Jayasuriya back in business – SLC CEO Ashley de Silva
Bringing an end to all speculation about the tendering of the resignation of Sri Lanka National Cricket Committee Chairman Sanath Jayasuriya, now it is reported he is as usual back in business. There were speculations on Thursday that the four-member Cricket Selection Committee, headed by Sanath Jayasuriya had resigned citing interference. The news item stated [...]
Charana still in the lead in spite of heavy online voting
With the opening of the online voting system coming effect from February 6, a rapid improvement in the number of votes is evident. The fifth week of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 has picked up fast. Nevertheless, Charana Nanayakkara of Thurstan College continues to lead the All-Island [...]
“Series took its toll” – Coach Graham Ford
The turnaround between tours are so severe that Sri Lanka who left South African soil last night will play Australia in a three-match T20 series, in less than 96 hours after arriving Down Under. The scheduling has been so intense that half of the T20 squad left straight to Australia from South Africa, with hardly [...]
Schools Rugby kicks off as scheduled on Feb. 24
Negating speculations about the postponement coming schools rugby season, now it is almost certain that the season would kick off scheduled on February 24. Earlier speculations were rife that the Inter-School League Rugby Championship was most likely be postponed till mid March. However, the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association (SLSRFA) now affirms that the [...]
St. Peter’s cruise to fifth outright win
St. Peter’s cruised through to their fifth outright win of the ongoing Under-19 inter-school season when they recorded a comfortable eight win over St. Benedict’s in their match concluded at Kotahena yesterday. In fact St. Peter’s had put themselves in a strong position in the post lunch session of play on day two as they [...]
Skipper Inoka, Chamari steer Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Women skipper and left arm spinner Inoka Ranaweera along with Chamari Atapattu and Chamari Polgampola helped Sri Lanka record an easy eight wicket win over Zimbabwe in a Group A match of the ICC Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament played at the NCC ground. Inoka ended with impressive figures of 4 for 18. [...]
Milton Amarasinghe appointed Advisor to Sports Ministry
Former and Retired Director General Department of Sports Development Milton Amarasinghe has been appointed as an advisor to the Sports Minister with the approval of the Cabinet. He is an experienced senior Government Servant in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service. He has served as the Director General of the Department of Sports Development for eight [...]
Joes falter against Antonian fire
The Anthonians did everything but beat the Josephians in a low scoring match on a Katugastota track that withheld its favours from the batsmen. At stumps, the Josephians pursuing a target of 178 for victory were 122 for 8, with the ninth wicket pair playing out the last few overs. Scores: n St. Anthony’s 176 [...]
Darin and Ronella create bench marks
National Power lifting Champion and Asian Bronze Medalist Darin Weerasinghe and a team of 8 took part at the Annual National Independence Bench Press Championship organised by the Sri Lanka Power Lifting Federation held at Bandaragama. Darin Broke the Sri Lanka Bench Press record in his first attempt with 195kg and went onto do a [...]
Sangeeth and Shoel blaze the trail
The Federation of Motor Sports Sri Lanka held their awards night for national champions in motor sports. Altogether 11 riders received national awards. Sangeeth Suriyage and Shoel Daniel received two national championship awards each for supermotard and super sports class respectively. The duo dominated motor racing through the year by breaking national track records with [...]
Anything but playing for pride – still a lot at stake
“Playing for pride” is an expression commonly used. However, in the case of today’s match between the 2nd and 3rd placed teams- the Havies and the Navy, that expression seems very opposite. Up to a few weeks back, the Navy were in contention and there was a three-cornered tussle for the top spot in the [...]
Gelioya dump Renown to take Div II title
Gelioya FC overcame Renown SC 3-1 on a penalty shoot-out in the final of the Premier League Division II, 2016 Football Tournament to emerge champions. The game took place at the Jayatilleke Stadium, Nawalapitiya yesterday. With this win Gelioya FC were promoted to the Division I tournament in 2017. The tournament was conducted by the [...]
