Royal grit prevails
A defiant unbeaten half century by 15-year-old Dasis Manchanayake enabled Royal College avert the ignominy of a follow-on as the 141st Battle of the Blues encounter against S. Thomas’ College ended in a tame draw at SSC grounds yesterday. The diminutive left-hander endured a baptism of fire to hit a memorable half century to join [...]
Sports come to a standstill
The escalating number of cases related to COVID 19 and the risk of spreading the virus in Sri Lanka, has prompted almost all sports governing bodies and event organisers to call off or postpone events that were scheduled to take place from this week. Among the called off events were the England Test tour to [...]
Asanka de Silva top scorer with unbeaten 69
Asanka de Silva hit an unbeaten 69 to become the top scorer of the day in the 18th DPMC-MCA ‘E’ Division 25 Over League Cricket Tournament 2020 match played at the D.S. Senanayake College Grounds yesterday. Chief scores At MCA Grounds: LOLC beat Ceylon Tobacco Co. by 7 wkts At DSS grounds: Ceylinco Insurance beat [...]
Second half rally takes Peterites through
St. Peter’s College put up a good second half rally to beat Vidyartha College by 34 points (6 tries, 2 conversions) to 3 points (1 penalty) win in their Dialog Inter-School Under-19 rugby encounter which was worked off at the Nittawela Rugby Stadium yesterday. At the short breather, the winners led 10-0. Peterites played well [...]
Sony to return but with conditions
Sony Pictures Networks has shown an interest in competing for TV/Radio and digital rights but wants the cricket board to also provide territorial rights including over Sri Lanka to the successful bidder. Sony, who is Sri Lanka Cricket’s existing rights partner, has made two other requests contingent to it placing its bid. One of its [...]
St. John’s record 11th win
St. John’s Jaffna recorded their 11th win of the Battle of the North limited over encounter against traditional rivals Jaffna Central with a 33-run win in a low scoring game of the 18th limited over match played at the St. John’s ground in Jaffna. In fact this was the Johnians fifth successive win of the [...]
Karunaratne Buddhist School enter quarters
Karunaratne Buddhist School Ragama advanced to the quarterfinals of the Under 19 Division II two-day cricket tournament with a comfortable first innings win over Lyceum International School Panadura in the pre-quarterfinal encounter concluded at Panadura yesterday. In another pre-quarterfinal encounter of the same tournament saw Nalanda Boys School Minuwangoda ending day one in a strong [...]
Rocks battle ends in a tame draw
The 37th Battle of the Rocks between traditional rivals Maliyadeva and St. Anne’s played at Kurunegala ended in a tame draw. The second day’s play saw Maliyadeva declaring their innings on their overnight score of 331 for 6 and St. Anne’s in reply hit 262 for 7. Results At Kurunegala: Match drawn Maliyadeva 331 for [...]
Sammu Ashan strikes career best of 144
Sammu Ashan recorded a career best 144 in 141 balls as Sinhalese Sports Club led by 345 runs against Moors Sports Club on the second day of their Premier League Group ‘A’ match played at Braybrook place yesterday. Right-handed Ashan, 22, hammered five sixes and 17 fours and put on a 189-run partnership for the [...]
Panadura SC in a strong position
Panadura SC was in line to record their fourth outright win of the ongoing Premier Tier B inter-club cricket tournament as they were in a strong position when played ended on day two against Kurunegala YCC at Kurunegala. Meanwhile Sebastianites C&AC along with SLPA CC and Kalutara TC have already taken first innings leads against [...]
Joe Root ‘relieved’ over cancelled Lankan Test tour, team leaves
England captain Joe Root has said that he feels “a relief” after the Test series against Sri Lanka was called off amid fears over the spread of coronavirus. “The right decision has been made,” Root was quoted as saying by BBC before the flight home. “There was an element of relief. You could see looking [...]
The Southern Whirlwind
National Youth cap, Navod Paranavithana became the first Sri Lankan batsman to cross the 400-run mark, after his enterprising knock in a school cricket first XI game played at Galle last week. The skipper of Mahinda College, who will be turning 18 in May, made this marathon knock of 409 runs, which came in 327 [...]
Paraguay’s young guns smash Sri Lanka’s Davis Cup hopes
Sri Lanka went into the historic Davis Cup World Cup Group II play-off tie against Paraguay full of confidence but were brought down to earth by two 16-year-olds who cruelly exposed their lack of international exposure to send them crashing to 4-0 defeat. Playing in alien conditions and against a South American nation for the [...]
A look back at Battle of the Blues of the Hills seven decades ago
Trinity College, Kandy of Asgiriya fame is about the most outstanding educational institute which has contributed immensely for the progress of high fine education in Sri Lanka ranking with that of Royal, S. Thomas’, Ananda, Nalanda, Mahinda and St. Anthony’s College Katugastota (SACK) amongst other leading educational institutions. St. Anthony’s College, Kandy will be meeting [...]
Top 8 claim main titles at SLMF Awards Night
Ace riders Jacque Gunawardene and Dushan Mudalige were among the recipients for the main awards at the annual National Riders’ Awards Ceremony of Sri Lanka Motorcycle Federation (SLMF), which took place at the Eagle Lagoon Hotel in Katunayake on yesterday. The awards ceremony was held for the calendar year 2019 and winners were determined based [...]
HNB and Hutch power Clay Court Nationals
Over 500 players will vie for honours in the third edition of the Clay Court National Tennis Tournament 2020 conducted by the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) which got underway on Friday at Greenpath. The biggest tournament in the SLTA calendar, Hatton National Bank and Hutch Telecommunications have joined hands as the main sponsors of [...]
