Proteas whitewash Lions as they meekly surrender
Sri Lanka cricket is at its lowest point in years with Angelo Mathew’s men falling in a heap again on Saturday, meekly surrendering the Test series against South Africa. In another humiliating outing, the Sri Lankans were annihilated inside of three days to lose by innings and 118 runs as Faf du Plessis’s men inflicted [...]
What’s cooking in the Lankan cricket pot?
Certainly this is more serious than we thought it was. Though the prevailing silence is eerie, by now, the Lankan hierarchy should have been screaming foul and bringing the house down. Still, though unacceptable, it happens to only countries like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. But, replacing the November 2017 Sri Lanka tour of South Africa with [...]
Professional Tour’s Big-Bang start
There will be over 100 professional events in the World Tour this year. A sample of the crowded schedule came in the very first week of the year. It had to accommodate more than 6 events, only at the top end of the professional tour. It scattered the players. There were 3 Men’s events, 1 [...]
Defining the David and Goliath concept
Malcolm Caldwell looks at the story David and Goliath as giving a lesson to succeed. David and Goliath – underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants looks at the age old story in a manner different to what we are used to. Most of us know the story of David and Goliath. Caldwell however [...]
India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan in semifinals
Favourites India along with Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan have booked their berths to play in the Men’s Regu event semi-finals and in the Men’s Doubles event India meet Pakistan and Nepal meet hosts Sri Lanka in the 2nd Asian Sepaktakraw Championship commenced yesterday at the St. Joseph’s College Indoor Sports Complex. It will be a [...]
Neyara takes ITF U-14 Singles crown
Neyara Weerawansa won the Singles final in the Week 1 of the ITF Asia 14 and Under Tennis Championship concluded at the LTAT courts in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday. Neyara, a up and coming player from British School in Colombo, defeated Maria Breidy of Lebanon in straight sets, only to extend her untarnished winning streak in [...]
Indians dominate as Sri Lankans bow out
The penultimate day’s proceedings saw two Indian players Kunal Anand and Karunuday Singh wining their semi-final encounters played at the SLTA hard tennis in Greenpath Colombo to qualify to play in the final of the second Astoria Asian Tennis Tour tournament which is scheduled to be worked off today from 9.00 a.m. onwards. The semi-final [...]
St. Peter’s cruise through to fourth outright win
St. Peter’s cruised through to their fourth outright win of the ongoing Under 19 inter-school cricket season with a crushing innings and ten runs win over St. Sebastian’s in their match concluded at Bambalapitiya yesterday. The foundation for the win for St. Peter’s was laid by their right arm pacies Shivan Perera who ended with [...]
Dilshan slams career best knock of 191
CCC opener and right hand batsman Dilshan Munaweera slammed career best knock of 191 in just 179 balls to help his side post a score of 326 against BRC on day one in the Premier Tier A cricket encounter played at the CCC ground. Dilshan’s knock had 21 boundaries and five sixes and in the [...]
Lakshina takes the first step forward
The first week’s result of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 contest, which kicked off last week, comes out this weekend with some of the well-known schoolboy cricketers in fray. Honours of the opening week of this much awaited, competition goes to Lakshina Rodrigo of St. Peter’s College, [...]
Lankan strikers looking for glory
The Sri Lanka Hockey Pool will undertake a week’s training session in Malaysia in the first week of February. The reason for this is that Sri Lanka has qualified for the Hockey World League Round Two to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from March 4 to 12. In 2016 Sri Lanka were runners-up in the [...]
CR make short work of hapless CH
What would have been a thrilling encounter some years back turned out to be a lopsided clash as CR and FC went on to record a thumping 62-3 win against traditional rivals CH and FC in their second round match of the Dialog Division ‘A’ Inter-Club Rugby League Championship at Longdon Place yesterday. The winners [...]
Army looks good, but Havies have to win
Much is at stake when Havelocks SC engage Army SC in an away game. Winning is top priority. But securing the bonus point will also be on the cards. The Havies were on a roll for six weekends, before meeting their waterloo at the hands of the reigning champions. The week before, they had overcome [...]
