Kandy SC survive CR fightback
Kandy SC weathered a superb second half rally from CR&FC in sweltering conditions to maintain their unbeaten record with a 41-27 victory in a titanic clash between two unbeaten sides in week five of the Dialog Club Rugby League Championships at Longden Place yesterday. The Kandy juggernaut seemed unstoppable as they powered to a 36-10 [...]
Thilanga fights to make a comeback
Cricket’s power-broker Thilanga Sumathipala has filed a writ application in the Court of Appeal urging the court to quash a decision by the former Minister of Sports Harin Fernando to bar him from holding office in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Sumathipala, a businessman-turned politician, was holding office in the Executive Committee by virtue of being [...]
Kalutara TC shock Army
Kalutara TC pulled off a stunning win over defending champions Army SC in the Premier T20 inter-club cricket encounter with a comfortable six wicket win at the SSC ground last morning. Kalutara TC after restricting the strong Army SC for a score of 111 runs reached the target with three balls to spare. Meanwhile Chilaw [...]
Kohli opposes four-day Tests
India captain Virat Kohli on Saturday hit out at proposals to cut Test matches from five days for four as the world body battles with the crowded cricket calendar. Reports that the International Cricket Council could decide to cut the length of Test matches from 2023 have divided players and nations. Kohli, who leads the [...]
Joes crush Wesleyites by innings
An impressive all-round effort helped St. Joseph’s College to a crushing innings and 62-run win over Wesley College in their inter-school cricket fixture concluded at Darley Road yesterday. A century by Dineth Jayakody and half centuries by Johanne de Zilva (79) and Dunith Wellage (72 n.o.) propelled the hosts to an imposing first innings score [...]
Innings win for Trinity
Trinity College scored an innings and 68-run win over Lumbini College in their Under 19 Inter school cricket encounter which concluded at the Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy yesterday. The highlight of the game was two fine centuries by Umair Raizan (103) and Shane Gunathilaka (111) while Abishiek Anandakumara picked up a match bag of 14 [...]
Focus on Mathews, Bumrah in T20I series opener
The focus will be on the returning stars Jasprit Bumrah and Angelo Mathews as India and Sri Lanka lock horns in the first T20I of an important three-match series in Guwahati. The series will bear added significance, not least because it offers vital preparation for both sides of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 [...]
Army cueists dominate opening day
The day one proceedings of the Six Red Ball Snooker National Championship which got underway at the MICH billiard boards in Colombo saw Army cueists dominating. Army had five of their cueists coming out victorious in the first round matches they played while two received walkovers to advance to the next round. The Six Red [...]
Limited Over champions Marians critical of the domestic structure
The whole of Sri Lanka is fond of the two clans of ‘Marians’ who have reached the pinnacle in their respective fields. One is a musical band, who transformed from ordinary to iconic, and the other, a cricket club, that had a humble beginning and sustains its authority for two decades since they reached Premier [...]
Gamers gearing up for high-intensity racing with ‘Speed Runs’
Sri Lanka’s first ever Esports Championship, Speed Runs, organized by Mandarin Reid (Pvt) Ltd in conjunction with Ceylon Motor Sports Club (CMSC) will give gamers an opportunity to compete on the global stage. Racing gamers can look forward to four months of high intensity action in Matara, Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna with the grand finale [...]
ICC rejects Sri Lanka’s plea to suspend match-fixing investigations
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has rejected a request by lawyers for four Sri Lankans entangled in a match-fixing fiasco to suspend the ongoing investigations until a determination by the Ministry of Sports. The ongoing corruption investigation on former cricketers Avishka Gunawardena, Nuwan Zoysa and Dilhara Lokuhettige are already suspended after they appealed to the [...]
‘I’d rather manage wild horses than dead monkeys’
Sri Lanka’s boxing chief Dian Gomes plans to continue with his prudent policy of investing on youth and lighter weight classes, parrying aside his detractors in a bid to battle for medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2022 despite a light heavyweight from Army Rumesh Sandakelum winning a boxing gold for the country at the [...]
First athletic selection trial for Olympics set in April
The Athletics Association of Sri Lanka (AASL) will conduct the first Selection Trial for the 2020 Olympics on April 8 and 9 at the Sugathadasa Stadium. The summer Olympics will be held from July 31 to August 9 in Tokyo, Japan. As of now no Sri Lankan athlete has achieve direct qualification for the Games. [...]
‘High expectations should come with high support’
Big goals drive us forward and Sri Lanka’s women’s marathoner Hiruni Wijayaratne may be yet to qualify for the world’s biggest sporting event–the Olympics but she dreams of doing her bit to fly the Lion flag high at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. Sri Lanka last won an Olympic medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics when [...]