Lion’s cycle race today
Celebrating 100 years of Lions Clubs International, Lions District 306 C2 have organised a Standard Cycle Race today. The event is organised by Maharagama Sports Club and Colombo District Cycling Association. The race will be flagged-off in front of the premises of Hi-Life (No. 402/ 2, Kaduwela Road, Thalangama) at 8.30am. It will take the [...]
Renown SC takes the lead in Dialog Champions League
Renown SC scored an easy 2-0 win over SL Air Force in the Super Eight Round final stage Dialog Champions League Football Tournament at the Kelaniya Football Complex yesterday. With this win Renown SC are heading the Super Eight Round Points Table. So far Renown SC has completed five games, winning four and losing one. [...]
SL Air Force records first win in women’s club football
Sri Lanka Air Force beat Sri Lanka Police 3-0 in the Division One Women’s Club Football Championship at the Air Force ground, Ekala recently. This was the inaugural game of this tournament for 2017. In another match of the same competition between Sri Lanka Army and the Sri Lanka Navy which ended in a nil [...]
Looking through the looking-glass: No sign of daylight
There is never a dull moment in this little ‘Wonder of Asia’. Either there is a radicalised bunch of kids trying to change the world, shouting their throats hoarse and dry, or else, it would be a bunch of know-alls trying to drill some sense or nonsense into the political blockheads but, are driven back [...]
The regal Kandy lads crown themselves in glory
Having already won the League, Kandy SC (KSC) will travel to Colombo to take on CH, who will have to weave a magic wand, if they are to win this one. The Sunday Times understands that the League Trophy will be presented to KSC after the CH match. This will be before the Havies vs [...]
Facing Davis Cup and Fed Cup – 2017
The origin of team events in Tennis dates back to 1900. The first Davis-Cup for men was between USA and Great Britain. This inter-nation idea of Tennis is now over 200 strong and serves as the ‘only basis’ for existence of the game in most of the countries which do not have the strength in [...]
Pedal pushing badly in need of a shove
Cycling has been a popular Sport for ages, compared with some of the other Sports in the country. Cycling, as a Sport, started in the 1950s and reached its climax in the 1960s with the Tour de Lanka and the ‘Deepa Charika’ Cycle tour. Riders of the calibre of Maurice Coomaravel, Anthony Symonds, A.M. Sumanaweera, [...]
Dhananjaya and Miflal head rankings once again
Nipun Dhananjaya and Ameen Miflal are still faring to their potential after the third round of the Sunday Times-Batsman.com schoolboy cricket rankings. Dhananjaya, the in-form left-hander from St. Joseph Vaz College Wennappuwa continued his good hand with the bat to accumulate 838 runs from 10 matches. However Dhananjaya will have to keep watch. His numbers [...]
NO GREEN LIGHT YET
A junior squad is hard at training at an up country venue in order to gain high altitude training. But the strange thing is that so far no coach has been appointed to see to their training. It is in the air that a coach has been selected from parent body but the higher authorities [...]
Royal owns up to playing unregistered player, loses points
The Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association (SLSCA) has decided that Royal College Colombo forfeit points earned from two matches during the ongoing Under (U)-19 Division I Cricket season, in consequence to playing an unregistered player in its U-19 XI. The discovery, interestingly, was made by the Royal College authorities itself, who officially informed the SLSCA [...]
Poramadulla Central in the final
Supun Waduge (112) and opening bowler Chathura Dunusinghe 5/50 guided Poramadulla central to the final of the SLSCA under 13 division III inter school cricket tournament, when they beat Dharmapala MV Kottawa on the first innings by 96 runs at the Open Prison ground Pallekelle in Kandy. Electing to bat first Poramadulla central declared their [...]
RTC at full stretch to make SL a Horse-racing hub
Attorney-at-Law Panduka Keerthinanda, who takes over at the helm of the Royal Turf Club (RTC), intends to gallop that extra mile to making Horse racing an entertaining sporting event again. Regarded as an unethical sport, from time to time, the RTC is going flat out to make Sri Lanka a hub for Horse races in [...]
