Fighting for Justice
Faced with suspension over allegation of match-fixing, three former Sri Lanka cricketers have appealed to the Geneva-based Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) against the International Cricket Council (ICC) Anti-Corruption Unit’s (ACU) decision to proceed with the arbitration without giving a fair hearing. Michael Beloff QC, Chair of the ICC Code of Conduct Commission dismissed [...]
Rain spoils LB Finance title hopes
LB Finance and MAS Unichela were declared joint champions of the 27th Singer-MCA Premier 50 Over Knock Out Tournament after heavy rains halted play at the MCA Grounds yesterday. Chasing a revised DL target of 279 in 37 overs MAS Unichela were 109 for the loss of six wickets in the 15th over when play [...]
National Audit Office asks SLC to follow proper procedure
The National Audit Office (NAO) has recommended strict adherence to procedure when implementing the proposed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) campus in Kandy. In an ambitious plan to improve the overall standards of the game, Sri Lanka Cricket took initial steps in 2017 to set up a million rupee campus on land leased from the Malwathu [...]
Sebs in command
St. Sebastian’s College Moratuwa were in complete command of their U-19 fixture against St. Thomas’ College, Matara on day one at the Matara Uyanwatte Stadium. Janishka Perera was the pick of the bowler for St. Sebastian’s claiming four wickets for nine runs as St. Thomas’ College were bowled out for paltry 85. In response, Sebastianites [...]
Domestic cricket hit a snag
Sri Lanka’s premier domestic cricket event, the Major Club Tournament, has hit a snag with game’s governing body failing to approve the proposed new structure in time for the 2019-2020 edition. The season was scheduled to start in the first week of December (6) but there will now be at least a few weeks’ delay [...]
More questions than answers
The Sri Lanka Under-19 cricket team has been under the spotlight in the recent past, especially after their disastrous tour of Bangladesh. They lost four out of five Youth One Day Internationals. As the countdown begins for the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, Hashan Tillakeratne and his team landed in Sri Lanka with a lot of [...]
3rd Colombo Supercross next Sunday at Welisara
The third edition of the popular Colombo Supercross motorsport event, will be held next Sunday, December 1, at the Navy Motorcross Gravel Track in Welisara. The Colombo Supercross 2019 will be the final gravel motorsport event to be held for the year, and will be part of Hutch-SLARDAR Championship Series. Over 200 drivers and riders [...]
Let the Games Begin
As Sri Lanka gear up for the 13th installment of the South Asian Games, which will be officially declared open in seven days in Kathmandu, Nepal, the island nation will pin hopes on its athletes to rake up more medals than they claimed in 2016. In the 2016 South Asian Games (SAG) held in Guwahati [...]
New concerns after SL Emerging team’s collapse in Bangladesh
When Sri Lanka departed to Bangladesh for the Emerging Asia Cup, there was much expectation that Sri Lanka would be able to defend the ultimate prize. Despite all expectations, they were not able to deliver the goods at the appropriate time. Leading up to the tournament, they won the bilateral series played in Bangladesh, which [...]
Rotherham Circuit Meet today
Over 230 drivers and riders will be in action at the 12th Rotherham Circuit Meet 2019, which will be held at the Katukurunda Air Force Base Circuit in Kalutara today. This will be the final event of the CEAT-SLADA 2019 Championship Series and the day will include 10 motorcar events and seven motorcycle events. For [...]
Manjula stamps his class at Ogilvy Cup 2019
Manjula Chandrasoma won the Ogilvy Cup 2019 when he got the better of Priyanga Hapugalle at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Cup (NEGC). More than 50 Golfers teed for this event, being a warm-up for the NEGC Championship on December 7 and 8. Other notable Golfers in contention were Chandana Weerasinghe, Kamalesh Johnpillai, Amal Cabraal and [...]
National Shuttlers train in Bandarawela ahead of departure to Nepal
The Sri Lanka Badminton team for the upcoming South Asian Games (SAG) 2019, from December 1-10, in Nepal, is currently taking part in a residential training camp in Bandarawela. Sri Lanka’s 20-member team includes 8 Men and as many Women Shuttlers, as they look to pose a serious challenge to the strong Indian team. The [...]
What an outstanding performance by a single Test player
When any Sri Lankan cricket aficionado glances at the highest Test cricket partnership records, he/she would be thrilled to observe that right on top of the heap, the names of Kumar Sangakkara-Mahela Jayawardena (624 runs for the 3rd wicket) and Sanath Jayasuriya-Roshan Mahanama (576 runs for the 2nd wicket) lead the way! Of course, the [...]
