Sri Lanka step into ICC CWC as overall underdogs
Sub par on-field performance, match-fixing investigations and issues with the Maitland Place headquarters appear to have impacted severely on one of Sri Lanka’s top brands–cricket. The team has attracted just one sponsor for the forthcoming World Cup in England. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) called for Expression of Interest in February, setting a minimum base value [...]
RTC takes Nuwara Eliya Racecourse to global index
The Nuwara Eliya Racecourse, situated 6129 feet above sea level, is listed among the top 100 horseracing courses in the world, according to the latest edition of ‘Remarkable Racecourses’ by Tom Peacock. The latest development comes as a huge boost for Royal Turf Club (RTC), who had taken a great stride to upgrade Sri Lanka’s [...]
New MCC President–Man for all seasons
The class structure, the social divide in English cricket that prevailed upto about the 1960’s dictated that teams comprised two categories of players–Gentleman and Players. The former comprised the upper class-the Oxford, Cambridge types while the latter had the tillers of the fields, the coal miners etc. Fred Trueman is a representative of the second [...]
NCC congratulates Sangakkara
The Management of the Nondescripts Cricket Club on behalf of all at the NCC, send their fellow member, Mr. Kumar Sangakkara, their heartiest congratulations on his nomination as the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the first non-British President of the MCC. Sangakkara’s Phenomenal record on and off the field, his exemplary leadership qualities [...]
Vidusha – the Triple Jumper on a mission
Women’s Triple Jumper Vidusha Lakshani’s solitary medal for Sri Lanka at the just concluded Asian Athletic Championship 2019 in Doha, Qatar was overshadowed by the dreadful suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday, where one of the three churches bombed by the terrorists is in the vicinity of the budding athlete’s home. With mixed feelings, the [...]
No VIP status for NOC – Sports Ministry
The Sports Ministry has made it mandatory for the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) to audit their annual accounts through the government auditor–the Auditor General’s Department–Minister of Sport Harin Fernando said on Thursday. The decision comes in the wake of NOCSL’s attempt to gain complete independence and autonomy claiming non-Government organization (NGO) status [...]
A look back at some memorable Bradby games
The enforced period of Rest and Recuperation provides a good opportunity to escape from the rigours of writing on rugby. Yet, with the now postponed Bradby Shield games that were scheduled for the May 11 and 25, rugby can never be far from one’s thoughts. Begun in 1945, the captains of Trinity College (R.G. Sourjah) [...]
SLC beef up team security for World Cup
As Sri Lanka set to embark on their two-month long tour of England and Wales to compete at cricket’s global showpiece-the World Cup, the board has taken additions measures to beef up the security of the national team. This was after the Easter Sunday bomb attack where Islamic terrorists blew up three churches and three [...]
The Greatest Game of One-Day Cricket ever!
The 7th Cricket World Cup (WC) was hosted in England, with 12 participating teams, playing 42 matches during May and June 1999. Some of the matches were also played in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands. The 9 Full Member teams that played were Sri Lanka [SL (defending champions)], England, Australia, New Zealand (NZ), West [...]
16-year-old Navindra Fernando is Australia’s Muaythai Champion
Sri Lanka-born, 16-year-old Navindra Fernando, a student of Melbourne Secondary School, won the Muaythai National Championship in Australia, at the 2019 Australian Muaythai National Championship held in the Gold Coast. This is the first time a schoolboy has won a national title. Muaythai Boxing is a combat sport of Thailand that is gaining popularity in [...]
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. Cricket Kumar Sangakkara to become next MCC President Sri Lankan legend and a former captain of the national team Kumar Sangakkara, is set to become the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Sangakkara will [...]
Live; the values of Rugby
The Principal of Trinity College, Andrew Fowler-Watt, stated that the much awaited high profile rugby encounter “the Bradby has been postponed.” The principal rightly states that following the Easter Sunday atrocities and the Police and armed forces being stretched to the limit and given the state of uncertainty and apprehension; it is not safe to [...]
Defeat of Nadal, twice
Monte Carlo and Barcelona are Nadal’s home turf. For over a decade, he reigned supreme. This year, Nadal lost in the semifinals in both these championships. After his loss to Italian Fabio Fognini, who eventually won the title in Monte Carlo, Nadal confessed he had played his worst Tennis in 14 years. Fognini is 31 [...]