School Cricket to be regularised
The Ministry of Education is in an earnest bid to regularise school cricket in the country. Special Consultant to the Ministry of Education Sunil Jayaweera feels that it is a must that School Cricket have its own regulations and controls rather than let them run wild. The main idea is not encouraging the advent of [...]
Ananda cruise to innings win over Wesley
Ananda cruised through to an innings and ten-run win over Wesley in their Under-19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Campbell Park yesterday. Wesley was struggling for survival when play stopped for lunch on the second day — badly placed on 111 for 5. Even though some late resistance coming from the Wesley batsmen, they were unable [...]
Manoj, Janaka tons steer John Keells to massive win
Manoj Sarathchandra and Janaka Gunaratne cracked tons to steer John Keells to a convincing 155 runs win over HNB in the quarter-final encounter of the Mercantile Division ‘A’ limited over tournament played at De Zoysa Stadium Moratuwa yesterday. Manoj hit a 121 ball knock of 133 inclusive of 14 boundaries and three sixes while Janaka slammed [...]
Trinity have it easy
Trinity College scored their first win of the season in their fourth game by trouncing Dharmaraja College by an innings and 118 runs at Asgiriya yesterday. Sanogeeth Shanmuganathan and Hasitha Boyagoda made hundreds, but the player who made it all possible was left-arm seamer Thisaru Dilshan. He was quite superb in the first innings as his [...]
Tame draw at Kurunegala
The inter school Under-19 traditional Cricket encounter between St. Anne’s College Kurunegala and St. Benedict’s College Kotahena ended in a tame draw at Kurunegala yesterday. Bens restricted Annites to 171 after making 217 runs in their first innings on day one. Resuming from their overnight score of 17 for no loss, St. Anne’s made 171 [...]
Cambrians the surprise package of the tournament so far
Reid Avenue was a hive activity when the 14th Singer Blue and Gold Hockey Sevens got underway, yesterday. Most of the fancied teams qualified to the next stage. Trinity however disappointed, losing one match and drawing two. The surprise packet was Prince Wales, a school that took to the game recently. The fact that they topped [...]
Wesley stun much fancied Zahira
Wesley College stunned hosts Zahira College 3-2 on penalties to snatch the 12th Zahira Super 16 Soccer Sevens Championship at Maradana yesterday. The Cup final was an intensely battled affair where the hosts were neatly thwarted by the gritty Wesley side to finish off scoreless and hold on to the tight defence even during the [...]
Oval ball to be shipshaped
With the intention of regulating the level of competitions and adding quality to the game, the Council of Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) has decided to standardize competitions being held in Sri Lanka. The decision, which was made earlier this week at a Council Meeting will come to act with immediate effect, according to [...]
Back to the future – Indian challenge still remains the same 50 years on
The Cricket World Cup win in 1996 is considered the pinnacle of our game’s achievements while the 2014, ICC T-20 Championship win comes a close second. Yet, besides that, there has been other significant ground-breaking victories like the first Test win against India at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in 1985. This was followed by the [...]
China’s move into World Tennis
Chinese player Li Na is the last Asian to win a Grand-Slam title and she has retired, but the springboard she provided to China is not wasted. Today, Tennis and Tennis events in China are on par with the best in the world. The Beijing-Open offers US$ 4 million as prize money. Currently, only a [...]
Lankan rugby camp still saddled with injury problems
Sri Lanka must be desperately hoping for a disastrous collapse by the high-riding Hong Kong side who are guaranteed with an overall title when the decisive third and final Leg of the Asian Sevens Series comes alive in Colombo next weekend. This comes in the midst where the hosts are facing a setback with a [...]
Union Assurance top Men’s ‘A’ Division
Newcomers Union Bank remained unbeaten as they advanced to the Final, beating MAS Holdings ‘Blacks’, 70-54, after leading 27-23 at halftime, in the 26th MSBA League Basketball Tournament 2016, Men’s ‘D’ Division Semi-Final (SF) at the Henry Pedris Courts last week. In the other SF, at the same venue, Seylan Bank was stretched by Softlogic [...]
Watch the lasses padding up
Hell broke loose in Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket, when the Australian Ladies drubbed them five-nil in their series played here. There were accusations that the game had faced a steady decline especially during the last year, and even in general the women’s cricket achievements have not been encouraging at all. However let us go to [...]
NOT DONE SIR!
Ever heard of 125 pressmen being cuddled into a press box? This happened at the recent Sports Festival in the North. The press box was about the size of a 10 ft X 10 ft box, which was adequate for two pressmen, the most. Added to that there were two girls also in it doing [...]
Rugby, without ‘Football’, should be no less appealing
I see the Asian 7s Series 3rd Leg match to be played in Colombo and the Club League to commence. I take a walk and ask why people want to follow Rugby? I was told the SLRFU will change the name to Sri Lanka Rugby, dropping the word ‘Football’, which was dropped by the World [...]
