The solid bloc is on the way
Come Tuesday Lankans coming in for the first of their Tests in the three match series against Australia at Pallekelle are in no position to sit back and savour the home advantage as they perennially used to. According to Sri Lanka team manager Charith Senanayake right now they are earnestly engaged in an arduous task [...]
COPE gives one month to file full report on ‘Cricket Aid’
Sri Lanka Cricket officials and the Secretary to the Ministry of Sports have been asked to hand over a full report to the Parliamentary Committee of Public Enterprises (COPE) regarding “Cricket Aid”, an ad hoc body that had been set up under the Sri Lanka Cricket to collect and disburse funds for social welfare projects. The [...]
Anil clinches Masters’ Snooker Title
Anil Rohana of Automobile Association Club (AAC) clinched the Masters Snooker title when he defeated Nimal de Silva of Grand Hotel Nuwara Eliya by three frames to one in the five frame final played at the Billiards and Snooker Association headquarters billiards table in Colombo yesterday. Anil an experienced cueist though conceding the first frame [...]
Unbeaten Chilaw Marians looking for the crown
The curtains of the Under 23 Division One limited over tournament will come down today with the final clash for the plum between Chilaw Marians and Army scheduled to be played today from 9.30 a.m. onwards at the SSC ground. Of the two teams Chilaw Marians led by Rukshan Fernando is the only team to [...]
NZ All Blacks Rugby Academy in Sri Lanka
The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) had agreed to set up an All Blacks Academy here, after a proposal made by the Sri Lankan Government has been successfully taken up by the world’s top rugby-playing nation. This was revealed to the Sunday Times by Harin Fernando, the Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, who led [...]
SLRFU to take charge of Schools Under-20 League Rugby C’ship
With intentions of putting a halt to amateurish conduct, the Minister of Sports Dayasiri Jayasekara has instructed the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) to take charge of the Under-20 Schools League Rugby Championship from the coming season. Minister Jayasekara confirmed this to the Sunday Times at an official function held at the Colombo Hilton [...]
Renown in runaway 9-1 win over Thihariya Youth
Defending runners-up Renown SC Colombo drubbed Thihariya Youth by nine goals to one in the Dialog Champions League 2016 Football Tournament Stage Six game at the Kelaniya Football Complex. Seven matches were played yesterday and the highest number of goals was scored in the Renown-Thihariya Youth game. The competition is being conducted by the Sri [...]
Defending champions schools U-19 dethroned
The Mercantile Cricket Sixes 2016 entered its final rounds stage yesterday with 63 teams consisting 85 matches playing in two tiers in six venues. The tournament was conducted in Tier ‘A’ (turf matches) and Tier ‘B’ (Matting matches) segments with Segment ‘A’ consisting of 18 teams. With the completion of the first day’s play yesterday, [...]
Lankan teens through to the Cup semis
The Sri Lanka Under-18 team qualified to play in the Cup semi-final after topping Pool B in the Asian Schools Rugby 7s Championship with a fine display at the Kings ground in Hong Kong yesterday. Debutants Sri Lanka beat Thailand by 19-12 and beat Malaysia 29-21 before thrashing Mongolia by 52-0 in their group games [...]
Wattala thrash Nugegoda by 170 runs in an all-Lyceum Cricket final
Unbeaten tons by Shermeegan Saridan and Gihan de Zoysa laid the foundation for Lyceum Int. School Wattala to emerge champion of the International School U19 cricket tournament. The duo’s knocks enabled the side to record a comprehensive 170 run win over Lyceum Int. School Nugegoda in the final played at the Health ground. Shermeegan cracked a [...]
Parent! — Your image of a role model sometimes maybe flawed
The fact is that, everyone hates referees. Many have something to say and strong but a coward inside. Forgetting that children play the game in schools. This is not case to defend referees but an arrow at your conscience. Blaming referees is not limited to Sri Lanka and is not restricted to rugby either. We [...]
Sri Lanka Super 7s — Packed with Rugby experience
The Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) will finally get the complete authority to run the competition they outlined, but lost the grip with time and tide. The Sri Lanka Super 7s, powered by Dialog, will spearhead the SLRFU’s annual calendar from this year onwards when it comes alive in August at the Racecourse ground [...]
SMSC ‘Rally Sri Lanka 2016′ from August 5 at Hingurana
The Southern Motor Sports Club the pioneering motor sports club in the south has organized ‘Rally Sri Lanka 2016′ at Hingurana, Ampara from August 5 to 7. The ceremonial opening will be held at the Ampara Main Ground at 8pm on 5th August 2016. The 500 kilometre rally will be held in two stages both [...]
Cricket reforms: Take a cue from the Lodha report
Talking of winds of change, sometimes even the most dominant subjects — whatever they may be — could wilt under the sheer influence and power of it. The reasons may be many or singular but, if the prevalent situation is not in harmony with the accepted norms, someone may stop playing the viola and the [...]
Tennis in Rio and Davis Cup update
The Greek Olympics, thought to have begun about 3,000 years ago, went into dormancy over a period of time. Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin formed the International Olympic Committee in 1894 and the first of the ‘Modern Olympics’ as it is now known, was in 1896. It is this idea that revived Sports in the modern [...]
Abeysinghe and Raheem ready to make waves
In the Sri Lanka contingent to Rio Olympics, the highest representation is from Athletics. Besides athletics, the next is Swimming where Matthew Duncan Abeysinghe and Kimiko Shihara Raheem will battle it out with the world’s leading champion swimmers. Mathew qualified from Olympic ‘B’ grade timing and Kimiko is a wild card entry. In history of [...]
