Did he fabricate evidence?
Four weeks after police “dropped” its investigation of Mahindananda Aluthgamage’s allegation that the 2011 cricket World Cup was fixed, State prosecutors have requested the Sports Ministry for documentary evidence of a complaint the former Sri Lankan Sports Minister claimed to have sent to the International Cricket Council (ICC) in October 2011. While the police said [...]
Old foes in cricket politics unite as Mathi quits
The foes have united. Businessman Jayantha Dharmadasa this week seized opportunity to get back into cricket administration when K. Mathivanan vacated the post of Vice President on Wednesday after accusing Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) of “carrying out duties without transparency and integrity”. It took just few hours for the SLC board to accept Mathivanan’s resignation [...]
SLC to meet health authorities to get green light for LPL
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will meet the country’s health authorities on Tuesday to seek their approval and guidelines to conduct the much-awaited the Lanka Premier League – Sri Lanka’s first major T20 tournament since 2012. The board has set a window from August 28 to September 10 to conduct the five-team tournament which has attracted [...]
Windfall for football
Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) confirmed that it is one of the 211 member countries in line to receive a handsome grant relief to be distributed by FIFA, the global governing body for football. Accordingly FFSL is set to receive US$ 1.5 million, which will be distributed to each member country of FIFA via [...]
Ex-golfer Niloo wages battle to raise voice of women in sports
The National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Sri Lanka in conjunction with the Ministry of Sports has launched an initiative to ensure women have a bigger voice in sports administration. The two authorities are in agreement that women should play a greater role when it comes to making decisions in sports and discussions are ongoing to [...]
Resistance and acceptance to Exhibition scoring format
Any abbreviation of the traditional match format of tennis, for that matter of any sport, will be a reduced expression of its physical mental and technical skills. With few options available, exhibition format events are being staged as substitutes. What we see are not the game manoeuvres that we are familiar with. The attraction for [...]
14-year-old chess champ Susal dreams of becoming a Grand Master
Susal de Silva of Nalanda College took a giant leap towards achieving his dream of becoming Chess Grand Master when he emerged champion at the 7th Sri Lanka Men’s Chess Grand Prix 2020 at the Chess Federation Headquarters in Nugegoda last Sunday. His journey began when he received a chess board as a birthday gift [...]
Kumar elected new head of MHA
Former Dharmadutha and D.S. Senanayake hockey player Kumar de Silva was elected President of the Mercantile Hockey Association (MHA) of Sri Lanka for 2020/21 at its 64th Annual General Meeting held at the Reg Wood Lounge of the Burgher Recreation Ciub recently. De Siva a represented Sri Lanka President’s XI on numerous occasions in inter-club, [...]
SLCSA looks for support
The Sri Lanka Cricket Scorers Association (SLCSA) are looking forward for support to help their members who are in dire straits due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With cricket activities coming to a standstill, SLCSA President Sanjaya Jayasnghe and other officials are looking forward to support the members financially or by means of dry rations for [...]