A short-leg fielder’s long reach to turn the fate of a Test match
On a typical second day SSC wicket; initially the Lankans came up with heady performance thanks to a workmanlike second wicket stand of 142 runs between opener Dimuth Karunaratne and one-drop batsman Dhananjaya de Silva. The wicket carried no terrors on the easy paced wicket. It promised good batting conditions on day two in spite [...]
Sukhitha Manoj continues to dominate
Sukhitha Manoj of St. Sebastian’s College Moratuwa continues to dominate the All-Island Schools category for the fifth consecutive week of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest. Manoj added 221 votes in the ended week to reach 1337 and his lead against second placed Lakshitha Rasanjana of Nalanda [...]
Red Shirts outplay hapless Cops
A six-try team effort enabled CR&FC remain unbeaten in the ongoing Dialog Rugby League as they outplayed hosts Police Sports Club 38-17 in an entertaining yet scrappy game played at the Police Park yesterday. The hosts, who roared early with a penalty to open scoring, would have to blame themselves for committing unwarranted mistakes, while [...]
Kandy approaching peak, while Army crumbles
It was expected to be a tough assignment against the rugged soldiers. But the champions at times, played close to the peak of their ability to run out easy winners 38 (5 goals, one drop) to 10 (2 tries). Kandy had been guilty in their two previous matches of falling well short of the expected [...]
Rifath, Slasa help Zahira gain first innings points
Mohamed Rifath (5 for 28) and Imtiaz Slasa (3 for 45) helped Zahira College recorded a first innings win over fancied St. Peter’s College in their U-19 Inter-school cricket match concluded at Zahira ground in Maradana yesterday. The second day’s play saw St. Peter’s resuming from their overnight score of 14 for 1 succumbing to [...]
Asantha de Mel to replace Graeme Labrooy as head of Cricket Selection Committee?
At a juncture where change is the order of the day, it is certain that there will be a different set names among the national cricket selectors. According to a senior cricket committee source, the new list of names is scheduled to be announced early next week. Replacing Graeme Labrooy at the helm as the [...]
Semi-finalists found in U-20 Football Tourney
Maris Stella College, Hameed Al Husseine College Colombo, St. Joseph’s College Colombo and St. Patrick’s College Jaffna qualified for the semi-finals of the Sri Lanka Schools Under-20 Invitation Football Tournament by winning their respective quarter-final matches worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday. In the first quarter-final St. Joseph’s beat their traditional rivals [...]
Nugegoda CC in box seat against Singha CC
A superb spell of spin bowling by off spinner Savindu Peiris and an entertaining unfinished opening stand of 101 runs highlighted the deciding match of the SLC Governor’s Trophy Two-Day cricket encounter between Nugegoda CC and Singha CC commenced at Surrey ground in Maggona yesterday. Batting first Singha CC were dismissed for 232 in 52.2 [...]
Trinity shine at Weightlifting
Trinity College weightlifters stamped their class at the All-Island Schools Weightlifting Championship organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Weightlifting Power Lifting Strength Building Federation which took place at Aranayake recently. Trinity won nine Gold, two Silver, and two Bronze medals. Best Lifter: Kevin Gamage The following won medals Gold Medal Under-16: Abidh Jameel 56kg category, [...]
Jayasinghe and Premachandra at the helm of Sri Lanka Cricket Scorers Association
Sanjaya Jayasinghe and Jagath Premachandra were elected President and Secretary of the Sri Lanka Cricket Scorers Association at its Annual General Meeting held at the Western Province Cricket Association auditorium last Thursday. Asela Sandaruwan was elected Treasurer while Dimuthu Asanka was elected the Assignment Secretary. The Office Bearers elected President: Sanjaya Jayasinghe Secretary: Jagath Premachandra [...]
Iranian coach Elham wants better environment for shooters
Former Iran national rifle shooter turned international coach, Elham Hashemi Masoumi, is in Sri Lanka on an invitation of the National Shooting Sports Federation of Sri Lanka (NSSF), focusing the probability of joining forces to guide the local shooters. Elham, 47, and an ISSF (International Shooting Sports Federation ) ‘A’ Grade License coach, conducted an [...]
