Selector blunders cost Lankans another game
Fickle selection policy was once again in full exhibition as Sri Lanka succumbed to yet another heavy defeat in the one-off T20 international against England here at the R. Premadasa Stadium last night. Chasing 188 to win, Sri Lanka could muster 157 runs all out, suffer a 30-run defeat as England wrapped up the match [...]
SLC now entangled in rooms pose
The hosting of the second Test between Sri Lanka and England in Pallekele now hangs in the balance due to overbooking of the team hotel in Kandy. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) made a reservation in April for 80 rooms for members of the two competing teams at Earl’s Regency, a five star facility in close [...]
Sukhitha, Thanusha and Sithmi draw first blood
The first week’s result of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest, which kicked off last week, comes out this weekend with a few known names. The results coming out today were culminate votes counted from Coupon No.1 and Coupon No.2. Taking the honour of leading the All-Island [...]
Anjali, Randika set new meet records on day three
Two new meet records were established on the third day of the 30th National Youth Games which continued at the Kotawila Stadium in Matara yesterday. In fact, Anjali Pulwansa of Colombo District had the distinction of erasing a 24-year-old record while competing in the Women’s Over-20 Long Jump final. She produced a fine performance of [...]
Lakshitha slams 157 as Nalanda dominate
Lakshitha Rasanjana slammed a career best knock of 157 as Nalanda dominated proceedings to record a comfortable first inning against St.Sebastian’s in their Under-19 Inter-School Cricket encounter concluded at Moratuwa yesterday. The second day’s play saw Nalanda resuming from their overnight score of 29 for 0 made a mammoth score of 411 for 7. This [...]
Ananda stun Nalanda with 2-0 win
Ananda scored a stunning 2-0 victory over arch rivals Nalanda at the 17th Ananda Nalanda Hockey Encounter for the M.W. Karunananda Trophy at the Astro Hockey turf, Colombo 7 yesterday. Nalanda a better fancied side was outplayed by the gritty Anandians as they dominated play in the final two quarters in the second half. The [...]
Higgoda ends round robin campaign with unbeaten record
Anuruddha Higgoda of Otters AC ended his round robin campaign of the ongoing 66th National Snooker Championship with an unbeaten record when he recorded back to back wins on day three played at the Moors SC billiards table yesterday. Higgoda in the morning session coasted to a convincing four frames to nil win over M. [...]
Good wins for Colombo FC and Renown
Colombo FC and Renown SC recorded wins in their opening matches of the Dialog Champions League (DCL) 2018 football encounters played yesterday. Colombo FC defeated Upcountry Lions SC 4-3 in their match played at the Kelaniya Football Complex. The halftime ended 1-1 after W.G.R. Manuja struck the first goal of the match in the 27th [...]
Four-up Royal take the T.N. Fernando Trophy
Royal College dominated the waters of Beira Lake to win the T.N. Fernando Trophy as Overall winners at the 49th Annual Royal-Thomian Regatta at the Colombo Rowing Club yesterday. Royal with 38 points won their 4th successive win in this annual encounter to Thomians’ 14 points. The Reid Avenue school’s 38 points came off in [...]
Sri Lanka Schools U-14 Boy’s and Girls’ Hockey Carnival 2018 in Badulla
The Sri Lanka Schools Under-14 Boy’s and Girls’ Hockey Carnival 2018 conducted by Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association will take place at Vincent Dias stadium in Badulla from October 29 to 31. According to the secretary of SLSHA Indravansa Herath the three day junior hockey carnival will see 60 teams (boys and girls) across the [...]
Inter Club Cricket Under-23 tournament still in abeyance
The revival of the scuttled Under (U)-23 tournament still seems to be in abeyance, even though the Premier League Tier ‘A’ tournament will begin as scheduled on November 30. When inquired Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Head of Operations Chinthaka Edirimanna told the Sunday Times that right now, plans for the U-23 tournament are on hold. [...]
Dialog football kicks off in Jaffna
The star studded 13th edition of the Dialog Champions League 2018 Football Championship, kicked off officially at the historic Duraiappah Stadium in Jaffna last Sunday. The curtain raiser match of the 18-team competition was played between last season’s runners-up New Youngs SC and Super Sun SC at 6.00pm, followed by the opening ceremony. The thrilling [...]
Dimo and MAS Silueta to battle it out in the final
Dimo and MAS Silueta will battle for the 26th Singer-MCA Premier League Knock-out title in the Final to be played today at the MCA Grounds commencing at 9.45 a.m. Dimo entered the finals by winning the ‘bowl-out’ contest, 1/0 against Commercial Credit and Finance ‘A’. Himesh Ramanayake was the only bowler to hit the target. [...]
FFSL embroiled in their own accusations!
A Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) internal investigation into several questionable transactions flagged in a 2015 Government audit has concluded that no fraud was committed in the sporting body during the period under question (2004-2008) and that all accounts were duly audited by the Auditor General’s (AG) Department and passed at an annual general [...]
FFSL dribbling with AFC pose
The hierarchy of Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) is contemplating weather to vote for or against a decision of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to amend its constitution before October 30. The AFC, according to reliable information, has notified its member countries on the upcoming transform but Sri Lanka is said to have taken [...]
25th Albert Edirisinghe Trophy Football Match
Royal College Colombo and Mahinda College Galle will be battling for the prestigious Albert Edirisinghe Football Trophy today (October 28) at 3.00pm. Incidentally this match will be celebrate its 25th anniversary; and will be played at the Racecourse in Colombo 7. The inaugural match between these two schools was played in 1984, and since then [...]
