Gung-ho Lankans freeze out top names
Sri Lanka Cricket has penalised national cricketers for, refusing to travel to Pakistan for the last T20 even as the team’s head coach and another member of the support staff backed down from the Lahore trip over security concerns. Head Coach Nic Pothas and Physiotherapist Nirmalan Dhanabalasingham have also pulled out, Team Manager Asanka Gurusinha [...]
Peterite Sachin bounces back into the lead
Sachin Silva of St. Peter’s College, who had the honour of leading the opening week’s count, regained the top position of the All-Island Schools segment as the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2018 reaches its third week. Sachin added 56 into his existing count, which helped him overtake last [...]
Lanka ‘A’ firmly in control
Sri Lanka A is firmly in control with a lead of 370 runs at stumps on day two in their second unofficial Test against West Indies ‘A’ at Florence Hall. An unbeaten 85 by Roshen Silva and 60 from first inning’s centurion Dasun Shanaka saw Sri Lanka reaching 213 for 6 in their second essay [...]
Gamlath bags a hat-trick of meet records
Indika Gamlath of Colombo Dockyard PLC obtained a hat-trick of meet records at the conclusion of the second day of the 34th Mercantile Athletics Championships at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex Diyagama, yesterday. They were in the men’s over 40, 100 mtrs, 200 mtrs and 400 mtrs. Sri Lal Alahakone of Vee Power Solutions had [...]
It was for MAS Silueta at MCA ground
MAS Silueta maintained their unbeaten record in winning the Mercantile ‘B’ Division 50-over Tournament, the Fair and Lovely ‘Men’ Challenge Trophy with a comfortable 5-wicket victory over Power Tech Cement at the MCA Grounds yesterday. Experience played a major role in this final as Power Tech Cement consisting of school leavers failed to read the [...]
Zahira Kalmunai in shocking win over Royal
Zahira Kalmunai recorded the major upset on the opening day’s play of the Antonian Invitation School Sixes when they pulled off a shocking win over fancied Royal Colombo in a first round match played at the R. Premadasa Stadium. Zahira Kalmunai having lost their first match to Isipathana came back to record a thrilling one [...]
St Sebastian’s dominate day one proceedings
Half tons by Udara Mendis and Ravindu Dilshan and a five wicket haul by Dilshan Pramodh helped St Sebastian’s Katuneriya dominate proceedings against Bandaranayake MMV Gampaha and to take a first lead in the match played at Katuneriya. The half ton’s enabled St Sebastian’s taking first lease of the wicket to end with a modest [...]
Goal hat-tricks by Kavindu and Anthony
Kavindu Ishan of Sri Lanka Air Force and Anthony Arinze of New Youngs SC accounted for hat-tricks in the Dialog Champions League Stage Eight football games played yesterday. Kavindu Ishan scored the hat-trick against Up Country Lions at the Baddegana Sports Complex. Air Force won the match by six goals to one. Kavindu Ishan scored [...]
Kandy show their mettle over Singapore
Kandy SC, who has been dominating rugby in Sri Lanka, showed their mettle when up against foreign teams by beating Singapore convincingly by 44 points to 14 at Nittawela. The Singapore side was a mixture of some Singaporeans and many expatriates. However, save for the last few minutes when Kandy benched some of their stars, [...]
Top seeded Gozal emerges Singles champion
Top seeded player Gozal Ainitdinova of Kazakhstan emerged the singles champion when she coasted to a comfortable 2-0 win against second seeded Pranjala Yadlapalli of India in the final played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday morning. Nineteen year old Gozal who is a world ranked player and who has won ITF [...]
Continued training for those who excel at games
The Athletics Association of Sri Lanka will select the top performers at the recent All Island School Games Athletics Championships to put them on continuous training ahead of several international competitions next year. Accordingly athletes who reached required standards in the U-20 age group will be selected to the junior pool. Sri Lanka is expected [...]
Faltering Lankans looking for a consolation win
Sri Lanka will have to seriously reconsider their batting strategy to avoid a certain whitewash when they meet Pakistan for the fifth occasion in a One Day International (ODI) at Sharjah tomorrow. Despite winning the two-match Test series, the visiting Lankans depicted that they are a below par unit in the ODIs, having suffered four [...]
