KO tournament on hold till court matters are cleared
By S.R. Pathiravithana The Lankan Premier League Limited overs tournament which was scheduled to begin yesterday, after launch amid much controversial circumstances at an ostentatious launching ceremony where the cost ran into millions of rupees is now stillborn. Colombo District Court on Friday issued an enjoining order preventing Sri Lanka Cricket conducting the Lankan Premier [...]
Suspicious minds! Umpires force Malinga to turn out his pockets
The Sri Lankan speedster was walking back to his bowling mark in the 17th over of Australia’s innings when umpire Mick Martell approached him and questioned what was in his pocket. Malinga, in the balls previous, kept placing his bowling hand in his pocket which prompted commentator Michael Clarke to reveal the 33-year-old keeps a [...]
Navindu Nirmal spams the rest of the gang
Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 The opening of the online voting system has already proven to become a virtual game-changer as Navindu Nirmal of St. Aloysius College Galle raced to take the pole position by the sixth week of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer [...]
We too have a damage control plan says Coach Graham Ford
Australia will demand more runs at the top of the order and must find a way to combat Sri Lanka’s “damage-control” mantra in their must-win Twenty20 clash in Geelong Today. The tourists have taken a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series after a stunning last-ball, five-wicket victory at the MCG on Friday night. Set 169 [...]
In-control Havies dump the Cops in style
The Havies ran out seemingly comfortable winners over Police by 46 points (3 goals, 5 tries) to 26 (3 goals, 1 try) in their quarter-final match at the Race Course grounds. At half time, the winners led 24-19. The Park Club had scored twice through winger Chamikara before the game was ten minutes old. At [...]
Renown regain lead in Dialog Champions League Football
Renown SC regained the top spot in the Dialog Champions League Super Eight Round by defeating SL Navy SC 2-1 at the Kelaniya Football Complex yesterday. Renown SC has completed six matches in the Super Eight Round winning five, losing one. They have only one match to play to complete the Super Eight Round. Last [...]
Mercantile Netball semi-finalists found
Defending champions Mercantile, runners-up State Services, University and Kalutara District qualified for the semi-finals of the Inter-Association Netball Championships held at the Ruwanwella Rajasinghe grounds yesterday. The competition is being organised by the Sri Lanka Netball Federation. This is their first contest for the year. Eighteen District Associations are taking part in the event. Today [...]
Longest 25 in Thomian history; couldn’t have been closer
Thomian proved their grit once again. This time they held on to their resolve and beat Trinity at the post to become the first recipients of the Ranil Abeynaike memorial trophy and also became the first to win the trophy outright since it was introduced in 2013. Trinity, who led in the first innings by [...]
NTB ‘A’ beat JL Morrisons with each scoring over 300
In a Quarterfinal (QF) where the bowlers were put to the sword, over 600 runs were scored, inclusive of 2 centuries and 3 half-centuries, as Nations Trust Bank (NTB) ‘A’ maintained their unbeaten record with a 31-runs win over JL Morrisons (JLM) in the 6th ‘BMW -Hyundai’ Trophy MCA ‘C’ Division 50-Over League Tournament 2017,continued [...]
Lions on top in spite Malinda and Dilruwan bowling show
The left and right arm spin combination of Malinda Pushpakumara and Dilruwan Perera shared five wickets to put Sri Lanka ‘A’ back into the game against the England Lions when play ended on day two in the 1st unofficial Test match played at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium. England Lions having made a formidable score [...]
Coaching or poaching — the clock is ticking now
It was not very long ago, one day, none other than the then Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket confronted me and lamented about poaching of cricketers by a leading school by the sea. He said he also represented that same school with distinction in the past but, he thought that it was unfair [...]
Pocket, prominence and performance
This is the 21st century Tennis. It’s a world where prominence can fill the pockets of players as much as their performance. In a revelation which I must say are rare, players earnings came into light. It revealed that in women’s Tennis the big earners are going home not necessarily from performance only. Their earnings [...]
Kandy’s turnaround an object lesson in game-change
There was no Houdini act in Kandy winning the Dialog Division ‘A’ Rugby League Championship after trailing in Round 1. Having lost two matches, one may not have expected to see Kandy crowned League Champs. The question is what happened to the bite that inflicted the sting on Kandy in Round 1. Kandy showed the [...]