Chamara’s men wear the crown again
Curtains came down of the 24th Singer MCA Premier League 2016 when MAS Unichela led by former national player Chamara Silva recaptured the the Singer-MCA Premier League title after one year. Earlier MAS Unichela emerged champs on the Premier League in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and lost to MAS Active in 2015-16 but came back strongly [...]
Hansani and Udaya adjudged Best Players
Hansani Piumila of Visakha Vidyalaya and Udaya Ranasinghe of Vidyartha College, Kandy were adjudged the Best Players of the Tournament in the Girls and Boys categories respectively at the National School Games 2016 Table Tennis Team Championships held at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium, Mt. Lavinia. For their outstanding performances which helped Visakha and [...]
Staging Junior, Senior Badminton nationals a big triumph – Dandeniya
The 64th National Badminton Championships and the Junior National Badminton Championships will take place from October 22 to 29 at the Kurunegala Welagedera Stadium and Kurunegala Boyagane Army Stadium. The Sri Lanka Badminton Association and the Sri Lanka Schools Badminton Association are conducting this tournament. This is the first time that a senior and junior [...]
Lux Asia UN
Lux Asia beat Sri Lanka (SL) Tourism Development Authority to win the inaugural Cricket Carnival held to celebrate United Nations World Tourism Day (UNWTD) in Sri Lanka. The champion team had Ranga Pradeep, Thajul Riaz, Hussam Hayas, Rizwan Kuwaildeen, Tharanga de Silva, Shanendra Fernando, Kajenth Thanabalasingham and Salmaan Haque playing prominent roles. The trophy was [...]
Win for NAITA Admin.
The Administration Division beat Training Division to win the NAITA Finance Trophy in their annual Inter-Department Men’s and Women’s Cricket Tournament held at the Subhuthi MV ground in Battaramulla. Sachithra Mallawarachchi of the winning team bagged two individual awards for the player of the tournament and highest scorer while his team mate Chamod Thiwanka won [...]
AIDEX Sports festival today
AIDEX 2016 the Annual Sports Festival for Amputees who are users of the Jaipur Limb, organized by the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society will be held today at Prisons grounds in Colombo 8. The Public are welcome to participate. This is free of charge. This year is the 185th Anniversary of the Colombo Friend-in-Need Society. Aidex has [...]
Northern Sports fiesta concludes with more questions than answers
The 42nd National Sports Festival conducted by the Ministry of Sports was concluded in Jaffna last week while once again raising many questions over several shortcomings. The Games concluded with the organisers providing an assurance that they would put up a better performance at the next event. However, this has been the same old story that [...]
Zahira, Joseph Vaz, Jaffna’s St. Patrick’s and St. Henry’s in the Semis
Favourites Zahira College, Colombo, (ZCC) St. Joseph Vaz (SJV) College, St. Patrick’s College, Jaffna (SPJ) and St. Henry’s College, Jaffna, (SHJ) advanced to the Semi-Final (SF) stage of the Kotmale Under (U)-19 Football Championship 2016 with contrast wins in the Quarter-Finals (QF) played last week at the City Football ground. SPJ reached the SF by [...]
“Absolutely no sense in an international retirement game for Shahid Afridi”
Shahid Afridi farewell game saga I have to say that I am totally perplexed by a story which has been doing the rounds in the news media and this is in regards to a bizarre request by Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi for a farewell match. Now let’s be honest here and recognize the fact that [...]
Royal College Cricket Carnival 2016 today
For the 16th consecutive year, the annual Royal College Cricket Carnival (RCCC) will be held today at the Bloomfield Cricket ground, Reid Avenue, from 8 am onwards. Organised by the Royal College Group of 2001, this Old Boy’s Inter-Batch 6-a-side Cricket Tournament is an annual gathering of all former Royal College students. There will be [...]
Niran Mahawatta President MCA
Former Nalandian, Niran Mahawatte from National Development Bank was unanimously re-elected for a second term as the President of the Mercantile Cricket Association (MCA) at the 99th Annual General Meeting held on September 29 at the MCA Fine Dining Restaurant. The following office-bearers were elected: President: Niran Mahawatte (NDB) Vice Presidents: Roshan Iddamalgoda (Media Vision [...]
Heritance Ayurveda emerge new men’s winner
Heritance Ayurveda Maha Gedera, Beruwala emerged as the new Men’s Winner and Amaya Lake Dambulla emerged as the new Women’s winner at the 39th Travel Trade Sports Club Softball Six-a- side Cricket Tournament 2016, sponsored by Aitken Spence Travels, concluded at the Shalika Grounds recently. Heritance Ayuveda Maha Gedera, an Aitken Spence hotel, beat Amaya [...]
Ready and Set to Go from Oct.13-17
All arrangements have been finalised for the biggest Schools’ sporting event in the country- the 32nd All-Island School Games Athletics Championships- to be held from October 13-17 at the Bogambara Stadium, Kandy. Over 5,000 athletes, 2,684 Boys and 2,437 Girls, from 1,452 schools will compete in 4 age Groups- Under (U)-15, U-17, U-19 and U-21. [...]