So close yet so far
Epic Thisara Perera heroics in vain as New Zealand clinch series Equals Sanath Jayasuriya’s best knock in ODI’s in Kiwi land A rollicking maiden century by Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera was ultimately in vain as New Zealand wrapped up the one-day series with a 21-run victory in the second ODI at Mount Maunganui. With Sri [...]
Top three positions remain unchanged
Moratuwa Sebastianite Sukhitha Manoj conveniently went past the count of 2500 votes limit while his immediate follower Navod Paranavithana of Mahinda College, is closing in gradually as the 12th week results of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest comes out. The gap between the top two has [...]
Poor attitude cost Brisbane final spot-Osaka
Reigning US Open champion Naomi Osaka said her poor attitude cost her during her 6-2, 6-4 loss to Lesia Tsurenko in Saturday’s Brisbane International semi-finals. Osaka went into the match as firm favourite but looked flat from the outset as Tsurenko raced through the match in just 65 minutes. The Japanese star, who burst to [...]
Minister shifts stance, promises election, but delay inevitable
Sports Minister Harin Fernando on Friday promised Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) membership to restore democracy by holding the election, a major shift from his earlier stance of first going for an interim administration to “clean up the corrupted body”. This could be due to the Minister failing to get the support of the International Cricket [...]
Injured Mathews to miss Aussie Tests
Injured batsman Angelo Mathews is ruled out of this month’s two-match Test series against Australia but expects to return for the South African series in mid February, if all goes well. Sri Lanka will play two Tests, five ODIs and three T20Is against South Africa during their last international tour before the World Cup in [...]
Nip and tuck, but Police have final say
The Police continued their recent wave of success with an, at times, improbable win (21-18) over the CR. The winners scored a goal, a try and 3 penalties as against the goal, try and two penalties that their opponents obtained. There was a sombre, solemn touch prior to the match, followed by two minutes silence [...]
Australia U-19 prevail in a close battle
Australian Under 19 cricketers scored a hard fought eight run win in the 2nd ODI match to go up 2-0 in three match ODI series at the P. Saravanamuttu Oval yesterday. Chasing 305 to win, Sri Lanka U-19′s were 297 for nine in their alloted 50 overs conceding an inaccessible lead in the series. A [...]
Tamil Union make strong reply against Ragama
Tamil Union made a strong reply to Ragama CC’s first innings total of 433 as they finished day two on 223 for 2 in their Premier League Tier A match played at NCC grounds yesterday. The architect of their steady reply were Sachithra Serasinghe and Tharanga Paranavithana who shared an unfinished 188 runs for the [...]
Nimnaka – match bag of 12-83
St. Anthony’s tiny left-armer Nimnaka Jayatilleka tried single-handedly to bowl his side to victory over Royal Colombo in their match concluded at Katugastota. But the home team ran short of time. Set 229 to win in 33 overs, Royal were staring down the pit at 99-7. On day one, good contributions from Theekshana Gunasinghe and [...]
Struggling Australia throw away wickets in big run chase
Australia blew a strong start with yet another top order batting collapse in Sydney Saturday, leaving themselves a mountain to climb to stay in the fourth and final Test against India. When play was abandoned half an hour early due to rain, they were 236 for six, still 386 behind with Peter Handscomb (28) and [...]
Peterite Santhush slams swashbuckling double ton
Santhush Gunatileke slammed a career-best unbeaten 252 to help St. Peter’s College to a first innings win over Ananda College in their U-19 cricket encounter concluded at Ananda Mawatha yesterday. Resuming from their overnight score of 102 for 1, Ananda posted a mammoth score of 423 for 3 declared in reply to Ananda’s 213 runs [...]
Siriwardana, Mendis rescue hosts with half tons
Sri Lanka ‘A’ claimed a first innings lead in the first unofficial Test against Ireland ‘A’ thanks to an unfinished century stand for the fifth wicket between Milinda Siriwardana and Kamindu Mendis at the SSC grounds yesterday. Siriwardana shared 139 runs with Mendis after Sri Lanka were reduced to 46 for 4 in reply to [...]
Maris Stella home for tea
Maris Stella College was home for tea when they tamed St. Benedict’s in their own den by coasting to a comfortable seven-wicket win in the match concluded at Kotahena yesterday. Resuming from their overnight score of 75 for 3, St. Benedicts put on a pathetic batting display as they succumbed to the bowling pair of [...]
Nishantha, Roshita steal the limelight
Royalist Shaheed Hilmy stole the limelight at the 30th Federation Cup Carrom Championship 2018 when he emerged champion in the Men’s Singles event while in the Women’s Singles’ Joseph Roshita of Sri Lanka Navy clinched the championship at the 30th Federation Cup Carrom Tournament, organised and conducted by the Sri Lanka Carrom Federation. The event, [...]
Steyn, Rabada strike in second innings
Dale Steyn and Kagiso Rabada struck early blows as Pakistan started their second innings on the third day of the second Test against South Africa at Newlands on Saturday. Facing a first innings deficit of 254 runs, Pakistan were 37 for two at lunch, still needing 217 runs to make South Africa bat again. Steyn [...]
