Gateway’s Amrith shatters famous record
Amrith Perera of Gateway College broke Kyle Abeysinghe’s 200m Individual Medley meet record at the 25th edition of Sri Lanka Inter-international Schools Swimming Championship, organised by the Asian International School. The event is currently being worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium Swimming Pool Complex in Colombo. Perera, competing in Under-20 age category, clocked 2 minutes [...]
Bingo!!!
The National Audit Office (NAO) has become the third agency to confirm that the email accounts of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were compromised but has come no closer to unraveling who is responsible for the alleged wire transfer fraud last year. The NAO conducted a forensic audit on the Sports Ministry’s request after the SLC [...]
Mathews to return for T20s?
After Sri Lanka’s frail middle-order was exposed in Australia, national cricket selectors are mulling whether to recall Angelo Mathews to the T20 team just a few months after he was dropped over fitness and a modest scoring rate. Mathews last played in August 2018 when he captained the side against South Africa at home but [...]
Rain ruins MCA ‘B’ division final
Rain and bad light ruined the Fair and Lovely-MCA ‘B’ division 50-over Tournamemt cricket finals at the Mercantile Cricket Association grounds yesterday. Wet outfield, due to overnight and morning rain, prevented play in the morning session and play was possible only after 2.30pm. HNB skipper Madawa Warnapura won the toss and put MAS Silueta into [...]
Ahan, Lahiru shine as Royal dominate
Ahan Wickramasinghe (95) and Lahiru Madusanka (50 n.o.) cracked half centuries as Royal dominated proceedings against St. Sebastian’s in their first innings win in the Under-19 Inter-School Cricket encounter concluded at Moratuwa yesterday. The second day’s play saw Royal, after bowling out the home team for a low score of 123 runs, declaring on a [...]
Sri Lanka to trim down SAG contingent
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Sports will launch a programme to inquire objections brought up by individual athletes and sports associations ahead of the upcoming South Asian Games (SAG) 2019, to be held in Kathmandu, Nepal from December 1. Dhammika Muthugala, the Director General of the Ministry of Sports revealed on Thursday, that the amount of [...]
Lankan lasses win one in two games
Sri Lanka finished third of Pool ‘A’ with a win and a loss after the first day of the Asian Rugby Sevens Series Qualifier which is now on in Guangzhou, China. The tournament also serves as a qualifier for the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Sri Lanka lasses may find their group rivals hard to overcome, as [...]
Shevon guides WPN to title
Shevon Daniel hit an impressive half century–84 to lead Western Province North to a comfortable 69-run win on Duckworth/Lewis over North Western Province to clinch the Under 15 Prima Champions Cup title at the R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. Shevon’s knock helped Western Province North taking first lease of the wicket to make a modest score [...]
Visakha, Kalutara MV in final
Rain ruined second day’s proceedings of the Ritzbury All Island inter-school Kids Play tennis tournament which was scheduled to be played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo. However in the one age group that was conducted– the girls’ Red Ball tournament saw Visakha Vidyalay a Colombo and Kalutara MV winning their matches to [...]
Matthew to lead swimming team for SAG
Sri Lanka suffered a huge blow to its medal prospects in swimming after female swimming sensation Kimiko Raheem pulled out of the South Asian Games with an injury. The 13th edition of the South Asian Games will be held from December 1-10 in Kathmandu, Nepal where Sri Lanka will field 19 swimmers –11 male and [...]
National champ Chanaka asserts superiority in NE
M.U. Chanaka Perera, the Sri Lanka Amateur Golf champion 2019, proved his class firing a scintillating six under par final round playing alongside the co-leaders after Round 3. Whilst Chanaka fired salvo after salvo compiling 7 Birdies on the 2nd, 5th, 7th, 8th, 14th, 17th 18th, with an Eagle thrown in for good measure on [...]
National Beach Volleyball Championship 2019 from December 20-22
The National Beach Volleyball Championship 2019, organised by the Sri Lanka Volleyball Association (SLVA) and sponsored by Sunquick, will be held at the Negombo Public Beach Park, from December 20-22. At a press briefing held at the Nation Olympic Committee Auditorium on Tuesday it was revealed that the tournament will be conducted under three categories [...]
Thomian stickers win
S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia (STC) made a clean sweep at their annual Hockey encounters against Trinity College Kandy (TCK), at the Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy last weekend. The Thomians won all 3 events viz, Under (U)-16 2-1, U-19 4-1 and the Old Boys event 2-1. The U-19 fixture was played for the Warden Neville de [...]
Hell gates open in 20 days
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) will stick with the initiative it took last year, to complete the upcoming Dialog Rugby League 2019/2020 with the Super Round, as the club rugby season is set to kick off from November 29. The curtain raiser match will be between Navy Sports Club, one of the bottom-half teams and last [...]
Red Bull energizes another generation of cricketers
Red Bull Campus Cricket (RBCC) leads the way in the field of campus cricket, both in Sri Lanka and around the globe. RBCC provides an ideal opportunity for aspiring cricketers to represent their university and further gain a chance to represent their country at an international level. Years in, Red Bull has achieved their goal [...]
Favourites Gateway crowned champs after 6-goal spree
Gateway College, Colombo was crowned champions after beating Lyceum International School, Panadura 6-0 in the final of the International Schools Under-20 Football Championship played at the Gateway Football ground on Thursday. From the start, Gateway was ahead of the game as they scored their first goal inside the first six minutes. Their opponents Lyceum Panadura [...]
