Royal pocket first leg with consummate ease
Far superior, and more competent in almost everything they attempted, Royal set the stage for another Bradby triumph by pocketing the first leg 39-7 at their complex last evening. Only a Trinity die-hard would have expected a different result going into this game. Royal had loads of confidence and their play showed it. They touched [...]
Gold Coast in position to bid for world athletics championships
The Gold Coast is set to use the Commonwealth Games as a springboard to launch a bold bid for the world athletics championships. World athletics supremo Sebastian Coe, on the Coast for the Games, met with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk at the weekend to discuss a possible Queensland pitch for the championships. Lord Coe, a middle-distance [...]
Prolific Roshen among the big runs again
Roshen Silva slammed his second ton of the Super Four Provincial cricket tournament following his career best knock of 231 against Team Colombo on day one against Team Kandy in their match played at Sooriyawewa Stadium. Roshen’s knock which came off 165 balls comprised nine boundaries and was involved in another valuable partnership with Dasun [...]
Petes thwart an early DSS scare to win handsomely
St. Peter’s College weathered the scare of the first half and ran away with a handsome win against D.S. Senanayake College at 43-7 to remain unbeaten after the first round in the Singer Schools Division I League Rugby Championship at Havelock Park yesterday. The Peterites comfortably lead 26-7 at halftime but had to face an [...]
All finals to be worked off today
Today — the final day of the 33rd Sri Lanka National Rowing Championship 2018 will decide the Overall Winners of three categories – Under 18, Over 18 and Open, Girls/Boys and Men/Women with the finals scheduled to be worked off at the Diyawanna Rowing Centre (DRC). Men’s Overall winners will be awarded the Jerry Silva [...]
Zahira cruise to easy win over the Rajans
Zahira cruised with ease to win by 26 points to 8 against Dharmaraja in their last group match of Singer U19 inter-schools rugby tournament played at Zahra ground in Maradana yesterday. Zahira having taken a comfortable 19-3 lead at the breather made up their points through two goals, a penalty goal and a try as [...]
Champions — Ashan and Ishan burn Diyatalawa track
Defending champions Ashan Silva and Ishan Dassanayake retained their respective Driver’s and Rider’s titles at the Fox Hill Supercross 2018, held at the Military Academy in Diyatalawa yesterday. Silva overcame obstacles to defend his ‘Champion Driver’ title while Dissanayake had to battle amongst a bunch of experienced and young riders to retain his ‘Champion Rider’ [...]
Sachin de Silva Overall Winner of RCGC Monthly Medal
The Royal Colombo Golf Club embarked on its’ new calendar year, with the ushering-in of the new Committee for the 2018/2019 Term of Office with the generous sponsorship by Standard Chartered Bank of the April Monthly Medal Avancka Herath was elected Captain of the RCGC, whilst former RCGC Captain and President of the Sri Lanka [...]
SLC gauntlet thrown down and the manoeuvering has begun
Incumbent Sri Lanka Cricket President Thilanga Sumathipala threw down the gauntlet and announced his name for candidacy to be re-elected as SLC’s president for a further two years. The Annual General Meeting of the SLC is scheduled for May 19 and nominations close next Friday (April 27). Though on face value it shows a one-horse [...]
Asanka looking to set up a fast bowler bank
With Asanka Gurusinha taking over as chief cricket operations officer from May 15, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will hope to streamline the player production line to take the sport to the next level. Currently employed as cricket manager and selector, Gurusinha will now be in charge of SLC’s ‘Brain Center’, a facility that collects and [...]
Thilanga says ‘Nidahas Trophy’ was the most successful tri-nation ever in Lanka
The recent Nidahas Trophy may have been a cricketing disaster after Sri Lanka made a first round exit, but the tournament has been a huge commercial success if the figures quoted by Sri Lanka Cricket is true. A statement of income and expenditure of the tri-nation cricket tournament between Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh has [...]
Hathu seeks a wrist spinner for Lankan drive
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will shortly bring down former Australian leg-spinner Peter Sleep for a two-week training session to see whether the 61-year-old fits the bill for a longer stint. At present SLC is head-hunting for a coach to help overall development of spin-bowling skills of the players in Sri Lanka and head coach Chandika [...]
Language no barrier for Hartley’s boxing coach Nalin Hettiarachchi
Language was no barrier for Nalin Hettiarachchi when he took on the assignment of boxing coach at Hartley College Point Pedro in 2013. Today Hartley has stamped its name in the schools boxing arena with Pushparaj Vishnu winning the silver medal in the under 20 60-64 kg weight category and named the most recently affiliated [...]
Ed Smith named England national selector – ECB
REUTERS April 21– Former England batsman Ed Smith has been appointed as the team’s new national selector, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced. Smith, 40, featured in three tests for England and retired in 2008 having also played first-class cricket for Kent and Middlesex, where he was captain. He replaces James Whitaker, who [...]