Abilash and Kapilraj steer St. John’s to a thrilling win
Two six wicket hauls by M. Abilash (6 for 32) and a match bag of eight wickets by K. Kapilraj (6 for 39 and 2 for 31) paved the way for St. John’s to record a thrilling ten runs win over fancied Royal College Colombo in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at St. [...]
40 member athletics pool formed for Commonwealth and Asian Games
An athletic pool of 40 members, which has been formed aiming the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games 2018, has been submitted for Sports Ministry approval. This has been done by the Athletics Association of Sri Lanka. The Commonwealth Games will be held from April 4 to 15, 2018 in Gold Coast, Australia. The Asian Games [...]
All ready for the big splash at the CRC
The 48th Royal-Thomian Regatta, the battle for the T. Noel Fernando Memorial Trophy will take place at the Colombo Rowing Club next Saturday 1.00 p.m. onwards. The Regatta is the oldest inter-Schools regatta and the second oldest regatta in the country. It carries a total of fifty two points spread across eight races that are [...]
Did the NOC mislead the OCA and its membership on audit report?
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) has misled the International Olympic Committee, its regional member—OCA and its membership by claiming that the Auditor General’s Department (AG) had ‘inordinately’ delayed inspecting its accounts—thereby holding up a crucial office bearers’ election—when it had only submitted these documents to the AG just weeks ago. The NOCSL [...]
National Trap Championship from October 26 to 28
With the successful conclusion of the National Skeet Championship, the National Shooting Sports Federation of Sri Lanka (NSSF) will hold its National Trap Championship from October 26 to 28 at the National Shotgun Range in Payagala, Kalutara. Renowned as one of the keenly participated shotgun competitions in the country, the National Trap Championship has already [...]
Buchanan ready for train-the-trainer stint with Lankan coaches
World renowned cricket coach John Buchanan who became a beacon in International cricket after he shared his know-how with the champion Australian side of 2003-2007, says he does not mind getting involved with Sri Lanka’s cricket on a short-term basis. He said that since he retired as coach of Australia, he has not been looking [...]
3,500 qualify for Sir John Tarbat Junior Athletics
Over 3500 school athletes have entered for 47th Sir John Tarbat Junior Athletics Championships to be held on November 8, 9 and 10 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex, Diyagama. The three day event is being conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Athletics Association. The meet was scheduled to be held on October 28, 29 [...]
Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe undisputed Cycling Champ
Amidst numerous difficulties and setbacks a new Cycling star was born in a hamlet in the Puttalam District, winning the All Island Schools Cycling Championship 2017 held recently. Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe, a Grade 13 student ofm Kottukachchiya Navodya Vidyalaya (KNV), came off with flying colours to win the 60km race from competitors from over 80 [...]
Bomber command — Hasan achieves childhood dream
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, Oct 21, 2017 (AFP) - Pakistan’s Hasan Ali is officially the world’s best one-day bowler, with an early career record surpassing even legendary compatriot Waqar Younis and a unique ‘bomb explosion’ wicket celebration which is just as eye-catching. The 23-year-old, who is the leading wicket-taker in the ongoing series against Sri [...]
Tuskers’ performances at Sixes and Sevens in Asian Series
The Tuskers warmed up despite the weather for a better place in the overall standings of the Asian Rugby 7s Series. Winning over Korea and China ensured a 3rd position in the Colombo Leg of the 7s. Coupled with China losing to Philippines in the 5th and 6th place playoff was good enough to move [...]
Trailblazing new Generation
The WTA and ATP events in China are just before the European season and after the final Grand Slam of the year — the US Open. These twin season events in China have been changing the chances of players to get into the year end WTA finals for Women and the ATP Masters for Men. [...]
HUE AND CRY FOR NOTHING
There was a huge hue and cry when the past officials of a leading athletics body failed to produce the expected results. And so a new committee was appointed and to date nothing much has happened. Only four district associations had held their AGMs and 25 other district associations have not done so. So taking [...]
