A ‘must-win’game for the Lankans today
Having introduced some strategic changes, Sri Lanka had hoped for a change in fortunes in the new year when the team left to Bangladesh. A week later, however, they are back to the drawing board. It is imperative that they win today’s match against Zimbabwe to retain a place in the series also contested by [...]
Navy down CR&FC with ease
The Dialog Second Round League game played at Welisara between Navy and CR had different expectations for both teams. In the first round Navy nicked CR by 37 points to 34 at Longdon Place. CR has had a bag of mixed fortunes so far this season. Navy are third in the table with the same [...]
Emerging Denuwan reaches 9612 on count 16
While S. Thomas’ College leg-spinner Dellon Peiris continues to dominate the All-Island Schools of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy / Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018, Denuwan Perera of Carey College closes in to 10000 votes in the Emerging Schools at the end of the 16th week. For yet another week Dellon [...]
Gritty Airmen gun down Soldiers in bloody return
Air Force SC came out with a dramatic performance to gun down Army SC by 33-10 in their second round match of the Dialog League Rugby Championship played at Ratmalana yesterday. The Airmen were on the offence from the word go and they led 19-5 at halftime and walked out winners after scoring from a [...]
Junior National TT Tournament under way
Over 550 boys and girls are participating in the three-day Junior National Table Tennis Tournament, currently underway at the Kandy Municipal Council Stadium at Katukalle. There was a major upset in the Under-15 Boys’ Pre-quarter-final event when the bottom seeded Chandupa Alahakoon of Kingswood College was beaten by the much smaller Vidyartha College lad Hansaka [...]
Savindu, Kaumal spin Cambrians to innings win
The right and left arm spin combination of skipper Savindu Peiris and Kaumal Nanayakkara helped Prince of Wales coast to an innings and 11 run win over St Peter’s in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Moratuwa yesterday. The pair ended with match bags of eight wickets each as they wrecked the Peterite [...]
Chilaw Marians outclass SLPA CC with a day to spare
Chilaw Marians ended the Premier League Tier A inter-club first round matches by securing their fifth outright win as they signed off with a crushing innings and 184 runs win over SLPA CC in the match concluded at the Colts ground yesterday and this was their fourth outright successive outright win. The two SLPA CC [...]
Glittering Awards Ceremony awaits the inaugural winners on Thursday
Hundreds of schoolboy Ruggerites are to be duly recognised for their outstanding performances during the concluded school Rugby season, at the annual awards ceremony of the Singer Schools Rugby League Championship on Jan. 25, at the Bishops’ College Auditorium, along with the inaugural Singer-the Sunday Times Schoolboy Ruggerite of the Year 2017, where 5 top [...]
Lankan CC amass a mammoth 534/8
Weighed by a two centuries and three half centuries, Lankan CC went on to amass a mammoth score of 534 for 8 declared against Kalutara TC at the Surrey Village ground in Maggona. Lankan CC’s century makers were Shasheen Fernando (122) and Lakshan Rodrigo (121), Geeth Kumara (81), Thushira Madanayake (64) and Yashan Samarasinghe 52 [...]
Army BC emerge champs for third successive year
Army BC pugilists emerged champions at the 92nd National Boxing Championship which concluded at Royal MAS Arena boxing in Reid Avenue yesterday. Army BC are winning the national boxing championship for the third successive year and in clinching the title they won secured five gold medals a silver and three bronze medals while Slimline BC [...]
Veteran Sebs at cricket today
Veteran Sebastianites cricketers will come alive at the veterans’ cricket fest and grand family get-together on Sunday at the Carlton Club grounds, Uyana, Moratuwa. Professor Ranil Fernando will lead the St. Sebastian’s side that played in 1971, while the other side is led by veteran cricket coach Milroy Paul. This T20 match is played for [...]
Savindu, Kaumal spin Cambrians to innings win
The right and left arm spin combination of skipper Savindu Peiris and Kaumal Nanayakkara helped Prince of Wales coast to an innings and 11 runs win over St Peter’s in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Moratuwa yesterday. The pair ended with match bag of eight wickets each as they wrecked the Peterites [...]
