Charges Yonex had been taken for a ride
By Naushad Amit The Sri Lanka Badminton Association (SLBA) is at the receiving end of the court, according to the latest development. They are accused of not being ‘transparent and acting in an ethical manner’, by ‘stealing’ what is meant for the players. According to a group of individuals who are former SLBA officials, and [...]
Australia v Sri Lanka: Darren Lehmann hopes tour will spark a sub-continent renaissance
Australia has only the one Test win in ‘Asian’ conditions in the past decade – against Sri Lanka in Galle in 2011, which was enough to secure a series win. That has been their only series win in their past five attempts. In what will be another hectic 12 months for the world champions, the [...]
Van Buuren strikes as South Africa U19 take the lead
By M. Shamil Amit A four wicket haul by right arm leg spinner Mitchell Van Buuren paved the way for the visiting South Africa U19’s to record a 16 run win in the first of the three Youth ODI encounter played at the P. Sara Stadium yesterday helping them to take a 1-0 lead. The [...]
Izzadeen boots three goals for Army against Matara
By Susil Premalal National player Mohammed Izzadeen, representing the Sri Lanka Army, banged in three goals in-a-row against Matara FC in the Dialog Champions League 2016 Stage III game at the Matara Football Complex yesterday. Last week too Izzadeen was amongst the goals scoring four goals against Blue Star Kalutara. In the game yesterday Army [...]
STC Warden makes strong protest
Reverend Marc Billimoria, the Warden of S. Thomas’ College and one of the Vice Presidents of the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association (SLSRFA) has sent a strongly-worded letter to the President of the SLSRFA, B. A. Abeyratne, Principal of Royal College, protesting its decision to change the venue and date of the Milo Schools [...]
Beware of two-tier doosra
Cricket definitely is a gentleman’s game. At least, that is what we have been taught to believe from our childhood, since the very game of Cricket had evolved from a system with two distinct divisions – gentlemen and players. This system was in existence from the late 1800s to 1962, before it was done away [...]
‘Miracle’ of Venus
Even with rain making the matches nowhere close to the clockwork schedule, creditably, Wimbledon 2016 got its women’s semi-finalists in place for Thursday and the men’s on Friday of the second week. By tradition, Wimbledon does not use the middle Sunday for matches. This year they had to break their tradition to make up for [...]
Manjula given another life
They to ascertain if one of them could manage to break the timing barrier at the ongoing 94th National Athletic Championships which is being manually conducted. By yesterday, at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Diyagama, the second day of the annual track and field meet of Sri Lanka, the events meandered without even a single [...]
Royal-Isipathana game fixed for Wednesday
Holding of the Milo President trophy knock-out final date after many days of uncertainty, will be worked out on the July 13 at the Race Course grounds. The impasse kept the rugby fans guessing. It may be the first time in the history of the tournament an incident of nature occurred. The initial date of [...]
Deamantha helps STC Matara to retain Ruhunu Masters Trophy
R.T.L. Deemantha scored in the 4th stage of the penalty shootout of the 15th Golden Ensign Football encounter to ensure that St. Thomas’ College Matara retain the Ruhunu Masters Trophy at the German – Sri Lanka Friendship Football Grounds at Uyanwatta on Friday night. With this win STC lead the series with eight wins to [...]
Indrajith and Geethani keep their marathon dreams alive
For the XXXI Summer Olympics which will commence from August 5th to 21st, 207 nations will vie for honours in 28 disciplines. A total number of 8,235 athletes have already confirmed their participation. But the total number is likely to increase, as the last qualifying date for athletics is 12 July. Sri Lanka’s nine member [...]
Indiscipline among our Footballers is cause for serious concern
Sport is the great leveler. Sport teaches one to be humble in victory and determined in defeat. Sport too teaches several other virtues that help to bring out the gentlemen in life. Success in Football is not to be measured by results alone on the field of play. The real value of the game is [...]
Blowing the whistle on School Rugby hooliganism and its aftermath
Rugby has its moments of madness. I have talked about the adverse effects and was also told that if I continue this way, parents will not send their children for Rugby. I ask whether the happenings now are conducive for parents to encourage their children to play Rugby. Speaking to the Education Ministry’s Sports Consultant, [...]
SL Cricket team’s midsummer nightmare
Dilani Gunawardena (Senior Executive) “I think the Captaincy should change after the debacle. Matthews should be replaced with Dinesh Chandimal. I did not watch most of the matches. The youngsters were not prepared at all to play the English bowlers on seaming wickets. It was a disastrous tour.” W. Prasanna (Boutique Owner) “We were really [...]
Marlon at the helm of NCC
Marlon Ranasinghe was elected President unanimously of the Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) at their 127th Annual General Meeting held recently at the club pavilion. Following office-bearers were elected at the AGM for 2016-17: President: Marlon Ranasinghe Vice Presidents: Gladwyn Anandappa, Lalith Ganlath and Suwan Perera General Secretary: Laurence Ratnasabapathy Asst. General Secretary: Rukshan Wickremasinghe Treasurer: [...]
