Naveen and Charana were the Big Match draws
Thurstan’s pair left arm spinner Naveen Gunawardena and Charana Nanayakkara shone in the drawn 54th Battle of the Brothers annual big match against traditional rivals Isipathana which concluded at the SSC ground yesterday. Naveen who ended with a five wicket haul in Isipathana’s first inning grabbed three more wickets to end with a match bag [...]
All points to a hectic tussle though Navindu continues to occupy the top slot
The race to the top between Navindu Nirmal and Mohamed Najath is evidently intensifying. The All-Island Schools segment of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 competition could get hotter as the weeks move on. By the seventh week both contestants have been able to surpass the 30,000 vote [...]
Angelo says his tendon is still sore
Sri Lanka Test and ODI skipper Angelo Mathews will miss the forthcoming Test series against Bangladesh due to his hamstring injury. The two test matches will be played in Galle and Colombo but the national skipper will not be able to gain his full fitness before the start of the series, due to begin on [...]
Sahan and Dileepa call the tune for Ananda
Ananda’s opening batsman Sahan Suraweera became the second schoolboy cricketer to reach 1000 runs this season which he did it in style with a 103 ball knock of 104 in their drawn Singer Schools Under-19 cricket encounter against St. Joseph’s concluded at Ananda Mawatha. Sahan achieved the feat on day and his knock comprised 11 [...]
Sadeera, Dimuth help Sri Lanka ‘A’ make bold reply
Sadeera Samarawickrama and Dimuth Karunratne helped Sri Lanka ‘A’ make a bold reply of 333 for 3 in reply to England Lions score of 353 when play ended on the second day in the 2nd unofficial Test match played at the Rangiri Dambulla Stadium. The pair joined together when Sri Lanka ‘A’ was in a [...]
Dayalan rides Alcazaba to victory and begins 2017 season
L. Dayalan rode Deepthika Jayakody’s most elite thoroughbred Alcazaba, to victory in the Independence Race Day Cup when Royal Turf Club (RTC) inaugurated its 2017 calendar at the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse yesterday. Trained by S.P.A. Raju, Alcazaba claimed the win and took home a cash reward of Rs. 490,000 in addition to the main trophy [...]
Lyceum International Wattala are ahead on day one of ISAC
Defending overall champions Lyceum International School Wattala with 378 points took the lead on the first day of the 17th International Schools Athletic Championships (ISAC 2017) at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex, Diyagama. They collected these points by completing 34 final events on the first day. Gateway College Colombo is in second place with 263 [...]
Back to School Ground 2017
In celebration of the 195th anniversary of Sri Jayawardhanapura Vidyalaya (Boys Christian College Kotte), the Old Boys’ Association of the school is proud to announce the upcoming event- ‘Back to School Ground’. This sports Festival will be held this morning from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm. It is the first time in the history of [...]
27th Royal- Thomian past cricketers Annual Dinner
The 27th Royal- Thomian Past Cricketers Annual Dinner will be held on March 8, 2017 from 7.30 pm onwards at the Atrium Lobby, Cinnamon Grand. All past cricket coloursmen of both Royal and S. Thomas’ are welcome. Tickets will be available at the gate. Tickets are priced at Rs. 4,000/- per head while under 23 [...]
Royal nip Joes coup in the nick of time
Royal 28 - St. Joseph’s 22 Spectators were kept on the edge of their seats during the last quarter of the game between the hosts Royal and the much-talked about Josephian team. It was 28/5 to Royal when the visitors bestirred themselves into playing some dazzling rugby to which everybody seemed to be contributing. At this point, Royal [...]
Singhawansa leads Zahira to surprise victory
Zahira 19 - Science 13 Zahira staged a last minute rally to topple Science College Mt. Lavinia 19-3 in the Inter-School rugby game played at the Air Force grounds in Ratmalana yesterday. At the breather Zahira led 13-8. It was standoff Singhawansa who sealed the issue for Zahira by converting two penalties with barely six minutes [...]
