Thirimanne and Mathews stir hope for Sri Lanka
KOLKATA, Nov 18, 2017 (AFP) – Lahiru Thirimanne and Angelo Mathews hit half-centuries to give Sri Lanka the advantage against India on day three of the rain-hit opening Test on Saturday. The visitors were 165-4 in their first innings when bad light ended a dramatic day at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. They trail India by seven [...]
Girls category picks up as Harshitha forges ahead
Dellon Peiris, the prolific left-arm spinner of S. Thomas’ College continues to consolidate the top position of All-Island Schools category of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy/Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018 competition as it reaches the end of seventh week. Dellon, who took over the pole position from St. Peter’s College’s Sachin [...]
India’s pace attack top class: Mathews
Sri Lanka all-rounder Angelo Mathews today rated India’s pace attack comprising Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Yadav as top class and said that the batsmen cannot afford to relax against them. “Especially in the last few years, Indians have produced some fantastic fast bowlers. The three (Shami, Bhuvneshwar and Umesh) are top class and [...]
Teenage Sangha scores 133 against England
TOWNSVILLE, Australia, Nov 18, 2017 (AFP) – Novices Jason Sangha and Matt Short scored their maiden first-class centuries for a Cricket Australia XI to frustrate England on the last day of their final Ashes warm-up game. Eighteen-year old Sangha and team skipper Short — with only seven first-class matches between them — shared in a [...]
Inter-University Hockey on Nov.24
The Inter-University Invitation seven-a-side hockey tournament will take place on November 24 at the Torrington Astro Turf. This is being conducted by the Kelaniya University for the fourth successive time. Twelve teams are taking part in the competition. They are: Colombo, Kelaniya, Peradeniya, Moratuwa, Jaffna, Uva-Wellassa, Ruhuna, Wyamba, Rajarata, Sri Jayewardenepura and South East.
Gusty Sailors halt Havelocks’ winning run
Havelocks docked into Welisara with the spirit and hope of going back with a third win but Navy upset their plans and turned tables with a commanding 25 points to 14 points win, to end the Park Clubs’ unbeaten record. The Sailors scored from two goals, a try, a penalty and a drop goal while [...]
CEB and Air Force win Super League VB titles
Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) SC and Sri Lanka Air Force SC bagged the Munchee National Super League Volleyball Tournament’s men’s and women’s titles at the National Youth Service Council (NYSC) indoor courts, Maharagama. yesterday. The tournaments were conducted by the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation and sponsored by Ceylon Biscuits Limited (CBL). In the men’s final [...]
Army, Pelicans and Negombo triumph
Sri Lanka Army SC, Pelicans SC and Negombo Youth SC won the Stage 13 of the Dialog Champions League Football Tournament matches yesterday. Sri Lanka Army beat Java Lane 1-0 at the City League ground, Colombo. There was no scoring done in the first half. In the 66th minute of the second half Acikur Rhuman [...]
Premier cricket comes aboard from December 1
Sri Lanka Cricket will commence its first class season with the three-day Premier League Cricket tournament, 2017/2018 starting December 1. The tournament of 24 clubs will be played in two tiers—A and B. Tier A will consist of the top 14 clubs who will initially play in two groups of seven teams before the top [...]
NOCSL ignores General Assembly decision
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka has ignored decisions of its supreme governing body—the General Assembly (GA)—by not calling for an Executive Committee Meeting as agreed at the GA held on November 9. The membership had unanimously agreed to an Executive Committee meeting within 14 days of the recent GA. But no notice has [...]
Hareen steers St. Aloysius to victory
Innings win for Jaffna Central Left arm spinner Hareen Buddila ended with a match bag of 9 for 84 to steer St. Aloysius Galle to a convincing eight wicket win over Zahira in the Under-19 Inter-School Cricket encounter concluded at Maradana yesterday. The home team put in a pathetic batting performance in the second innings [...]
Two centuries on day-one
A fine knock of 136 inclusive of 12 boundaries and eight sixes by Supeshala Jayatilleke and a half ton by Shanuka Dulaj helped Moors SC to come out on top against Ragama CC at the end of the first day’s play in their Premier Emerging League Tournament game at Braybrooke Place, yesterday The pair put [...]
