Bidders seek guarantees as India tour called off
Uncertainty surrounding Sri Lanka’s Future Tour Programme (FTP) has driven potential bidders for national team sponsorship, ground and media rights of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for 2020-2023 to seek a guarantee that the schedule – particularly India’s tour of Sri Lanka – will be implemented. According to SLC, they have reached the final stages of [...]
Sri Lanka athletics poised to make ‘Beach’ debut
The possibility of Sri Lanka making its debut in track and field events at the 6th Asian Beach Games 2020 is high, as the Athletics Association of Sri Lanka (AASL) are eager to resume its activities, aiming a gradual return before going into full force. While priority has been given to look into the possibilities [...]
India planning to stage IPL in September-October
The Indian cricket board is looking at the September-October window to hold this year’s edition of the IPL (Indian Premier League), Indian media reported quoting Brijesh Patel, the chairman of the league’s governing council. Whether the tournament can be slotted in there, however, “depends on the future” of the Asia Cup and the T20 World [...]
Amit calls for confidentiality in referee review process
The system of reviewing rugby matches will continue with the appointment of qualified people instead of it being scrapped altogether, said Tony Amit, president of the Sri Lanka Society of Rugby Football Referees (SLSRFR). “When you have a review committee or technical committee, you need to have certain qualified people such as an (World Rugby) [...]
PCR tests on Lankan cricketers return negative as first group head home
The Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests were conducted on national cricketers who were on a 12-day residential training camp on Thursday–a day before the cricketers were released from the isolated training camp. Thirteen cricketers took part in the first camp with another 20 set to join the second camp starting Monday. All tests have given [...]
Unity can help produce Olympic stars – NOC chief
Sri Lanka can proudly boast of having produced a gold medal in boxing at the 1938 Empire Games from Barney Henricus, a world champion in billiards by M.J.M. Lafir (1973) and winning the Cricket World Cup in 1996 under Arjuna Ranatunga while athletes Duncan White (1948 London) and Susanthika Jayasinghe (2000 Sydney) provided the silver [...]
Money wasted on a tamasha
Despite winning 40 gold, 83 silver and 128 bronze medals, the tally of 251 medals comes at a colossal expenditure of nearly Rs 130 million and an equal amount of consequences according to the report compiled by the South Asian Games (SAG) Review Committee. The four-member SAG Review Committee, headed by Gregory de Silva, handed [...]
Cricketers have to get used to the ‘new normal’, says Sangakkara
Sri Lanka cricket legend Kumar Sangakkara says players will have to get used to the ‘new normal’ of playing behind closed doors, reducing the rush of adrenaline without spectators cheering them in a post-pandemic era. He also stressed that consistency was the name of the game and Sri Lanka cricket was in good hands under [...]
A schoolboy who made the grade and played for the national team
Stanley Jayasinghe, born 1931, was a household name in cricket in the 1950’s. Educated at Nalanda College Colombo, and captained his school in 1951, he was an outstanding right-hand batsman and a part-time off-spinner as well. He had the distinction of playing for Ceylon whilst in school. Two of his team-mates, opening batsmen Carl Obeyesekera [...]