As underdogs we are not under pressure — Chandimal
Given the strength of their formidable opposition and the fragility of the tourists, one may argue that Sri Lanka are walking into the lion’s den when the tour of India kicks off next week. But Test skipper Dinesh Chandimal says his charges are brimming with confidence following their recent 2-0 win against Pakistan to take [...]
Online portal is now opened to the public
The online portal of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy / Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018 competitions — www.dialog.lk/cricket — is now open to the public to vote for their favourite Schoolboy/Schoolgirl Cricketer. As that development takes place, last week’s prediction became factual when S. Thomas’ College all-rounder Dellon Peiris dethroned Sachin [...]
SLC award for Champika
The Sunday Times Sports Editor, Champika Fernando was named Journalist of the Year at the Dialog-Sri Lanka Cricket annual Awards Ceremony held at the Waters’ Edge Hotel in Battaramulla last Tuesday. Champika has been a livewire in cricket journalism in Sri Lanka for the past one-and-a-half decades and now is a well recognised and reputed [...]
Thilan Samaraweera Batting coach up to 2019 World Cup
Sri Lanka Cricket has roped in former Sri Lanka Test cricketer Thilan Samaraweera as the batting coach of the national team until the 2019 World Cup. He has been given a two-year contract. Samaraweera, (40) will replace Hashan Thilakaratne who was team’s batting coach during the Pakistan series. After his retirement from active cricket, Samaraweera [...]
Dellon spins S. Thomas’ to fourth outright win
Left arm spinner Dellon Peiris continued to torment the opponents’ batting as he ended with another impressive bowling performance with a seven wicket haul to spin S. Thomas’ to their fourth outright win of the season and also helped his side beat the rain and Prince of Wales by 20 runs in their Under-19 inter-school [...]
Two new records established by Haren Nugawela
Haren Nugawela of Wycherly International was the star of the first day as he established two new records at the 23rd Inter-International Schools’ Swimming Championship 2017 commenced yesterday at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex. A total of nine new records were established on Saturday. Haren who won the boys 16 and over 100m backstroke with a [...]
Fancied Cueists record easy wins
The first day’s proceedings of the Masters Snooker Championship 2017 conducted by the Billiards and Snooker Association played at the AAC and The Cue Club billiards saw fancied cueists record easy wins in their first round matches. Anil Rohana of AAC a former Colombo District champion along with Bharatha Siriwardena (BRC), A.D.R.C. Alwis of AAC [...]
Dumped Kusal cracks 124
A knock of 124 by Kusal Mendis was the highlight of the opening day’s play in the Under 23 Emerging League cricket tournament encounter played at the BRC ground. Kusal’s knock saw CCC taking first lease of the wicket make a formidable score of 297 against BRC who ended the day on 23 for 2. [...]
It was not easy for Kandy but a win was always on the cards
It wasn’t Kandy all the way, but the champions pulled off a reasonably comfortable win by 23 points (2 goals, 3 penalties) to 6 (2 penalties) at the Racecourse ground yesterday. Kandy had 20 points in the bank at lemons, and they were only able to add a further three in a second half that [...]
It was dancing in the rain for the Havelocks
Havelocks Sports Club enjoyed a power packed beginning to their Dialog Rugby League campaign, pummelling Police Sports Club by 36 to nothing, with underfoot conditions at Havelock Park yesterday. Kicking off as the second match of the opening week, under lights, at 6.30pm, Havies ran off with a tally of five tries, out of which [...]
National defender Jagath Rohan to lead the veterans
Colombo Veterans Football Club led by former National defender Jagath Rohan will be taking part in the International Masters Soccer tournament to be hosted by India in Cochin from November 8 to 10. Four time International Masters Champions Colombo Veterans will be aiming to win the championship for the fifth time as they boost of [...]
Hasini in contention for a double
Promising shuttler Hasini Ambalangodage put herself in contention for a fine double with an outstanding performance on the penultimate day of the 65th National Badminton Championships which continued at the SLBA Indoor Stadium in the Royal Complex, yesterday. Hasini continued with her excellent form in the tournament by reaching the final of the Women’s Open [...]
MAS overall champions
MAS Holdings Pvt. Ltd., with an outstanding team effort clinched the Overall Championship at the 34th Mercantile Annual Athletic Championship 2017 sponsored by Sri Lanka Telecom concluded at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium, Diyagama. In the Overall Championship MAS Holdings with a total of 567 points were way ahead of the reigning Overall Champions Sri Lanka [...]
Crikorona at Mount beach
Sunset Crikorona, what could be the biggest-ever Beach Cricket Festival in Sri Lanka, organised by the Mt. Lavinia Hotel, will be held at their hotel beach front next Saturday, November 11. The 6-a-side cricket tournament will be played under a carnival atmosphere with the participation of 16 top blue-chip corporate teams in the country, each [...]
Senura secures bronze at Junior TT in India
Anandian Senura Silva, ranked number one Under-12 paddler brought credit to his motherland and alma mater when he won a bronze medal at the Indian Junior and Cadet Open, International Table Tennis Federation Premium Junior Circuit tournament concluded at Greater Noida, India on November 1. Young Senura’s achievement winning a bronze medal is the first [...]