Lankan strikers looking for glory
The Sri Lanka Hockey Pool will undertake a week’s training session in Malaysia in the first week of February. The reason for this is that Sri Lanka has qualified for the Hockey World League Round Two to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from March 4 to 12. In 2016 Sri Lanka were runners-up in the [...]
Ishan’s 69 help SLPA to 248
A knock of 69 by Ishan Rangana which included seven boundaries helped SLPA CC taking first lease of the wicket to make a modest score of 248 against Lankan CC on day one of the Premier Tier B cricket encounter played at the Army ground in Panagoda. Lankan CC in their turn facing seven overs [...]
Athletics in disarray
Yes, we keep talking about Sri Lanka’s achievements in Sports and especially in athletics, but, ironically in this entire island there is not a single international class track for athletics. What has brought forth this parlous situation. It is a fact in spite of this being a small island nation, we have reached many feats [...]
Lionel Samarajeeva to run at IAAF World Cross Country in Uganda
With his cross country performance at Cross Country race held in Nuwara Eliya last week Lionel Samarajeeva of Central Province is hopeful to represent Sri Lanka at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships to be held in Uganda on March 26. This was stated by Saman Kumara Gunewardena, Chairman Athletics Selection Committee, Athletics Association of [...]
Whither Mountain Biking
Year 2000 saw a dramatic change in cycling in Sri Lanka, few Ex- Officials of the national body for cycling introduced a new discipline , as retaliation for clipping them off from the main body due to pressure made by then minister of sports, S.B. Dissanayake who used his ministerial powers to get rid of [...]
The singing duo
Still on the same sport a big tamasha took place in the ‘mulla’ that is ‘Battara’ where a singing couple had been paid Rs.300.000 for a duet. The question is who had authorised this amount for a single song – good or bad? AGMs around the corner Now that the Annual General Meetings are scheduled [...]
Inimitable Roy de Silva
When Dannister de Silva,pioneerstation master cum businessman of Mutwal and his beloved wife Mileena of Wattala decided to take up permanent residence on a hill top near the Engineering Faculty on the road to Gampola in Peradeniya in the early thirties, there was neither a National Olympic Committee nor the United National Party. The de [...]
Stakes are high in this clash of potential champions
With but three sides in contention for the Dialog Rugby League title, matches involving those teams should, ideally, have come at the end of the tournament. The first round schedule was just perfect, with Kandy, Havelocks and Navy playing each other in the last couple of weeks. Now that the die is cast, rugby followers [...]
Pathum, Hareen head batting and bowling records respectively
The Sunday Times in collaboration with Batsman.com takes yet another initiative by teaming up to publish the Top 10 ranked players in the ongoing Inter-School Under-19 Division I Cricket Tournament. The rankings, which are totally based on statistics released by the Sri Lanka School Cricket Association (SLSCA) to its official stats provider Batsman.com, will be [...]
Carrom boss resigns
It is understood that Prasad Samarasinghe, the incumbent President of the Sri Lanka Carrom Federation had tendered his letter of resignation to be effected from the end of November 2016. Samarasinghe was elected uncontested at the last Annual General Meeting of the Federation and his two year tenure is to be completed on March 31st [...]
Bacon for Royal Hockey
Royal College Hockey Club beat Old Bens Hockey Club to emerge champions in Colombo district knock out tournament for the Bacon cup in a thrilling final played recently at the astro turf grounds. They beat formidable Bens by 6-4 after trailed by 0-2 in the first five minutes of the final. Shahid Hussain scored two [...]
Isipathana will take on Dharmaraja
The much awaited Schools Rugby League Championship 2017 will kick off from February 21 with defending champions Isipathana College taking on Dharmaraja College. The first round of the action-packed Schools Rugby season will run along for five weeks uninterrupted before the group standings are decided by March 27. Twelve teams are making their appearance in [...]
