Hathurusingha upbeat about Lankan cricket despite setbacks
In spite of all seeming reversals, Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) Head Coach Chandika Hathurusinghe is confident he can turn around the flagging cricket unit. Hathurusinghe told the Sunday Times, “I took up this challenge knowing well what to expect and what was ahead of me. If I had an iota of a doubt, I wouldn’t [...]
ICC releases latest version of DLS system
The International Cricket Council today released the updated version of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) System along with the new ICC Code of Conduct and ICC Playing Conditions. These will come into effect from Sunday, 30 September, when the first ODI between South Africa and Zimbabwe will be played in Kimberley. This is the third version but [...]
Six young Sri Lankan footballers flown to Spain
Six young talented Sri Lankan football players flew to Spain for a fully sponsored trip by Milo, to make their ultimate football fantasy come true. They will be attending a four day coaching camp run by FC Barcelona, where world class Football training will be offered by Milo’s “Road to Barcelona”, presenting the participants with [...]
Bangladesh praised for fight in Asia Cup final
DHAKA, Sept 29, 2018 (AFP) - Bangladeshi media on Saturday lauded the national cricket team’s spirited showing in the Asia Cup final after they went down to favourites India in a last-ball thriller in Dubai. Opener Liton Das slammed his maiden one-day international century in Bangladesh’s modest 222 but it was the bowlers who made [...]
MAS Slimline, MAS Unichela emerge champions
The conclusion of the 92nd Men and Women Clifford Cup Boxing Championship at the Royal MSA Arena boxing ring in Reid Avenue saw MAS Slimline BC Pannala and MAS Unichela of Panadura two clusters of MAS Holdings emerge champions in both men’s and women’s categories. MAS Slimline are winning the title for the eighth consecutive [...]
Last ball boundary gives Lankans the Red Bull
Sri Lanka scored a nail-biting last ball win over India in the finals of the Red Bull Campus Cricket World T20 tournament at the SSC Grounds yesterday. Put into bat India scored a healthy 211 for the loss of two wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Indians built their innings aided by two fruitful partnerships [...]
Nuwanidu steers Sri Lanka
Nuwanidu Fernando’s unbeaten knock of 64 paved the way for Sri Lanka U19 to record a convincing 6-wicket win over host Bangladesh U19 to begin their U19 Asia Cup Cricket tournament campaign on a winning note in the match played at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong, Bangladesh yesterday. Nuwanidu whose knock comprised seven [...]
Lankans optimistic inspite of a win and a loss
Sri Lanka remains third in Pool ‘B’ with a win and a defeat behind Hong Kong and South Korea at the end of first day’s play of the Asian Sevens Rugby Series second leg in South Korea yesterday. The Tuskers have a match remaining against the hosts, South Korea, which will be played as the [...]
Rasanjana shines in Nalanda’s innings win
Lakshitha Rasanjana Manasinghe shone with an allround performance in Nalanda’s innings and 159 runs win against Wesley in the Under-19 Inter-School cricket encounter concluded at the Campbell Park yesterday. Lakshitha first shone with an unbeaten ton when Nalanda batting first to help the side amass a score of 315 for 6 declared. Then he had [...]
Kusal, Angelo, Shehan guide LB Finance to fourth win
An unbeaten ton by Kusal Mendis and supported by half tons from Angelo Perera and Shehan Jayasuriya laid the foundation for LB Finance to record a convincing 102 runs win over John Keells Holdings in the 26th MCA Premier League cricket tournament match played at De Zoysa Stadium in Moratuwa yesterday. The trio’s knocks helped [...]
Colombo coast to third successive win
Colombo coasted to their third successive win of the of the ongoing Under-23 Inter-Provincial cricket tournament with a crushing 10-wicket win over Galle with a day to spare in the match at CCC grounds. Colombo almost had the game under their belt when play was in progress in the latter part of the second session [...]
Prime Minister says slow and steady wins the race
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that while most of our neighbouring countries have made vast strides in the sphere of sport, Sri Lanka has stagnated. He said “You will be amazed at the vast strides that the relatively new comers have made in the game. This is what has been missing in Sri Lanka sport. [...]
Track and Field at Sugathadasa Stadium from October 1-5
The Track and Field events of the 34th All-Island Schools Sports Festival will be held at the Sugathadasa Stadium from October 1-5. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who, as Minister of Education in 1984, inaugurated the Schools Sports Festival, will be the Chief Guest at the opening ceremony, while President Maithripala Sirisena will be the Chief [...]
MAS Mercantile TT Champs
MAS clinched top spot at the 61st Mercantile Open Table Tennis (TT) Championship 2018, conducted at the S. Thomas’ College Sports Complex last weekend. A record number of 176 Paddlers, the highest in the history of the event, from 39 Mercantile establishments, participated in this mega event. Chalitha Ranjana, Kalpani Herath, Nirmala Jayasinghe, Lakshitha Chaturanga [...]
Some slots missing in the Lankan cricket jigsaw
Cricket in Sri Lanka is in crisis. The signs of decline are omnipresent. They are alarming. On the field, Sri Lanka, who reached five World Cup finals from 2007 to 2014 while also winning one, were eliminated from this month’s Asia Cup even before India started their campaign. The defeats to Bangladesh and Afghanistan by [...]