Rajans’ Hockey Sevens 2017
The Hockey Association of Dharmaraja College Kandy will hold the Rajans’ Hockey Sevens 2017, an invitational Hockey Tournament to celebrate the schools’ 130th anniversary at the Bogambara Stadium in Kandy on November 11 and 12. This two day All-Island Under-19 Tournament is open for girls’ and boys’ school teams. Around 48 teams are expected to [...]
Season openers are testing times which could spring surprises
Encounters between Service teams are usually tough, gritty affairs. Very often, they are too close to call. Today’s one at Welisara between the Navy and the Army could see an continuation of that trend. Pre-season, the Navy was hit by desertions. Incisive Centre Lee Keegal and influential forwards Sajith Saranga and Sathya Ranatunga ‘jumped ship’. [...]
No Overstaying Controllers in NOC’s amended Constitution
In order to promote good governance and avoid concentration of power around a few individuals, as has been the case during the last 20 years, a section of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) is pushing to introduce term limits to the post of President and Secretary-General. The restrictions, if included in the [...]
Looking for pin-ups as Rugby kicks off
After a lapse of nine months the Dialog Rugby League is back this weekend as Sri Lanka’s eight premier clubs take to the field in their bid to win the league title. Shielding champions and the leaders in the Rugby field in Sri Lanka, the club from the slope capital Kandy Sports Club prepares for [...]
Airman Sandakelum is the Skeet Shotgun champ
Sandakelum Ranasinghe, representing Sri Lanka Air Force shot his heart out in the match as he clinched the National Skeet Shotgun Championship 2017 held at the National Shotgun Range in Payagala, Kalutara. Ranasinghe, finished off with a count of 38 out of 64 shots, after reaching the final match as the best fourth among the [...]
Labrooy to shed one of his hats on Dec.11
National Cricket Selection Committee Chairman Graeme Labrooy says he will step down from the post of Sri Lankan Cricket Players Association where he wears the hat as its President. There were huge uproars from a section of past cricketers against Labrooy performing the job of National Cricket Selector while performing the duties of the President [...]
Teejay Lanka KO LB Finance by 82 runs
A match-winning 101 runs 7th-wicket stand in 70 deliveries, between Shalika Karunanayake (68 in 40 balls with 8 sixes and 1 four) and Sachithra Senanayake (67 in 45 balls with 6 sixes and 4 fours) propelled Teejay Lanka to a comfortable 82 runs win, on DLS method, over (LBF), in the 25th Singer-MCA Premier League [...]
Sri Lanka to host for first time from Nov.12-19
With the game of golf gaining popularity among members of the Armed Forces, the 11th World Military Golf Championship 2017 will be hosted by Sri Lanka, for the first time in the history of the Championship, from Nov.12-19, at the Eagle Golf Links, China Bay. The Sri Lanka team will comprise six men and three [...]
Australian sports physio to visit Lanka
Well known Australian Sports Physio Nafyn Pattiaratchi will visit Sri Lanka this month and he is scheduled to conduct several programmes through Thanura Abeywardena Sports Solution (TASS) at schools, clubs, sports clubs and at TASS Sports Science, Kotte on November 9 and 10. Having completed his physiotherapy degree at Notre Dame Fremantle, Nafyn’s goal with [...]
Questions of Nuski’s visit to ICC meeting
Is the ICC working on Sri Lanka’s corruption probe? According informed sources, it is so and that is why SLC President Thilanga Sumathipala skipped attending the last ICC meeting held in New Zealand. The Sunday Times learns Sri Lanka was represented at the meeting by SLC CEO Ashley de Silva and former treasurer Nuski Mohammed [...]
Football Regional Development – for whose benefit?
There is a perceptible upswing in Football fortunes in the air. Samaposha continues to put its faith in Football and supports the annual Under (U)-14 Schools tournament which it claims will benefit 12,000 boys and girls. The Youth U-19 National Team held Maldives to a 2-2 draw in the ongoing AFC Championship in Tajikistan, reversing [...]
Wozniacki’s flight of the phoenix
Apart from the expected glamour and excitement from the lineup of the best 8 Women players of the year, 3 great performances came out of the Singapore 2017 WTA Finals. It raised the standard of the game to an admirable height. Dane, Caroline Wozniacki impressed all the most. In the early season of the year, [...]
Can we call it Déjà Vu?
Reading the Sunday Times last week, I read over and over the interview with Peter Woods published as “Sri Lanka’s 7s Rugby woes.” Why I read it a number of times is that this is a familiar tale. This I will talk after chatting on what Peter has said and the issues that are important [...]
How men in suits won two World Cup matches in 1996
There may have been the inherent feeling of why take the risk and why put our own cricketing brood into jeopardy? But, we all, with graying or already gray hairlines, would remember how a distant war in the Jaffna peninsula became an islandwide war of terror in the 1980s. As Sri Lanka’s war on terror [...]
When going gets tough Kandy gets going
The local Rugby world was shaken to its very foundations early last season when the unheralded Airmen edged out (24-21) a multi-talented Kandy Sports Club outfit that seemed to have taken victory for granted. That seismic shock was followed by another when the Navy also ran out winners in their match against Kandy SC. Continued [...]
Major breakthrough in live streaming cricket
With the popularity and demand for Cricket growing globally and locally, a Sri Lankan entity has developed a software that, they claim, can be maintained by an individual, during a live game, with complete updates. The software or, the application, named Batsman CG (Character Generation) Manager, has the ability to illustrate live score updates, as [...]