Kandy overcome a stiff CH challenge
Yesterday at Nittawela it was a different story. They were terrific pressure from a marauding CH side which almost played out of their skins. Yet, Kandy with their undoubted experience coming to the fore, stayed the course to run out winners by 34 points (3 goals, 2 tries, 1 penalty) to 23 (1 goal, 2 [...]
Tame draw at Asgiriya
A good rear-guard action and a fighting second innings effort by the Josephians helped them to emerge with an honourable draw against Trinity at Asgiriya. On the ropes at 122 for 8, Lakshan Gamage made a face-saving 68 to take them within 27 runs of the Trinity total. Trinity 195 (Hasintha Jayasuriya 88 Pubudu Bandara [...]
Singapore drivers dominate 1st Leg winning 4 out of 5 events
Singapore drivers dominated the 1st leg of the ‘X30 Asia Cup’ which is the first time a Karting event of this magnitude and importance took place in Sri Lanka and in South Asia, at the newly re-laid Sri Lanka Karting Circuit in Bandaragama last weekend. Of the 5 categories of races, 4 were won by [...]
Woman FIDE Master Suneetha Wijesuriya queen of the night
At the SLT SILK Sports Awards 2017, Woman FIDE Master Suneetha Wijesuriya was awarded the SLT SILK for Outstanding Dedication & Contribution to Promote Sports, and the 25th Anniversary of her winning a Gold Medal at the 30th World Chess Olympiad in Manila, Philippines, in 1992. Between 1980 and 1997, Suneetha won the Women’s National [...]
Champs MAST Industries too good for Courtaulds Clothing
MAST Industries led by Rukshan de Paul, retained the Apparel Premier League T20 Tournament 2017/18 title, with a comprehensive 7-wickets win over Courtaulds Clothing, at Thurstan College Grounds recently. In the playoff for 3rd place, MAS Body Line scored a facile 120-runs win over Avery Dennison. Nine teams participated in 2 Groups in the 4th [...]
Vidudaya swimming meet from Jan. 27
Sri Jayawardenapura University with Sri Lanka’s largest swimming pool with ten lanes will host the ‘Ritzbury’ Vidudaya Inter Schools Swimming Championship 2018 on January 27 and 28. The University’s Physical Education Department and Sports Council with the idea of promoting swimming among the school children and to compete for the first time in this international [...]
Audits reveal serious discrepancies in NOCSL finances
There were serious financial, operational and management discrepancies in the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka between 2010 and 2012, reports from the Auditor General’s Department show. The reports should have been ready three months after the end of each financial year. Section 6.1.1. of Treasury Circular No: 01/2004 of February 24, 2004, states that [...]
Rohan to fight for NOC hot seat
Rohan Fernando, the President of Amateur Rowing Association of Sri Lanka (ARASL), officially announced his intention to contest the post of president of the National Olympic Committee. He will contest Suresh Subramaniam at the February 23 election of office bearers in a bid to take control of the country’s premier sports body. Fernando, alongside a [...]
Did CMSC contravene the sports law?
The Ceylon Motor Sports Club (CMSC), which boast a history of 80 plus years of motor sports in Sri Lanka, will face an inquiry next week for gross violation of the Sports Law and not following proper selection process in sending a team to represent the ASN of Sri Lanka. Saman Bandara, the Director General [...]
Shuttler Niluka elected head of NOCSL Athletic Commission
The NOCSL five member Athletic Commission was set up on Thursday with three Olympians in their midst. National Badminton ace Niluka Karunaratne, a world ranked player, was elected as the chairman of the commission. Karunaratne who has been in the forefront of this sport was elected the captain of the Lankan Olympic team for the [...]
Havies would look to pile on
“And how can man die better, than facing fearful odds” The above quote, possibly relevant” when writing on the Police-Havelocks game today at Police Park. The odds are certainly stacked against the law enforcers who have yet to win a game in ten matches. The nearest they came to achieving a victory was in that [...]