SLC calls for SGM to appoint elections committee
Sri Lanka Cricket this week called for an Special General Meeting to appoint the Election Committee to conduct the long overdue Sri Lanka Cricket election. The SGM will be held on November 12 at 10 a.m at the Duncan White Auditorium. Accordingly; the required notice has already been dispatched to the membership of SLC by [...]
Sports Law and the moon walk
Confusing times; it was only last week, a group of Lanka cricket’s stakeholders met Sports Minister Faiszer Musthapha and discussed the consequences of the delays in holding tournaments. May be, it was within the periphery of the minister’s authority; the results were prompt and two weeks hence, club cricketers will be back in their dressing [...]
Is the sordid saga of Sri Lanka Football about to unfold?
The Malaysians took the mickey off our national team and its celebrated coach by clobbering the local lads in a second half deluge 4:1, which once again laid bare the abject fitness long suspect and completely overlooked by the powers that be. The trick now is to stay the course and engage foreign regional teams [...]
Blue sea or Red sea – Sport Fishing by the rules
Sport Fishing is not just about the number or the size of the fish you catch but also the manner in which you do so. Commercial Fishermen fish for numbers in order to make a living and feed their families. Recreational Anglers fish for enjoyment and that should mean playing by the rules. Not jungle [...]
Hockey where Mt. Lavinia meets Matale
The fourth Hockey Big Match between the Mt. Lavinia Thomians and their counterparts from Matale will be bullied off on November 3 at the Astro Turf in Reid Avenue. Started in 2015, this match is played for the Eric Hulangamuwe Shield, the Matale Thomians won the inaugural match 2-0, while the next two ended in [...]
Sir Roger Bannister the esteemed Neurologist
It is with profound sadness that the medical world joined the sports world in the expression of grief, in the passing away of the world’s first 4-minute miler, Roger Bannister. He was a 24-year-old Medical student at Oxford when he broke the seemingly insurmountable 4-minute barrier, on the cinder track at Oxford University’s Iffley Road [...]
CSRA Veterans win Plate championship
Colombo Synergy Rugby Academy (CSRA) Veterans team created history by emerging Plate champions in the Veterans Category at the Bali International Rugby 10s Tournament held in Indonesia on October 13-14. This is the second international tournament CSRA participated this year. They toured Malaysia in February for the ‘Keris Conlay X Tournament’ held in Kuala Lumpur, [...]
Schools’ Rugby coaches on and off the field
Schools, through its trusted disciples of Rugby, are making choices for coaches and, or advisors. Rugby in schools is a centre of focus and these decisions will have a telling effect on the life of children. In a background of shifting and moving coaches, as winning is illusive, there must also be consideration of the [...]
Commercial Bank ‘A’ lift ‘Dennis De Rosayro’ Trophy
Defeat MAS Holdings 3-1 in the final Commercial Bank of Ceylon (ComBank) ‘A’ defeated MAS Holdings (MASH) 3-1 in the final to clinch the ‘Dennis De Rosayro’ Trophy at the 42nd Mercantile Hockey Association’s (MHA) Men’s 7-a-side Tournament 2018 concluded at the P. Sara Stadium last Sunday. In the finals of the ‘A’ Division, ComBank [...]
National Badminton Championship 2018, Oct.29-Nov.3
In the background of excellent performances at international level by our young Shuttlers, the 66th National Badminton Championship 2018 will get under way from October 29-November 3, at the Royal College Indoor Stadium Courts, Colombo 7. To bring the standard of the tournament to be on par with international standards, Sri Lanka Badminton (SLB) will [...]
Will Herath be the bogeyman again in his swan song?
When England last toured Sri Lanka in March-April 2012, Mahela Jayawardena’s phenomenal consistency both in Galle and at the Sara Stadium, would have given him the edge over teammate Rangana Hearth, when it came to picking the ‘Man of the Series’. Jayawardena had an amazing run, with scores of 180, 105 and 64. Not far [...]
Elite Players and their emotions
In a match, surging emotion and the subsequent bad performance due to it, is an unwanted development in any Tennis player. Although it is common, the cause of a player’s emotional reaction is not fully understood, even among professional players. Apart from unkindly labelling the player, not much has been of help to them. If [...]
139th Battle of the Blues ‘Play for a Cause’ Benefits Four Schools
139th ‘Battle of the Blues’ annual cricket encounter between Royal College, Colombo, and S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, this year saw four schools benefit from ‘Play for a Cause’, the annual sustainability project of this traditional encounter. H/Theraputta National School, Ambalantota, Kirindiwela MMV, Kirindiwela, Victoria College, Chulipuram and Pothuwila MMV, Pothuwila were selected as the [...]
Airmen win carrom doubles title
Udesh Chandima partnered by Dineth Dulakshana of Sri Lanka Air Force recorded an easy win by beating Anas Ahamed and Suraj Maduwantha of Sri Lanka Army 2-0 (25/03, 25/23) at Men’s Doubles Finals of the 18th President Cup Carrom Championship conducted by Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka. Over three hundred competitors representing island-wide participated at [...]
Kanrich fair poorly against CDB to go down by 1 wicket
Kanrich Finance (Kanrich) ‘B’ could not cash in on a classic all-round effort by former Anthonian cricketer Raveen Sayer’s 102 runs and 3/32, as they went down to CDB by 1 wicket, with CDB’s Imran Khan bagging 5/40, in the ongoing ‘Fair & Lovely Men’ Trophy, MCA ‘B’ Division 50-Over League Tournament 2019, continued last [...]