Maradona released from hospital after internal bleeding
Argentina legend Diego Maradona has been released from hospital after being admitted with internal bleeding in his stomach, his daughter said. The 58-year-old was having a routine medical in his home country when doctors discovered the problem. However, his family said the diagnosis was not serious. “For those who were really worried about my dad [...]
FFSL’s one step forward – two steps back journey
Days after the break of the year 2019, a section of Sri Lanka football stakeholders have raised concerns over the delay of Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL), in adopting a model constitutional amendment recommended by the FIFA in December 2014. According to reports the FIFA had produced the ‘model constitution’ to its 209 member [...]
NOC looking at achievable targets to reach the next stage
A tennis Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the 2018 Davis Cup winners Croatia, futuristic MoUs with the Chinese Olympic Movement where Lankan athletes would stand to gain foreign exposure in training methods and an Ice ring to be built in Sri Lanka to train some local competitors for the 2022 winter Olympics are some of [...]
Kandy can’t afford to relax against spirited Airmen
It will be the Airmen’s lot to play Kandy SC for starters when the second round of the Dialog Rugby League commences. Today, Nittawela will not exactly be buzzing with excitement as the Kandy fans expect their team to win in a canter. The first round also started with the game between these two clubs [...]
Vengeful Sailors aiming to spoil CH run
There will be much sound and fury (Hopefully, not signifying nothing!) when the CH&FC entertain the Navy at the Racecourse today in a mid-table clash. Confidence is all when strong teams engage each other. By that token, the CH could be preening themselves on having beaten the Navy at their home base (34-26) when they [...]
Deaf cricket officials felicitated
Three senior officials of the Deaf Cricket Association were felicitated at the awards ceremony of the Sri Lanka Deaf Cricket Association held in hounour of the national Deaf cricket team who emerged champions at the World T20 Inaugural Cricket Tournament held in India recently. Mementos of appreciation were awarded to Mrs. Anula Ranjini, (Founder President/Chairperson [...]
Vinod, Taniya win top honours at Junior Golf
Vinod Weerasinghe and Taniya Minel Balasuriya crowned as boys’ and girls’ champions respectively at the 11th Sri Lanka Junior Open Golf Champiosnhips concluded at the Royal Colombo Golf Club on Friday Vinod captured the boys’ title for the 3rd consecutive year and will be eligible to defend his title once again next year. Vinod carded [...]
The walking dead of Lankan cricket
On a sunny boxing-day morning in 2004, the sudden destruction of the Lankan coastal areas by the Asian Tsunami affected the life 14-year-old Dinesh Chandimal, in the environments of Balapitiya where he lived. Yet he lived to bat another day and shifted from his school Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda to the cozier Ananda College in Colombo, [...]
Dinesh clinches Thai Open Para TT title
Competing at the 2018 Para Table Tennis Thailand Open, Dinesh Deshapriya marched to glory by winning the Gold medal in the Singles Class Nine event in Chiang Mai, Thailand recently. Deshapriya with a clean record kept the Lankan flag flying high when he defeated Hong Kong’s Wong Chi Yan 3-2 in a closely contested finals. [...]
1000 runs in 10 innings and still craving for more
Seethawaka National School’s skipper Kalana Madushanka is the first schoolboy cricketer to reach the milestone of 1000 runs in the ongoing schools Under-19 cricket season. Apart from his batting his inspiring leadership had helped the Seethawaka NS to ride high this season. This right-handed batsman has scored 1161 runs from ten innings which included three [...]
When a son fulfilled dreams of a cricket-crazy father
On the Christmas Eve of 1932, in Putamala, Southern India, Michael Colin Cowdrey was blessed to the Cowdrey family. His father, Ernest Arthur, was a tea planter and a fanatical cricket buff. Arthur did play for the Surrey County second XI and for the Minor Counties but was not good enough to play first-class cricket. [...]
Professional New Year reforms
South African Kevin Anderson announced, Tennis need reforms to go further. Anderson, ranked six in the world is the current vice president of the ATP Player Council. ATP is poised to introduce a Card-System for eligibility to enter events and to make Ranking system credible. From this year only 750 players will be ranked and [...]
Preaching and practicing ‘Keeping Rugby Clean’
The International Cricket Council feels “Sri Lanka’s cricket administration is corrupt from top to bottom”, screamed the media in Sri Lanka and elsewhere where cricket matters. The media added the Minister of Sports had been shown a confidential report on the matter at a Dubai meeting. That is Cricket, the game that has more national [...]
Gateway and S. Thomas’ to initiate football history
The inaugural football encounter for the Neville De Alwis-Ralph Alles Challenge Trophy will kick-off on January 26 at the Gateway College grounds in Ratmalana. Named after two key personalities connected to the two schools, the late Neville De Alwis who served as the Warden of S. Thomas’ College from 1983 to 1998. Late Ralph Alles [...]