Poacher woes besets the Park Club
In spite of the mass exodus of key players over the past two seasons, Havelocks Sports Club is unyielding in its continuous efforts of recruiting newcomers to club rugby from schools and making them household names. The Havelocks, as the 104-year-old club is well known by rugby lovers, may have lost closer to a dozen [...]
Lankan football has gained visibly
“Sri Lanka gained a fine start at the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup Tournament 2018,” said Rummy Paceer Ali, National Football Coach told the Sunday Times. “We have now made arrangements to take it forward step by step. We hope to end it at the SAFF Championships in 2020 in Pakistan. “Prior to that [...]
Rain dunks tourney on Day 9
Rain halted proceedings in the 28th Mercantile League Basketball Tournament on the 9th day, and the remaining matches will be rescheduled for a later date. In the Women’s ‘B’ Division David Peiris Group of Companies (DPGC), spearheaded by Pramesha Fernando top score of 27, scored a runaway 64-14 victory over WSO2 at the St. Joseph’s [...]
Colombo Malays rewrite history by entering local Rugby arena
Pride without any prejudice was the overwhelming emotion as Colombo Malay Cricket Club (CMCC), last Sunday fielded a Rugby team, for the first time in its 146-year history. Captained by Imran Alibah, the first CMCC Rugby team participated in the development grade, at the Open 7s tournament conducted by the Western Province Rugby Football Union [...]
ICC anti-corruption bombshell awaits Lanka?
I met this former national cricketer who was fuming. He said he knows the International Cricket Council (ICC) machinery well and exactly how it ticks, and he too, has tentacles into the inner cogs of the ICC wheel. He said that was the last thing he expected Sri Lanka to be, under investigation on corruption [...]
Overstaying one’s welcome
Selectors of Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC), under the able guidance of the Minister of Sports Faiszer Musthapha, with the assistance and support of new Coach Hathurusinghe have, after much hard work and deliberations, striven to mould into shape a permanent National Cricket outfit comprising mainly of players representing the majority community. This mode of selection [...]
Dr. Upali Mahanama Memorial Lecture
The Dr Upali Mahanama Memorial Foundation was inaugurated by his friends, relatives and organisations such as Jaycees (Junior Chamber) and the Free Masons of Sri Lanka, of which the late Dr Mahanama was an ardent and active member. The Mission of the Dr Mahanama Foundation is to follow his ideals, and keep with the spirit, [...]
Hype won’t alter our Football fortunes!
Our footballers came home before the SAFF Championship ended in favour of the Maldivians who got the better of the under par Indians. But the boasts on social media was akin to a team returning with the silverware! Perhaps sports lovers and football enthusiasts in particular were distracted by the hasty return of our cricketers [...]
Netball or not, Player Welfare and Safety is Paramount
“Referee! This is not Netball,” was a cry often heard from the stands during the 2017 Club season, as well as the 2018 School season. Many pundits, ex-players, and the public have been vociferously complaining along the lines of “Rugby has gone soft”. There has been continuous criticism that, there is an increase in ‘Yellow’ [...]
Trinity sans 5 seniors will be no pushover as talent abounds
Coach Kavinda Jayasuriya’s steady hand on the tiller has ensured that Trinity College’s fortunes have not slipped badly in the post-Sampath Perera years. This season will provide a stern test. Can they find adequate replacements for the likes of Hasitha Boyagoda, Thisaru Dilshan, Hasintha Jayasuriya, Vimukthi Nethumal and Trevor Percival? Boyagoda’s loss will be huge. [...]
Lankan-born Dillon LaBrooy (21) is a champion wheelchair athlete in the UK
Sri Lanka-born Dillon Audrick LaBrooy is a 21-year-old wheelchair athlete going great guns in the United Kingdom (UK) as a high ranked para athlete who has won many medals in national and international para games. In 2002, at age 4 he migrated to the UK with his parents to seek professional medical treatment. He had [...]
2019 Magic – New chorus line?
The chances of local Tennis champions being known in a small town in Sri Lanka is very remote. Recognising them in person is even more remote. However, even small towns, know the best Tennis players of the world. Even up to the ranking of 10 in Women and Men. The reason is, they get to [...]
I.G. Madu Dharmapriya 4th in World Karate Tournament
Lankan I.G. Madu Dharmapriya excelled in a World Karate Tournament held for the first time in the birthplace of Karate, Okinawa, at Naha Okinawa Karate prefectural hall, with the participation of 4,500 Karatekas from 35 countries worldwide. Karate is a Martial Arts sports discipline increasingly popular worldwide, that inculcates a high level of discipline, non-violence [...]
Lankan Para Athletes aim for No.1 spot
Sri Lanka’s (SL) target is to top the Medals Table at the 3rd Asian Para Games (APG) stated SL National Paralympics Committee (NPC) President Maj.Gen. Rajitha Ampemohotti. The 3rd edition of the APG will be held from October 6-13 in Jakarta, Indonesia, The SL team led by 2016 Rio Paralympics Bronze medalist Dinesh Priyantha Herath [...]
Schoolboy Football talent takes centre stage
The 14th edition of Zahira Super 16 7-a-side Football Championship organised by the Past Prefects’ Association of Zahira College, will reach new heights, when this year’s competition takes place on Saturday, October 6, at the Racecourse ground in Colombo, as its official venue, on 3 different playing fields. Zahira College Colombo has excelled in Football [...]