Hathurusingha ponders Sri Lanka cricket’s post Rangana Herath era
Doesn’t Rangana Herath deserve better? Nineteen years of international cricket and 433 wickets in Tests, did he not merit a better send-off than a 211-run thrashing in one of Sri Lanka’s favourite grounds? He is, after all, the highest global wicket taker among left-arm bowlers and the man who lifted his team to many a [...]
Manoj remains in the lead
Sukhitha Manoj of St. Sebastian’s College Moratuwa continues to remain as the leader of the pack of the All-Island Schools category in the fourth week of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest. Manoj added 275 votes in the ended week, taking his tally to 756. His lead [...]
Another ex-international to be charged by ICC next week
The Anti Corruption Unit of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is likely to book another high profile Sri Lanka ex-international cricketer on corruption charges next week, the Sunday Times reliably understands. Then upon its findings the Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) is likely extend its booking list. An ex-cricketing Lankan insider speaking to the Sunday Times [...]
Bloomfield, Galle SC record first innings wins
Bloomfield and Galle CC recorded first innings wins against Navy SC and Chilaw Marians in the two-day Premier Emerging League cricket tournament encounters concluded at Reid Avenue and R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. The second day’s play saw Bloomfield after bowling out Navy SC for a low score of 111. However Navy SC’s bowling pair Kavika [...]
Lyceum Wattala way head after day-one
Lyceum International School, Wattala heads the Medal Count with 34 medals at the end of the first day of the 24th Inter International Schools’ Swimming Championship 2018 commenced at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex yesterday. Lyceum Wattala, have a clear lead of 10 medals over their nearest rivals Lyceum Nugegoda. Gateway Colombo and Lyceum Panadura occupy [...]
Zahira 205/9, President’s 54/4
President’s College Kotte was struggling on 54 for 4 in reply to Zahira’s 205 for 9 at the end of the first day’s play in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter played at the Zahira ground in Maradana. The match will be continued today. Result Zahira 205 for 9 (Yasith Nirmal 40, S. Aravind 35, [...]
Kandy won but lacked usual flamboyance
Kandy SC won, but not as they liked. Credit for that must go to the Air Force’s battling set of forwards who made the champions really sweat for their points. The final tally was 28 (4 goals) to 19 (2 goals and a try) at an, at times, solemn Air Force grounds. At the break [...]
Ratwatte heroics give CR wafer thin victory
Fly half Tarinda Ratwatte was the hero of CR&FC as he did the bulk of the scoring to guide his side to a wafer thin one-point victory (24 points to 23) over traditional rivals CH&FC in the Dialog Inter-Club rugby encounter played at Longdon Place yesterday. In the end what matters is the win. Ratwatte [...]
Thomians take charge of Orville Abeynaike Memorial Trophy
S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia retained the Orville Abeynaike Memorial Hockey Trophy with a 1-0 victory over arch rivals Royal College at the Astro Turf, Colombo 7 yesterday. Thomians, who beat Royal last year to brake a seven year hoodoo, have taken charge of the coveted Orville Abeynaike Trophy for yet another year. The game [...]
Omega Line and Maliban Biscuits win Mercantile VB ‘A’ Division
Omega Line SC and Maliban Biscuits SC won the ‘A’ Division men and women championships of the Mercantile Volleyball Tournament, played at the National Youth Service Council (NYSC) indoor courts yesterday. The tournament was conducted by Mercantile Volleyball Association. At ‘A’ Division men’s finals, Omega Line SC beat Eskimo Fashions SC by set 3-0 (25-13,25-17 [...]
SLR’s Sevens coach and trainer sent home
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) has decided not to renew the contracts of National Sevens Coach Peter Woods and Trainer Nicholas Groube. Woods and Groube were recruited by SLR on two-year contracts, which ended last month. SLR will not renew the contracts as Sri Lanka does not have any international or regional sevens assignments until August [...]
Charith Senanayake vacates Manager post
An ugly personality clash between the Head Coach and Team Manager has now reached a boiling point, with the manager relinquishing his duties with immediate effect, accusing the coach of conspiring to get rid of him. Charith Senanayake, former Sri Lanka cricketer, replaced Asanka Gurusinha, who took up the position of Chief Cricket Operating Officer [...]
Confusion at FFSL– speculation rife
The world’s most popular sport is in ‘troubled waters’ in Sri Lanka, according to experts, after the decision of Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) to vote in favour of the constitutional amendments tabled at the Annual Congress of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on October 31 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Soon after the news [...]
Gampaha Dist Assoc. , N&D TT Club Champs
Gampaha District Table Tennis (TT) Association and N&D TT Club won the Men’s and Women’s ‘A’ Division titles respectively, at the Western Province Inter Club League TT Team Championships 2018 held at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium recently. Gampaha District TT Association trounced I&D TT Academy in the Men’s finals and N&D TT Club [...]