Air Force and Police battle for honours
Both beaten teams – the Air Force and Police who battle for honours today at Ratmalana have had their moments despite the defeats. Though conceding 46 points to the Havies, one of the main contenders for the title, the Airmen were able to garner 23 points for themselves. Quite a satisfying performance. Led by Prop [...]
What more?
In fairy tales, all you need to turn a frog into a prince is a kiss. In real life, neither a kiss nor a magic wand will work but that doesn’t stop the public from expecting such transformations. In a few weeks, Sri Lanka will welcome Chandika Hathurusingha ending a months-long hunt for Graham Ford’s [...]
The football master now only on a liquid diet
If Sri Lanka ever had put up a massive search to find out who the real godfathers of football are, it would be none other than those who silently contribute. Many who fall into that category are either coaches or trainers. From many of those individuals, Pathiniya Durage Sirisena, or P.D. Sirisena is a humble, [...]
Army right on target
Sri Lanka Army dominated at the Metallic Silhouette Shooting National Championship 2017 which was conducted by the National Rifle Association at the Negombo Rifle Shooting Range, Katana last week. Over 150 shooters from the Army, Air Force, Police, Special Task Force and Clubs affiliated to the National Rifle Association participated in the championship. Metallic silhouette [...]
Navy ‘A’ and Grand Hotel emerge champs
Sri Lanka Navy ‘A’ and Grand Hotel, Nuwara Eliya emerged champions in the Men’s and Women’s ‘A’ Divisions respectively at the Veterans’ Inter Club Table Tennis Tournament 2017 concluded at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium recently. Sri Lanka Navy ‘A’ represented by Indika Prasad Silva, T.S.K. Weerakoon and T.P. Malalgama beat Veteran ‘A’ represented [...]
Travel Trade Tag rugby today
A total number of fourteen teams will take part in the fourth Travel Trade Sports Club Beach Tag Rugby Championships 2017,sponsored by Walkers Tours and hosted by Mt. Lavinia Hotel to be held today, at Paradise Beach, commencing 9.00 am. The tournament will be conducted once again by Agoal Rugby Academy for TTSC in two [...]
Six sports organisations in Olympic dilemma
Six new, active sports associations are in a quandary as to how they would be billeted at the next National Olympic Association of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for January 9, 2018. Now the contention centres on two associations — Fencing and Triathlon Associations. They were approved as full NOCSL members, because [...]
Kandy rugby on show today
Kandy’s Rugby crazy fans will have their first look at their sleek 2017 outfit, when the team comes out today to go head to head with the Army. The wait could prove beneficial as the champions will be all fired up to parade their wares. CH were swept away by Kandy (23-6) in the opening [...]
Two Bridgeteens bring honour to their alma mater
The captain of the Under-15 basketball team of St. Bridget’s Convent — Shayami Perera and her vice captain Netanya Perera — represented Sri Lanka at the “FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women 2017” from October 22 to 28 held in Bangalore, India. Being selected by the Sri Lanka Basketball Federation, they had the privileged honour [...]
Negombo Rifle Club dominate with Gold in 3 categories
SLAF Women crack shots shut out opponents Negombo Rifle Club (NRC) dominated the National Shooting Sports Federation (NSSF) National Trap Open Championship 2017 winning Gold in 3 categories. NRC’s top shooter Mohan Gilbert won Gold in the Overall Individual category, as his teammates Sean Silva and Jeremy Fernando won Silver and Bronze respectively. The meet [...]
Asian Para Games athletics pool selections from November 22
The Athletics Championships of the 20th Army Para Games will be held from November 22 to 24 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex, Diyagama. Over 700 Army Para Athletes will take part in the three day event. There will be 72 para athletic events. Twelve sports are included in the Army Para Games other than [...]
ATP’s wizardry in Management
Six months ago, even the experts would have not predicted correctly, names of the 8 who played the ATP London Masters final last week. The year went with the disappearance of big names, with no player really dominating. If there was a difficult year for the ATP to present good Tennis, it is 2017. This [...]
SSC Badminton Open from Dec.13
The Tenth Sinhalese Sports Club’s (SSC) Annual Open Badminton Championship 2017, a Sri Lanka Badminton approved Level 1 Ranking tournament will be held from December 13 to 22 at the SSC Badminton Complex and MBA Indoor Stadium in Colombo 7. As one of the biggest and most popular badminton events in the country, conducted by [...]
