Arrangements for restart of Schools rugby in the pipeline
Latest indications are that the 75th Bradby Shield matches will be played on June 1 and 15 at Pallekele and Colombo respectively. The Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association (SLSRFA) will be meeting today to discuss how best the stalled tournament can be continued. The second round of the Singer Inter-School Rugby Tournament will also [...]
Investigation confirms hacking
A forensic audit has found that an alleged wire transfer fraud at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) was the result of “business email compromise” (BEC) by hackers who attempted to siphon funds into an offshore account by infiltrating the official email accounts of SLC employees.Piyal Dissanayake, SLC Head of Finance (HoF), was sent on compulsory leave [...]
Curiouser and Curiouser
Sri Lanka’s seemingly never-ending problems with coaches has taken a new strange twist. It wasn’t many days ago when Avishka Gunawardane-Sri Lanka’s very successful A team coach-was downgraded to ‘Emerging Status’. Now comes the startling news that Gunawardene has fallen foul of the Emirate Cricket Board’s Anti Corruption Code. This has led to him being [...]
SLC official charged for attempt to bribe Minister Harin Fernando
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has charged Sanath Jayasundara with two counts of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. Jayasundara, a performance analyst at Sri Lanka Cricket, has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect. The charges are as follows: Article 2.1.3 – offering a bribe or other reward to the Sri Lankan Sports Minister to contrive [...]
Khettarama, Pallekele and Dambulla to get swimming pools
Months after plans for a swimming pool at Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) High Performance Center at R Premadasa Stadium were abandoned by the previous Thilanga Sumathipala administration, successor Shammi Silva is determined to start the project as a priority. While construction is to commence shortly at R Premadasa Stadium–which is mainly used as a cricket [...]
Sri Lanka Cricket go tough on illegal bowling actions
Illegal bowling actions have been one of the major talking points in world cricket in the recent past. One of the major instances where a player was called for an illegal bowling action was during the 1995 Boxing Day Test where Muttiah Muralitharan was in the spotlight. He had to undergo several tests in Australia [...]
From cradle to grave
Just over a year after the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) introduced term limits to promote good governance and avoid concentration of power around a few individuals, the local body wants to revert to the old system which allows the President and Secretary General to stay on without restriction. The existing constitution allows [...]
Akeel Inham shines with twin tons
Akeel Inham shone with twin tons in Kalutara TC’s comfortable first innings win over table leaders Bloomfield in the Premier Tier B inter-club cricket encounter concluded at Reid Avenue yesterday. Akeel who made a career best knock of 165 in Kalutara TC’s first innings followed it up with another fine knock of 103. Bloomfield in [...]
Brave Aussie veterans play friendly cricket game in Galle
A group of 30 senior cricketers from Wheaton’s Touring Cricket Club, New South Wales, Australia played a friendly limited over match against St. Aloysius College Veteran Cricketers at the Galle International Stadium, depicting the capability of sports to bridge gaps of the society. The Wheaton’s TCC from NSW had made a brave and firm decision [...]
Colts send objection letter, but SLC to hold AGM today
Colombo Colt Cricket Club has raised its objections against holding today’s Annual General Meeting of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). The reason for the objection is non-circulation of Audited Financial Statements in respect of the preceding year. According to the Sports Law and the Sports Regulation gazetted therein, it requires audited accounts to be passed at [...]
Confusion reigns over ‘Term of Office’ at FFSL
A letter sent to the Minister of Sports by the Negombo Football League has put the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) in the news once again. According to letter, dated May 7, 2019 and signed by the President of Negombo FL, Ranjith Rodrigo, the term of office of the current FFSL office bearers has [...]
When Kenya reached the Semifinal of a World Cup
The 8th Cricket World Cup (WC) was hosted for the first time in Africa, by South Africa (SA), Zambia and Kenya, from February 9-March 23, 2003, comprising 14 Teams, from the previous 12. However, there were many problems faced by the administrators. There were 10 Test teams, along with Namibia, Holland, Canada, and Kenya as [...]
An inspirational life story of a Cricket-crazy Anandian
In Sri Lanka, Cricket is not just another sport. It has something beyond that, from the day Sri Lanka got Test status in 1981, Cricket has been the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. It plays a vital role in bringing people together as a nation. It gives great joy to 20 million people in [...]
Cricket and Teamwork…
The game of cricket, having set its roots in this beautiful land over 150 years ago, has become one of the most, if not the most popular and certainly, the most developed sport in the country today. Small wonder, as its inhabitants love the game passionately and are obsessive followers of the game, especially, where [...]
Oh! To be in England, now that Sri Lanka is here
The Sri Lanka Cricket team will be in action at the forthcoming Cricket World Cup (WC) in England, to regain the prestige the island nation had in the past, as a world class outfit with excellent fighting qualities. The selectors took a long time to announce the final squad and the captain. They did not [...]
Flashback to 1983 World Cup – England vs Sri Lanka
Taunton, in Somerset, was the venue for Sri Lanka’s 2nd match. The small ground was lit up by an exquisitely charming innings of 130 by elegant left-hander, David Gower. What Gower started was effectively completed by a supposedly not-so potent off-spinner Vic Marks, who returned figures of 5/39 in his 12 overs. Fowler and the [...]