CH snatch thrilling win from gritty Soldiers
Army Sports Club almost had it all but CH&FC scraped through after a clinical performance to secure a thrilling 24-22 win in a second round match of the Dialog Rugby League played at the Racecourse ground yesterday. The Soldiers unleashed their prowess from the first whistle while remaining as the only team yet to be [...]
Durban Miracle
Sri Lanka’s middle-order batsman Kusal Perera scored a brilliant unbeaten century to lead them to a famous one-wicket win over South Africa in a thrilling first test at Kingsmead on Saturday. Perera was not out on 153, his highest test score, as he put on 78 for the last wicket with number 11 Vishwa Fernando [...]
Sudden calm among almost all competitors
After a week which ended in a sudden silence Navod Paranavithana of Mahinda College still holds on to his lead in All-Island Schools as the end of the 18th week results of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest come out. However, the outcomes may have come out [...]
Court of Appeal to hear cricket elections appeals on Wednesday
The cricket elections scheduled for February 21 now hang in the balance after three candidates filed action in the Court of Appeal challenging the Sports Minister’s decision to appoint an Appeals Advisory Committee. The cases are fixed for February 20. Mohan de Silva and Ravin Wickremaratne have challenged the committee’s rejection of their nominations while [...]
Havies provide Kandy’s Waterloo
The Biblical feast at Cana where water was turned into wine was kind of reenacted at Havelock Park where a fighting, spirited Havelocks team overcame a strangely diffident Kandy side to pull off a 28-26 win. Kandy did not show the brilliance they displayed early on in the CR game but still they were up [...]
Kavindu and Shelinda hog the limelight on day two
Kavindu Bandara of Lyceum, Wattala and Shelinda Jansen from Gateway, Colombo stole the limelight on the second day of the 19th Annual International Schools’ Athletics Championships (ISAC) which continued at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Bandara put up a splendid performance to set up a new meet record in the Under-20 Boys’ 200 metres [...]
S. Thomas’ and Ladies emerge overall champions
S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia and Ladies College, Colombo won the highest number of Golds in the Junior Boys and Girls categories at the Sri Lanka Junior Intermediate Rowing Championship 2019 concluded at the Diyawanna Rowing Centre yesterday. The championship was worked off for four days from February 13 to 16. The Thomians won four [...]
CR strike back to down Airmen
CR&FC made a strong second half rally to secure a 36-26 win against a spirited Air Force SC side in their second round game of the Dialog Rugby League played at Ratmalana yesterday. Dark horses Air Force, who began striking from the first whistle went on strongly to lead the halftime by s surprising 19-7. [...]
Central Finance, DFCC bank set up final date
Central Finance will meet DFCC Bank in the Coca Cola MCA ‘D’ Division 40 Over League Tournament 2019 finals with victories over Airport and Aviation Services and Heshan Flexe Packaging respectively in the semi final matches played at Mattegoda and Thurstan Road yesterday. In the first semi final match Central Finance scored a one wicket [...]
Joes record easy first innings win
St Joseph’s recorded an easy first innings win over St. Benedict’s in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Darley Road yesterday. The second day’s play saw St. Joseph’s resuming from their overnight score of 244 for 5 going on to make a score of 301 for 7 declared. St. Benedict’s in turn were [...]
Pushpakumara leads CCC rout of Police
Left-arm spinner Malinda Pushpakumara returned figures of 5 for 13 as CCC recorded a comprehensive nine wicket win over Police SC in their Premier T20 match played at Panagoda yesterday. Pushpakumara restricted Police batting first for 60 runs and CCC chased down the target in five overs with Dilshan Munaweera (31) and Ashan Priyanjan sharing [...]
Local genius golfer Nandasena Perera moves on…
K. Nandasena Perera born 29th August 1954, in Bandaranaikepura, Rajagiriya, a stones’ throw from the Royal Colombo Golf Club, was a ‘Sportsman Par-excellence’ in every sense of the word. Nandasena had a tough childhood without the basic needs of a child from a less fortunate background, having to forfeit schooling at an early age to [...]
IronMan 70.3 to invade Colombo next Sunday
An army of 739 athletes from 58 countries will swim, cycle and run, covering a distance of 113 kilometres or 70.3 miles next Sunday in the heart of Colombo, as Sri Lanka hosts the ‘So Sri Lanka’ IronMan 70.3 Colombo event for the second time. The main organisers of this global event, ProAm Serendib, boasted [...]
Cricket’s captain dilemma — the ugly patchwork nobody likes
It is rare–even unheard of–in the cricketing world for a team to have had five captains in two years. But Sri Lanka has not only shuffled its deck at will, it has changed captains fast and often in search of the elusive quick fix. And it has not worked. Apart from five Test skippers, Sri [...]
23rd Eliyakanda Hill Climb today in Matara
The 23rd Eliyakanda Hill Climb organised and conducted by the Southern Motor Sports Club (SMSC) will take place today at Browns Hill, Matara. This is the 1st event of the SLAS National Championship for 2019. The 540-metre Eliyakanda track is famous for its unique competitiveness and comprises some difficult corners including single tree corner, residency [...]