Player poaching crisis is deeper than the eye could see
It was Mangala Samaraweera, while being the Sports Minister for a brief period, who first stated that there is a sports mafia in the country at the 2001 National Sports Festival in Kurunegala. This came out as a strong statement for the sports fraternity at that time. Now it seems that this sports mafia has [...]
CARS FOR NOTHING
Now the men in the Citadel are on to another scandal. The cars and the vans are the problem. The numbers are on the screen for everyone to know. Yet, the only problem is the people who are using them are not eligible to use them because they are there to do a voluntary job. [...]
“Battle of the Brothers” ushers Big Match season
The big match fever for 2017 will usher with traditional rivals Thurstan and Isipathana clashing in their two day 54th “Battle of The Brothers” encounter which is looked forward to by the past and present boys of the two schools due to be played on February 24 and 25 at the SSC ground starting from [...]
Super Star Vets win charity Football tourney
Super Star Veterans won the Football for Peace and Charity International Veterans Football Tournament 2017 organised by Football for Peace Sri Lanka in collaboration with Muthuwella Veterans Club which was held at the City Football Complex grounds over two days. But the real ‘STARS’ were the players of all nine teams who took part in [...]
Junior Football tourney next month
The South Asia – Japan Under 16 Football Tournament is organised by Japan Football Association along with Football Federation of Sri Lanka for the first time in Sri Lanka. The four countries participating in this tournament are Nepal, Bhutan, Japan and Sri Lanka. The Japan Football Association initiated this programme and proposed FFSL to conduct [...]
Zahira crush A’pura Central by 244 runs
Under-19 CRICKET Najath 100 n.o., Sajith match-bag of 9 match-winners An unbeaten ton by left-hand batsman Mohammed Najath and a match-bag of 9 wickets by skipper Sajith Sameera saw Zahira College crush Anuradhapura Central College (ACC) by 244 runs at Maradana. 24 wickets fell on Day 1 of the game. Sajith Sameera leading Zahira this [...]
Masters Maroons take Veterans’ C’ship
Sri Lanka Masters National Hockey Maroons team led by most senior National Player Ashok Peiris emerged unbeaten champions defeating Sri Lanka Masters National Hockey Gold team on penalty strokes (2-1) in the final of the Kandy Veterans Hockey Sixes organised by Kandy District Hockey Association and Seetha Devi Sports Club worked off at the University [...]
Lankan Athletes to compete in 5 International Meets in 2017: AASL
The Athletics Association of Sri Lanka (AASL) has decided to send Athletes to 5 international Meets this year. The 5 Meets are The Brunei Open Athletics Championships on March 18, 19, the IAAF World Cross Country Championships on March 26 in Kampala, Uganda, the Philippine Open Athletics Championships on March 30, 31 and April 1,The [...]
A Royal centenary season
It surely must be the dream of any young Cricketer of Royal and S. Thomas’ to play in the annual Royal-Thomian Cricket encounter. Certainly, a most cherished dream. Then, how can one describe the absolutely overwhelming feeling of sheer suspense, joy and honour at being chosen to play for Royal in the centenary match! A [...]
Golf’s “Train the Trainer” programme launched
The Sri Lanka Golf Union (SLGU), the governing body of Golf in Sri Lanka, inaugurated its ‘Train the Trainer’ programme, under the guidance of a Class ‘A’ Professional (PGTCA). Under the new programme the first batch of trainers underwent a residential coaching camp at the Aqua Range in Welisara, a implausible golf facility managed by [...]
Club Bentota ‘A’ too good 2nd year running
Hosts Club Bentota ‘A’ retained their Travel Trade Sports Club (TTSC) Beach Volleyball title for 2016 for the 2nd year running, when they beat their ‘C’ team in the ‘Cup’ Championship final, in the 10th edition of the tournament concluded at Paradise Island, Aluthgama, last Saturday. The tournament was sponsored for the 5th successive year [...]
A’pura Central’s Div. I Cricketers ‘hard-pressed’ to avoid relegation
If playing Division I Cricket is prestigious to top Cricket-playing schools in Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura Central College (ACC) knows what it really means. ACC, one of 36 schools competing at the highest level in School Cricket- Division I, may look like rookies to the league, but they are certainly a spirited bunch. Unlike popular schools [...]
A blockbuster in the offing
Competition is usually at its keenest, and fiercest, when two service teams meet. This will be uppermost in the minds of the Navy and Army teams when they step onto the Race Course Grounds this evening in the fourth quarter-final of the Dialog Clifford Cup Knockout Championship. The Navy has a score to settle with [...]