A Japanese Rugby World Cup 2019
Six weeks of tumultuous bone crunching, rib bruising, arm wrestling physical sport of a caliber that rugby enthusiasts the world over have seldom seen before, when 20 nations, whittled down from a greater number of rugby playing Countries the World over, locked horns to test their skills, strategies, and brute force against one another, to [...]
Mineth, Maheesha bag eight scalps
Mineth Fernando of Maris Stella Negombo and Maheesha Sithum of St. Sebastian’s Katuneriya ended with eight-wicket hauls to steer their respective sides to convincing innings win against Parakrama MV Bandarawatta and Bandaranayake MV Gampaha in the Under-13 inter-school cricket encounters played at Kirindiwela and Katuneriya. Mineth in the process ended with an impressive match bag [...]
SLC-SLT join hands to construct new Cricket ground
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) signed an MoU recently to construct a Cricket ground on a 36-acre land, which belongs to the SLT Campus in Padukka. Under the MoU, SLT will do the initial preparatory work of the ground, whilst SLC will build the cricketing facilities. SLC will establish five centre [...]
Ranjan- Jack of many traits and Master of Carrom
Recently, I had the honour of being invited to a simple function to mark Ranjan Fernando’s 50 years in Carrom. It was a gathering of his former Carrom partners and students who had reached national level. Though I am not a Carrom player, I was a beneficiary of his free coaching of Table Tennis (TT) [...]
Kalpani and Sakindu continue winning
Navoda Kalpani of Jinaraja BMV, Gampola and Sakindu Dassanayake of Trinity College, once again showed their dominance in the game of Judo when they became the Best Girls and Best Boys athletes respectively at the All-Island Judo School Games 2019, organised by the Education Ministry and took place at the Jayathilake Stadium in Nawalapitiya. Gangasiripura [...]
Bishop’s emerge overall winners against Methodist in 2019 TT encounter
Bishop’s College, Colombo emerged the Overall winners at the Bishops’-Methodist College annual Table Tennis encounter 2019 played at the Methodist College tables. Methodist College lasses won two of the four age group clashes while the winners Bishop’s College too won in two age group categories including the all important Over-16 age group. Led by Divashi [...]
Royal and Visakha win Boys’ and Girls’ ‘A’ Division Chess Team Championships
Royal College, Colombo and Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo won the Boys’ and Girls’ ‘A’ Division Chess Team championships respectively at the Sri Lanka Schools Chess Association organised All Island Schools ‘A’Division Chess championship concluded at St. Joseph’s College, Kegalle. The tournament was conducted for boys and girls in Under-9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and Under-20 categories. [...]
Dewni’s shines with unbeaten knock of 54
An unbeaten 54 off 48 balls with half a dozen boundaries by right hand batswoman Dewni Nishara was the highlight of the undecided Schools Under-19 Girls Cricket match between Dharmapala College, Pannipitiya and St. Anthony’s College, Panadura played at Pannipitiya. Invited to bat first Dharmapala were powered to 177-6 by Dewni’s unbeaten 54 and 28 [...]
Central Province Nestle Kids Athletics Championship for Grade 3
Ambagamuwa Vidyalaya – Hatton, Ginigathhena Primary School and Albion Tamil Vidyalaya – Nuwara Eliya topped the three respective categories at the Central Province Nestle Kids Athletics Championship for Grade 3, organised by the Primary Education Section of Central Province Education Department. The Grade 3 edition of Central Province Kids Athletics Championship was held at the [...]
Rahula Matara top Group ‘J’ to enter Round 2
Rahula College, Matara led by Sasinu Dulmal registered five first innings wins to lead Group ‘J’ and qualify for round two of the All-Island Schools Under-13 Division I Cricket Tournament. Rahula earned first innings points against Kalutara Vidyalaya, Devapathiraja College Rathgama, Vidyaloka College Galle, Richmond College Galle and P. de S. Kularathne College Ambalangoda. The [...]
AIS swimmer sets new meet record and becomes Age Group champion
Asian International School (AIS) had the distinction of hosting the 25th Inter-International Schools Swimming Championship on November 9 and 10 at the Sugathadasa Swimming Pool Complex, with 22 schools and over a 1000 participants in five age groups, competing in more than 100 events. The meet was a resounding success with host school AIS swimmer, [...]
Anuradhapura record clean sweep
Lyceum International School, Anuradhapura made a clean sweep of 3-0 against Lyceum International School, Kurunegala to win the Battle of Athugalpura vs Anurapura Cricket Series. The maiden Limited Overs Cricket Series between Lyceum International Schools of Kurunegala and Anuradhapura was played at the Samadhi Cricket ground in Anuradhapura, where the hosts recorded three easy wins [...]