Hasaranga magic
Sri Lanka survived a middle-order collapse to ace a 290 run chase in a closely-contested opening game of the three-match ODI series against West Indies here at the SSC grounds in Colombo on Saturday. The winners reached the post with one wicket and five balls to spare on the back of a fighting inning from [...]
Rowing ends
The 35th National Rowing Championships ended at the Diyawanna Rowing Centre (DRC) yesterday. The four-day event speared off on Wednesday with heats and qualifying rounds races. The semi-finals and finals were held Friday and Saturday. Twenty-one teams took part at this year’s national championships including 13 schools, three universities, Tri-Forces and two rowing clubs. Sri [...]
Blow for SLC
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has suffered a major blow as Sony Pictures Networks, its longstanding media rights holder, has pulled out from the bid to earn rights for the next three-year cycle. This has left the board few options to choose from. The sale of broadcast rights contributes significantly to the board’s coffers. SLC will [...]
SLT and PLC reach Div ‘C’ semis
Sri Lanka Telecom and Peoples Leasing Company reserved their slots for the semi-finals of the ongoing MCA ‘C’ Division 50 Over Cricket Tournament 2020 when they defeated Heshan Flexe Packaging by four wickets and Commercial Credit by one wicket at the first two quarter-final matches played at the Army Grounds, Panadura and De Soysa Stadium, [...]
St. Joseph’s record eighth outright win
St. Joseph’s College recorded their eighth outright win of the Under-19 Inter-School Cricket season with a convincing innings and 25 runs win over Ananda in the match concluded at Darley Road yesterday. The Joes made 377-8 before declaring as Shevon Daniel and Sheron Fonseka struck centuries, while Dunith Wellalage also contributed with a half century. [...]
First innings win for Trinity
Trinity College recorded a first innings win over S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia in their Under-19 Inter-School cricket encounter concluded at Asgiriya in Kandy yesterday. Highlight of the encounter was three fine half centuries and one fine spell of fine spin bowling. In batting Pasan Ganegoda (87) and Thevin Amarasinghe (62) of Trinity batted beautifully [...]
St. Thomas’ Matara enter quarters
St. Thomas Matara advanced to the quarter-finals of the Under-19 Division I Inter-School Cricket Tournament with a comfortable first innings win over fancied D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo in the pre-quarter final encounter concluded at the Uyanwatte Stadium in Matara yesterday. At Matara: First innings win for St. Thomas’ DSS 107 (Manura Peiris 27: Sachira Rashmika [...]
CoPE directs ministry to hand over SLC audit report to CID
The Committee on Public Enterprises (CoPE) on Thursday directed Sports Ministry Secretary K.D.S Ruwanchandra to hand over relevant sections of the Special Audit of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on TV Rights to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to facilitate their ongoing investigation on the controversial wire transfer fraud. The CID is currently investigating the incident [...]
Royal -Thomian past cricketers’ dinner on March 11
The 30th Royal Thomian Past Cricketers Annual Dinner will be held at the main ballroom, Galadari Hotel on March 11, 2020 from 7.30pm onwards. This prestigious event for coloursmen of both colleges has always been a much look forward to event. Tickets will be available at the gates, priced at Rs. 4500.00 per head and [...]
Tame draw in Jaffna
The Under-19 Division III Inter-School Cricket encounter between St. Patrick’s, Jaffna and Maris Stella Thimbirigaskatuwa played at Jaffna ended in a tame draw while Rajasinghe Central Hanwella dominated proceedings in another match which got underway at Hanwella yesterday. The match in Jaffna was a low scoring affair while at Hanwella, the hosts were able to [...]
Malindu, Kavishka steer Siri Piyaratana
A ton by Malindu Shamal and a half ton by Kavishka Dhananjaya helped Siri Piyaratana MMV Padukka to make a formidable score of 294 runs against Piliyandala Central who ended day one on 48 for 1 in the Under-19 Division Two match played at Padukka. Siri Piyaratana Padukka 294 (Malindu Shamal 102, Kavishka Dhananjaya 91, [...]
