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TPT Hockey title shared

Trinity College and S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia were adjudged joint winners of the TPT Challenge Trophy at the 2nd Hockey Carnival concluded at St. Peter’s College Grounds yesterday. As the match ended in a no decision and the penalty shoot-out tied Trinity and the Thomians will share the main TPT Trophy at this edition. [...]

Western, Central Provinces emerge Chess champions

Western Province and Central Province emerged champions in Men and Women categories respectively at the Chess Tournaments of the 42nd National Sports Festival, which concluded at the Sports Ministry premises in Torrington yesterday. Central Province emerged runners-up in the Men’s category ahead of Southern Province while Western Province secured the runner-up position in Women’s with [...]

Debutants DIMO had a surprise up their sleeve

Debutantes DIMO made their first appearance in the MCA Division ‘A’ Premier League a historic one, with a crushing 6-wicket win against defending League and Knockout champions MAS Active on the opening day of the high-profile cricket competition for inter-corporates at the FTZ ground in Katunayake yesterday. MAS Active, led by Sri Lanka cap Jehan [...]

Shammu Ashan of Ananda College brought a lightening start for the 17th Henry Steele Olcott Memorial Cricket tournament at the Bloomfield Grounds yesterday when he slammed a lusty 54 to guide Ananda College to win the Olcott Schools Under-19 cricket tournament defeating Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda. At the Old Boys tournament the day’s highest score (109) was [...]

Buddima steers St. Benedict’s to final

An unbeaten 64 by Buddima Wijesundara helped St Benedict’s to an easy eight win over Royal Institute Colombo in the Under 17 Division Three semi-final encounter played at Veyangoda. The low scoring game saw Royal Institute Colombo taking first lease of the wicket being bowled out for 98 runs and St Benedict’s in their run chase [...]

Janishka, Shanel put St. Sebastian’s on top

A fine knock of 109 by Janishka Perera and a 82 from Shanel Fernando helped St.Sebastian’s Moratuwa to come out on top against traditional rivals Prince of Wales at the end of the first day’s play in the Under-15 Division One semi-final match played at St John’s College ground in Panadura. The duo knocks enabled [...]

Royal-Nalanda Hockey final

Two leading schools from Colombo Royal College and Nalanda College have reached the Boy’s finals of the Hockey Tournament of the All-Island Schools Games while top and seasoned contenders Seetha Devi Girls School Malate and President’s Girls’ School Nawala will battle it out in the Girls’ final, which will take place today. The two finals [...]

Tough proposition ahead of Chaminda Vaas

Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Mohan de Silva feels, now there is more pressure on us to deliver. He said the series win over Australia had captured the imagination of the cricket loving public to such an extent, the crowd opted to ignore the results of the rest of the series and were there in their [...]

Government to reacquire Carlton Sports Network land

The Government has taken measures to annul the lease agreement and reacquire the land at Denzil Kobbekaduwa Mawatha, Battaramulla, where the building in which operations of Carlton Sports Network (CSN) Channel is situated, Parliament was informed recently. Minister of Mega polis and Western Development Champika Ranawaka said that the persons to who the land was leased [...]

HFC Kurunegala reach the final in three age groups

School Netball queens, Holy Family Convent Kurunegala will be the side to beat in the All-Island School Games Netball Tournament, which has reached the semi-final stage. The semi-finals and finals of the Under-19, 17, and 15 age categories will be played today at the Maligapitiya ground in Kurunegala. Under familiar conditions Holy Family Convent Kurunegala [...]

Diyawanna ready to take on oarsmen and women

The 31st National Rowing Championship, featuring approximately 200 oarsmen and women, will be held on the waters of Diyawanna Oya in Kotte from September 15 to 17. Defending champions, Sri Lanka Army, who won the men and women Open events along with Royal College and Ladies’ College, the winners of Under-18 Boy’s and Girls’ categories [...]

Business Management School (BMS) Sri Lanka cruised through to the final of the 5th Red Bull Cricket Campus (RBCC) World Cup when they defeated defending champions Assupol Tuks Cricket University of Pretoria, South Africa (ATC UOP) by six wickets in the first semi-final played in the morning session at the Galle International Cricket Stadium yesterday. BMS [...]

Moratu MV advanced to the final of the Shield trophy of the Under-18 Milo All-Island Schools Rugby Tournament when they recorded a close 17 points to 14 win over Richmond in the semi-final encounter played at the Ananda rugby ground in Rajagiriya. Moratu MV having held on to a slender 5-0 lead breather accumulated their points [...]

Eoin Morgan will take the biggest gamble of his career and jeopardise his international future when he tells England he will not go to Bangladesh. There was no sign of any late change of heart by this singular man on Friday, who seems certain to spend his 30th birthday at Loughborough on Saturday confirming to [...]