SLR Ex-Co dumps former boss’ ARFU dream
A request made by Asanga Seneviratne, the former President of Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR), to nominate him as Sri Lanka representative of Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU) has been strongly rejected, according to reliable sources. Lasitha Gunaratne, the incumbent President of SLR confirmed the development stating that majority of the SLR Executive Committee members have [...]
Why Senaka Weeraratne should get due recognition for the DRS
Senaka Weeraratne, the Sri Lankan Lawyer who came out with the suggestion to introduce a Decision Review System (DRS) to minimise umpiring errors in the middle, as far back as 1997, has been fighting for due recognition for his contribution to the game, for over 20 years. However, in spite of many requests and appeals [...]
Netball clash at ‘Appeal Court’ on November 25
Barely three months after conducting its long overdue election, Netball Federation of Sri Lanka (NFSL) has been summoned to courts, after one of its strongest affiliates — the Mercantile Netball Association (MNA) — called the August 28 elections ‘undemocratic’. After much deliberation, the MNA has sought legal assistance to dissolve the governing body for netball, [...]
Hypocrisy…? Gilchrist’s squash ball or Murali’s bent arm
Just the other day, former Australian wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist, is “all for it” he says, for the addition of another umpire exclusively for making no-ball calls if it helps “arrive at the right decision.” No doubt, there have been instances of umpires missing out on front-foot no-balls, and eventually checking with the third umpire [...]
Muscleman Namal earn NSF title
Namal Thushara Malwaththage from Matale was adjudged the Best Bodybuilder at the 45th National Sports Festival 2019 held recently at Town Hall Badulla. Representing the Central Province team as a member of the Golden Power Gym Matale, he clinched a gold medal for his overall performances in the 70kg category Central Province emerged champions in [...]
Ritzbury steps up to power SLTA Tennis 10s
Ritzbury will partner Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) to help develop the future Tennis players of the nation. The Junior Tennis Initiative (JTI) programme is a project implemented by both the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and SLTA in 1998. Since then, the programme has produced many skillful Tennis players to the local franchise. The programme [...]
Old Royalist with Lion Flag runs New York City Marathon to raise funds for charity
Old Royalist Vajira Weerasekera flew from Sydney Australia and ran the world’s largest marathon held in New York City on Sunday, November 3. He was running to raise funds for a Charity (Shanthi Foundation towards building the first palliative care hospital in Sri Lanka). Vajira was joined by another Royalist from New York – Asanga [...]
British School clinch inaugural T10 Tourney
The British School in Colombo (BSC) clinched the inaugural 4-Schools Under-19 T10 Cricket Tournament when they edged-out Colombo International School (CIS) by four wickets in the final encounter worked off at the Shalika Grounds in Narahenpita. CIS electing to bat first got off to a flying start thanks to a 25-ball 45 from Raveen Nanayakkara. [...]
OKI Negombo hold Sports Meet
The annual Inter-House Sports Meet of OKI International School, Negombo for the academic year 2019/2020 was held on October 31 at the Major Raj Fernando grounds in Kurana, Negombo. Naouchalee Rajapakshe, a veteran national netball champion and Sports Instructor of the Institute of National Sports Science, graced the event as the Chief Guest. Participation of [...]
Wesley cruise to innings victory
Wesley College Under-13 ‘B’ team cruised to an easy innings and 39-run victory over Ananda MV, Kottawa played at Rajasinghe School grounds in Padukka. Manuth de Silva, who took a hat-trick to rout the Ananda MV batsmen and bundle them out for a paltry 42 in the second innings, was the star of the match. [...]
Curtain comes down on 13th annual Inter-Sussex Chess Championships 2019
Curtain came down of the 13th annual Inter-Sussex Chess Championship at the Auditorium of Sussex College in Malabe yesterday with nearly 250 competitors from 20 colleges from island wide gathering for the highly competitive event. Seven different age groups for girls and boys of age categories from Under-8 to Under-20 were held. The Sunil Jayatissa [...]
Sasith and Chamodaya adjudged Best Chess Players
Sasith Nipun Piumantha of Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda and Chamodya Yapa Bandra of Girls High School, Kandy was adjudged the Best Players at the All-Island Chess Championship held at the Kurunegala Central College recently. Piumantha and Bandara stood above the other competitors for their excellent performances right throughout the competition. Organised by the Education Department of [...]
Group of 2016 conducts ‘Lead the Sticks’ Hockey Carnival 2019 successfully
The Group of 2016 of Zahira College Colombo conducted the ‘Lead the Sticks’ Hockey Carnival 2019 at the College Grounds last weekend. Teams formed from the college Under-12 and Under-16 teams participated in this tournament. The Under-12 tournament was won by Team White, who defeated Team Black by a penalty shootout, after the final was [...]
Dharmaraja Cricket Foundation honours three stalwarts
The Dharmaraja College Cricket Foundation (DCCF) held a felicitation ceremony at the college auditorium in Kandy recently, where three formidable cricketing personalities were recognised for their great contribution for the school and beyond. From the three recipients, two were honoured with ‘awards of appreciation’ for their yeomen services as cricket officials of Dharmaraja College while [...]
Garnet House, winners of AIS Athletic Meet
Garnet House emerged overall champions at the annual Inter-House Athletic Meet of Asian International School, which was held at the Sugathadasa Stadium on October 18. It was a colourful day of track and field amidst a festive atmosphere. The day commenced with houses parading on the theme ‘International Festivals’. Garnet House had chosen the Chinese [...]