Trinity roar to regain Lanka Lions Rugby Sevens title in UAE
Trinity College, Kandy regained the Roger Rodrigo Challenge Cup emerging champions at the 13th Lanka Lions Inter-School Tag Rugby Sevens tournament at the Sharjah Wanderers Club ground on Friday. The Trinity ‘Lions’ romped to a 35-0 win over St. Peter’s scoring five unanswered tries in a lop sided Cup final to clinch the coveted title [...]
Waidyatilleke to retire as a Technical Officer from 2018
P.H.D. Waidyatilleke, a renown International Technical Officer of the International Association of the Athletics Federation (IAAF) has decided to call it a day as an International Technical Officer (ITO). Waidyatilleke, a former president of the Athletics Association of Sri Lanka has been a technical officer in athletics during the last four decades and has been [...]
Sri Lanka Football languishing without Technical quality!
Every sport over the years refines its allure because it develops the infinite skills and methodology that raises standards and persists in crafting the epitome of performance and admiration. We have seen the Bolts of Athletics, the All Blacks of Rugby, and the graceful Ali of Boxing to name a few. And of course the [...]
Army and Navy bag respective Men’s and Women’s titles
Defending champions Sri Lanka Army and SL Navy excelled to retain the men’s and women’s titles respectively at the 18th ‘Vijayans trophy’ all island open inter club hockey 7s tournament 2017 at Edward Park hockey ground in Matale. The two day hockey fiesta conducted by Matale old Vijayans sports club saw 27 teams taking part [...]
Malays Masters host Aussie veterans Cosmos at Hockey
Cosmos Hockey Club from Melbourne, Australia, are making their second visit to Sri Lanka to participate in the Colombo Malays Cricket Club (CMCC) 145th Anniversary celebrations this year. Established in 1872, the CMCC has not looked back since, despite undergoing many challenges, and emerged victorious. It stands today as the oldest Sri Lankan Cricket club [...]
Farzan Sikkander scores best at AmCham-FedEx Golf
The AmCham-FedEx Golf Tournament 2017 was held on Saturday, Sept.30, at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC). The 1st tee-off was at sunrise at 6 am and the last 4-ball came back to the Clubhouse at 5.30 pm. The overall best score of the day of 47 points was by Farzan Sikkander. RCGC Club Champion [...]
Buchanan’s dressing room vision beyond the boundary line
History is made up of incidents and characters. History is created every moment of the day but, only selected minute details are preserved for posterity. In the 130-year history of the game of cricket, yes there have been cricketers such as W.G. Grace, Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Clive Lloyd, Sunil Gavaskar or our [...]
How does a cricketer reach national level?
I still wonder why some past Cricketers emphasize the learning ground to become Sri Lanka National Cricketer is School Cricket. I totally disbelieve this, since I became a National Cricketer not by being coached at Under 15, Under 17 or First Eleven level. I was never coached at any level of cricket. Even the present [...]
Merc cricket rescheduled
The MCA Tournament Committee was placed in a tentative situation due to the prevailing weather conditions. The MCA Tournament Committee under the Chairmanship of Sujeeva de Silva for the third successive season is currently grappling with the MCA’s top League – the 25th Singer MCA Premier League 2018 . It is a race against time, [...]
JKMO’s Sasaki Toshiatsu conducts four day training camp
Chief Instructor of the Japan Karatedo Maruyoshikai Organisation (JKMO) – Japan, Grand Master Soke Shihan Sasaki Toshiatsu reputed to be one of Japans’ most experienced instructors who has been sanctioned to teach Shotokan Mandatory Katas by the World Karate Federation (WKF) was at Kotawila to conducted a four day training camp for members of JKMO’s [...]
St. Xavier’s Marawila, Rajasinghe MMV Ruwanwella, Wijeyaba National School Hungama in 3 finals
St. Xavier’s MV Marawila, Rajasinghe MMV Ruwanwella and Wijeyaba National School (NS) Hungama have qualified for 3 finals of the DSI Super Sports Schools Volleyball (VB) Tournament. The finals will take place on Oct.23-24 at the National Youth Services Council Indoor Stadium, Maharagama. The competition is sponsored by D. Samson & Sons Co. Minister of [...]