Seneviratne impressed with SL Rugby’s progress

Asanga Seneviratne, the President of SLRFU was happy on the progress of the Sri Lanka at Asian Series Sevens. He commented that “the programmes have worked and that the plan is on trail. The Asian Sevens opening leg showed that Sri Lanka will show a strong presence in the next two legs of the Series”. [...]

The 1960’s classic “Puff the Magic Dragon” is a song that was written about the friendship of “little Jackie Paper” with an ageless dragon called “Puff” which lived in a mythical place called “Honalee” by the sea. Yet, little Jackie Paper as he was human was subject to aging and he gradually grew out of [...]

In the ’80s, when Tennis was dominated by Swedes, Bjorn Borg, Mats Wilander and company, there used to be a saying- “There are 3 certainties in Tennis; 1st- Every player will lose one day; 2nd- Every player will physically break down; 3rd- The certainty of the Swedish passing shot”. The Swedes were so good and [...]

Old Joes and Kirulapona United clash today

The second semi-final of the Silver Cup Division Two knock-out football tournament will take place today (September 11) between Old Joes SC vs Kirulapona United will take place at the M.H. Mohammed playground Colombo. The tournament is being conducted by the Colombo Football League and 21 teams took part in the competition. In the first [...]

Saman Kumara Gunewardena Athletics Selection Chairman

Saman Kumara Gunewardena, has been named as the Chairman of the Athletics Selection Committee. This has been approved by the Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera. Saman Kumara Gunewardena has been in operation as the Athletics Statistics Recorder since 1992. Currently he is the Director of Sports Kelaniya University. Four other members have been named into the [...]

Badminton, rated as a potential medal-winning sport internationally, has yet to achieve any notable feat. It is in a sort of a mess locally, with fractions within the fraternity pointing fingers at one another for the sport’s current status. Over the years, Badminton has grown in popularity but, has failed to add quality for unknown [...]

Twice World Scrabble winners felicitated in France

The Sri Lanka (SL) Youth Scrabble Team which won the Best Team title for the 2nd successive year at the 11thWorld Youth Scrabble Championship (WYSC) held in Lille, France, were felicitated by SL’s Ambassador to France, Tilak Ranaviraja, recently, at the SL Embassy in France. The SL team led from the start at the 11th [...]

Seek the Wind, Skim the Waves, it’s out of this world

As a lead up to a potentially global-appealing mega competition in the coming year, the Kalpitiya Wind-Sports Club (KWC) unveiled its first ever international Kite-Surfing event, the Kalpitiya Lagoon Challenge (KLC), this weekend. The competition, which includes a series of interactive segments, began yesterday and will wind up today as KWC President, Upul de Silva, [...]

The 6th edition of the Uda Walawe Supercross organised by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Motor Sports committee of the SLA Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (SLEME) and supported by the SL Motorcycle Club (SLMC) will speed off at Uda Walawe Supercross in Sevanagala, Uda Walawe today. The inaugural meet held in 2011, has since gone [...]

SL win Silver in a cliff-hanger 8-9 loss to Hong Kong

Sri Lanka (SL) emerged Runners-up at the Asia-Pacific Water Polo Tournament held at the Kowloon Aquatic Centre in Hong Kong, from August 18 to 21. Led by Yahan Samarajeewa, SL dished out superb performances throughout the competition, before going down to hosts Hong Kong 9-8 in a thrilling and fitting finale. This was the first [...]

350 Schools at Senior Tarbat Athletic Championships

The 86th Sir John Tarbat Schools Senior Athletic Championship will take place from September 13 to 15 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex Diyagama. 350 schools featuring 3,500 athletes will participate in this 3-day event held in 3 age categories – Under (U)-16, U-18 and U-20 (Boys and Girls). This event will also serve as [...]

Windies Cricket Academy, Matale, Annual Awards Ceremony

Matale Windies Cricket Academy held its inaugural awards ceremony at the Grand City Hotel, Matale, amidst glamour and glitter on Saturday, August 27, with Sri Lanka Cricketer, Dhammika Prasad as the Chief Guest, and Assistant High Commissioner, Indian High Commission Kandy, Ms. Radha Venkataraman, as the Guest of Honour. Seventy-five budding young Cricketers of the [...]

Textured Jersey Inter-Dept Cricket Carnival

The Textured Jersey (TJ) Sports grounds in Seethawaka once again turned into a spirited battlefield, when 12 Inter-Dept teams locked horns for the TJ Premier League, ‘TJPL Cup 2016’. The annual 1-Day Cricketing event is one of the most looked-forward to in TJ’s sports calendar, showcasing the sports talent of its staff who give off [...]