New Youngs SC records first win in Dialog Champions League
New Youngs SC Wennappuwa recorded their first win in the Dialog Champions League Football Super Eight Round when they overcame SL Navy SC 4-1 at the Kelaniya Football Complex yesterday. The competition is being conducted by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka. New Youngs SC have completed six matches. They have recorded one win, two [...]
Kandy favourites at Nittawela
The road to the Clifford Cup final was short, but hard –especially for one of the finalists. However, Justice has been served and the best two teams have made it to the final on Sunday at Nittawela. Kandy SC has the luxury of playing all their games at their impregnable bastion. There was no travelling [...]
Shanogeeth steers Trinity to quarters
An allround performance of 71 runs and 6 for 11 by Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan helped Trinity record an easy 80 runs win over Mahanama Colombo in the pre-quarter final encounter U19 limited over cricket tournament played at Reid Avenue yesterday. Shanogeeth’s knock saw Trinity taking first lease of the wicket make a modest score of 186 [...]
S. Thomas’ outclass POW 57-0
S. Thomas’ 57 - POW 00 S. Thomas’ began their campaign of the Singer Under-20 Inter-Schools Rugby season with a crushing win over Prince of Wales whom they outclassed by 57-0 in the match played at Longden Place yesterday. The one sided game saw the Thoras taking a 38-0 lead at the breather and accumulating their points through [...]
Thomians prevail in style
St. Thomas’ College annexed the inaugural Ranil Abeynaike Memorial Hockey Trophy with an easy 4-0 win over St. Peter’s College at the Astro Turf, Colombo 7 yesterday. The late Abeynaike was an outstanding hockey player captained at S. Thomas’ and was a member of the Sri Lanka schools under 19 squad. The game was more [...]
Bangladesh tour: Acid Test amid new ‘Big 3′ scheme
I think it was roughly about a year-and-a-half ago, I was talking to the then Sri Lanka Cricket Interim Committee Chairman Sidath Wettimuny. Like at present, there was uncertainty, with some of the Mahela-Sanga-Dilshan trio either already retired or, about to hang their international boots. As a result, there was a dark cloud looming over [...]
Is Rugby well served in Sri Lanka?
I dozed off reading the list of honorary Doctorates awarded in 2016 by Glasgow University. It included Alastair Kellock and Gregor Townsend, Club Captain and Head Coach respectively of Glasgow Warriors for their contribution to Rugby and Community Engagement. Former Scotland Rugby player and BBC Broadcaster John Beattie also becomes a Doctor of the University. [...]
Achieving Tennis ‘Player’ status
Sports as such, regardless which, is international in blend. In Tennis, it is very much so. Many developed nations today, do not even maintain their own rankings, but extract their ranking from the one maintained by ATP and WTA, the two professional bodies. This makes classification in Tennis 100% non national. This is the method [...]
The Bold and the Enterprising will Prevail
Two of the foremost Buddhist institutions in the island, Ananda College and Nalanda College, will meet in the 88th Battle of the Maroons Cricket encounter at the SSC Grounds on March 4 and 5, for the P.De S. Kularatne Memorial Trophy, with play commencing at 10 am on each day. Late P.De S. Kularatne, an [...]
THE FAMOUS NINE
This time only a party of nine supporters made it ‘Down Under’ to watch the cricket happenings. All nine of them are supposed to be supporters of the Big Boss of the game. It is said that the game’s Big Boss had supported the nine for favours extended to him. HUGE SPONSORSHIP The game played [...]
UB Finance main sponsor of S. Thomas’ Rugby for 2017
UB Finance has come forward as the main sponsor for S. Thomas’ College Rugby and an agreement was exchanged between Ransith Karunaratne, Director / CEO of UB Finance, Suresh Kandiah, Chief Operating Officer at UB Finance and Rev. Marc Billimoria,Warden of S. Thomas’ College at a ceremony held recently. Under the sponsorship agreement UB Finance [...]
