Lankans looking for sparring partners with injuries on board
Veteran spinner Rangana Herath will only feature in two games of the three-match Test series starting later this month while selectors will also look to manage the workload of injury-prone Angelo Mathews and Suranga Lakmal during the series. Selectors on Friday announced a 17-man squad for the series which sees the inclusion of four uncapped [...]
We are ready to reveal the best of the best
Now that the nitty-gritties of agreeing upon as who the best schoolboy/girl cricketers for the year 2018 are over, we are now ready to announce as who they are shortly. Besides; this time the venue would be the BMICH and the date will be, Wednesday, June 20 The selection process of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday [...]
Two schools of thought holding back the final number
Two schools of thought are getting in the way on the final proceedings of selections of the contingent to the 18th Asian Games which will be held from August 18 to September 2, in Indonesia. For the first time in the history of the Asian Games – the event will be co-hosted by two cities [...]
High Jumper Thiwanka impresses
Long jumper Prasad Wimalasiri recorded a personal best jump of 8.10m to qualify for the forthcoming Asian Games in Indonesia while young high jump prodigy Ushan Thiwanka achieved a new milestone of 2.24m to become only the second Sri Lanka to do so behind his coach and current national champion Manjula Kumara at the second [...]
Thulaib hat-trick gives Royal another feather
Royal worked their way through the Zahira side and continued their unbeaten record beating them by 41 points (3 goals and 4 tries) points to 5 (1 try) at the Royal College Sports Complex, yesterday. This was their first match of the second round for the Schools Division One Rugby League. Though leading by 31 [...]
S. Thomas’ too good for Lumbini
It what was expected to be a close contest saw S. Thomas’ coming out too victorious with ease against Lumbini MV with a convincing 40 points to 10 in the Singer U19 inter-schools Plate Championship encounter played at Mt Lavinia yesterday. The Thomians completely dominated proceedings though the two teams shared proceedings in the early [...]
Petes hold on to tame the lion in his den
The Peterites withstood a strong second half comeback by Trinity to run out winners by 28 points (4 goals) to 21 (3 goals) at Pallekele yesterday. The first half was almost all St. Peter’s. They were in the Trinity half for 80 per cent at that time. Came the second half, and there was a [...]
Tamil Nadu Hockey Veterans have it easy with a 4-0 tour record
Tamil Nadu Veterans hockey association team who were on a goodwill tour in Sri Lanka recorded a 4-0 win in their four match series played against Mercantile HA Masters, Sri Lanka Masters and Colombo Malay Masters in Colombo and then old Sylvesters hockey club in Kandy. They beat Sri Lanka Mercantile HA Masters by 7 [...]
Sugathadasa’s newly laid track seeping
The Central Engineering Consultancy Bureau (CECB) has demanded answers from contractor Access-CONICA JV after water started seeping out from the multi-million-rupee synthetic track at Sugathadasa Stadium, just four weeks after it was unveiled. In addition to the seepage, the project supervisor has also observed “unusual wearing of high stress synthetic area of South side ‘D’ [...]
Promising Amasha looks to run to cloud nine
It may be surprising that Amasha de Silva, the girl who won four gold medals at the recent South Asian Junior Athletic Championships, initially dabbled in Hockey and Volleyball. The slim, petite lass from Swarnamali Girls College, Kandy was also into Athletics, but her event was the 400 metres hurdles. In the period 2012-18, she [...]
McIlroy leads young sportspersons’ rich list – Sunday Times
REUTERS May 12 — Former world number one golfer Rory McIlroy is the richest young sportsperson in Britain and Ireland with a net worth of 110 million pounds ($149.14 million), according to the Sunday Times newspaper’s Rich List. McIlroy’s earnings have been boosted by his return to form in recent weeks, which saw him emerge [...]
