There is no place for politics in sports
Chief Guest Mahanama advises young cricketers By S.R. Pathiravithana For the chief guest at the awards ceremony on Friday, it was like coming back home to his long lost abode that he dwelt in some time ago. Yes, Roshan Mahanama – the former member of the World Cup winning combination, national captain and match referee, [...]
The whole nation heard the boom of Asalanka’s drive
By Naushad Amit Friday was a night never meant to be forgotten or undermined for some of the schoolboy cricketers, in particularly Charith Asalanka. These young lads had worked hard and done exceptionally well above the rest during the School Cricket season of 2015/2016 with the leather and willow. The night belonged to all those [...]
Growing-up pains of a national cricketer
I always enjoyed the batting of connoisseurs in the calibre of David Gower, Vivian Richards, Brian Lara or for that matter the modern day marvel Virat Kohli. All of them have or had that x-factor which hardly instilled subjugation to any bowler who crossed their path. They may have respected the opposing cricketers as colleagues [...]
Andy Murray end Djokovic’s reign
Great Britain’s Andy Murray of Scottish origin took the world’s number one position dethroning Serbian Novak Djokovic’s 122 week month reign in Tennis. While the best of women were fighting it out in Singapore last week, performances of Djokovic suffered in Shanghai and in Paris. Andy Murray on the other hand excelled in these and [...]
Charith’s moment in cloud-nine
Richmond College and Sri Lanka Under-19s skipper Charith Asalanka, who is rated as one of the promising allrounders for the Sri Lanka national team, won the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 at a glamorous awards ceremony held at the BMICH on Friday. In 1979 it was Royalist Ranjan Madugalle who [...]
BRC, SSC, Moors SC, Colts enter semis
Host BRC along with SSC, Moors SC and Colts advanced to the semi-finals of the BRC six-a-side cricket tournament after the completion of the pre-quarter and quarter-final matches that were played at the BRC and Colts ground yesterday. From the matches that were played in the morning and evening sessions saw SSC having the honour [...]
Lafir and Rimzan qualify to the final
Fazal Lafir of MSC and H.A.M. Rimzan of Army qualified to the final of the All Island Lanka Plate billiards tournament final by recording easy wins in the semi-final encounters played in the morning session at the Otters AC billiards table yesterday. Lafir, son of World Billiard Champion and billiards maestro M.J.M. secured a comfortable [...]
Windies get opportunity to overtake Pakistan
The West Indies will be eyeing the opportunity to wrest back the lead against Pakistan in the ICC ODI team rankings table when it plays in a tri-series featuring Sri Lanka and host Zimbabwe starting tomorrow. Pakistan had overtaken the West Indies to eighth position after a 3-0 win in a recent series in the [...]
Thomians crush Dharmasoka MV by eight wickets
S.Thomas’s crushed Dharmasoka MV Ambalangoda by eight wickets in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Mt Lavinia yesterday. The second day’s proceedings saw the match lasting only 49.2 overs which came to an end just after the lunch break. Dharmasoka MV resuming their second innings from their overnight score of 42 for 2 [...]
De Silva defends woeful show at Malaysia
President of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) Anura de Silva told Sunday Times yesterday said that he will not blame the coach or the team which failed to win a single match at the AFC Solidarity Cup Football Tournament held in Malaysia. “We did not have enough match experience. The players were inexperienced [...]
Schoolboy cricketer of the year 2016
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Golf efficiency workshop on Tuesday
The Sri Lanka Golf Union (SLGU) is hoping to change the image of Golf in Sri Lanka to ‘Efficiently and Effectively’. This would be done at a workshop which will be conducted November 15. The Sri Lanka Golf Union under the guidance of Priath Fernando President of Sri Lanka Golf will be presenting a Regeneration [...]
Thirty five masters teams in the fray
Thirty five teams are billed to take part in the 15th Annual (Over-40) 7-A-Side Football Tournament conducted by the Sri Lanka Soccer Masters Association (SLSMA), will be worked off today at Cooray Park, Wellawatte from 8.00am onward. All league games will be completed by 2.00pm on November 13. After a brief rest the quarter-finals, semi-finals [...]
