Unbeaten Kandy deny gallant Havies
Defending champions Kandy SC had to pull out all stops to beat a gallant Havelock SC 22-10 and maintain their unbeaten run in an enthralling first round clash of the Dialog Club Rugby League Championship played under lights at Havelock Park yesterday. Kandy got their points from three tries, two conversions, and a penalty to [...]
Red Shirts prevail over Sailors in scrappy game
CR&FC prevailed over Navy SC in scrappy, yet fast Dialog Rugby League Round 1 final week match, as the hosts scraped through to snatch a close 27-24 victory at Longdon Place yesterday. Both teams scored three tries and converted all three of them, but the two penalties put over by the Red Shirts, against the [...]
Royal cruise to 8-wicket win over Ananda
Royal cruised through to a comfortable 8-wicket win over Ananda in the Under-19 Inter-School Cricket encounter concluded at Reid Avenue yesterday. Royal, chasing 102 runs for victory, raced to the target in just 12.2 overs to take the L.D.H. Memorial Trophy which was on offer. Meanwhile De Mazenod along with Karandeniya Central and Nalanda Boys [...]
SLC to bid for World Cups
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is to throw their hat into the ring for hosting either the World Cup T20 or the 50-over World Cup as the International Cricket Council (ICC) is exploring a hosting model where countries would bid during the post-2023 cricket cycle. The ICC adapted an unofficial rotation system where each cricket playing [...]
Take a bow Chandrika
The National Boxing Championship organized by the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka will take place from January 21 to 24 at Royal MAS Arena. There will be a significant presence of foreign officials at the event in a bid to ensure transparency and fair play in decision making. More significantly it will bring the curtain [...]
Dilmi Dias impresses with a triple shuttle crown at Nationals
Dilmi Dias stole the show with a triple crown while ace shuttler Niluka Karunaratne and Lochana de Silva claimed a double each at the combined 67th Badminton Nationals and 37th Junior Nationals which concluded at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo yesterday. Emerging star shuttler, Dias, won the important titles of Women’s Singles from the [...]
Rabada ban is cause for concern, says coach Boucher
South African coach Mark Boucher said he was concerned about the disciplinary regulations in cricket which led to fast bowler Kagiso Rabada being handed a one-match ban due to his overexuberant celebration during the third test against England. Rabada was fined and handed a demerit point as he was deemed to have been provocative as [...]
Sri Lanka set to hit stride in Zimbabwe
Sri Lanka will mark Zimbabwe’s re-entry into international cricket after the International Cricket Council (ICC) revoked its suspension on Zimbabwe Cricket last year. The first Test match in the two-game series will begin today at Harare Sports Club. The second game is scheduled to be played from January 27 at the same venue. This series [...]
Sri Lanka face India in U19 World Cup opener
Sri Lanka will meet defending champions India today in their opening game of the U19 World Cup at the Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein in South Africa. Sri Lanka, India, New Zealand and newcomers Japan are in group ‘A’ while Australia, England, West Indies and Nigeria are in group ‘B’. In group ‘C’ Pakistan, Bangladesh Zimbabwe and [...]
Heshan Flexie rout Morrison
Heshan Flexie Packaging scored an easy seven wicket win with 30.2 overs to spare over Morrison PLC in the MCA ‘C’ Division 50 Over KO cricket Tournament match at the MCA grounds while Commercial Bank scored a four wicket victory over Pan Asia Bank at Dombagoda SLAOC cricket grounds yesterday. In the MCA ‘D’ Division [...]
Hot weather warning from health consultant
As hot and humid conditions are expected to prevail in the next couple of weeks, health officials urge school authorities not to expose school children to the sun. The Health Ministry’s Consultant Community Physician Dr. Bhanuja Wijeyathilake, said the present weather condition could cause dehydration especially among children and elders. “This is the school cricket [...]
Nimnaka stars in St. Anthony’s win
Spinner Nimnaka Jayathilake fashioned a comfortable innings an 93-run win for St Anthony’s College over Kingswood College in their U-19 inter-school cricket encounter which concluded at Katugastota. Nimnaka collected a match bag of 9 for 57, including a 6 for 14 runs in the second innings to bowl out Kingswood in their second essay for [...]
Bess takes five as England dominate
Off-spinner Dom Bess claimed his first Test five-wicket haul as England moved into a dominating position on the third day of the third Test against South Africa at St George’s Park on Saturday. Bess took all the wickets as South Africa slumped to 113 for five in reply to England’s 499 for nine declared. A [...]
Rangana Herath urges SLC to revamp the domestic structure
Legendary left-arm spinner Rangana Herath urged Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to revamp the domestic cricket structure in order to revive the national team’s fortunes and to regain its glorious days where Sri Lanka was feared by almost all international sides. Herath, who was the highest wicket-taker among left armers with 433 wickets, went on to [...]
Coach Manoj calls for structural overhaul to boost swimming
A highly contended Head Coach of the national swimming team that bagged seven gold, 11 silver and 18 bronze medals at the South Asian Games (SAG) 2019 held in Nepal, Manoj Abeysinghe, however, has a minor heartache back of his mind. His only worry had nothing to do with swimming, but prestige, which in return [...]