St. Marys’ Kegalle shatter Dharmapala’s dreams
St. Marys College Kegalle won first innings points to shatter Dharmapala College’s dream of rising from the bottom spot of group A to retain their place in the elite division one of the schools cricket tournament next season. According to statistics posted by batsman.com Anuradhapura Central College and Dharmapala College Pannipitiya may be demoted to [...]
SL, Australia sign Sports Development programme
Sri Lanka and Australia signed a Sports Development Programme agreement in Canberra. Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera and Australia’s Sports Minister Greg Hunt signed the agreement in the presence of their respective Prime Ministers. According to the agreement, Coaches, Sports Administrators, Sports Medical Doctors and Sports Specialists will be exchanged in order to Promote [...]
Vindyaka 146 in just 74 balls
Opening Batsman Dinesh Vindyaka hit a firecracker 146 runs in 74 balls, inclusive of 12 sixes and 10 fours for Dialog Axiata ‘A’ against Bimputh Finance in the ongoing 15th David Pieris Group of Companies sponsored, ‘DPGC’ Challenge Trophy, MCA ‘E’ division 30 over League Tournament 2017, continued last weekend. Vindyaka’s blitz enabled Dialog ‘A’, [...]
St. Joseph’s Swimmers take top spots
Dishen Ranaweera and Nuwinu Perera of St. Joseph’s took the first and second slots at the recently concluded annual 44th Ambalangoda Open Two Mile swim which was held at Ambalangoda. The duo was followed by A.M. Anura Sampath of Army who succeeded to emerge overall champions by securing 91 points with the Josephians three points [...]
Devapathiraja romp to a five-wicket win at Kotte
Ninety runs off 111 balls with 13 boundaries by Raveen Yasas and a match bag of eight by Jeewaka Shasheen helped Devapathiraja College Rathgama overcome Sri Jayawardenapura MV by five wickets in their under 19 Division II group A first round game was played at CMS grounds in Kotte. Electing to bat first Devapathiraja posted [...]
Five Weightlifting medals expected
Sri Lanka has targeted to bag five medals including two gold at the Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia from April 4 to 15, 2018. This was stated to the Sunday Times by Nalaka Hewamadduma, President Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federation. Seventy Commonwealth countries will take part in the competition featuring 18 sports. Weightlifting will be held [...]
Saints battle it out on March 3 and 4
The 83rd annual ‘Battle of the Saints’ will be played on March 3 and 4 at the P. Sara Stadium, Colombo and will no doubt exemplify the great traditions, pageantry and exciting brand of cricket usually displayed by the two schools. In this year’s encounter, the boys from Darley Road will be led by its [...]
Royal to work the line with KIA once again
The cause of rugby at Royal College will continue to be supported once again by KIA. This is the sixth consecutive year that KIA is backing the Reid Avenue boys as Sole Team Sponsor and the third year of its Rs 27 million sponsorship that encompasses the College’s First XV as well as the Under [...]
Over 2,000 Athletes for ISAC from Feb.25-27
The International Schools Athletics Championships (ISAC) 2017 will be held on February 25-27 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex, Diyagama. Apart from the All Island School Games conducted by the Ministry of Education, the ISAC rates as the next big Meet, and is the biggest in the ISA Calendar. This 3-day event, staged annually from [...]
Sri Lankan Strikers off to Malaysia to gain international exposure
The Sri Lanka men’s hockey squad of 25 players will proceed to Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, today to gain international match experience and attend a training session. The sessions will be held from February 19 and will end on February 23. Expenses for the event will be borne by the Ministry of Sports. The Malaysian Hockey [...]
Young Lawyers beat Colombo Masters by 19 runs
A fine all-round performance by Young Lawyer Udaya Basnayake helped Young Lawyers World Cup Squad to register a close 19-runs victory over the Colombo Masters Cricket Association 50+, in their Cricket match played at the Rifle Green last Saturday. Winning the toss and electing to bat, the Young Sri Lankan Lawyers, helped by a fine, [...]
Bernard Aluvihare Stadium in Matale to be upgraded
The construction work on the proposed ‘Bernard Aluvihare Sports complex’ in Matale is already in progress and is expected to be completed by the end of this year at a cost of Rs.580 Million. Under this project existing Bernard Aluvihare ground will be developed and upgraded to international standards and once completed, it will have [...]