Lankan athletes aim high as games kick-off in Doha today
By Susil Premalal Sri Lanka’s leading athletes will be exploding into action at the Khalifa International Stadium today when the 23rd Asian Senior Athletics Championships gets underway in Doha, Qatar. Asia’s premier athletic competition will attract the top stars in the region as it serves as a qualifier for the World Athletics Championship to be [...]
Driver Silva and Rider Dassanayake aim to retain top titles
Text and pix by Shanuka Aravinda Sri Lanka’s most celebrated and top rated motorsports event to be held annually, the Fox Hill Supercross 2019, will rev up with a fleet of 28 events at the Military Academy Track in Diyatalawa today. Sri Lanka’s only motorsport event to go uninterrupted for years with a large spectator [...]
Special status for Malinga once again
At the time of writing, the World Cup squad has been selected and there is a kind of mysterious silence regarding the availability of Lasith Malinga–a key player. There was speculation, fuelled by some of his comments, that he will retire from the game if he is not given the captaincy. Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed [...]
Final results on April 28
As all our readers are well aware, all 26 coupons of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest have been published by April 10, Wednesday. The final coupon, Coupon No.26 came out last week and was published last on April 10. However contestants, supporters and schools will one [...]
Sri Lanka Rugby, on the ball
By Naushad Amit Ahead of the upcoming Asia Division I Rugby Championship, Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) has arranged two practice games between Sri Lanka and Malaysia, to be played during the first week of May. The Sri Lanka rugby squad will leave for Malaysia on April 30 to play the two practice games against Malaysia [...]
Week in Sports by Ishan Samaraweera
This segment gives our readers brief updates on all the sporting action that happened during the course of the week. This week, we feature the official announcements of their respective squads for the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. Sri Lanka Lahiru Thirimanne, Jeevan Mendis and Milinda Siriwardanehave been included in the 15 member squad. [...]
Kiwis champs but not without a fright from Sri Lanka
By Lakshman Ranasinghe The Sri Lanka (SL) Indoor Cricket team after excellent performances in the preliminary and knockout rounds, disappointingly went down to New Zealand (NZ) in the finals to end 2nd best in the New Zealand- Asia Cup Indoor Cricket tournament concluded on April 6, at the Indoor Premier Cricket Stadium, Singapore. Seven teams [...]
SLGU conducts Junior Golf Ranking Awards
The 2018 Sri Lanka Junior Golf Ranking Awards was recently concluded successfully with the support of NDB Wealth as the principle sponsor. This is the third consecutive year that NDB Wealth has stepped forward to generously support junior golf in Sri Lanka. The current President of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL), Suresh [...]
Inaugural Sri Lanka Basketball League set for May 2
Around 100 local Cagers will go under the hammer next week, when the 6 franchises pick the strongest combination for the inaugural Sri Lanka Basketball League (SLBL) set to begin May 2. The Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) is in the process of calling for applications from Cagers, and by now, since the launch of [...]
When Pakistan came from nowhere and won the 1992 World Cup
The 5th Cricket World Cup [officially the Benson & Hedges World Cup (WC) 1992] organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC), was held in Australia and New Zealand (NZ) from February 22 to March 25, 1992, with Pakistan, under the charismatic leadership of Imran Khan, beating England by 22 runs, in a pulsating final, to [...]
Upali – Grit and valour personified
By Aubrey Kuruppu Upali Seneviratne, a fine cricketer, who played for St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota, in the mid 1950s, is not finished as yet. Over the last one-and-a-half decades, he has turned his attention to Track & Field and been very successful at Master’s Events. Beginning in Indonesia in 1994, he won Bronze for Sri [...]
Three Ring Rascals – The Petit Bourgeois of SL Rugby
The testimonial match for Chandrishan Perera (Shan) had two things in focus. One, to contribute to his medical welfare and two, to provide an opportunity for players to showcase and vie for National Selection. He was a man who had a place and Rugby loved him. My association was when, together with Ajith Abeyratne and [...]
Talent ID – Carlos Grafia of Spain
With the ATP Masters event in Monte Carlo now on in the French Riviera, the European Tennis season has begun. It is the most popular professional Tennis summer circuit and the most strenuous to players, because it is on slow, red burnt Clay. A surface well known for long rallies. Europe hosts 53 events annually. [...]
Today’s RTC Magic Million Cup expected to be a thriller after last Monday’s upset
With the sensational outcome where Spirited Touch outsmarted champion mare Alcazaba to clinch the RTC Governor’s Cup 2019 at the Racecourse in Nuwara Eliya on April 15, the third and final installation of Royal Turf Club’s (RTC) holiday season races today is set to generate more excitement than ever. Today when the RTC hosts its [...]