Two foreign coaches to train Lanka’s Footballers next year
The Football Federation of Sri Lanka has planned to hire two coaches from European countries to prepare the national team ahead of next year’s South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championships. The SAFF Championships will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from September 4 to 15, next year. One of them will be a specialist on fitness. [...]
Bridge office bearers
Following members were elected to the Council of the Bridge Federation of Sri Lanka at the Sports Ministry on November 2, 2017. The new Council of the BFSL: President : Y.R. Karunaratne Vice Presidents : Mrs. Cera Fernando, Mrs. Mallika Wijekoon, Mrs. Neela Silva Hon. Secretary : Raj Warnakulasuriya Hon. Treasurer : Lalith Wijesingha Asst. [...]
Six main athletics tours in 2018
In 2018 there are six main athletics tours. Targeting them three pools have been formed. They are: Elite, National and Junior. This has been done by the Athletics Association of Sri Lanka. The first will be the Commonwealth Games from April 4 to 15 in Gold Coast, Australia. The others are South Asian Junior Athletics [...]
Youth Football faces extinction by official Indifference, Infighting!
Every Football pundit will tell you that the future of the sport lies with the Youth. And there it ends! With a lot of hot air and little else influencing what all those in the sport know is a veritable death trap,Youth Football is compounded by the indifference and infighting of officials from the Sri [...]
Season gathers momentum as the big guns fire
We hear so much of the Reds these days as almost every other day as we spend hours on the road because of some kind of protest. Last Saturday opened another opportunity to talk of the Reds. Not the protesting ones but those who for sometime were creating rugby history. Almost drowned at half time [...]
CAMEL RIDES GALORE
Talking about a popular field sport it has been noted that the National junior team had made three tours during the last six months and lost all matches to the tune of 62 goals scored against and only two goals scored by them. There is also the allegation that they had gone on a camp [...]
Untimely death slices pillar of Carrom Federation
The Sri Lanka Carrom Federation (SLCF) suffered an irreparable loss last Monday (6) by the sudden demise of its Gen.Sec., in the prime of his life, at age 47. A product of Mahanama College, a gentleman par excellence, Naotunna devoted all his free time for the benefit of the game which he was devoted to. [...]
CSL Basketball League from Dec. 5
The 16th Colombo Super League Basketball League 2017 conducted by the Colombo District Basketball Association (CDBA) is scheduled to commence from 5th December 2017. The league will be opened to all clubs registered under District Associations/Closed Associations affiliated to Sri Lanka Basketball Federation and should have renewed their membership for 2017. All players registered with [...]
National Olympic Committee on new track with good governance pledge
Right now there is a huge hype about the advent of Chandika Hathurusinghe dawning the Lankan cricket horizon and, if I am not wrong, the same hype was in place when Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) managed to rope in South African Graeme Ford, who was no stranger to the local turf a while ago. He [...]
MAS dominate Merc. ‘B’ hockey
MAS Holdings dominated the Mercantile ‘B’ Division Hockey Championship by emerging Triple Crown winners when they won the League, Knock-out and the 7-a-Side tournaments organised by the Mercantile Hockey Association recently. It was MAS all the way remaining unbeaten right throughout the three segments scoring thirty one goals in the tournament. In the League championship [...]
Maxxis ensures Junaid-Ameer return to Asia-Pacific Rally Championships
Maxxis Sri Lanka will support Sri Lanka’s return to the Asia-Pacific Rally Championships (APRC) when local rally champs throw dust at the India Coffee Day Rally of Chikmagalur, the final round of the APRC, to be held from Nov.24-26. The local duo narrowly missed the podium in the India Rally Championships (IRC) category at its [...]
Bentota takes centre stage at second International Power Boat Competition
Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau in collaboration with the Ministry of Sports and Lanka Power Boat Association (LPA) hosted an international power boat competition in the waters of Bentota last week. This is the first time Sri Lanka staged an international power boat racing event of this caliber, which was recognised by the Union International [...]
Will our cricketers bounce back?
As a cricket lover I am thoroughly annoyed to witness our cricket team being white washed for the third consecutive time in the cricket history. If it is a neck to neck struggle of course we can get ourselves little bit relaxed. But all the five ODIs were won by large margins by the Pakistan [...]