Kevindu, Yasiru help Colombo Central overcome Gampaha District1

Kevindu Senaratne cracked 90, while Yasiru Kasthuriarachchi put in a fine all-round performance to steer Colombo Central to a massive 157-run win over Gampaha District1, in a 1st Round match of the Under-15 Inter-District tournament played at Wennappuwa. Colombo Central taking first lease of the wicket posted a formidable 265 for 9 in their allotted [...]

650 schools – Boys’ and Girls’ – for Samaposha Under-15 Schools Football Tournament

The Samaposha Under-15 All-Island Inter-Schools Football Tournament will commence on September 13 on an all-island basis. The tournament is being conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Football Association and is being coordinated by the Sri Lanka Football Federation. For the eighth successive year the event is being sponsored by Plenty Foods (Pvt) Ltd. for the [...]

Please don’t mislead COPE with scope and hope

I read with interest and concern the article titled “Football – We have COPE but scope and hope” in the Sunday Times of August 21. With regard to some facts revealed to the COPE committee by the ExCo Chairman and the FFSL President, I wish to clear the deck, so that the COPE committee will [...]

This is Cricket – Don’t Worry over its (in) – glorious uncertainties

As for me, as a past Sri Lankan Cricketer, we have our ups and downs which may cause the defeat of the side one is playing. Perhaps, thanks to good individual performances, in both batting and bowling, Sri Lanka was in a position to win Test matches against Australia which was rated the best. All [...]

Battle of the Thomians’ 2nd Hockey big match

This time around too Nations Trust Bank has come forward to sponsor the ‘Battle of the Thomians’ big match between two of the leading hockey playing schools, St. Thomas’ College Matale and S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia. The match is scheduled to be played at the Astro Turf Hockey grounds at the Racecourse in Torrington, [...]

The sixth Oman Air Golf Classic recently took place at the Victoria Golf and Country Resort in Digana, Kandy with Mohamed Fazeel emerging as the overall winner. Fazeel who ended up with 44 points won the grand prize of Rs.100, 000 from Oman Air while Sidantha Karalliedde securing a score 42 points ended up as [...]

Central Province (CP) Carrom Championships 2016 conducted by the Uva Province (UP) Sports Ministry, in collaboration with the Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka (CFSL), and worked off at the YMMA Auditorium, Badulla, saw Anas Ahamed and Upekshika Shymali winning the Men’s and Women’s Championships respectively. This initiative was taken to select men and women players [...]

DIMO claimed a comfortable 8-wicket win against Hayleys in their annual cricket encounter played at Colts Cricket ground recently. Hayleys batted first and were bowled out for 149 in 35.4 overs with Aravinda Premaratne taking 3 for 28. DIMO reached the target by scoring 150 for 2 wickets in 27.2 overs. Lakkana Jayasekara hit an [...]

Football enthusiast Saif Yousuf was elected the President of the Mercantile Football Association (MFA) at its Annual General Meeting held recently. Yousuf, a promoter of football has been heavily involved with the sport as an administrator. He is also the President of Colombo Football Club and the Vice President of the Colombo Football League. Yousuf [...]

LB Finance ‘A’ Kumara’s 116 in 58 balls (9 sixes, 10 fours) the showpiece

The Surrey Village Grounds lit up as Chathuranga Kumara belted 9 towering sixes and 10 sizzling fours in his innings of 116 in just 58 balls, to lift LB Finance (LBF) ‘A’ to a fine 63 runs win over MAS Silueta ‘A’ in their ‘MIDS’ Trophy, MCA ‘B’ Division 50–Over League Tournament 2017, continued last [...]

It rained ‘Sixers’ at ROCA Cricket 6s in Matara

It rained sixers, endangering commuters and vehicles on the Matara-Akuressa Road when Rahula’s cricketers of decades gone by, gathered again at their school ground for a hard ball 6-a-side Cricket tournament organised by the Rahula Old Cricketers Association (ROCA) recently. Sixteen teams entered the fray in 2 Groups. Group A consisted of veterans who represented [...]

DFCC – Men, NTB – Women Preliminary Round Div. ‘A’ winners

DFCC and Nations Trust Bank (NTB) won the ‘A’ Division Men’s and Women’s Preliminary Round matches respectively, of the 26th Mercantile League Basketball Tournament 2016, at the Henry Pedris Courts last week. The DFCC men scored a close 54-46 win over Commercial Credit & Finance (CC&F), while the NTB women too had a close call [...]

The 59th Annual General Meeting of the Mercantile Table Tennis Association (MTTA) chaired by President Vimarshana Gammanpila was held at the Nildiya Hotel (Pvt) Ltd, Mount Lavinia. After completing a successful event calendar MTTA has appointed a new committee for the year 2016/17 term. The event calendar for 2016 will be the Knock-out Championship (September [...]

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