Will 2015 Runner-up, only Colombo school Anula make amends this time around
Campbell Park will come alive tomorrow and on Tuesday when the Semifinals of the Singer Cup Under-19 Girls Cricket Tournament 2016 will be worked off. Of the 4 Semifinalists, 3 are from outstation, namely Devapathiraja College Rathgama, St. Anthony’s Girls College Katugastota and Vijayabahu Madya Vidyalaya (MV) Okkampitiya, along with Anula Vidyalaya Nugegoda, the solitary [...]
Mithira steers Tissa MMV to the crown
An unbeaten knock of 109 by Mithira Thenira laid the foundation for Tissa MMV Kalutara to emerge champions of the Under 13 division one cricket tournament at Thurstan ground. Mithira’s knock helped Tissa MMV to overcome defending champions Prince of Wales on a better run rate after the match ended in a no decision. The [...]
Thanuj guides POW to the title
An allround performance by Thanuj Kavishan paved the way for Prince of Wales ‘B’ to come out victorious against St Peter’s ‘B’ in the final of the Under 13 Division Two cricket tournament final played at Thurstan ground. Thanuj’s unbeaten knock of 41 followed by a four wicket haul ensured the Cambrian juniors a victory [...]
President’s Cup Inter-School Invitation Football Tourney Semifinal today
The semi-finals of the President’s Cup Inter-School Invitation Football Tournament will take place today at the Racecourse grounds. In the first semi-final scheduled for 2.30 pm between De Mazenod College Kandana and Maris Stella College Negombo. The second semi-final will be at 4 pm between Hameed Al Hussienie College and Zahira College Putlam. In the [...]
Debutants DHT Cement in winning start
Debutants, DHT Cement made a memorable entrance into Mercantile Cricket, when they scored a comprehensive 7-wicket win over senior MCA member, JL Morisons (JLM), in the 6th Prestige Automobile (Pvt) Ltd.-sponsored, ‘BMW /Hyundai’ Trophy, MCA ‘C’ division 50 over League Tournament 2017, which got off to a start last weekend. The matchwinners for DHT Cement’s [...]
Ratnapura to host National Sports Festival for the first time
Ratnapura will host the 43rd National Sports Festival (NSF) from September 12 to 18, to be conducted by the Sports Ministry. This will be the first ever NSF to be held in Ratnapura, for which the construction of the new Sabaragamuwa Sports Complex is now in progress. It will include a swimming pool, an indoor [...]
Dharmaratne in her dancing shoes sparkled at the Padang
It was no surprise that Madura Dharmaratne had all the moves on the dance floor. The Sri Lanka National Women’s Hockey Captain who, at centre-half, is the fulcrum of the team, was the ‘Belle of the Ball’ as she was judged Best ‘Baila’ Dancer at the Malay ‘Padang’ last week. Dharmaratne was the centre of [...]
Rugby equipment to Matale STC donated
In a bid to develop and uplift the standard of Rugby football at St. Thomas’ Matale, (The only Rugger playing school in the district). Matale Thomians 2005 A/L batch donated rugger sports goods (balls, hit shields and tackling bags) worth over   Rs. 50,000/- to their old Alma-mater at a simple ceremony held at college. Matale [...]
Softlogic beat AMW by 1 wicket with 3 balls to spare
Softlogic Group (Softlogic) pulled off a dramatic 1-wicket win with 3 deliveries to spare, over AMW Group (AMW) in the 14th ‘Elephant House Lemonade’ Trophy MCA ‘D’ Division 40-Over League Tournament 2017, Quarterfinals played last weekend. KanrichFinance ‘B’ (Kanrich), Citizens Development Business (CDB) and Expolanka Group (Expolanka) were the other 3 teams that advanced to [...]
Sajith 97, Ismail match bag of 10/42 star in STC Matale win over Kegalle MV
Two impressive performances, one by skipper Sajith De Silva (97), who was unfortunate to miss his ‘ton’, and the other by left-arm leg-spinner M. Ismail with a match bag of 10 wickets for 42 runs, steered St. Thomas’ Matale to their 3rd outright win, when they recorded a massive 283-run win over Kegalle Vidyalaya, at [...]