Darrel Lieversz – a double international of yesteryear
The writer was watching a first XI cricket encounter between Royal College, Colombo, and St. Peter’s College at Reid Avenue in February 1962. The visitors were on strike when home side skipper and paceman Darrell Walter Lloyd Lieversz – better known as simply Darrel Lieversz – was bowling at the Peterite skipper. With his first [...]
Coach Fernando celebrates 50 years in racquet sport with world tour
World renowned badminton coach, Darshana Fernando, who recently completed 50 years of involvement with the racquet sport, as a player, coach and promoter, was involved in a series of coaching camps around the globe in 2019. Former Sri Lanka national player Fernando has earned a reputation as a professional badminton coach in Canada, mainly centred [...]
Arshika – lifting nation’s pride on her shoulder
It is a great privilege to share the proud moment of Arshika Vijayabaskar, an Advanced Level student of Chundikuli Girls’ College, Jaffna who made Sri Lanka proud by winning a silver medal in weightlifting at the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) in Nepal in December. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Vijayabaskar. She has an [...]
Sri Lanka cricket’s year of fluctuating fortunes
The National team has won three Test matches out of eight, seven out of 21 ODIs and four out of 13 T20I’s last year. It has been a year of fluctuating fortunes for the national team. A close look at team’s shows that they lack of consistency in all three formats throughout the year. The [...]
NEGC MasterCard Inter-Nation Golf Tournament on January 11
Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC), one of the top 30 and oldest golf clubs in the world, will host the second edition of the Inter-Nation Golf Tournament on January 11 in Nuwara Eliya. This event will also support the tourism promotion drive focussing on the sport of golf among golf playing nations and to make [...]
Entries for Badminton Nationals close on January 6
The 67th National Badminton Championships 2019 combined with the Junior Nationals 2020 will take place at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo from January 13 to 18. The annual mega badminton tournaments, organised by Sri Lanka Badminton (SLB) typically attract hundreds of top shuttlers from all over the island. Defending singles champions Dinuka Karunaratna and [...]
Laksiri in seventh heaven, Fathoum claims maiden title
Sri Lanka’s squash sensation Ravindu Laksiri won his seventh consecutive Senior Men’s National Squash championship while in the Senior Women’s event, the long time reign of another outstanding squash player Mehiliya Methsarani came to an end when Fathoum Issadeen scored a hard fought 3-1 win for her maiden national title at the 39th Senior National [...]
Mahamaya stamp their class in basketball
Mahamaya College, Kandy, a school better known for its swimming, stamped their class this time in Basket Ball in the Under-15 and Under-17 segments after two decades. They got selected to an ‘A’ division tournament this year after 20 long years and became the second runners-up in Under-15, All-Island ‘A’ Division Girls’ Tournament. Meanwhile their [...]
Lyceum Panadura shines to end 2019 on a high note
Lyceum International School, Panadura wrapped up the 2019 year on a winning note when they emerged champions in the Schools Under-11 Badminton Championship that was held from December 28 to 30 at the Boyagane Army Indoor Stadium in Kurunegala. The tournament was organised by the Schools Badminton association. In the Girls Championship they beat Maliyadeva [...]
Anandian Senura and Jithara of Ladies are best players
Senura Silva of Ananda College, Colombo and Jithara Warnakulasuriya of Ladies College, Colombo were adjudged best players at the All-Island Open Ranking Table Tennis Championship for the Maheepala Herath Challenge Trophy held at the Municipal Council Indoor Stadium in Kegalle. Senura won the Under-15 Singles title defeating Dhanushka Wijesinghe of Kingswood and the Under-18 Singles [...]
Lyceumers shine in USA
Lyceumers from four branch schools — Nugegoda, Wattala, Panadura and Gampaha — travelled to Newport Coast in California, USA to take part in the Sri Lanka vs USA Karate Championship organised by Itosuryu Karatedo USA Branch during the December holiday season. Lyceum International School secured a total of nine first places, nine second places and [...]
Lyceum, Nugegoda make clean sweep to emerge unbeaten champions
Lyceum International School, Nugegoda emerged unbeaten champions at the All-Island Girls Under-11 ‘A’ Division Badminton Championship conducted by the Schools Basketball Association of Sri Lanka in Kurunegala. Lyceum girls made a clean sweep in the competition outclassing their opponents from the first round winning all five matches 3-0 except the final where they conceded a [...]
Fantastic allround performance by Theeksha and Makarim
Two Antonian leaders in Cricket and Rugby during the year 2019 created history probably for the first time in the country when both received three ‘A’ passes at the recently concluded General certificate of Advanced level (A/L) examinations. Theeksha Gunasinghe represented St. Anthony’s cricket for five long years at senior level while scoring 1000 runs [...]