Malinga, KJP, Mendis, Dickwella return for Aussie series
With an eye on World T20 qualification, Sri Lanka have recalled four players who missed the winning series in Pakistan. Lasith Malinga will return as skipper of the T20 side, replacing Dasun Shanaka along with Kusal Janith Perera, Kusal Mendis and Niroshan Dickwella. Shanaka, who successfully led Sri Lanka in Pakistan to record a rare [...]
A complete cricketer of the old school type bids adieu
The sudden passing away of Aubrey Kuruppu (Date of Birth 11-3-1945, Date of Death 12-10-2019) aged 74 years was, no doubt, a shock to most cricket aficionados. Educated at S.Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia, where he won his ‘colours’ in 1965, he can easily be described as a complete cricketer: player, coach, writer, administrator, lecturer, Match [...]
Uvindu, Abhishek, Ranuda spin Trinity to victory
Trinity recorded their second outright win the current Under 19 Inter-Schools cricket season with a crushing innings and 47 run win over St. Joseph Vaz Wennappuwa in the match concluded at Asgiriya yesterday. The architects of their win were Uvindu Wimaladharma, Abishek Anandakumar and Ranuda Somaratna which paved the way for the victory. The foundation [...]
Ladies sink Musaeus
Ladies’ College, Colombo took the waters of Beire Lake under their control to walk away with the Marie Musaeus-Higgins Trophy when they whitewashed Musaeus College with a 52-00 win in their 16th annual regatta at the Colombo Rowing Club waters yesterday. The much expected Musaeus lasses failed to live up to their reputation as winners [...]
Trinity down Royal 2-1 to win JR Jayewardene Trophy
Trinity College registered a 2 goals to 1 win over Royal College in their annual football encounter to clinch the third J.R. Jayewardene Trophy at the Royal Sports Complex grounds yesterday. Trinity opened the scoring early in the match with a mesmerizing kick off Chamith de Silva, who netted with a 10-metre shoot in the [...]
Cops beat Soldiers
A difference of three points helped Police Sports Club in recording a narrow 29-26 win against Army Sports Club in the second match of the Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU) League 2019, played at Police Park yesterday. The game was a close battle as the lead fluctuated between the two sides, but the Cops [...]
Saif, Naim guide Bangladesh A to series win
Two fine knocks by openers Saif Hassan and Mohammad Naim laid the foundation for Bangladesh ‘A’ to record a 98 win by Duckworth/Lewis method over host Sri Lanka ‘A’ in the third unofficial ODI encounter played at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. They clinched the three match series 2-1. Batting first Bangladesh ‘A’ posted a [...]
Sri Lanka’s tour to Pakistan: Who helped whom?
Cricket is the pride and joy of all Sri Lankans regardless of gender, age, race or any other considerations. Cricket dominates. But Sri Lanka cricket is also often in the news for the wrong reasons. With the dominance of social media, the general public became an important cog in the whole machinery. Unlike a decade [...]
Jaitra bags his second title
Young Jaitra de Saram was in top form as he partnered Kiran Vairavanathan to clinch the ATF U14 Week 1 tennis tournament doubles title defeating the pair of Lisal Goonetileke and Methvan Wijemanne in the final played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday. Jaitra last week won the singles title as well. [...]
Sri Lanka demands answers on integrity of anti-doping reports from banned labs
As Sri Lankan athletes facing doping bans await justice with questions over the credibility of the test results following the suspension of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited New Delhi-based testing laboratory, renowned lawyer PC Dinal Philips says the adverse findings must be declared null and void. “If there’s credibility in doubt, you can’t act [...]
Ravindra Pushpakumara turns talent hunter
A member of the 1996 Wolrd Cup winning team, Ravindra Pushpakumara is presently in-charge of nurturing the younger generation of fast bowlers at Sri Lanka Cricket’s High Performance centre at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. “My responsibility is to train the next generation of fast bowlers and readying them to the national level. We [...]
Sachin de Silva seals victory 4 strokes clear
Sachin de Silva registered a famous victory at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) Course, leading the Lectra Grand Prix 2019 September Edition from the first to the fourth round, posting an Even Par final round to complete a famous victory 4 strokes clear of veteran J.M.D. Indika yesterday. Indika in turn claimed the runner-up [...]
“This is not a joke”
After engaging himself at seminars and workshops during his two-day stay in Sri Lanka, Tony Campbell, the coach of Olympic silver medal winner Susanthika Jayasinghe, strongly believes that athletic should face a complete overhaul and produce a comprehensive plan to discover the country’s next world beaters. “This is not a joke, you can’t play this [...]