Red Bull Levels in Bentota on Nov.24
Considered one of the toughest obstacle courses, Red Bull Levels returns to Sri Lanka for its 4th edition. With 3 successful events held in 2015, ’16 and ’17, this ultimate test of body and mind returns on November 24 to the Avani Resort, Bentota. Red Bull Levels is an obstacle course that brings together two [...]
Dialog rugby league unleashed …. look out for CH&FC
Promising yet another 14 full weeks of excitement, the Dialog Rugby League 2018/19 kicked off this weekend. The first round, which began on Friday will continue for seven straight weeks and will come to an end on December 23 while the second round is set to be played through January 4 to February 17 next [...]
Take note of the dwindling crowd at our Test matches
It is a gigantic compassion to glimpse only miniature spectator surveillance at these closely contested Test matches at home venues. Spectator interest should have been at the forefront of the attentions of authorities of Sri Lanka Cricket. They should very well comprehend that a Test match will not be booming without a weighty spectator audience. [...]
Light at the end of cricket tunnel
Could this be the catalyst? Sports Minister Faiszer Musthapha, after much deliberation, on Monday announced the composition of Sri Lanka Cricket’s Cricket committee, and on its agenda will be taking the administration to the next election and preparing for Cricket World Cup 2019. Earlier, the speculation was that the sports minister was hoping to keep [...]
Football House days of playing ‘pandu’, on the skids
Looks like even the much-heralded super coach Pakir Ali cannot revive the fortunes of Sri Lanka (SL) Football. While his colleagues at Football House play hostage to the one-man think tank who dreamed up the Vision 2030 plan that would have kept him and his cronies in clover for another 12 years, the fault lines [...]
Are the guardians bigger than the Sport?
Rugby, they said, is a game played in heaven. Will it be heaven, sort of, watching Rugby in the 1st week of the local League. This is at a time when both sides of the House that talks as the Legislature, include Rugby personalities as well as Rugby enthusiasts. They will be seen taking time [...]
Khachanov ends Djokovic’s run
From the quarterfinals onwards, by far, Karen Khachanov’s Tennis was the best Paris saw in the ATP Masters of 2018. Khachanov [Pronounced Kha-cha-nov] entered the event as the 45th-ranked unseeded player. A Russian with Armenian roots is 22-years of age and 6’6” tall. His idol is big, hard-serving Marat Safin, another tall past player of [...]
We do have anti-corruption Laws in place in Sri Lanka
The Sunday Times publishes this article in response to the article in the Sunday Times of November 4, titled, ‘We will have our own Anti-Corruption Laws soon’, by SLC’s CEO. When asked for his views, retired Senior Superintendent of Police and former Head of SLC’s ACU, explained it thus. “Sri Lanka (SL) may not require [...]
11 points adrift at halftime, Dialog ‘A’ beat MAS ‘A’ 72-69
Dialog Axiata (Dialog) ‘A’ trailing by 11 points at halftime, managed to beat MAS Holdings (MASH) ‘A’ by 3 points, with the game going into extra time. Sudesh Ahmed was outstanding for MASH ‘A’, but failed to get his side across the line despite scoring 43 points, as Dialog’s combine efforts got them through to [...]
McLarens undisputed champs for 3rd successive year
McLarens with 328 points emerged Overall Champs for the 3rd successive year, at the 35th Mercantile Inter Firm Badminton Team Championship 2018, concluded at the Mercantile Badminton Association Headquarters courts recently. The team set a record when they scooped up 9 championships across 32 Divisions. This has been the highest number of championships won by [...]
Indika Prasad, Udayangani Aluvihare win Triple Crowns
Indika Prasad and Udayangani Aluvihare showed they have not lost their touch, when they won Triple Crowns at the National Veterans Table Tennis (TT) Championship 2018 at the St. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium tables recently. The other notable performance came from M.M.M. Laffeer, when he defeated Dr. Nimal Lucas in the Over (O)-70 Men’s Singles. [...]
Kanrich Finance ‘B’ enter Final ousting HNB by 22 runs
Kanrich Finance (Kanrich) ‘B’ (League No. 2) entered the Final of the 2nd ‘Fair & Lovely Men’ Trophy – MCA ‘B’ Division 50-Over League Tournament 2019, when they beat League No.1, HNB by 22 runs on the DLS method. HNB stays in the tournament to face the winner of the eliminator, between League No. 3, [...]
Anatoly Karpov Chess Club celebrates 20th Anniversary
The 20th Anniversary celebrations of the Anatoly Karpov Chess Club (AKCC) was held at the Russian Centre Colombo (RCC) on October 29, amidst a large gathering of Chess lovers. First Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation, Anastasia Khokhlova was the Chief Guest, while RCC Director Buddhapriya Ramanayake, RCC Chief Executive Officer Lakshman Wijesuriya, [...]