Fairfirst Insurance partners with Colts Cricket Club
Fairfirst Insurance announced the renewal of their partnership with the Colombo Colts Cricket Club as the official sponsor for 2020 season. The partnership, which commenced in 2017 was renewed for the third year, with the objective of recognising sportsmanship and nurturing sports. Speaking about the partnership with Colombo Colts Cricket Club, Managing Director and CEO [...]
Huzeifa Jafferjee stamps his Class at Speedrun Round 2
Huzeifa Jafferjee cruised to victory at the second round of ‘Speed Runs’ held at the Shangri La One Galle Face Mall last Sunday. Chamod Samarakoon the first runner-up of round one held at Matara came in a very close second while Ranjaya Dissanayaka claimed the third spot and Thiyago Pereira secured fourth. The first three [...]
Selection trials for Masters Hockey World Cup
The Sri Lanka Masters Hockey Association (SLMHA) will conduct an Open Selection Trial to pick players for the upcoming Masters Hockey World Cup 2020 to be held in England and South Africa. The selection trials will be conducted today from 9.00am to 11.30am at the Astro Turf in Reid Avenue, Colombo. The SLMHA expects all [...]
European style ‘Super League’ set to kick-off ‘Pro’ football in Sri Lanka
Football has been widely considered to be a poor man’s sport in Sri Lanka though it has a rich history of producing great players and even greater coaches who were on par with some of the best exponents of the game in Asia if not the world. This perception could change once the ambitious plan [...]
Rising star Ravindu Rasantha aims to emulate his idol Mahela
As the national cricket team seeks long term solutions to end the crisis that has been haunting Sri Lanka cricket ever since the departure of Mahela Jayawardane, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan, here is a story of a promising youngster who is determined to make his father’s dream a reality. Sri Lanka had a dismal [...]
Wijemanne calls for strong national programme for juniors
Thehan Wijemanne created history when he made his Davis Cup debut against Paraguay at the age of 16 following in the footsteps of his father Sanjay who represented Sri Lanka from 1989 to 1995. “It’s a great achievement for him to get in at 16. Even I first entered the team when I was 18 [...]
Indian jockey Irvan Singh steals limelight with hat-trick
The Royal Turf Club (RTC) flagged off its season of horseracing for 2020 with the Premier Cup Raceday, with Indian jockey Irvan Singh claiming a hat-trick of wins at the Racecourse in Nuwara Eliya. Singh finished four out of the five races with three wins and a second place finish at the RTC Premier Cup [...]
SLC to stage more junior tournaments for women’s cricket
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) in the hope of improving, popularizing the game in the provinces and picking women’s cricket teams for future international events has drawn up plans concentrating more on the junior cricket. It is a step in the right direction to find talent mainly from the provinces and nurture them under experienced coaches [...]
Team Jenny creates history in Red Bull Tuk It 2020
Red Bull Tuk It 2020 returned to Sri Lanka for the fourth time, inviting sports enthusiasts to take on the roughest terrains of Sri Lanka. The event was a challenge designed to test the body and mind of participants who embarked upon a gruelling trip through bustling city streets and challenging off-road terrains. Passionate participants [...]
Entries called for Summer Season Open Badminton Championship
The Summer Season All-Island Open Badminton Championships 2020, organised by the Central Province Badminton Association together with Nuwara Eliya Badminton Association, in association with Sri Lanka Badminton (SLB), will be held in Nuwara Eliya from April 4 to 10. In addition to all the top local shuttlers, a number of prominent players from the South [...]
Devapathiraja girls lift U-19 cricket title for fifth straight year
Inspiring leadership of Devapathiraja Girls School’s skipper, national cap, Kaveesha Dilhari helped them clinch the fifth successive championship in the Singer Sri Lanka Schools Division I Under-19 Cricket Tournament at the Sapper Cricket ground in Mattegoda on Tuesday. A combined team effort by the Rathgama girls helped them grab victory, which was drifting away towards, [...]
St. Peter’s felicitate rugby sponsors
St. Peter’s College held a felicitation ceremony for their rugby sponsors who are backing them for the 2020 season at Cinnamon Grand Hotel. It was a gala evening with two ‘Gold’ sponsors namely Kotmale and Trip A Deal, a leading tour operator from Australia represented in Sri Lanka by the country’s leading travel and hospitality [...]
Kinniya Central College, Trincomalee and Mahajana College, Jaffna emerge champions
Kinniya Central College, Trincomalee and Mahajana College, Tellippalai, Jaffna emerged champions at the CBL Samaposha All Island Under-14 Inter-School Football Championship 2019 held at Racecourse grounds on Wednesday. Organised in collaboration with the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) and the Sri Lanka Schools’ Football Association (SSFA), the tournament held for the 11th consecutive year [...]
Cambridge champs at Sussex Kandy annual Sports Meet
Sussex College Kandy Sports Meet 2020, was conducted in a grand scale under the distinguished patronage of Chief Guest, Chairman of the Sussex College Network Sunil Jayatissa at Central Province Sports Complex in Digana. Cambridge House emerged victorious after a tight battle, accumulating 889 points. Stanford House became the runners-up for their 882 points while [...]
Wesley College launches rugby jersey for 2020
Wesley College Colombo will be vying for its first-ever Schools League title during the upcoming 2020 Dialog Schools Rugby League. Wesley being placed fourth in the league and runners-up in the Presidents’ Trophy in 2019, is expected to field a formidable team under the leadership of youth national Samuel Ogbebor. Wesley College had its traditional [...]