Sri Lanka athletics need a national policy – Sunil Gunawardena
A veteran athletics coach Sunil Gunawardena laments the absence of a proper national policy to take Sri Lanka athletic to the next level, despite there’s talent in abundance in the country. Gunwardena–the mastermind behind country’s athletics transformation in the late 90′s where Sri Lanka produced number of top class athletes in Susanthika Jayasinghe, Damayanthi Darsha, [...]
Sri Lanka’s first-ever 10-court event begins tomorrow
The Nationalised Services Badminton Association (NSBA) will have the honour of becoming the first affiliation of Sri Lanka Badminton (SLB) to conduct its Open Tournament on 10 playing courts, as competitions are held internationally. This was revealed by Parakrama Basnayake, the Vice President of SLB at the launch of the NSBA Open Badminton Tournament, which [...]
Young Sri Lankans wrap themselves in glory in Pakistan
The depleted Sri Lankan T20 squad, without 10 senior players, ‘whitewashed’ the No.1 ranked Pakistan team 3-0. The statistics itself reveal the story. Three Sri Lankans, Bhanuka Rajapakse, Danushka Gunatilleke and 27-year-old debutant Oshada Fernando head the batting statistics, while 4 Sri Lankans again, Hasaranga (8/79) Nuwan Pradeep (7/46), Isuru Udana (5/49) and opening bowler [...]
Royal power-lifter Kakolya makes Sri Lanka proud with 10 Commonwealth medals
Kakolya Janmod Silva, a student of Royal College Colombo, represented Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Power-lifting Championship 2019, which was held in St. John’s Newfoundland in Canada from September 15 to 21. He competed in the Sub Junior 105kg category and managed to bring glory to the country bagging many medals. Silva won nine gold [...]
Sri Lanka Golf conducts awareness programme in Killinochchi
The Sri Lanka Golf (SLG) initiative of creating awareness throughout the country, took another step further when SLG’s Junior Sub Committee, represented by Chandana Weerasinghe and Chairperson Niloo Jayathilake made the long journey to the northern region of Sri Lanka. Through the programme they introduced a golf awareness talent search at the Killinochchi Central College [...]
Anjalika Kurera – Tennis star in the making
The story of Anjalika Kurera has been an incredible one. Her journey started when she was 8-years-old. From that day onwards, she dreams of becoming a professional tennis player. Recently, she won the Under (U)-18 championship, beating her Indonesian opponent, Jessica Christa, in the ITF Juniors Circuit 3 tournament. After her success, she sat down [...]
To sprinter Srilal Alahakoon (57) age is no barrier to break records
Having started fitness training at age 50, on the instructions of the Fitness Centre of the Ministry of Sports (MoS), to get over his knee problems, Srilal Alahakoon ended up an international sprinter in no time. For successfully completing its fitness programme, the MoS awarded Alahakoon a certificate to train up-and-coming athletes. But, according to [...]
400 players at National Junior Squash Championship
A strong set of 400 junior squash players will fight for a place in the national squash honours at the Air Force Squash Courts Complex Ratmalana, commenced yesterday and the curtain to come down on October 16 with the prize distribution. The tournament is organised by Sri Lanka Squash to coincide with World Squash day [...]
Ashini Ranasinghe crowned the Best Allrounder
Ashini Ranasinghe was crowned as the Best Allround Student 2018 for her outstanding performances both in education and in the field of sports at the annual prize giving and colours awards ceremony of Matale International School (MIS) held at Mahathma Ghandi Memorial hall in Matale on Wednesday. The event was held under the patronage of [...]
15-year-old debutant stars with hat-trick for Nalanda First XI
Nalanda College, the Dialog/Sunday Times Best All Island runner-up team, continued from where they left last season at the Nalanda Grounds on Thursday when they scored a convincing innings and 20 run victory over St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy. The match winner for Nalanda was left arm orthodox spinner Sajitha Vithanage, the 15-year-old, who became the [...]
Impressive Sri Lanka emerge runners-up
Sri Lanka ended as runners-up in the recently concluded South Asian Regional Under-21 Badminton Championship worked-off in the city of Addu in Male. India defeated Sri Lanka 3-1 in the five match finals. Sri Lanka managed to win only the Men’s Singles but went down tamely to South Asian giants, India in Women’s Singles, Men’s [...]
Newton House secures BSC swimming title
Newton House clinched the Overall Championship at the Annual Senior Inter-House Swimming Meet of the British School in Colombo (BSC), worked off at the School Swimming Pool. Newton House dominated all age group categories and finished well ahead with a total of 808 points. Nobel House with a tally of 620 points finished as the [...]
Welimada Educational Zone secures overall title
At the ‘Samaposha Provincial School Games 2019’ series, Uva Provincial School Games edition which concluded recently, athletes representing the Welimada Educational Zone clinched the overall championship. Athletes from the Thanamalwila Educational Zone were the runners-up and the Bandarawela Educational Zone was placed third. The Uva Games showcased impressive performances by the athletes with 32 new [...]