Fijian power spurs Police
Police Sports Club spurred by the brilliance of Fijian Emosi Vunivosa outgunned Army Sports Club 47-31 in a free-flowing rugby encounter which produced end-to-end rugby at Police Park yesterday. The winners led 33-19 at the interval. The ‘blue shirts’ earned their 11th bonus point in as many matches to leapfrog CR&FC into second position, scoring [...]
Saminda, Roshen help Ragama CC make bold reply
Two unbeaten knocks, one of 131 by Saminda Fernando and the other an half ton by Roshen Silva, helped Ragama CC make a bold reply of 261 for 3 on day two in the Premier Tier A Inter-Club Cricket encounter played at the NCC ground. This was in reply to Tamil Union’s score of 421 [...]
Panadura SC amass 485
Panadura SC helped by a career best knock of 177 by Vishwa Chathuranga and supported by half-tons from Kashif Naved and skipper Harsha Cooray amassed a score of 485 runs on day two of the Premier Tier B inter-club cricket encounter against Navy SC played at Panadura. Later they bowled out the sailors for a [...]
Champion archer Anuradha on pins as surgery beckons
Champion Police archer Anuradha Karunaratne has not given up on her Olympic dream even as she contemplates going under the knife again to repair a damaged tendon in her right shoulder, just over a year after making a successful comeback from a similar surgery in October 2016. Silver medallist in the Recurve event at the [...]
Sri Lanka football desperately needs a Pro League – Alagic
After tasting just one win, from a forfeit, and five draws in 24 international games, giving away 65 goals and scoring seven and losing seven slots, from 200 to joint 205 in FIFA rankings, the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) replaced the self-proclaimed expert Nizam Packeer Ali with UEFA Professional Coaching License holder Amir [...]
Nigel returns for CR clash
Kandy Sports Club skipper Nigel Ratwatte will return for today’s Dialog Club Rugby League second round clash against CR&FC which will be worked off at the Nittawela Rugby Stadium. Kick-off is scheduled at 4.15pm. Nigel missed their last three games due to a wrist injury. Meanwhile CR will miss out on Sharo Fernando and Kandy [...]
Singles winner Gamini Dissanayake creates major upset
Sri Lanka’s Gamini Dissanayake created a major upset to become the Singles champion after a stunning performance during the on-going tournament and Ha-Gel Lee/Sang-Ho Oh of Korea, clinched the Doubles Championship of the 13th Sri Lanka Open UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour worked off at the Sinhalese Sports Club Tennis Courts, Colombo. Sixth seeded Dissanayake, beat [...]
Showjumper Mathilda continues prep for Olympics unfazed by FEI ruling
Sri Lankan-born Swedish showjumper Mathilda Karlsson will not accept the FEI ruling to cancel her Olympic qualification ranking points retrospectively which has derailed her chances of participating in the Tokyo Games in July. The world equestrian body has ruled that contrary to the FEI Rules, two competitions counting for the Olympic and Longines Rankings were [...]
Kiwi women thrash Lankan lasses
After a stunning performance in the warm-up game, Sri Lanka Women were thrashed by New Zealand in their Twenty20 World Cup opening match by 7 wickets in the third Group match at Perth, Australia yesterday. Chasing a 128-run target, New Zealand women recorded comprehensive win with 14 balls to spare. New Zealand Women’s captain, opener [...]
Windies name squad against Sri Lanka T20s
Andre Russell and Oshane Thomas have been recalled to West Indies’ T20I squad, while Shimron Hetmyer has been declared fit for the two games in Pallekele.The trio will be part of the 14-man Windies squad led by Kieron Pollard that will face Sri Lanka on March 4 and March 6, after the ongoing three-match ODI [...]
Thurstan look for repeat, Isipathana seek revenge
It’s big match fever again as the clash between traditional rivals Thurstan College and Isipathana College will usher the 2020 version of the big match clashes with their 57th ‘Battle of the Brothers’ encounter scheduled to be played on February 28 and 29 at the SSC grounds from 9.30am each day. However this time out [...]