England to introduce 100-ball cricket
The England and Wales Cricket Board plans on introducing a new format of the game where each team faces 100 balls as part of a revamped domestic competition in 2020. The proposed format for a new eight-team tournament would see each team face 15 six-ball overs as well as another 10 deliveries to make up [...]
Victoria’s UTSC go down under to MCA by 36 runs
Despite an elegant 99 runs by the Club President, 45-year-old, Devon Ranaweera, for the visiting United Tarneit Sports Club (UTSC) from Victoria, Australia, Tyrone de Silva’s MCA Invitation XI coasted to a comfortable 36-runs win, in their friendly 20+20 Cricket encounter at the MCA Grounds recently. Ranaweera (99 in 58 balls, with 4 sixes and [...]
How Ananda won a school cricket title
I wish to recollect my memories where the motivation, strategies and self-belief of a team, very much the underdogs, beat a side full of cricketing skills and talent. The occasion was the school’s limited overs title for the Lemonade Trophy held on 9 April 2006 at the SSC grounds. The final was between St. Peters [...]
Killerwhale AC (Men), Visakha Vidyalaya Colombo (Women) Overall Champions
Killerwhale Aquatic Club (Killerwhale) 245.5 points and Visakha Vidyalaya (Visakha), Colombo, 273 points, emerged Overall Men and Women Champions respectively, at the National Short Course Swimming Championship 2018, concluded at the Isipathana College Swimming Pool Complex recently. Dilanka Shehan of Nalanda College (Nalanda) was adjudged Best Men’s Swimmer for winning 5 events, while Sandu Savindi [...]
Canoeing and Kayaking beckons Sri Lanka
Buoyed by the recent success achieved by our athletes in boxing and weightlifting, at the recent Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia, undoubtedly, the best performance by the country to date at Commonwealth Games, this article explores the future prospects for a relatively new sport introduced to Sri Lanka 14 years ago, in 2004. [...]
Player Prospects in Tennis
It is at this time of the year new names come up and known names fight it out to survive. When it comes to new names among Women, we have Japan’s Naomi Osaka, winner at Indian-Wells, who surprised a whole lot of players. Also, USA’s Danielle Collins reached the semifinals of the Miami-Open, again walked [...]
Teejay Lanka (Men), Brandix Casualwear (Women) crowned Champs
Teejay Lanka PLC, Avissawella, regained the Brandix Rasadiya Volleyball Championship 2018, which they lost in 2016, by dethroning reigning champions Brandix Athleisure, Polonnaruwa, 2-0 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium courts recently. Brandix Casualwear, Seeduwa, clinched the Women’s championship in their maiden appearance in a final. In the 8th edition of this event, Teejay Lanka and [...]
Alcazaba Queen of ‘Little England’
Alcazaba’, pinup girl of the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse, kept her date with the SriLankan Airlines-RTC Magic Million last Sunday in ‘Little England’. But this time, the darling of the local turf, owned by Deepthika Jayakody and Purni Edwards, had to really produce magic to conjure up a hard fought victory. National Carrier SriLankan Airlines could [...]
The rugby confusion and the tale of woes
When I heard a small boy on the street was singing that proverbial nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and Humpty Dumpty had a big fall and all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men could not put Humpty together again. This made me wonder whether this describes the rugby scene in [...]
Isipathana fans,… Long way to go
By the time this article is published, readers and rugby rans would be aware what took place during and after the League Inter-School Rugby match that was played on April 7, between St. Peter’s College (SPC) and Isipathana Vidyalaya (IV) at Havelock Park. On that day just prior to the main match, some Junior Boys [...]
Rukmalgama CC in winning start, down Old President’s CC by 3 wkts
The Rukmalgama Cricket Club (RCC) made a winning start to their Colombo District Cricket Association (CDCA) Division III 50-Over League Tournament 2018season, with a thrilling 3-wicket win over Old President’s CC (OPCC), at Mt. Mary Railway Grounds, recently. OPCC, sent into bat, were restricted to 159 runs in 43.5 overs, helped by a healthy dose [...]
Three elevens saved a moment of time
Three elevens and the bid was gone. The year 2011 was special in a way. Sri Lanka was busy decorating the image of its ‘proposed’ capital under the previous regime and the cost was immaterial. At that time Sri Lanka was almost building castles in the air when the then regime made a bid to [...]
VW ownership drive – a tremendous success
The VW Beetle Owners’ Club held their 19th Annual Pride of Ownership Drive on Sunday the 25th of March. This years Drive was a resounding success with over 60 VW Beetles, Vans, the much-admired Karmann Ghias, VW Variants and a rare Trekker joined the event that flocked to the Hilton Colombo, as in the past [...]
Alliance Finance Brand Ambassador Sachin Dias makes history in Gold Coast Australia
Alliance Finance Brand Ambassador – Sachin Dias, and his partner Buwaneka Gunathileka became the first and only Sri Lankans to make history in Gold Coast Australia at the 21st Commonwealth Games. After many intense and strenuous matches against the best competitors from the Commonwealth countries, we are proud to announce that the Alliance Finance Brand [...]