Recipe for disaster
The surprise exclusion of Kusal Janith Perera from the Zimbabwe tour duly illustrates Sri Lanka’s cricket crisis. The lack of continuity and longevity which the team’s new head coach Mickey Arthur wants to sustain has been lacking for many years. While a mediocre domestic structure isn’t helping a resurgence – with cricketers coming through the [...]
Sri Lanka baseball leap into 36th place in world ranking
Sri Lanka has leaped five places in the World Baseball ranking released Friday and currently sits in 36th place. In the latest world rankings for 2020 released by the World Baseball Softball Confederation, Sri Lanka has reaped rewards after a highly successful 2019. The Sri Lanka national team received 50 points for winning the West [...]
Outstanding Sri Lanka outfit win Championship
Team Sri Lanka became champions at the second edition of the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club-Master Card Inter Nation Golf Classic 2020 which took place at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club recently. Nine countries participated. India, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand, USA, UK and the host, Sri Lanka teed off along with an Asian [...]
Calvin takes top honours at Speed run 2020
Calvin Kingsley took top honours in a closely fought Round 1 final Speed Run 2020 Esport competition held in Matara. The final was an epic battle between Calvin Kingsley, Nirosh Jeewantha, Chamod Samarakoon and Ayaan Hameem which young Kingsley took the top spot on the podium, securing a position in the grand final. Special mention [...]
Lanka’s lost try
Former Sri Lanka fly half Asanga Seneviratne is set to play a pivotal role in Asia rugby’s governing body by proposing structural changes to regional competitions in a bid to whip up spectator interest and attract sponsors. Shunned by Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) when he was nominated as a vice-president of Asia Rugby (AR), Seneviratne [...]
Nalandians felicitate their cricket Guru Nelson Mendis
Old Nalandians are felicitating one of their Gurus, who was instrumental in bringing out the best in them. This guru not only taught them subject matter but inspired them to hit the world stage in whatever the field they were involved in. Nalandians felicitate Mr. Nelson Mendis – renowned cricketing guru on his 82nd birthday [...]
How SL keeps losing in the big picture due to politicians
Just the other day, an outstanding double international player who represented Sri Lanka, sent me a mail in which he referred to “first-class cricket” in Sri Lanka which was actually a misnomer. Of course this was mainly due to a so-called statistician serving in the Cricket Board at that time who did not know anything [...]
Rugby referees swimming against tidal wave of critics
Sri Lankan rugby referees may not be considered world class. This honour goes to Nizam Jamaldeen and Dilroy Fernando, who officiated at the inaugural Rugby World Cup Sevens held in Dubai in 2009. However, the present crop of young referees are equal to the task performed by experienced foreign officials invited to blow key matches [...]
Sparks set to fly in S. Thomas’-Gateway football floodlit clash at Racecourse on January 25
The stage is set for the second annual football encounter between S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia and Gateway College for the prestigious Neville de Alwis-Ralph Alles Challenge Trophy that will be played on Saturday January 25 at the Racecourse stadium in Reid Avenue. Organised in collaboration with the Football Federation of Sri Lanka, hosts S. [...]
Second Sanga-Mahela Trophy cricket encounter this week
The 42nd First XI cricket encounter between Trinity College, Kandy and Nalanda College, Colombo will be played on January 20 and 21 at the Asgiriya ground in Kandy. With the theme ‘Spirit of cricket legacy for future generations’, the glittering trophy named after two cricketing greats produced by the two highly respected academic institutions in [...]
Ilma to host International Schools Under-20 Netball for 10th consecutive year
The Inter-International School Under-20 Netball Tournament, hosted by Ilma International Girls’ School (IIGS) for the 10th consecutive year, will be held on January 25, at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium. The event is open to all the schools that come under the TISSL (The International Schools of Sri Lanka) umbrella and the 2020 edition will witness [...]
Kegalu BV’s Chameesha is the Most Outstanding Paddler at ITTF project tourney
‘My Gender. My Strength’, a national association assistance programme for Women’s Development in Table Tennis by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was held during the last week of December in Colombo and Jaffna with only girls and women taking part. The three-day programme included two coaching camps and an all-girls tournament to wind up [...]
CCC School of Cricket emerge unbeaten Under-10 champs
The Under-10 Inter-Academy Cricket Championship Tournament, organised and conducted by Colombo Premier Cricket Foundation, Colombo (CPCF), was successfully completed with the grand final between hosts CPCF and CCC School of Cricket ‘Maroons’ at the Dudley Senanayake School grounds, with CCC ‘Maroons’ winning easily by 7 wickets. Incidentally, CCC won the Under-9 Tournament last year. The [...]
BSC donates cricket gear to rural school
The British School in Colombo (BSC) brought life, laughter and joy to the underprivileged cricketers of Mahadiulweva Maha Vidyalaya, Trincomalee when they donated valuable cricket equipment during a charity cricket encounter worked off in Trincomalee. The BSC cricketers also joined with their coaching staff to conduct a cricket coaching camp for the Under-13 and Under-12 [...]
Sanuk and Chanuka shine for Lyceum Nugegoda
Sanuk de Silva and Chanuka Amarasekara impressed for Lyceum International School, Nugegoda in their drawn game against Mayadunna MV, Hanwella in a Under-13 Division III School Cricket 2019/20 second round match played at Hanwella. Lyceum Nugegoda batted first and scored 117 runs in which Sanuk de Silva top scored with 30 runs. Mayadunna MV, in [...]