School boxing descends to bull-fighting in ring
Aggression prevailed over the sweet science of boxing as Sri Lankan school boxers and coaches seem to have learnt the art of winning one-minute round bouts to almost perfection, even as the Schools Boxing Association (SBA) pledged to improve the quality of the sport to match up to international standards. It was a case of [...]
Global prize money tops $500m
Tennis money is smaller than football and other richer sports. This year, the annual prize money will exceed well over 500 million dollars. The Australian Open alone had AUS $ 71 million. Professional bodies are pushing the earning levels of player to attract the best talent and to keep them in tennis. Their focus is [...]
Indian cricketers beat Lankan architects in sports fiesta
The inaugural ArcAsia Sports Fiesta, organised by the Architects Regional Council Asia (ArcAsia) along with the Sports Committee of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA), concluded on last Monday. The fiesta was conducted with the participation of architects of the Asian region and took place in Colombo and Hambantota. Cricket and badminton events were [...]
Can we expect something from our national cricketers in 2020?
During the last two years our national cricketers have not done anything substantial to bring glory to our motherland. Changing coaches, changing captains and changing selectors have not brought any good results. Our team is going from bad to worse. That is what we see at present. So when can our national team come to [...]
New RTC president Nihara Jayatilleke creates history in Asia
Horseracing enthusiast, animal lover and prolific public figure Nihara Jayatilleke Rutnam created history by becoming the first female President of Royal Turf Club (RTC), which is also a first for the region of Asia. Nihara has been an active member of RTC since its inception in 2016 and was an executive committee member during the [...]
ISAC ‘Queen’ Jansen targets Asian Junior meet
The ‘queen’ of the International Schools Athletics Championships (ISAC) 2020, Shelinda Jansen sets her eyes on winning at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships to be held from May 14 to 17 in Bangkok, Thailand. “I am having the South Asian Junior Athletic Championships trials. This is coming up in April. Soon as this finishes, I [...]
Parakrama pugilists dominate Ananda Inter-House boxing
A high standard of competition was on display at the annual Inter-House Boxing meet of Ananda College held at the Royal MAS Arena. This is the second time that Ananda which produced great boxers such as the Jayasuriya brothers – C.P. and H.P. – and Olympian Sumith Liyanage in the past, successfully staged this meet [...]
4th CCC Under-12 cricket tourney gets underway
The 4th annual Invitational Under-12 Cricket Tournament for Coaching Schools and Academies organised by the CCC School of Cricket is under way at the Ananda Sasthralaya Kotte, CMS Kotte, St. Thomas’ College Kotte and Piliyandala Central grounds. Twenty leading academies in and around Colombo and few outstation teams is taking part in the tournament conducted [...]
The Lyceumers ready for fifth annual battle
The much-awaited 5th annual Cricket Encounter between Lyceum International School, Panadura and Lyceum International School, Nugegoda hosted by the Panadura institute, for the Nikitha Grero Challenge Trophy, will be held from 9.00am on Monday, February 24 at the De Soysa Stadium in Moratuwa. The Nikitha Grero Challenge Trophy Cricket encounter commenced in 2015 intending to [...]
Binadi steals limelight at HFC Sports Meet
Binadi Gunawardhana was the cynosure of all eyes at the annual Sports Meet of the Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya as she ran away with the overall best performer award for his excellent performances in the track. The 15-year-old sprinter, representing Carmal House was also the overall best performer in track events, best performer in 100m [...]
Victorian shuttler emerges 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 [...]
Special Cricket Coaching Programme for Kandy youngsters
A special coaching programme, conducted by Bandaranayake, the Kandy District Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket, was held last week at the Uda Peradeniya Primary School ground. Many young and aspiring cricketers from the area took part in the programme to enhance their cricketing knowledge under a qualified coach. The coaching programme was held upon [...]