Cops down Havies, second time in single season
Last year’s Dialog Rugby League runners-up Havelocks SC, were forced to face agony by the rejuvenated Police SC, who defeated them for the second time this season 34-28 at Police Park yesterday. Unlike the first round game between the same two opponents, the losers managed to cut down the margin, yet time ran out for [...]
Coaches accuse players of fixing matches at SAG
Match-fixing is generally associated with cricket but this menace has now crept into other sports as well with allegations of players underperforming to fix the outcome in three sports – cycling, volleyball and basketball – at the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) in Nepal having surfaced. These accusations have been made by coaches themselves to [...]
Ultimatum for Slinger?
His record as the country’s T20 captain is nothing to boast of with just a single win out of 13 matches during the last 13 months. But Lasith Malinga seems to enjoy the unreserved support of national cricket selectors who have retained him to lead a team battling for consistency against West Indies later this [...]
NCC amass 511/9
NCC amassed a mammoth score of 511 for 9 on day two of their Premier Tier A inter-club cricket encounter against Lankan CC in the match played at the NCC grounds. Resuming from their overnight score of 403 for 6, hosts added further 108 runs before making the declaration. Their inning was decorated with a [...]
Police, Navy, Galle record wins
Chalana De Silva took a match bag of nine wickets while Azhar Attari picked up a five wicket haul as Police SC registered comfortable seven wicket win over Sebastianites CA in their Premier Tier B match at Katunayake yesterday. The third day’s proceedings saw Sebastianites CA resuming from their overnight score of 183 for 6 [...]
Sachithra Senanayake retires from International Cricket
Spinner Sachithra Senanayake has retired from international cricket with immediate effect. The announcement was no surprise given that he has last represented Sri Lanka in a T20 game in 2016. Senanayake was a member of the World T20 winning team in 2014. Senanayake who prominently featured in limited over cricket since making his international debut [...]
Nawaloka Hospitals to test Maliban Biscuits in MCA ‘D’ final
A quick fire century by No.6 batsman Anjula Perera and a fine spell of fast medium bowling by Lahiru Dushantha guided Maliban Biscuits to the finals of the MCA ‘D’ Division 40-over Cricket Tournament when they scored a 92-run win over David Pieris Motor Company in the first semi-final match played at the MCA ground [...]
Jason scores hat-trick in Kandy’s 10th win
Jason Dissanayake landed a hat-trick, which helped reigning Dialog Rugby League champions Kandy SC continue their unbeaten status this season, after a close, yet comfortable 36-26 win against Army SC at Welisara yesterday. With Dissanayake’s three tries, Kandy completed yet another game with bonus points after scoring from a tally of six tries and three [...]
Royal fight back to record outright win
Royal fought back from a perilous position on day one to turn the tables to record a convincing nine wicket win over De Mazenod Kandana in their cricket encounter concluded at Reid Avenue yesterday. Royal were trailed by 28 runs in the first innings, having bowled out for 155 in response to De Mazenold’s first [...]
Maduranga steers Dudley Senanayake Central
A fine knock of 121 by Maduranga Dissanayake laid the foundation for Dudley Senanayake Central Tholangamuwa to record an innings win over Royal Panadura in the Under 19 Division Two inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Bentota yesterday. Results: At Bentota: Dudley Senanayake Central won by innings and 12 runs Royal Panadura 196 and 124 (Lahiru [...]
Jaffna Central in massive win
Jaffna Central recorded a massive innings and 266-run win over home town rivals Jaffna College in the Under 19 Division Three inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Jaffna yesterday. An unbeaten ton by R. Rajclinton and half tons by N. Sansayan and A. Nithushan saw Jaffna Central resuming from their overnight score of 277 for 6 [...]
Focus on elite cricketers
Jayaratne will not depend on the domestic structure that produces half-baked cricketers who contribute towards Sri Lanka’s dwindling fortunes abroad. He wants instead to pick the best and put them under the best coaches to hone their skills so they are on par with international cricketers. “If you think a certain player is ready for [...]
New competition format to be implemented at schools volleyball championship
Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVB) will implement a model it created, following the junior structures of world’s top ranked countries, when the 20th DSI Supersport Volleyball Championship begins for 2020 from March. This was revealed by A.S. Nalaka, the General Secretary of SLVB, at the launch of the 20th DSI Supersport Volleyball Championship 2020 in [...]
Ecstasy for Police, double agony for Saunders
When a game of football is decided on penalty kicks, it is more like a lottery for the ultimate winner. But Police showed abundant skills and tactical nous to blank out the classy looking Saunders SC to emerge deserving winners of the Vantage FA Cup bringing the curtain down on a year-long competition in a [...]
Speedruns Round 2 on February 16
Over 100 drivers will take up the Ultimate Driving Simulation Challenge as Speedruns, sponsored by AMW, will gear up for Round 2 in Colombo on February 16 at the Suzuki showroom in Borella starting at 9.45am. With Round 2 of the Ceylon Motor Sports Club (CMSC) Speedruns due to take place in Colombo on March [...]
Udaya Ranasinghe bags triple crown
South Asian Games participants Udaya Ranasinghe and Hansani Piumila Kapugeekiyana won the men’s and women’s titles and the Most Outstanding Player awards respectively at the 73rd National Table Tennis Championship 2019 held at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium last weekend. A total number of 227 men and women participated in the event which was [...]
Boa and Niranjan fly high in New Zealand
Manukau Rovers Rugby Football Club in Auckland, New Zealand, one of the oldest and foremost rugby clubs competing for the Gallagher premiership, has appointed former Royalist, Boa Athu, and Trinitian Niranjan Ranasinghe as part of their premier coaching staff for the 2020 rugby season. Athu played for CH&FC in the club season while Niranjan, a [...]
