SLC terminates contract of Hathurusingha
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) this week decided to terminate the contract of suspended Head Cricket Coach Chandika Hathurusingha after a one-man committee found him guilty for all six charges of failing to discharge his obligations under the contract, creating disharmony within the team and for gross insubordination. The report which was tabled at Thursday’s Executive [...]
Kandy’s supremacy continues
Kandy Sports Club continued their unbeaten supremacy in the Dialog Rugby League 2019/2020 beating CH & FC by 31-13 in their first-round encounter played at Race Course International Stadium yesterday. Following a thrashing handed to CR & FC last weekend, Kandy started the game as favourites without a doubt. However, CH & FC started off [...]
Former top players oppose 4-day Test
There were just two balls of the match remaining when paceman Shaminda Eranga banged in a short ball to Jimmy Anderson and it ballooned from his glove to Rangana Herath parked on the leg side, scripting a historic win in 2014. Sri Lanka won in a dramatic fashion, thereby registering their first series victory against [...]
Ruvin spins Petes to victory
Right-arm spinner Ruvin Seneviratne with an impressive match bag figure of 11 for 74 runs helped St. Peter’s to a convincing 10-wicket win over St. Sebastian’s in the Under-19 match concluded at Moratuwa yesterday. Ruvin tormented the Sebastianite batsmen in the morning session of play on day two as he ended with a six-wicket haul [...]
MSC’s Rimzan clinch title in a thriller
H.A.M. Rimzan of Moors SC clinched the Six Red Ball National Snooker Championships by six frames to three in the 11 frame finale against M. Thaha of MICH concluded at the MICH billiards table in Colombo yesterday. The winner went through some anxious moments as he conceded the first frame to his opponent in a [...]
Last chance saloon for football coach Packeer Ali
National football coach Nizam Packeer Ali gets a chance to redeem himself after the debacle at the South Asian Games (SAG) when Sri Lanka take part in the Bangabandhu Gold Cup to be held in Bangladesh from January 15 to 25. This will be the final assignment for Packeer Ali whose contract expires in March, [...]
Malinga laments another abject batting show
Sri Lanka captain Lasith Malinga has lamented his batting side’s inability to build an innings following another crushing loss to India in the final T20I of the series in Pune. Chasing 202, Sri Lanka were bowled out for a paltry 123 with more than four overs to spare – the team’s fifth straight defeat in [...]
Will Sri Lanka be better without Malinga captaincy?
While most other teams are already working out with their core groups of players for the World T20 tournament later this year, Sri Lanka is in a royal mess, yet to even identify who their own core group will be. The results in India weren’t unexpected but the manner in which Sri Lanka surrendered in [...]
SLC to hire Moody on consultancy basis
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is in negotiations with former Sri Lanka head coach Tom Moody to appoint him on a potential consultancy role. Sri Lanka reached the 2007 World Cup finals, the first time since their victory in 1996 tournament under Moody. The board now wants to use his extensive experience to help raise the [...]
SAG athletes spill out beans to Minister
Disheartened by the step-motherly treatment they received at the recent South Asian Games in Kathmandu, the athletes have placed their grievances before the new Minister of Sports, Education and Youth Affairs Dullas Alahapperuma at a recent meeting. They have vehemently criticised the officials–both from the Ministry of Sports and the National Olympic Committee (NOC) who [...]
Over 600 players and 550 games at SSC Open Tennis 2020
Over 600 players will feature in over 550 matches as the SSC Open Tennis Tournament got underway at the SSC courts in Maitland Place. Among competitors are top seed national players, who will become the cynosure as the tournament is set to progress during the next couple of weeks. Top ranked Sri Lanka Men’s players [...]
From Sweden with love
It has been a fairy-tale start to the Olympic year for Sri Lanka with Mathilda Karlsson riding in from Sweden after qualifying for Tokyo 2020 in showjumping and announce that she would be representing the land of her birth. Sri Lankans are literally jumping for joy and warmly embracing their little princess who was adopted [...]
Hashan expects batsmen to fire in South Africa
It’s been a year of unpredictability for the Under-19 cricket team. As they prepare to battle for glory in South Africa, let’s take a closer look at their performance ahead of the tournament. Their preparations commenced when Pakistan arrived in Sri Lanka for a five-match ODI series. It was a closely contested series, where Pakistan [...]
