Lankans crashland
Sri Lanka’s wheels fell off after the Test against India here in Galle yesterday — well and truly exposing their limitations in all departments of the game. Chasing a huge 550 runs to win, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 245, with India recording a comprehensive 304-run win to climb one up in the three-match [...]
Aabid about to jump final hurdle
It is evident that the winners are already in the making. They are none other than Aabid Cader and his team S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia. With just one week before the conclusion of the Singer-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year and Most Popular Rugby Team of Year 2017 competitions Cader [...]
Chamika Kumara emerges overall champion
Chamika Kumara of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) put up a fine performance to clinch the Overall Championship at the SLT Speedup Cycling Tour which concluded in Embilipitiya yesterday. Kumara, despite finishing the fifth and final stage of the race from Bandarawela to Embilipitiya in eighth place managed to secure the overall title with a time [...]
Naveen leads a super seven to defend title in Hong Kong
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) selectors yesterday named the final squad of the National Under-20 7s that will represent the country at the Asian 7s Series which begins in Hong Kong next Friday. Sri Lanka, led by former S. Thomas’ College skipper and high-flying three-quarter Naveen Henakankanamge, is slotted under Pool ‘A’ alongside Malaysia, Taipei, China [...]
Over 4,000 players from 360 schools in the fray at Badulla
The finals of the All Island Milo Inter-Schools Netball Championship 2017 conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Netball Association (SLSNA) and sponsored by Nestle Lanka Ltd have been slotted to be held from August 4 to 5 at Vincent Dias Stadium in Badulla. This was revealed at a press briefing held on Wednesday at Jaic [...]
Rs. 28 million fraud discovered at FFSL
The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) on Friday lodged a complaint with the Cinnamon Garden Police after they uncovered a major financial fraud running into millions of rupees within the cash-strapped sports body. The complaint was against Federation’s accountant who has alleged to have transferred at least Rs. 28 million over a period of [...]
Good Cricket show by Kaikawala Central
Having recorded two wins and a draw from the three matches played in the Preliminary round, Kaikawala Central Matale has qualified to enter the second round of the ongoing SLSCA U.17 division 3 inter school cricket tournament. Fielding an under 17 cricket XI for the first time Kaikawala Central under the captaincy of Harsha Bandara [...]
Fazil, Mubeen qualify to clash for title
Reigning national and junior national snooker champion M. Fazil of 8BPP and M.M. Mubeen of Army booked the two berths to clash in the final of the Otter AC Open Snooker tournament when they came out victorious in the semi final encounters played at the Otter AC billiards table yesterday morning. Fazil got the better [...]
Lankan quartet ready for London World Athletic Championships
A decade after sprint-queen Susanthika Jayasinghe won country’s second medal at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, a team of Sri Lankan athletes will travel to London on Monday for the 2017 World Athletics Championship. The World Championships will be held from August 4-13 where the cream of world’s best athletes including sprint great [...]
High altitude Sports training centre on
Despite concerns over projects financial viability, Ministry Sports on Friday signed the technical agreement with the French contractor—Ellipse Project SAS to construct the multi-billion rupee high altitude training center at the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse. The project includes indoor and outdoor training facilities at an altitude of 1868m (5708 feet) and will cost a staggering €75.5 [...]
Little Yevin — a Lanka-born Aussie likely to reach great Golfing heights
Yevin Samararatne was born in Sri Lanka in 2004 and moved to Brisbane, Australia, with his parents in 2005. Since he was 4-years-old, he loved watching Golf on TV. He, simultaneously, displayed a natural swing of the bat while playing cricket from a very young age. This signified an innate talent within him. He was [...]
Timely reminder of memorable Lankan victories
Sri Lankans do get under the skin of the Indians! “Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.” it’s not do-re-mi, but the Prudential World Cup of 1979 and the Sri Lanka-India game at Old Trafford. Skipper Tennakoon sat out the game, but no matter. The reliable trio of Duleep Mendis [...]
Lanka Cavaliers in easy 8-wicket win over MCA Committee
The Tyrone de Silva Challenge Trophy shifted to a new location after a lapse of 6 years, where Lanka Cavaliers scored an easy 8-wicket victory over MCA Committee in the 14th Annual Cricket Encounter 2017 at the MCA Grounds last Saturday. John Keells veteran cricketer, Ravi Subasinghe with an intelligent spell of bowling was the [...]
Standard Chartered 5th time unlucky to NDB by 1 point
Dasun Ranasundera (16) turned full throttle in the 2nd half to give Sampath Bank (Sampath) a fighting 55-48 win over Dialog Axiata (Dialog) in the Men’s ‘A’ Division of the 27th Mercantile Services Basketball Association (MSBA) Tournament 2017, continued at Sir Edward Henry Pedris Stadium, Havelock Park. Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) tasted their first defeat [...]