Neil’s cherished Basketball dream
Neil Perera a keen sportsman and promoter, with the intention to serve sports retired from the Mercantile Services and embarked another mission. Now Neil is looking at promoting his pet subject — Basketball at the MCA Complex. Neil, who excelled in Cricket and Basketball for St. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa in the early sixties, became the [...]
Grand Finale of DSI Supersport Schools Volleyball Championship next week
Dammissara Central College Nattandiya will be aiming for a triple title as the best dozen from over 2,000 sides when the DSI Supersport Schools Volleyball Championship concludes next week. The six finals — 3 Boys and 3 Girls — of 3 age categories will be played next Friday and Saturday at the National Youth Services [...]
A MOTHER IS ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP
All eyes are on the ladies team which is preparing to take part in a tournament in Thailand in the near future. The former captain of this team is now on the reserve list and there are efforts to get her back on the team. With this in view a fitness test was held and [...]
Rural Carrom hubs formed
After the game of carrom was introduced as an event of the National Sports Festival, several provincial level matches held at Eastern Province Rural Industries Department premises, Trincomalee in Eastern Province in collaboration with Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka (CFSL) recently. This tournament was organised under the directions of M Madivannan Director Sports (Eastern Province) [...]
Sri Lanka women win Kabadi Bronze
Sri Lanka Women’s Kabadi team won a bronze medal at the 4th Asian Women’s Kabadi championship held in the city of Busan, South Korea organised and conducted by the Asian Kabadi Federation last week. In the preliminary round Sri Lanka defeated Japan, Thailand and Iraq and lost to South Korea in the semi-finals. In this [...]
Satish Iyer to work on the stud book
The Royal Turf Club (RTC) with a long term vision brought down Satish Iyer, a well known personality in the annals of horse racing and the Registrar in India of the country’s Stud Book, to see the probabilities of making a Sri Lankan record of it. With this move horse racing in Sri Lanka will [...]
Formula experience in the United Kingdom
Sri Lanka for the first time in history, will participate in ‘Formula Student 2016′, the worlds biggest student motorsport competition to be held in iconic Silverstone Circuit, known to be the home of British motorsport from July 14th to 17th. The competition is expected to feature over 3,000 students, 5,000 attendees, 250 industry professionals and [...]
Janidu impresses for Bandaranayake Vid
Janidu Jayawardene, the promising allrounder from Bandaranayake Vidyalaya Gampaha scored his second century at the ongoing Singer All Island Under 15 Division I cricket tournament when he scored a swashbuckling 126 n.o. in the second round match against St. Aloysius College, Galle. Jayawardene a member of the Sri Lanka Under 15 team that toured Malaysia [...]
CCR to help runners
Colombo City Running (CCR), a community-based recreational running group which aims to promote and improve running in Colombo, conducted a programme for its members with London Marathon winner and professional runner Lewis Chalk. The programme was held last Saturday at the CR and FC premises in Colombo. With the vision of promoting and improving running [...]
Dumith, Nadeera, Vihanga, Janishka shine in Sebs innings win
St Sebastian’s bowlers Dumith Wellalage and Nadeera Fernando along with Vihanga Mendis and Janishka Perera shown with the bat and ball as the foursome combined to steer Sebs to a crushing innings and 61 run win over Ananda in the second round match of the Under 15 Division One cricket tournament played at Moratuwa. Dumith Wellalage [...]
Boost for Lanka’s Tennis
Tennis in Sri Lanka was taken to greater heights lately. The recently concluded Sri Lanka Premier League Tennis played under flood lights, drew hundreds of spectators in all four days. The tournament attracted many non-tennis fans as well. The game of tennis that displayed was in better quality and had all the excitement to the [...]
Krishan 6/20 shines for MJF
HNB ‘B’, HSBC ‘C’, Heshan Flex Packaging, Janashakthi Insurance, EB Creasy, MJF Exports, Hayleys Group ‘B’ and Nippon Paint advanced to the quarter-finals of the 1st Commercial Credit & Finance PLC sponsored, MCA Division ‘F’ 25-Over League Tournament, last weekend. The pre-quarter-finals’ batting honours went to Vindika Nadira of Janashakthi Insurance, who scored 86 in [...]
McLarens Holdings defeat MAS Holdings to bag the Grand Slam
The 6th edition of the Mercantile Badminton Association’s Inter-Firm Doubles Team Badminton Championships 2016 came to end at the Mercantile Badminton Association headquarters courts last recently with the completion of the Grand Slam, Cup, Plate, Bowl and Novices finals. In this highly competitive tournament, where 22 national players were in action, the focus fell on [...]
Maliban bites with vigour to set a new mark
Maliban Biscuits, who made a comeback to MCA Cricket after a long lay off, created a MCA record by scoring 337 runs in 25 overs in 106 minutes, inclusive of 10 sixes and 45 fours, in the ongoing 6th Stafford-Honda, MCA Division ‘G’ 25-over League Tournament 2016, last weekend. The match took place at Thurstan [...]