Sri Lanka’s first hijabi athlete overwhelmed by love of fans
Ruqaya Al Ghasra was one of the first women to represent Bahrain at the Olympic Games, taking part in the women’s 100 metres sprint at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Amna Al Haddad, a female weightlifting athlete from the United Arab Emirates, competed in a number of international competitions. Ibtihaj Muhammad was a member [...]
‘Our boxers will be competing in many international events in 2020’
The president of the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) president Dian Gomes has announced plans to send pugilists for Olympic qualification events this year but their main goal is to succeed in the 2022 Commonwealth Games. “We have strong future programmes in Sri Lanka and our boxers will be competing in many international events [...]
Investigate the root causes to weed out doping, says rugby star Marso
Former Sri Lanka rugby great and top cop, Hafeez Marso has urged authorities concerned to crack down on the doping menace creeping into sports not just by punishing players alone but enforcing the law against those responsible behind the scenes after a thorough investigation. “Actually I would say in some of the cases the athletes [...]
SLEME overall champions at Army Inter-Unit Cycling Championship
The regiment of Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (SLEME) won the overall championship with 115 points to clinch the National Championship Challenge Trophy at the annual Sri Lanka Army Inter-Unit Cycling Championships. The championship was held on a 35-kilometre circuit in Saliyapura, Anuradhapura where the runners-up were the Gajaba Regiment and Sri Lanka Artillery [...]
Hong Kong National Coach Leigh Jones to Conduct High-Performance Camp for Science College
Dr. Leigh Jones, the former Wales and Japan Assistant Coach and current Head Coach of Hong Kong Rugby, will be in town for a short stint to coach the Science College rugby team in preparation for the upcoming School’s Rugby season. Dr. Jones, who has over 25 years of coaching experience at International and Premiership [...]
2020 New Nations Team event: ATP Cup ‘For love of Country’
With the catchy phrase ‘for love of country’ ATP has launched their very first promised Inter-Nation Tennis championships. The teams will play for the ATP Cup in Australia. Men’s ranking is the hold ATP has on the global tennis. In recent times, professionals made no secret about Davis Cup being inadequate for them. In short, [...]
Aubrey Kuruppu – The babe in the family
Aubrey was the youngest in a family of seven. His three sisters, Lynne, Mona, Zuleika, followed by a brother Dereck who died of meningitis at 18 months, then it was Russell, Christine and Aubrey. Sadly all have pre-deceased him except for myself. It is very hard to accept the fact that he died before me, [...]
Taniya Minel retains Girls title, Nirekh Tejwani Boys champion
Nirekh Tejwani of Colombo International School (CIS), a student from Mumbai, India and the reigning Sri Lanka Amateur Women’s Open champion Taniya Minel Balasuriya of Sri Jayawardenapura Balika Vidyalaya, emerged overall boys and girls champions at the Prima Sunrise Sri Lanka Junior Open Golf Championship 2019 concluded at the Royal Colombo Golf Course in Rajagiriya [...]
Janul impresses at World Youth Scrabble Championship 2019
Janul de Silva of Royal College won recognition for his school and for Sri Lanka after emerging as the first runner-up at the 14th World English Scrabble Players’ Association (WESPA) Youth Cup (previously known as World Youth Scrabble Championship) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tarin Pairor from Thailand emerged as the Champion while Yash Potnis [...]
Royal College swimmers and divers excel in Thailand
Royal College diving and swimming teams, which excelled in most local tournaments last year, performed exceptionally well in the Asian Open Swimming and Diving Championship held recently at Thammasat University in Pathumthani, in Bangkok, Thailand. Team Royal emerged champions in the diving competition, winning four gold, seven silver, and eight bronze medals, while the swimming [...]
Baseball Awareness Programme held for 11 schools in Southern Province
Baseball in Sri Lanka has rapidly grown in the past year or so with Sri Lanka winning the West Asia Baseball Cup for the second consecutive year. This win helped Sri Lanka qualify for the Asian Championships where they played alongside Baseball heavyweights such as Japan, Korea and Taiwan. These superb performances were rewarded as [...]