Fazil clinches title for fifth successive year
M.F.M. Fazil of The Cue Club clinched the Under 21 National Snooker title for the fifth successive year when he defeated another young rising star Mohamed Thaha of MICH by six frames to four in the 11 frames final played at the AAC. Fazil who clinched the national snooker title in the 2016 and who [...]
Rupees hundred thousand for champion slicer
To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Sri Lanka Carrom Federation the 50th National Carrom Championship took off in a grand scale at the Carrom Federation Headquarters, Kohuwala on January 27 and will conclude on February 25. Conducted in six categories in Men’s Singles, Women’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles, Mixed Doubles and Veterans over [...]
Football Arbudaya ; Sports Ministry’s stepchild
The New Year seems to have seen a lot of action at the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL). It concluded the Dialog Champions League 2017 rolling into 2018 a week ago, announced the arrival of the World Cup replica to Sri Lanka courtesy of Coca Cola, made the usual jaunt to the FIFA summit [...]
Can Hathurusingha perform a miracle?
Sri Lanka’s Cricket went through a very bad patch during 2017. Many cricket fans were extremely disappointed and lost interest in watching our lads in action. Losing matches became a habit for our National Team. Indeed, 2017 was a dark year for Sri Lanka’s Cricket. Who is responsible for this poor performance? Who is to [...]
COMPARING SALARIES
Sri Lanka has got a new netball coach. New is not the exact word as she has played for the national team in years gone by and was in Brunei as that country’s national coach. She is expected to draw a salary of Rs. 400,000 but the Sports Ministry’s salary is around Rs. 37,000. These [...]
Wanna be a part of FIFA fun — pop a Coke
While football in Sri Lanka is speeding on the reverse without a glimpse of hope, the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) has gone out of its ways to put the Indian Ocean island on the global map. This sudden development comes off the regular activity list of FFSL, who spearheaded to bring down the [...]
A short ride for Kandy and a long one for others
In the context of the geography of Sri Lanka, Kandy Sports Club is located at a distance away from the rest of the clubs playing in the Dialog Rugby League. They are also detached from the rest of the clubs that are playing in the top rugby league: A distance that will make a challenge [...]
Vintages set sights for Jaffna
The Vintage Car Owners Club (VCOC), Sri Lanka’s Pioneer Motoring Club that succeeded the Veteran Car Club of Ceylon, in a bid to prove the “might” of Vintage Vehicles in Sri Lanka, is organising a drive from Colombo to Jaffna, in the “Oldest of the Old” motorcars of the Vintage Era. This, no doubt, is [...]
IronMan 70.3 Colombo International Triathlon sold out
With over 850 registrations, 2 months prior to the main event, Sri Lanka’s “Wonder of Asia” IronMan 70.3 Colombo, has been oversubscribed. IronMan is an iconic high profile international triathlon event to be staged in Sri Lanka on Feb.25, with over 850 athletes representing 63 nations, organised by Pro-Am Serendib, the official licencee of the [...]
Match-fixing allegations against Lankans: ICC probe still on
I vividly remember, it was in the early 1990s, I had the opportunity of having a chat with former Indian Cricket Captain Mohammed Azharuddin. Yes, he had an imposing stature – tall, lanky and eloquent. While in conversation, I realised he was a God-fearing individual who seemed to be proud of his given vocation and, [...]
Tharushan Iddamalgoda shines with bat and ball for Kanrich ‘B’
Chandula Weeraratne and Tharushan Iddamalgoda of Kanrich Finance (Kanrich) ‘B’ hogged the spotlight in the opening week-end of the 7th Prestige Automobile (Pvt) Ltd. sponsored, ‘BMW-Hyundai’ Trophy – MCA ‘C’ Division 50-Over League Tournament 2018. Paceman Chandula Weeraratne with a hostille spell of medium-fast bowling (9.4-3-33-7) ripped through the strong Stafford Motors batting line-up to [...]
Australian Open’s challenging week
The first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open (AO) Tennis comes in the 3rd week of January in the WTA/ ATP Calendar. It has to be considered abrupt for the reason that, the 2 preceding weeks are never enough for good players to come into top playing form after the annual recess of [...]