138th Royal-Thomian ‘Battle of the Blues’ powered by Dialog
Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, Dialog Axiata PLC, is once again the official sponsor of Sri Lanka’s blue ribbon cricket encounter, the ‘Battle of the Blues’ between Royal College, Colombo, and S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, for the prestigious Rt. Hon. D S Senanayake Memorial Shield on March 9, 10 and 11 at the SSC [...]
Nalanda past cricketers night at SSC
Nalanda College past cricketers night organised by its College Past Cricketers Association will be held at the SSC Pavilion on March 1 at 7.00 p.m. There will also be a felicitation ceremony to honour former national cricket captain Bandula Warnapura and former national cricketer Lalith Kaluperuma who played Sri Lanka’s inaugural Test match in 1982. [...]
This can be a nailbiter – no quarter given or asked
As it happens every year during the month of March the saints are ready to march on the cricket field for their annual “Battle of the Saints”. This is the 83rd in the series to be played on March 3 and 4 at the P. Sara Stadium and no doubt with both the teams fielding [...]
Accolades for Suranga Sampath
Suranga Sampath was selected as the Man of the Series at the Sri Lanka National Visually Handicapped cricket team’s tour of India to take part in the T/20 World Cup. A felicitation ceremony for the team took place at the Ozo Colombo, co-sponsored by D. Samson and Sons. Pvt. Ltd. Suranga Sampath scored 733 runs [...]
United Tractor and Equipment emerge champs
United Tractor and Equipment emerged champions in the Caterpillar Challenge Trophy Cricket Tournament for the second, consecutive year. The tournament held in Chennai, India recently featured defending champions UTE competing against Caterpillar dealers from the Bangalore District; Gmmco India and Tractors India Pvt Ltd (TIPL) along with a team representing Caterpillar Inc. Winning its second [...]
Harshakumar re-elected
Prabath Harshakumar from Walkers Tours was unanimously re-elected for a second term as the President of the Travel Trade Sports Club at its 41st Annual General Meetingheld at Ramada Colombo, at 4.30 pm last Monday. Anushka Perera from Connaissance de Ceylan was retained as the General Secretary. Office Bearers for period 2017/18 President: Prabath Harshakumar/Walkers [...]
Amarapadma maintains lead at Cut-off in Grand Prix Event
Overnight leader Narhenpitage Amarapadma, continued his good form having won the January edition of the Pin Fernando CAT SOLAR Grand Prix. The picturesque Victoria Golf and Country Resort Course in Digana, was playing long especially off the Blue Tee Markers with the rain softened ground not providing much run on the ball. 54 faced the [...]
Vidyartha in with a chance to break 50-year hoodoo
St. Sylvester’s (from):Manuja Perera (Capt.) Avidu Herath, Tusith de Soysa, Nimsara Attaragalla, Janakantha Rajapakse, Manoharan Pavitran, Sashika Viraj, Udara Yatawathura, Husindu Nissanka, Kanishka Jayasekera, Kavindu Munaweera, Chandula Jayakodi, Thareesha Wickremaratne, Vinod Yasintha, Nadeera Balasooriya, Mohamed Reeza, Hiroshan Chandrababu. Jaliya Weerasinghe (Coach), Parinda de Silva (MIC) Vidyartha (from): Ravishka Upananda (Capt.) Sahan Danwatte, Nimesh Senanayake, Pulina [...]
Zahira’s re-entry to Div.I rekindles fires for past glory
Zahira College, a pioneer in schools Rugby since 1924, will look to regain their past glory, following their promotion to Division I ‘A’ category, as a result of a successful season in 2016. Zahira finished in the top 4 of Division II or Plate segment in 2016, and was promoted to Division I. The team [...]