‘A century of friendly rivalry’
The much awaited Centenary Cricket encounter between Trinity College Kandy and St. Anthony’s College Katugastota will be played under the title of ‘A century of friendly rivalry’ on March 10 & 11, at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. St. Anthony’s and Trinity are two of the oldest Colleges in Kandy and the Trinity-Antonian Cricket encounter [...]
21st Southern Eliyakanda Hill Climb on Feb. 26
The 21st Southern Eliyakanda Hill Climb conducted by the Southern Motor Sports Club (SMSC) will be held at Browns Hill, Matara, on February 26. The challenging 540-metrelong Eliyakanda track is on the road leading to the official residence of the Matara District Secretary and requires excellent driving skills and perfect man-machine coordination to conquer. Darin [...]
Lankans thumped by the Indians in the semi-final
A swashbuckling unfinished opening stand of 175 by India dashed Sri Lanka Visually Handicapped cricketers’ dream of playing in the 4th World Cup T20 finals when they faced to a 10wkt defeat in the first semi-finals of the Blind World Cup T20 at the Lal Bhadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad, India. Batting first the Lankan [...]
Centuries by Nimesh and Sadeem
Nimesh Fernando from Asia Asset Finance and Sadeem Thawfeeq from Virtusa took the spotlight, as the first centurions in the ongoing 15th David Pieris Group of Companies sponsored, ‘DPGC’ Challenge Trophy, MCA ‘E’ division 30-over League Tournament 2017. Opener Nimesh Fernando carried his bat out after hitting a hurricane unbeaten 123 which included six sixes [...]
Champs Mast Far East 2nd time lucky
Fighting every inch of the way, Mast Far East (Mast), last year’s Runners-up, dethroned defending champions Brandix Essentials (Brandix), beating them by 3 wickets with 3 deliveries to spare, in the final of the 3rd Apparel T-20 Premier League 2017. In the playoff for 3rd place, Bodyline (Pvt) Ltd. (Bodyline), cruised to a 153-runs win [...]
MCA ‘C’ Division at final round
The 6th ‘BMW /Hyundai’ Trophy, MCA ‘C’ division 50 over League Tournament 2017 reached its quarter-finals as the league stage of the tournament came to a close. In the last match in the league stage, Peoples Leasing Co. scored a comfortable six wickets win over JL Morisons at St. Benedict’s College Grounds, Kotahena.The high light [...]
Driving and Putting SL Golf onto the world stage
Excerpts of an interview that Golfer A.B. Sunesh had with Sri Lanka Golf Union (SLGU) President Priath Fernando, on the next phase of Golf in Sri Lanka (SL). Q. For over 50 years, you and your family have been in the fore front of Golf, as Golf Champions, Sponsors and Administrators, with you, per- sonally, [...]
Nipun fights Selector’s membership bias with performances
What does a budding batsman have to do to catch the eye of a National Selector? Is it the runs he scores or, is it the club he represents? Bloomfield Cricket & Athletics Club Skipper, Nipun Karunanayake, a product of Nalanda, has all the essential ingredients that is required. A leading batsman in the Premier [...]
Y.M.S.C celebrates 47th AGM
Young Men’s Sports Club (Y.M.S.C) Dharga Town celebrated its 47th Annual General meeting and the selection of new office bearers for next two years were held at Lotus Manor Reception Hall, Lotus Road, Dharga Town. The chief guest for this initiative was chairman of Colombo Zahira College Board Of Governor and Present Patron Al-Haj M.R.M. [...]
Colombo Blues outplay Kandy Reds 6 tries to 4
Colombo Blues outplayed Kandy Reds 6 tries to 4, to win the Capt. Arjuna Ekanayake Memorial Tag Rugby Championship Trophy in a thrilling final at the inaugural Tag Rugby Fiesta organised by Lions Rugby Football Club in Qatar. The eventful day with schoolboy and club Rugby players of Sri Lanka, now based in Doha, Qatar, [...]