St. Sebastian’s prevail to record first outright win
Twenty five wickets fell in just more than a day and a half and it was St. Sebastian’s who tasted the sweet savour of success at home when they coasted to a seven win at Moratuwa. The opening day’s play saw St. Peter’s after being bowled out for a paltry 98 runs fighting back to [...]
Dellon’s consistency in Cricket has been translated into votes
Dellon Peiris, the match-winning leg-spinner of S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, continues to show his prowess for yet another week in the All-Island Schools, as the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy/Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018 reaches the end of its 15th week. Dellon adds 1842 to his ever-growing tally, which now hits [...]
Gala Awards ceremony on Jan.25
The awards ceremony of the Singer-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017 will take place on Jan.25 at the Bishops’ College Auditorium, Colombo, where the winners of the Singer Schools Rugby League 2017 will also be honoured. The spotlight will be on the Singer-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017, the [...]
Pothas refuses to travel to Bangladesh
Nic Pothas who was Sri Lanka’s interim head coach after Graham Ford stepped down in June has refused to travel to Bangladesh with the national team after Sri Lanka Cricket turned down his request to be appointed Assistant Coach of the national side. Instead he has preferred to work at the High Performance Center headed [...]
St. Anthony’s rout Dharmaraja
An outstanding all round performance by Navod Vijaya Kumar (74 and nine wickets) helped the Anthonians to rout Dharmaraja by an innings and 25 runs at Katugastota. Vijaya Kumar cut through the batting early on day one to have them a the ropes (60-8). Isuru Dayananda showed lots of character in making 53. Dharmaraja 118 [...]
Panadura SC shot out for 36
Right arm spin and pace combination of Shohan Rangika and Praneeth Ratnayake shared 17 of the 20 wickets of Panadura SC to fall paving the way for Air Force SC to record an outright win by innings and 97 runs with a day to spare in the Premier League Tier B inter-club cricket encounter concluded [...]
Afghanistan stuns Pakistan by 5 wickets
Afghanistan made their intentions clear at the Cobham Oval in Whangarei on Saturday, comfortably beating Pakistan by 5 wickets in their Group ‘D’ 2018 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup opener. Electing to bat, Pakistan were restricted to 188 with 14 deliveries remaining and Afghanistan surpassed the target by scoring 195 for the loss of 5 [...]
Havies make amends for their last week’s crash
Coming freshly out from their bitter experience against CH&FC last weekend, Havelocks did what they are best at by clinically overcoming Army SC 27-8 in their second round match of the Dialog Rugby League played at Havelock Park under lights yesterday. After leading 10-8 at halftime, the Havies worked brilliantly, by not overdoing things to [...]
Unstoppable hill club lads march on peerlessly
Not a perfect ten, but the Kandy team did enough to convince rugby fans of their class and calibre. There were a couple of spilled passes. Also a wayward pass or two. But the champions showed their irresistible quality as they made light of another challenge. This time from the CR. The end result was [...]
No sweat for Sailors as they cut through the Police defence
Police smarting from a defeat with no wins to boast about took on Navy who are placed third in the league table at the Police Park, yesterday. In the first round game, Navy beat Police by 31 points to 24 at Welisara. Having started the game slowly and lemons taken leading at 17 points to [...]
Manaseer, Ifaz record second wins
The fourth day’s proceedings of the Under 21 National Snooker Championship conducted by the Billiards and Snooker Association of Sri Lanka at the AAC billiards saw M.M. Manaseer of Brandstra SC and S.A.A. Ifaz of 8BPP chalking up their second successive win. Manaseer conceded a frame to his opponent M.M. Nuski of 8BPP before coming [...]
Final lap of Kart Race ‘X30 Asia Cup’ roared off today
Sri Lanka’s first ever international Kart Race ‘X30 Asia Cup’ was flagged off at the Sri Lanka Karting Circuit (SLKC), Bandaragama yesterday. The heats of five categories were worked off yesterday and the today will see the finals working off to decide the winners of the X30 Asia Cup. Fifteen heats were worked off yesterday [...]
Bloomfield reply strongly to CCC’s mammoth score
CCC having ended day one with a score of 380 for 6 went on to amass a mammoth score of 445 against Bloomfield in the morning session of play in the Premier League Tier A inter-club cricket encounter played at Reid Avenue. CCC’s mammoth score came on the back of a quick fire and a [...]
Nishantha Fernando (Men) Chalani Lakmali (Women) crowned Champs
Nishantha Fernando and Chalani Lakmali proved they had not lost their touch after a long lay off, by clinching the Men’s and Women’s titles at the pre-national Carrom Championships at Kohuwela. Both Slicers exhibited a high standard when they won the championships without much difficulty, defeating their opponents 2-0 in the finals. The Open Carrom [...]
Media beat MCA committee in cricket
Media Cricket team scored a close win over MCA Committee to win the MCA President’s Trophy in a 20-Over cricket match played at the MCA Grounds recently. Batting first the media men posted a respectable 171 for the loss of four wickets in their allotted 20 overs with Damith Weerasinghe top scoring with a fine [...]