Udawatte, Chandimal guide NCC to second win
Mahela Udawatte an Dinesh Chandimal shared and unbroken 100 runs for the third wicket to guide defending champions NCC to record a convincing 67-run win over Bloomfield in the second round match of the Premier T20 cricket tournament played in the morning session at BRC Ground. Udawatte made a quick-fire 57 off 36 inclusive of [...]
Batting star Nishan Madushka Moratu Vidyalaya’s ‘Mr Reliable’
With a load of experience as a Junior National cricketer and as a 5th-year coloursman, Nishan Madushka Fernando of Moratu Vidyalaya, shone with the bat during the 2018-19 schools Cricket season to guide his alma mater to the Super 8. In the process, he reached 1,000 runs for the season. This wicket-keeping, right-handed opening batsman [...]
Diyawanna to host 34th Rowing Nationals
After the successful conclusion of Junior and Intermediate National Rowing Championship 2019, the Diyawanna Rowing Centre will gear up to host the 34th National Rowing Championship in less than couple of weeks. This year’s National Championships takes a unique turn, as the event is conducted in two segments; Junior and Intermediate and Open whereas in [...]
Football Sri Lanka Vision 2030 – Pipe Dream or Retirement Plan
In the run-up to the World Cup last year, the FFSL (football Federation of Sri Lanka) launched, with some fanfare, a plan called Vision 2030. At a time when even the Government or, the Ministry of Sports (MOS), have not conjured such a momentous paradigm, the football administration in the country deemed it fit to [...]
How a Pakistani ‘Great’ and a Ceylonese Official lifted ‘The Cake’
With a lot of fanfare and, needless to say, sparing no expenses, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) took root at Mailtand Place, alongside the Sri Lanka Cricket headquarters a couple of years ago. Then, just as surprisingly, the ACC, as the pithy Sinhala saying goes, uprooted from Sri Lanka even without mentioning the mat (padura) [...]
Defenders FC–Sri Lanka’s No.1 football team
Defenders Football Club have won three major tournaments during the last six months. They are the Defence Service Trophy, the FA Cup and off late the Dialog Champions League. “We are the number one football team in Sri Lanka. Our target is to win all future tournaments,” said a jubilant Defenders FC captain, I.C. Sajith [...]
Wattala and Nugegoda Lyceums meet at the Oval
The fourth edition of the highly anticipated annual cricket big match between Lyceum International School Nugegoda and Lyceum International School Panadura will commence on February 22 at the P. Sara Oval. Hosted by Lyceum International School Nugegoda this year, both school teams will be competing for the Nikitha Grero Challenge trophy with a great deal [...]
Royalist Shaheed Hilmy National Champion
Young Shaheed Hilmy of Royal College (RC) proved his prowess in Carrom when he defeated former world champion Nishantha Fernando 2-1 to win the Men’s Singles championship at the 51st National Carrom Championship conducted by the Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka (CFSL) recently at its Headquarters in Kohuwala. Chalani Lakmali of Sri Lanka Air Force [...]
Battle of Brothers ushers in Big Match season
The big match fever for 2019 will usher with traditional rivals Thurstan and Isipathana clashing in their two day 56th ‘Battle of The Brothers’ encounter at the SSC grounds on February 22 and 23. Thurstan leads the series with five wins as against four to Isipathana with the rest ending in draws and no outright [...]
A game of importance of its own
All interest this weekend will centre on the clash of giants on Saturday. Even though the winner of the league will be known by the time today’s Navy-Police clash at Welisara gets underway, this game has an importance of its own. Navy could use it to finish fifth, a position currently occupied by the Soldiers [...]
Awareness on fitness in Sri Lanka for the first time
For the first time in the history of Sri Lanka an education seminar ‘The Fitro Summit’ was organised at the Sri Lanka Foundation. The event was presented by the world’s leading Fitness Education platform Physique Global in association with Precor, one of the world’s leading Fitness Equipment Brand. The occasion was graced by a host [...]
SSP ‘Tanker’ Hamid in Elite Jury Panel of ISSF World Cup
Former Sri Lanka, Police SC and Zahira College Rugby player, Ibrahim ‘Tanker’ Hamid has received the rare honour of officiating at the forthcoming International Sports Shooting Federation (ISSF) Rifle and Pistol World Cup in New Delhi, India, from February 20-28. Rifle & Pistol Shooting, an Olympic sport in which Sri Lanka has the potential to [...]
Certificates presented to participants of Rugby Match Commissioner Programme
Certificates were presented to the successful participants of the inaugural Rugby Match Commissioner Programme, conducted by Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) together with its main sponsor Dialog Axiata PLC. The presentation ceremony was held at the ‘Scrum Down’ of CR&FC at Longdon Place where the chief organiser, Ana Wijeratne invited the Minister of Sports, Harin Fernando [...]