Tour De Air Force will be flagged off on March 3
Plans have been finalised for the Tour De Air Force which will commence on March 3 and will end on March 5. The event is to be held in three stages from Colombo to Jaffna, involving a total distance of 415 km. This is the first national cycling event for 2017. Sri Lanka Air Force [...]
Pathum Nissanka bounces back into the lead
Isipathana College allrounder Pathum Nissanka bounces back to regain the top position among batsmen as Nipun Dhananjaya of St. Joseph Vaz College tops the bowler’s rankings in the fourth count of the Sunday Times-Batsman.com Schoolboy Cricketer Rankings. As the Singer Inter-School Under-19 Division I two-day Cricket Tournament nears an end, major changes in batting and [...]
Commercial Credit turn tables on Nations Trust
Commercial Credit & Finance (CCF) ‘B’ ended Nations Trust Bank (NTB) ‘A’s unbeaten run, as they beat them convincingly by 59 runs and advanced to the final of the 6th ‘BMW/Hyundai’ Trophy – MCA ‘C’ Division 50-Over League Tournament 2017, in the top half semifinal, played at the MCA Grounds last Wednesday. It was sweet [...]
Vanni and Anuradhapura regions excel
People’s Bank concluded its Jaffna Sports Meet on a grand scale at the Durayappa Stadium recently. The inter-regional teams competed in several sporting events such as volleyball, football, netball and other sports. In addition to the Jaffna region staff members, colleagues from Vanni, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa regions also participated in the event. Winners of the football [...]
Wesley College celebrates 143rd Anniversary
Wesley College Colombo will celebrate the 143rd Anniversary of its founding. Wesley College is an institute which brought together boys from many ethnic and religious backgrounds under one flag- the Double Blue. Wesley College has produced many distinguished Old Boys in all spheres down the ages, to serve the nation as “men of grit and [...]
CFMC takes on CMCA today
The Cricket Foundation of Mahinda College, Galle (CFMC) will meet Colombo Masters Cricket Association (CMCA) in their return game at the Sri Sumangala College grounds, Galle today. In the first match CMCA defeated CFMC by eight wickets in the match played at the Rifle Green recently. R.L. Hewa leads the CFMC while D. Abeywardene leads [...]
Are foreign coaches paying for their keep?
After the debacle in South Africa, winning the T20 series against the virtual second string of Australia appears to be a ray of sunshine to Sri Lankan cricket fans. However the first two games were won in the last balls of each game proving the games went to the wire. Entertaining no doubt and refreshing [...]
Yukthi BC Men, Inter Ocean SC Women ‘A’ Div. Champs
Yukthi Badminton Club Men and Inter Ocean Sports Club Women emerged ‘A’ Division champions to win the Mobitel Challenge Trophy and Flex Trading Challenge Trophy respectively, at the 43rd Western Province (WP) Inter-Club Badminton Championship concluded at the St. Thomas’ College Gymnasium last weekend. A total number of 65 Men’s teams and 26 Women’s teams [...]
Shalinda guides MAS Active to victory
The new kid on the block at MAS Active ‘C’ Shalindra Perera scored a well compiled, unbeaten century (103 not out in 102 balls, inclusive of four sixes and eight fours), as he carried his team to a handsome 74 runs win over Eagle Logistics in the ongoing 15th David Pieris Group of Companies sponsored, [...]
Mountain Biking at Katana on March 11
The first event in the Mountain Biking calendar for 2017 will be held at the Pope Paul de Sixth Maha Vidyalaya in Katana with the concurrence of the parents union, teachers and students of the school and supported by National Mountain Biking Association (NMBA). The event will take place on March 11 from 8.30am with [...]
Dr. Lucas going from strength to strength
Dr. Nimal Lucas, former National Table Tennis Champion and for Sri Lanka player still going great guns. Recently at the New Zealand Masters Games held in Whanganui, New Zealand Dr. Lucas kept the Sri Lanka flag flying high when he won four medals – two silver and two bronze exhibiting his fine fitness and a [...]