Sisters Nikini and Nethmi excel in Karate
Two sisters – eighteen-year-old Nikini Theekshana Jayalath (grade 13) and fourteen-year-old Nethmi Tharushika Jayalath (grade 9) are promising Karate players studying at Sri Sangamitta girls national school Matale. By now they have achieved several victories in martial art at all island open karate championships held during the year 2017. Nikini Jayalath won a gold medal [...]
Eranga unbeaten ton, Kalutara TC make 379
An unbeaten ton by Eranga Ratnayake inclusive of 16 boundaries helped Kalutara TC make a formidable score of 379 against Galle CC in the morning session of play on day two in the Premier League Tier B inter-club cricket encounter played at De Zoysa Stadium in Moratuwa. The opening day’s play saw Eranga along with [...]
NOCSL conundrum continues
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka is governed by the dual jurisdiction of the Olympic Charter and Sri Lanka’s Sports Law, senior legal experts said this week, contradicting the position taken by NOCSL Secretary-General Maxwell de Silva. The incumbent NOCSL General Secretary maintains that the domestic body does not fall under the purview of [...]
Mathews’ men looking to turn back the pages
As Sri Lanka cricketers left last morning for their maiden tour of the new year, the islanders will be hoping to leave behind the demons of a ghastly memory of 2017 when they take on hosts Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in a tri-series starting on Sunday. Sri Lanka managed four Test wins out of 11, four [...]
No Test vacancies for Asela Gunaratne and Kaushal Silva
Seamer Suranga Lakmal was yesterday named the vice-captain of the Test side for the two-match series against Bangladesh later this month. Lakmal 30, has been Sri Lanka leading fast bowler in Test cricket in recent months. In 42 Tests, he has taken 96 Test wickets at 44.94 with a best of 5 for 63. The [...]
The Mustangs Trophy encounter revisited by an old Thomian
Shantilal Wijesundere an Old Thomian and a cricket enthusiast have compiled a comprehensive book on the encounters for the Mustangs Trophy. I must congratulate him as he has added to a collection of material already available in relation to Royal – Thomian encounters of the longer version. The match as all Cricket lovers know is [...]
Overlapping school cricket plans by SLC and MoE
The futuristic and timely schools cricket development programme was launched last week under the auspices of the Ministry of Education (MoE), but sans the customary pomp and pageant. At a juncture when the schools sphere is growing in quantity sans quality, a group of cricket doyens grouped to bring about some sanity to this segment [...]
A level playing field to compete on equal terms
Robert Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, once said, “Nothing makes a woman more confused than being in a relationship with a broke man who is extremely good in bed”. I was pondering on Mugabe while listening to Vice President and Tournament Director of Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR), Lasitha Gunaratne, talk during a telecast; revealing, [...]
Cricket scorers for the North
Applications are invited for the recruitment of new Cricket Scorers for the North Province by the Sri Lanka Cricket Scorers Association and a seminar and a workshop is scheduled to be held on January 19 and 20 at the Jaffna S. John’s College Auditorium. Applicants should be 18 years and over and special consideration will [...]
WILLINGLY OR UNWILLINGLY
A ‘Pirith Ceremony’ was held at the headquarters of the body that control sports to mark the dawn of the New Year. Even the walls were whitewashed and all looked set for a bright future. However an athlete had slipped and fallen on the tiles and some tiles had been broken. This athlete has been [...]
Focus on 2018 winners
Qatar, Pune, Brisbane and Auckland are the opening venues of the 2018 professional calendar. All of them permitted a limited number of entries to the main draw. They were events with 32 in the main draw and 2 rounds of qualifications. This is what a venue could handle. Some years ago, many of these events [...]
Sports Law; hopper eaters and Nelsons
As far as it is universally accepted, strong sports bodies in the world opt to live free and stay out of the clutches of government controls. For instance, the International Athletic Federation, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association or, simply FIFA, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the much closer to us, the International Cricket [...]
Army units go high in rugby ‘B’ ties
Army Four Wings, Army Colts, Police Griffins and Air Force Chipmunks won their games on the second week of the Inter-Club Division ‘B’ League Rugby Championship played for the Rudra Rajasingham Trophy last week. The tournament kicked off in the previous week and continued last week with schedule changes and the matches being played erratically. [...]
MCA ‘C’ Div. 50-Over League Tournament 2018 starts today
The MCA ‘C’ Division 50-Over League Tournament 2018 will see 14 teams, including 8 newcomers, battle for the 7th prestigious ‘BMC-Hyundai’ Trophy commencing this weekend. With the intent of improving the standard of Cricket in the ‘C’ Division, the MCA Tournament Committee headed by Tharindra Kaluperuma acceded to requests of the 8 new teams to [...]
New Basketball Court for Nalanda
A well equipped Indoor Basketball Court was declared open at Nalanda College, Colombo. This new Basketball Court was a tribute for Former Principal M.W. Karunananda and two teachers, Col. M.C.F. Abeykoon and D.S. Senanayake who rendered their noble service to the students of the college. Built at a cost of 16 million rupees this project [...]