Sri Lanka Cricket treated Charith Senanayake like a wet rag
He has gone through the revolving door at Sri Lanka Cricket many a time as the manager of the Sri Lanka Test team, in short he has been in an out at the SLC not only as Manger but also as head of marketing. Charith Senanayake greeted me with open arms at his Rajagiriya Residence [...]
SSC and Colts battle for the plum
Two evenly balanced teams–SSC and Colts CC will battle it out for the Premier Emerging League cricket title today at the R. Premadasa Stadium. Both teams remained unbeaten so far. SSC had their first round robin match against Ragama CC been washed out by rain. They recorded an innings and 34-run win over the Under-19 [...]
Hathurusingha unveils his plans for World Cup 2019
May be that cricket has taken a back seat now with the ongoing unparliamentary sports meets with new sports like Chili Throwing and the Chair Throwing taking pride of place. Yet, perennially cricket has been our favourite pastime and will remain to be so for the next umpteen number of years. Having said that, we [...]
Rugby is up and running with Fijians in the basket
The First Olympic medal for Fiji was when they claimed gold at the Rio Olympics – in Rugby Sevens. This inspired glory for Fiji despite having dominated World Rugby Sevens. Lanka thinks they could borrow a Fijian leaf. Sri Lanka Rugby introduced a system where the four teams placed at the bottom of the last [...]
Alexander Zverev clinches ATP final’s
The last German to win ATP finals was in 1995. Boris Becker did that two years before ‘Sasha’ was born in Hamburg to parents of Russian origin. [Sasha is pet name for Alexander in Russia]. This title win of Zverev in London last week, at the ATP final’s is the biggest Men’s Tennis boost for [...]
Moratuwa and Colombo Universities victorious
University of Moratuwa and University of Colombo emerged Team champions in the Men’s and Women’s categories respectively at the 5th Inter University Invitational ‘Grip to Grip’ Annual Carrom Championship 2018, held at the Indoor Sports Complex of the University of Kelaniya. Organised by the Kelaniya University Physical Education Division for the fifth year was participated [...]
Merc. Basketball comes alive
The 28th Mercantile Basketball League Tournament 2018 will come to an end with the finals of eight divisions of Men’s and Women’s scheduled to be worked off from tomorrow (November 26) to November 29 at the ‘HSC Blues’ Edward Henry Pedris Sports Complex, Colombo 4. Conducted by the Mercantile Services Basketball Association the tournament was [...]
Through pass by FFSL brings Football to disrepute once again!
Recent press articles in multiple media drew attention to the FFSL disregard to ministerial advice by voting to save AFC blushes, adversely compromising our status as an independent nation, merely to cater to the panjandrums of the Asian body! Former President Ranjith Rodrigo who has been out of the dugout for some time now, virtually [...]
Air Force and CH will try to break the ‘duck’ at Ratmalana today
Two beaten teams, the Air Force and surprisingly, the CH, will be striving to break their duck when they come up against each other today at Ratmalana. The Airmen gave the champions a run for their money and had levelled the score at 14 all early in the second half. Then it was 19-21, after [...]
Golfing juniors to the fore
A programme has been launched by the Junior Clinic of the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) to recruit a fresh pool of budding young golfers for Boys and Girls in the age groups of 9 to 13 years on a programme named ‘A Day of Discovery’. The main aim of the programme which was inaugurated [...]
Ashen and Roscoe guide John Keells ‘B’ div title
Roscoe Thattil continued from where he left in the semi-finals guiding John Keells ‘B’ to the finals. This time he spearheaded them to a resounding seven wickets win over Kanrich Finanace ‘B’ in the final of the second Unilever-Fair and Lovely men Trophy-MCA ‘B’ Division 50 Over League Tournament 2019, conclude at the MCA Grounds [...]
Cricket Over 50s World Cup, Sydney, Australia
Cricket fans are in for treat between November 20 and December 5 with Australia playing host to the inaugural over 50s World Cup tournament featuring teams from England, South Africa, New Zealand, Wales, and Canada and notably for local fans a team from Sri Lanka as well. Under the auspice of Cricket Australia and with [...]