Lankans may be felled by an Eranga bouncer
By S.R. Pathiravithana Come Tuesday Lankan cricket may face another drawback prior to the first One-day International at Tent Bridge as medium pacer Shaminda Eranga who was reported for suspect action after the second Test against England in Chester-le-Street, being sidelined. The umpires for that game were Aleem Dar and S Ravi, with Andy Pycroft [...]
Pawan is the Most Popular — pips Yohan at the post
37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 Finally, he finished off where he started. It’s Pawan Dias, who became the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 after battling out for several weeks. Pawan of Royal College Panadura, who initially led the All-Island segment of [...]
Kusal Janith leads Lankan rampage
Southpaw Kusal Janith Perera is eager to fill the lost tracks of the few months where he suffered that indignity of a wrong doping call by the ICC. In his first test match since the return he made a half century against England in a Test match and in his second ODI he scored a [...]
Hell breaks loose at Plate Rugby decider
One blames the other for the escalation at Bogambara By Narendra Kulatunga The decider of the Singer Under-20 Schools Plate Championship between St. Joseph’s College and Dharmaraja College ended five minutes from the scheduled time at Bogambara, when both teams engaged in a free-for-all, which lasted for the next half an hour. At the time [...]
Fight, flags and favourites: Lanka’s Cricket parody
“Win or lose, we booze.” On hearing that we feel lighthearted and we indulge in it – even if the consequences could be dire. Yes, there are some guys who love to live at the edge and I feel Lankan cricketers Kithruwan Vithanage and Ramith Rambukwella are two such characters. Yet, like the bear who [...]
Gaps between referees, coaches and fans are widening
Do facts clearly show that some conspire against thought to be rugby schools? Are teams victims of misfortune? The real truth could be that defeat was at least partly self-inflicted, and not the result of a conspiracy. Try telling this to people who wear blinkers and they don’t see anything good when a decision goes [...]
Wimbledon ‘Fever’ begins
Tennis started on the English lawns ‘stealing’ some of the popularity of their traditional lawn games such as crocket and Bowling. In the hundred over years of Tennis, it has overtaken the popularity of most other sports. The Wimbledon championships as the gentleman’s game, fostered Tennis keeping the dress code to strictly white. Even the [...]
Saunders meet Renown in curtain raiser
Saunders will meet Renown in the curtain raiser of the Dialog Champions League 2016, played on June 24 at the Race Course Grounds — kick-off at 4.00p.m. The championship will be continued on June 25 with three matches and four matches is scheduled to be played on the following day. The tournament structure has been [...]
Indoor Hockey camp
The Old Thomians’ Hockey Union (OTHU) and St Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia are organising an inaugural Indoor Hockey camp tomorrow (June 20) from 2p.m. to 4p.m. at the sports complex, Mount Lavinia. Indoor hockey is a very popular game in Europe and an experience conductor of the game from Holland, Japp Suyk had already arrived [...]
School Age groups to be streamlined
The Education Ministry is focusing its attention in changing the age levels for schools sports to be brought into same international level age groups to be effected from January 1st 2017. Sports activities conducted by the Ministry of Education from 1985 in team events was in the age groups of under 15, 17, 18,19 and [...]
Fight, flags and favourites: Lanka’s Cricket parody
Win or lose, we booze.” On hearing that we feel lighthearted and we indulge in it – even if the consequences could be dire. Yes, there are some guys who love to live at the edge and I feel Lankan cricketers Kithruwan Vithanage and Ramith Rambukwella are two such characters. Yet, like the bear who [...]
Gaps between referees, coaches and fans are widening
Do facts clearly show that some conspire against thought to be rugby schools? Are teams victims of misfortune? The real truth could be that defeat was at least partly self-inflicted, and not the result of a conspiracy. Try telling this to people who wear blinkers and they don’t see anything good when a decision goes [...]
Wimbledon ‘Fever’ begins
Tennis started on the English lawns ‘stealing’ some of the popularity of their traditional lawn games such as crocket and Bowling. In the hundred over years of Tennis, it has overtaken the popularity of most other sports. The Wimbledon championships as the gentleman’s game, fostered Tennis keeping the dress code to strictly white. Even the [...]
Olympic Silver medalist Susanthika returns home from hospital, following assault
Sri Lanka’s sprint queen and Silver medalist at the Sydney Olympic Games – Susanthika Jayasinghe was rushed to Gampaha Hospital following injuries she received in an alleged assault by her estranged spouse Dhammika Nandakumara yesterday morning. Nandakumara, is a former national athlete who was her personal coach cum manager, earlier. The estranged couple had been [...]
Midyear Novices Carrom applications now open
Applications have been called for Midyear Novices Carrom Championship of the year 2016 organised and conducted by the Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka.This tournament is especially only for Novices Carrom players and conducts under four events in Men’s Single, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Single and Women’s Doubles. Islandwide Novice Carrom players can take part at this [...]