Golf starlet aiming to be third time lucky at WAAP
Sri Lanka’s leading lady golfer Taniya Minel Balasuriya is hungry for success at amateur level before turning professional next year. The 17-year-old starlet, who helped Sri Lanka win the team gold in golf at the 13th South Asian Games in Nepal, takes on the world’s top players at the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific championship (WAAP) from [...]
Good comeback by Niloo and Sachin
Sachin de Silva and experienced ever green golfer, Niloo Fernando stamped their class at the 85th Nuwara Eiya Golf Championship which took place at their club course in Nuwara Eliya last weekend. A record number of 80 golfers teed off at this annual event, the highest in the recent club history. Niloo, after an ordinary [...]
Is the ‘will to win’ enough to create an upset?
At the Women’s Cricket World Cup 2013 held in India, Sri Lanka finished overall fifth, after recording three wins, including two upsets. The Lankan women beat top ranked England in a pool match, which was a major upset in Women’s ODI history, and as underdogs, went on to beat India. Later they would move on [...]
It’s Niluka not Dinuka for Olympics!
Sri Lanka Badminton clarifies… Sri Lanka Badminton refers to the news item titled ‘SLB chief Rohan confident Dinuka will qualify for Tokyo Olympics’. It appears that the SLB president has been misquoted in this news item. What the SLB president stated was that the SLB is backing Niluka (Dinuka’s brother) the Badminton Nationals 2019 Champion, [...]
‘Boxing is not fighting, it is an art of fighting’
Former Sri Lanka boxer Saman Nihal Gunaratne deplored the standard of boxing at the Nationals even as Police pugilist Rukmal Prasanna emulated his feat of carrying away the Sir Henry William Manning Cup awarded to the most scientific boxer. It may not necessarily herald another golden era for Police boxing coming as it did three [...]
Rising Police boxing star Prasanna hungry for international glory
Former Sri Lanka youth international Rukmal Prasanna was pleasantly surprised to be adjudged the most scientific boxer at the 94th National Boxing Championship but the 20-year-old southpaw richly deserved this accolade for displaying technical excellence in an age where brawn prevails over brain in the ring. Having beaten a tough soldier Thilina Weerakkodi, a silver [...]
CEO Craig Tiley’s management Australian Open of 2020
Australia’s contribution to foster tennis in the last seventy years is undisputable. With the development of technology and passing generations, the Australian Open which began in 1908, has upgraded its presentation of the game to match the electronic era, modern game and in suitable playing surface. Every Grand Slam is special. This year’s conducted in [...]
Star athletes Sadeepa and Shelinda to feature in ISAC 2020
Several international athletes, including South Asian Games (SAG) gold medallist Sadeepa Henderson and Youth Olympian Shelinda Jansen, will be the cynosure of all eyes at the 20th International Schools’ Athletic Championship (ISAC 2020) to be held at the Sugathadasa Stadium from February 14 to 16. Over 2,000 athletes from 23 international schools will be competing [...]
Sanchi House overall champs at Gothami BV Sports Meet 2020
Sanchi House emerged overall champions at the annual Inter-House Sports Meet 2020 of Gothami Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo, which was held on January 24 at the Sugathadasa Stadium. Sanchi House accumulated 332.5 points and stood firmly ahead of Saranath House, who followed in as runners-up with 309.5 points. Ajantha House finished as overall third with 240.5 [...]
Victorian shuttler emerge Open Women’s Singles champion
Dilmi Dias, the former Games Captain of Convent of Our Lady of Victories, Moratuwa secured the Championship in the Open Women’s Singles for the first time at the 67th Nationals and 37th Junior Nationals Badminton Championship 2019 held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium. She also emerged champion in Under-19 Girls’ Singles and Under-19 Girls’ Doubles [...]
Veerya House emerge overall champions
Veerya House emerged overall champions at the annual inter-house meet of Girls High School, Mount Lavinia accumulating a total of 441 points followed by Kshanthi (390), Sathya (389) and Pragna (369). Honours were shared in athletics with Veerya emerging champions and Sathya runners-up while KShanthi dominated the field events while Pragna were runners-up. There were [...]
Baseball to stay in Jaffna
Sri Lanka Baseball went to Jaffna and introduced the Sport to eight schools. They also sent a permanent coach to be based there. His role will be not only to coach the players but also to develop coaches in the Northern Province. The Coach, T. Lukshan, who studied at Ranabima Royal College in Kandy, played [...]
Girls Under-19 semi-finals this week
The two semi-final matches of the Sri Lanka Schools Girls’ Under-19 All-Island Cricket Tournament 2019/20 Division II are scheduled to take place at Thurstan College grounds on February 13. The first semi-final match between Dharmapala Vidyalaya, Pannipitiya and Kegalu Balika Vidyalaya will take place at 9.00am, while the second semi-final match between Princess of Wales College, [...]
Daffodil House champs at Sussex Kiribathgoda Sports Meet
Daffodil House clinched the overall championship of the annual Inter-House Sports Meet of the Sussex College, Kiribathgoda held at the Sugathadasa Stadium. Thejaka Abeysinghe of Daisy House won the overall boys championship of the Under-18 age category while Kushani Perera of Daisy House and Tharinsa Thenuwara of Daffodil House bagged the joint championship of the [...]
Binara and Rasindi shine at National Under-6 Cadet Chess tourney
Binara Aradhya Gunathilaka of Dharmasoka Primary School, Mahara and Rasindi Himamsika of Worrier’s Knights Chess Academy emerged champions in the Boys and Girls categories respectively at the National Under-6 Cadet Chess Championship 2020, concluded at the Sastrananda Vidyalaya, Dehiwala last weekend. Conducted by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, a total of 59 participated in [...]