 27 at the Colombo Archery School, CR&FC premises has been postponed to June 10. Closing of entries was extended till June 3 with Shan Perera, C/o Singapore Airlines, Vauxhall Tower II, Vauxhall Street, Colombo [...]
Initial Rugby pool for Rio
Sri Lanka have put up a strong initial rugby pool of 20 players for the upcoming Rio Olympics. Sri Lanka are placed in pool ‘B’, along with Canada, Germany and Uruguay. They will face a tough competition in their pool games, especially from Canada. Matt Turner has been assigned as the head coach of Sri [...]
Trinity-Isipathana clash — A whopper
The Trinity – Isipathana clash, will be the pick of next week’s Cup championship fixtures. Isipathana will host Trinity on June 4th at CR and FC. The rest of the fixtures played on the same day will be — S.Thomas’ playing St.Peter’s at Havelock Park. St.Anthony’s hosting Royal at Nittawela and Science playing Wesley at [...]
MCA ‘G’ Div. tourney kicks off on June 12
A record number of 43 including ten new teams will battle it out for the 5th Stafford Motor Co. Ltd. sponsored ‘Honda’ Trophy, MCA ‘G’ Division 25 over League Tournament 2016. The official sponsorship presentation and media briefing was held at the MCA Pavilion last Wednesday and the sponsorship package was handed over to Niran [...]
Naizer new President of Sri Lanka Deaf Cricket Association
Mohammed Naizer of the Southern Province was elected President of the Sri Lanka Deaf Cricket Association at its Annual General Meeting held at the De Soysa Stadium, Moratuwa. Mohammed Naizer has represented Sri Lanka in the team that toured Australia for the First Deaf Cricket World Cup held in Melbourne, Australia in 1995/1996. Well known former [...]
Thilanga pledges Rs. 2.5 million for State Services Cricket
The 109th Sri Lanka State Services Cricket Association’s Annual Awards Night 2016 was held at the Solis Hotel, Kotte. Due to unavoidable circumstances the Awards Nights of 2012/13 and 2013/14 were not held but the organisers had done a commendable job in inviting the previous winners along with the teams to receive their awards which [...]
Gunaratne sees the value of foreign aid
Vice President of Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) Lasitha Gunaratne, justified the Sri Lanka 15s team’s overall performance at the recently held Asian Division I Rugby Championship, stating that they fielded the best possible lineup. “Sri Lanka put up their next best available team for the recent tournament in Malaysia. The players were selected [...]
Post -Bradby Pallekele incident in retropesct
The unfortunate events that followed the awarding of the Bradby Shield could have been avoided if the message had been communicated to the captains that in the event of a tie, the holders of the shield continue to retain possession of it. There was no such issue in 1992 when the first tie occurred. The [...]