Cardiff storm back to beat Gloucester in Challenge Cup Final
REUTERS May 12 – Gareth Anscombe’s late penalty sealed a superb comeback for Cardiff Blues as they came from 14 points down to beat Gloucester 31-30 in a thrilling European Challenge Cup final. Gloucester dominated the first half at the San Mames Stadium in Bilbao, with superb tries from Henry Trinder and Mark Atkinson helping [...]
Hill country to go spell bound with this battle of phoenix
Kingswood, Isipatana – the names bring to mind many battles where excitement was at fever pitch and the rugby produced was rousing and refreshing. The fact that both teams liked to play open rugby, with the emphasis on running and passing which kept the spectators on the edge of their seats. However, over the last [...]
Independent Election Commission for cricket elections – is it for real?
The other day, I was in conversation with a high ranking official of a cricket club which is a top level stakeholder of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) system. Usually, when we sit at the Clubhouse, the topics vary, yet, as of this moment, the SLC AGM is around the corner and involuntarily, we plunged [...]
SL targets Women’s Masters hockeyWorld Cup Quarters in Barcelona
Sri Lanka Masters Women’s National Hockey team expects to enter the quarterfinals of the EXIN Masters World Cup 2018 said skipper Sobitha Mendis. The Sri Lanka Masters Women’s National Hockey Association has decided to take part in the Masters Women’s World Cup Tournament from July 27 to August 5, in Barcelona, Spain. They will participate [...]
Lankans paddlers end another woeful tour
Sri Lanka (SL) finished 63rd and 61st in the Men’s and Women’s categories respectively, at the World Table Tennis Championship concluded in Halmstad Areana, Sweden recently, which had 72 Men’s and Women’s teams participating this year. SL playing in the third Division, managed to win only one game each in the preliminary rounds of both [...]
Aslam — weekend’s only centurion
Aslam Samsudeen of Amana Bank was the only centurion of the weekend when he piloted Amana to an easy 9-wickets win over Astron Ltd. in the 16th David Peiris Group of Co. sponsored ‘DPGC’ Challenge Trophy-MCA ‘E’ Division 25-Over League Cricket Tournament last Sunday. Apart from Amana Bank, Ansell Lanka, Ceylon Tobacco Co. (CTC), DFCC [...]
Western Province a Slice above the rest
Western Province (WP) Slicers dominated the 44th National Sports Festival’s 2018 Carom Championship at Sports Ministry Indoor Stadium, Colombo 7, with 4 Gold and 2 Silver. The champion WP Slicers won Gold in the Men’s Singles, Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Women’s Team events, while Sabaragamuwa Province with 1 Gold in the Women’s Singles and [...]
European Summer of Grand-Slam Tennis
The lineup of events to the famous European Clay Court (CC) event, the French-Open and the Grass Court (GC) event, Wimbledon, shows Europe’s commitment to Tennis. It exhibits the unmistakable popularity of Tennis, to watch and to participate, in the continent. Between the 1st week in April and the 2nd week in July, Europe would [...]
Sunquick Beach Volleyball Nationals on May 19
Finals of the Sunquick National Beach Volleyball Championships, conducted by the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVB), will take place on May 19, from 12 noon, at the new Sugathadasa Stadium Beach Volleyball Court, which will be declared open after the first final. 112 teams took part in the Tournament was conducted under 2 categories- Men [...]
Wanasinghe to head Kandy schools’ stickers
Dampiya Wanasingha, principal of Dharmaraja College Kandy was unanimously re-elected as the president of Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association for the period 2018 – 2020 at its annual general meeting held at Isurupaya (Ministry of education) Battaramulla. Former national player and International umpire T.M. Indrawansa Herath, assistant principal Hindu College Matale was elected as the [...]
Dharmaraja, Vidyartha share major honours
Dharmaraja College and Vidyartha College bagged major honours at the Kandy district schools -V.T. Rajan Memorial hockey sixes for boys (U/14,16,18 and 20) concluded at the V.T. Rajan play ground Mahaiyawa in Kandy. Dharmaraja stickers lifted both U/14 and 20 hockey titles defeating Kingswood College in the two respective finals while Vidyartha annexed the U/16 [...]