Relay Carnival from June 22 to 24
The official announcement of the Ritzbury All Island Relay Carnival organised by the Ministry of Education and Sri Lanka Schools Athletic Association was made at a press briefing held at the NCC Pavilion on Thursday evening. After a lapse of 16 years the Education Ministry had joined hands with the Sri Lanka Schools Athletic Association [...]
Mercantile Rugby 7s advanced
The Mercantile Rugby Football Association will conduct the 46th edition of its Sevens tournament on 15, 16 and 17 July at the CR&FC grounds, Longdon Place, Colombo 7. For the 1st time in history, a ladies tag rugby tournament will also be conducted on the same dates. All firms registered with MRFA are eligible to [...]
Anjalee leads HNB to Cager title
National player and HNB skipper, Anjalee Ekanayake led from the front to lead HNB to a convincing 59/48 win over Commercial Credit and Finance PLC. In the MSBA – 11th Ram Ratnavale Memorial Trophy Knock-out Women’s ‘A’ Division Basketball Final 2016 at the Edward Henry Pedris Sports Complex. While energetic, Ekanayake unleashed her speed and [...]
ANEY FOR SUNDAY (JUNE-19-2016)
THE THUMPING BILL Grounds are built at terrific costs. Maintaining them is another problem and that too is a terrific cost. One such ground in the outstations is causing a parent body a big headache. To see that it is properly maintained and repaired the parent body had recruited a so called expert. This ‘expert’ [...]
Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’ TTSC Archery Champs 2016
Aitken Spence Travels ‘A’ was crowned winners at the 2nd Travel Trade Sports Club (TTSC) Archery Championships 2016,sponsored by Yenesha Travels, Seeduwa, and concluded at the Colombo Archery Centre, CR&FC, Longden Place, Colombo 7, last Friday. 16 teams participated, comprising 3 Archers in a team, shooting 4 arrows. At the conclusion of the Preliminary Round, [...]
Rain, no play in MCA ‘F’ Division 25-Over League Tournament
The ongoing MCA ‘F’ Division 25-Over League Tournament, was once again severely marred by rain, with last weekend’s matches being postponed. The tournament which commenced on May 7, has to date, had 16 washouts and two postponements (May 28, 29 and June 11,12) To date, the match programme has been amended on five occasions. According [...]
Sad plight of Sri Lanka Athletics
Jayamini Ileperuma( Former National Athlete – South Asian Games Medalist) We have seen a sudden dearth of talented athletes when compared to the past. I cannot say now the standards of athletics has dropped as I have retired from athletics a long time ago. I get all these observations from printed and the electronic media. [...]
Devapathiraja MMV record third successive win
Devapathiraja MMV Rathgama recorded their third successive win of the Under 17 Division One cricket tournament when they defeated St Thomas’ Matara by four wickets in the match played at Uyanwatta Stadium in Matara. The match which got off to a late start and was curtailed to 40 overs with St Thomas’ taking first lease of [...]
Whither Sri Lanka Sports in the new millenium?
Sri Lanka is a prominent nation in South Asia, with a Sports history over 100-years old, and 3 world Championships- Billiards, Cricket and Carrom to boot. We have also won 2 Olympic Silver medals in Athletics, and medals at the World Athletic Championships, Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and South Asian Games (SAG). Hence, we have [...]
Clay and Ali were 2 different Boxers
Cassius Clay considered himself the finest ever to have worn the Heavyweight Championship belt. Having seen his early fights, I dare say he had the speed of fist and foot, and agility of body to qualify, even though he lacked the killer punch of Dempsey, Louis or Marciano. Joe Louis had one glaring weakness that [...]
Rider Dassanayake hat-trick, Driver Perera double, reign supreme
With a hat-trick of wins, Ishan Dassanayake grabbed the Rider’s Championship at the 6th Cavalry Supercross Motorsports, while Ushan Perera dominated in the Cars event to win the Driver’s Championship, at Pangolla in Kurunegala last Sunday. Dassanayake, a rider with ample experience competing at top Motorcross events in Sri Lanka for many years, reached his [...]
6th Mercantile Badminton Doubles Championships 2016 kicks off
The HDD Ex Group/Li-Ning sponsored 6th Mercantile Badminton Doubles Championships 2016 got under way yesterday at the Mercantile Badminton Headquarters Stadium, Malalasekera Mawatha, Colombo 7, and will continue till June 26, with a break today for Poson Poya. A total of 693 players including 22 national players constituting 62 teams from 47 companies, will compete [...]
No foreign players for next FA Cup: FFSL
The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) has decided against recruitment of foreign players to any club, for the 2016/17 FA Cup scheduled to commence in October. The FF was compelled to enforce this rule as foreign players contracted to play in the last edition of the FA Cup lacked discipline, and were not quality [...]