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Sri Lankan National Team Represented Sri Lanka at 13 International Competitions Represented Sri Lanka at FINA World Championships (2010 – 2015) Captained the Sri Lankan National Team in 2011 at the 6th Asian Age Group Championships. Captained the entire Sri Lankan contingent (all sports) at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. 4th place [...]
What are our chances against Australia this time?
Sri Lanka’s cricket series against Australia is at hand. What do other professionals, who do not have access to, think about Lanka’s chances against the world’s number one cricketing nation. This is this week’s topic. Brendon Kuruppu ( Former National Cricketer 1983-1990) “I am not in any post of Sri Lanka Cricket. Due to this [...]
THE DASH THAT ENDED IN A TIE!
All eyes are on the female sports which is preparing to take part in an Asian Tournament in the very near future. There is this big problem where a mother wants to have her daughter included in the team. To get over the issue a Fitness Test was held and in the crucial event where [...]
Access are Mercs Rugby 7s Champs after 16 years
The 46th Mercantile Rugby 7s dished out explosive Rugby throughout the tournament. The short version of the game attracted many diehard Rugby fans including schoolboys. This year’s Mercantile Rugby 7s attracted 31 teams. It was unfortunate to see defending champions MAS withdrawing from the tournament at the 11th hour citing injuries to their players. Their [...]
CTC inaugural Women’s Mercantile Tag Rugby 7s Champs
The Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) Women’s team won the inaugural Mercantile Women’s Tag Rugby 7s Championship held concurrently with the 46th Mercantile Rugby 7s. In the final, the CTC lasses beat Virtusa 5-0, 1 try, in a battle that went to the wire, to be crowned Queens of Mercantile Tag Rugby 7s. The CTC women [...]
SL Shooters win 18 Gold, 9 Silver, 11 Bronze at IMSSU Championships
Sri Lanka’s (SL) National Shooting team made their motherland proud by winning 18 Gold, 9 Silver and 11 Bronze medals at the International Metallic Silhouette Shooting Union (IMSSU) Shooting Championships 2016 held in South Africa. For the first time in SL’s Shooting history, a total of 38 medals were won in an international event. SL’s [...]
Cook’s England gets their comeuppance
Were they living on borrowed time? That question must be posed after England were defeated by Pakistan by 75 runs at Lords a few days back. It is true that England were minus Anderson and Stoles- 2 huge losses. Yet, the English side could and should have done better. Some aspects of their performance must [...]
Total Amber’s Hashan hogs limelight
Two opening batsmen, Buddhika Mallawarachchi from Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka and Ishan Jayawardena from Mihin Lanka with bowler, Hashan Perera from Total Amber hogged the limelight in the sixth MCA-Stafford-Honda Division ‘G’ 25-over League Tournament 2016,continued last weekend. Buddhika Mallawarachchi hit a hurricane 155 in 78 balls inclusive of 10 sixes and 18 fours [...]
Tharanga paints the town red in 77 balls
A swashbuckling and unbeaten 155 by Nippon Paint opening batsman Tharanga Indika coming off in only 77 deliveries inclusive of 11 towering hits over the ropes and eight power-packed fours propelled Nippon Paint to an overwhelming 174-run win over MJF Exports in the 1st Commercial Credit and Finance PLC sponsored, MCA Division ‘F’ 25-over League [...]
Readers Forum
The Sunday Times has decided to dedicate this column to its readers so that they can comment about contents in our sports columns and features and also write their own thoughts on various sports with letters to the editor.Their views however are not necessarily those of the newspaper. Learn to play the Game Royal I [...]
Hasitha, Nuwanthika top Slicers at mid-year C’ships
Midyear Novices Carrom Championship 2016 came to a close at the Sri Lanka Carrom Federation Headquarters as Hasitha Anuruddha of the Sri Lanka Air Force and Nuwanthika Sanjeewani of Mahamaya Vidyalaya clinched the Men’s and Women’s championships respectively. During this popular event in the carrom calendar there were over 350 novice slicers island-wide was conducted [...]
Mahamaya’s mermaids rule the pool for 18th consecutive year
Kandy’s premier Buddhist Institution for girls, Mahamaya College, has the proud, unmatchable achievement of winning the 43rd Sri Lanka Schools Age Group Girls’ Swimming Championships worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium Pool for the 18th consecutive year. Accumulating 559 points all told, they easily outstripped nearest rivals Visakha Vidyalaya. St. Joseph’s have done so for [...]
119 Teams Qualify from Seven Districts
The qualifying tournament of the 25th All Island Milo Schools Netball Championship which is in progress now around the island saw 119 teams from the seven districts of Kandy, Ratnapura, Homagama, Gampaha, Colombo, Bandarawela and Matara qualifying to the finals scheduled to be held at the Uyanwatta Stadium in Matara. The Kandy qualifying tournament saw 18 [...]
Brayan crowned King of Circuit at Red Bull Kart Fight 2016
After a weekend of bustling mechanics, revving engines and adrenalin rushing through veins, Brayan Perera took pole position at the 2016 edition of Red Bull Kart Fight – Sri Lanka which was held at the Kanway Autodrome in Mirigama on July 9 and 10. “The qualifiers were challenging because I ran a wet lap. I [...]
All Island Milo Schools Netball from July 30 at Uyanwatte Matara
The All Island Milo Schools Netball Championship conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Netball Association and sponsored by Nestle Lanka PLC since 1992 for the 25th successive year will be held from July 30 to August 1 at the Uyanwatte Stadium in Matara. Minister of Education Akila Kariyawasam will be the chief guest at the opening [...]