Oswin remembered
Kandy Sports Club lost a good administrator with the recent demise of Oswin Silva, who was its secretary during the 1970s. He was largely responsible for the amalgamation of the two rival clubs – the Kandy Sports Club and the Kandy Rugby Football Club. At a recent meeting of the club, presided by the senior [...]
Expect a real trailblazer and more action
The much looked forward to Uda Walawe Supercross conducted by the Sri Lanka Army Motor Sports committee of the Sri Lanka Army Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (SLEME) will speed off at the Uda Walawe Supercross in Sevanagala, Uda Walawe today. The inaugural meet was held in 2011 and has since then gone from strength to [...]
Malith and Nipuna bag 2 Titles each
Malith Senanayake and Nipuna Nuwan bagged major honours at the 7th Mahaweli Reach Junior Tennis Championship 2018 concluded at the Mahaweli Reach Tennis courts in Kandy. Malith and Nipuna stole the show by winning a Doubles title each. Nipuna Nuwan won the Under (U)-15 and U-17 Singles. He beat Shamil 7-2 in the U-15 final [...]
Confusion in rugby; TMO is not the referee
Confusion in Rugby is not because of concussion suffered on the field but, because of a PhD (partially head damaged). One day, it is said that the Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU) President has resigned. Next day, the talk is that the resignation has not been accepted. A few days later, the WPRFU President [...]
Why cannot our Cricket team be at the top all the time?
There are times when our National Cricketers perform very well. On those occasions they are on par with other top cricketing nations. But, they do not perform well all the time. There is an inconsistency in the players’ performance and it would be good to find out what causes this. It is not an easy [...]
Rajiva Wijetunge synonymous with Mercantile Sports
40 years in Mercantile Table Tennis, 35 years in Mercantile Athletics Hailing from Matara, a past pupil of Royal College, Colombo 7, Rajiva is no stranger to Sri Lanka’s sporting arena. From his younger years at Royal College, Rajiva was determined to stride ahead through Cricket, Athletics and Table Tennis (TT). From 1977-1979, he represented [...]
Vijaya College Powerlifting champions
Vijaya College Matale emerged boys (28 bonus points) and girls (15 points) champions respectively at the National Junior Power-Lifting Championships 2018 which was concluded recently at Maithree hall in Bandaragama. It was organised and conducted by Sri Lanka powerlifting association. In the history of national junior power lifting championships held so far, this is the [...]
Why football is second class!
Legal luminary and ardent sports administrator Panduka Keerthinanda shared a discourse on the Integrity of Sports in the Sunday Times last weekend amplifying the edict that politics and sports should not mix. Another news item stated that the new Sports Minister had vowed to keep sports away from politics; perhaps the muddle should be other [...]
F4F friendship football a huge success
Sri Lanka, one of the participating countries of the Gazprom Football for Friendship (F4F) Programme, joined over 200 cities of the world in celebrating the International Day of Football and Friendship. The celebration was conducted in Sri Lanka for the first time, along with Dinuka Bandara and Mohamed Ayaan Sadath, the young ambassadors selected to [...]
AN OFFICIAL TO COLLECT LANKA’S QUOTA OF WORLD CUP TICKETS
All eyes are on the World Cup Football Tournament to be held in June. A football official has volunteered to collect the ticket quota allocated to Sri Lanka. Could not the tickets be posted to the authorities concerned? Is it necessary to send an official to collect them? LIGHTS BURNED OUT The lights suddenly burned [...]
Thrilling win for Ranawana Securities
Ranawana Securities scored a fighting 47-46 victory over National Development Bank (NDB) in the Men’s ‘C’ Division semifinal of the 12th Mercantile Services Basketball Association organised ‘Ram Ratnavel Memorial’ Knockout Basketball Tournament 2018, at the Henry Pedris Basketball Complex. NDB trailing 16-23 at halftime, came back strongly in the final stages but missed out playing [...]