The onus to deliver is on the player as well as on the club
The Rugby league 2017 commenced last week and a near century was scored by Kandy against CH and FC. Does this say that Kandy are a superior team and CH as has happened during the last few years destined to be volleyed and hammered . What does this hold for rugby and to a club [...]
Ransilu and Dhanushka for Power-lifting C’ships in Orlando, USA
Sri Lanka will be represented by Ransilu Jayatilleke and Dhanushka Kodikara at the 19th World Open Men and Women Power-lifting Championships to be held from November 13 to 19 in Orlando, USA. Only these two will leave for Orlando and the Sports Ministry will provide air-tickets and accommodation for them. Ransilu is ranked 21 in [...]
Mixed results for Junior shuttlers
The Sri Lanka Junior Badminton team taking part in the World Junior Badminton Championships 2016 at Bilbhawo city in Spain finished in the 36th position at the conclusion of team events and will have to come out with a much improved performance in the Singles events to give the badminton fans back at home some [...]
Suriyage among the top five
Sangeeth Suriyage, who was a regular feature in the sports pages of local newspapers in the recent months, ended up among the top five in the British Supermoto Championship. Suriyage is on the road to become the undisputed champion in SuperMotorad racing in Sri Lanka in both the 250cc and Open Class modified bikes categories. [...]
Bodybuilding to be taken off the National Sports Festival
Sri Lanka Anti Doping Agency (SLADA) Chairman Professor Arjuna Silva proposed to withdraw bodybuilding from the National Sports Festival (NSF) which is conducted by the Sports Ministry. He emphasised that national bodybuilders always avoid the doping test conducted by the SLADA and as a result there is reasonable doubt about their performances. Professor Silva further [...]
T+20 Cricket League final washed out
The historic, Lastman Stand Sri Lanka T+20 Cricket League 2016 Final between unbeaten, Heshan Flexi Packaging Vs.Union Bank Finance was completely ruined by rain and abandoned without a ball being bowled at De Mazenod College Grounds, Kandana on Sunday. The teams were declared as joint winners and shared the prize money of Rs. 150,000/- offered [...]
MCA ‘D’ Division from Nov 19
The third main tournament in the MCA 2017 season – The ‘D’ division 40 Over League Tournament 2017 will get underway during the week-end of November 19 and 20, 2016. The Final is scheduled for January 13, 2017. The following 16 teams pooled into 4 groups will play a series of 39 matches in 2 [...]
Grants retain title
Grants Advertising retained the Inter Advertising Agency Tag Rugby Challenge 2016, Presented by Accredited Advertising Agencies Association (The Four A’s) with a thrilling 2/1 win in extra time over Media Factory in the Final, under floodlights at the Havelocks SC grounds recently.The defending Champions Grants, led by Sathiya Premaratne was stretched to the limit by [...]
Trinity bag Golden star
Trinity college Kandy excelled to bag the ‘ Golden star ‘ award for the second consecutive year at the all island schools U/13 boys hockey carnival concluded recently at Mahinda College ground in Galle. They beat D.S. Senanayaka College Colombo 8Â 3 – 0 and then drew with Tenna Maha Vidyalaya Matale to emerge unbeaten [...]
Bhanuka take shuttle crown
Praveen Bhanuka Abeysingha of Dharmaraja College Kandy was crowned as the U/17 boys singles champion at the junior National Badminton Championships 2016 concluded last week at the Army Indoor complex at Boyagane in Kurunegala. He beat Sewmina Gunathilake of Ananda College Colombo 10 in straight sets (21 -16, 21 – 19) in the final. Praveen [...]
The World of Joes Rugby through the eyes of the outgoing Coach
Bilal Yusuf was the Director of Rugby/ Under 20 Head Coach at St. Joseph’s College during the 2015 and 2016 seasons. During the past two years there was a significant improvement in the overall performance in St. Josephs’ rugby at both Senior and Junior levels. His role as Director of Rugby was to overlook the [...]
SL men win the world carrom championship
Sri Lanka’s national flag flew high at the 7th Carrom World Championship 2016 in Birmingham, England when Sri Lanka’s Men’s team won the world championship defeating the reigning champions India by 2-1. Chamil Cooray the Sri Lankan captain led from the front defeating India’s R.M. Shankara 25-8 and 25/12 in straight sets. The Indian though [...]