A unique display of the Sri Lankan art of war
The Old Royalists’ Athletic Club (ORAC) in collaboration with Korathota Angam Muhandiram Ajantha Mahantharachchi will hold a spectacular display of ancient martial art inherited by Sri Lankan forefathers on August 12, 2017 at the Royal MAS Arena from 7.00 pm onwards. The ORAC which was formed by a group of past athletes with a view [...]
Pakistan Army Rugby Team in Sri Lanka
As part of the ongoing Army-to-Army Sports Exchange Programme between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, a 17-Member Pakistan Army Rugby Team, arrived Colombo on 24th July 2017. The Pakistan Army Rugby team, led by Brigadier Ghulam Jilani, will play a bilateral series with SLA Rugby Team from 25th July to 1st August 2017. Bilateral sports exchange [...]
Toiletgate rocks Lankan cricket?
Has Lankan cricket opened another can of worms with the ‘Toiletgate’ — the latest to hit the beleaguered sporting nation? The story goes to say that ICC anti-corruption sleuths had stormed into the toilet of the player’s dressing room looking for a device, after two senior national team players made a complaint during the ODI [...]
From Auckland to Colombo Muthu turns a new leaf
What stands out Sudarshana Muthuthanthri from the rest in the local Rugby circle is his commitment and undying thirst to learn more. Muthuthanthri, 25, went on to become a force to reckon at three of the high profile domestic Rugby competitions, becoming the best player in of them, freshly after his three-month training stint at [...]
Football coaches relieved not sacked says FFSL
The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) has ‘relieved’ the national team coaching staff with a three-month notice and pay according to Anura de Silva, its newly reelected President. De Silva, who refuted local media reports told the Sunday Times that the FFSL did not sack the national coaching staff as stated. “We have just [...]
Maliban, Avery Dennison, SLT, HNB ‘B’ in semifinals
Maliban Biscuits, Avery Dennison (Avery), Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) and Hatton National Bank (HNB) ‘B’ advanced to the semifinals of the 7th Stafford Motor Co. (Pvt) Ltd., sponsored ‘Honda’ Trophy MCA ‘G’ Division 25-Over League Tournament 2017,continued last weekend. In the quarterfinals (QF) played over the weekend, Maliban Biscuits scored a comfortable 8-wickets win over [...]
A BIG JOKE
Since cricket is one of the more popular subject these days cricketing programmes are being followed eagerly over the radio and TV. This particular programme was held late in the night. There a famous cricketer, manager, coach and a former skipper was the target when the interviewer asked him whether he has played school cricket! [...]
MAS Holdings dethrone Access Group in extra time
MAS Holdings led by Kandy’s brilliant scrumhalf Roshan Weeraratne, regained the Mercantile Rugby Football ‘plum’ at the 47th Mercantile ’7s’ concluded at the Race Course International Rugby Stadium last Sunday, when they defeated defending ‘Cup’ Champions, Access Group in the final, with Weeraratne touching down in the 2nd period of extra time. The scores were [...]
It’s a case of ethics and values
In 1996, Lance Armstrong, the now-disgraced professional Cyclist, was diagnosed with cancer at 25. He started a foundation devoted to helping others manage their lives on the cancer journey. The Foundation has served millions of people. In October 2012, everything turned upside down for the organisation. The US Anti-Doping Agency report “concluded once and for [...]
Tennis transition from national to regional
Tennis standards are National, Regional and Global. Countries in Groups II and III Davis-Cup and Fed Cup are caught up beneath the Regional Tennis standard, and unable to get out of it. It is a global syndrome. Some of the countries in these Groups have thriving economies. One such nation that appeared in Colombo for [...]
Irfan Allang elected President of Colombo Malay Cricket Club
To commemorate the 145th Anniversary of the Colombo Malay Cricket Club the Colombo Malay Cricket Academy started in 2012 will be restarted on August 5, 2017. Declared open by the then President T.Y. Rahim the academy functioned in a low profile over the years and the newly elected President Irfan Allang along with the Cricket [...]
Back to basics: Marvan hits out at win-at-any-cost philosophy
After a break from cricket, former national coach Marvan Atapattu has come back to discuss the “ins and outs” of Lankan school cricket, and is trying see where we have lapsed in our concentration. He did a detailed study on the subject of school cricket, prior to walking on stage to crown the next Schoolboy [...]
Lankan Cricket’s sad destiny
It’s hard to believe you are gone at such a tender age. But then, life is cruel and death is certain, untimely at times, it is the fate of all man. Born in the ’80s and re-born in the mid-’90s, you reinvented your style of playing cricket to become the darlings of world cricket, when [...]