‘1996’ – a dream year overall
Golf is my first love, and it remains the same. Cricket was an accident, yet it was the best experience for me personally. I was Vice President of Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) under Mr. Gamini Dissanayake, who was unfortunately assassinated. Later in 1995 I was elected the President of BCCSL. [...]
Imperial College encounter Central Campus Colombo in today’s final
Imperial College and Central Campus Colombo (CCC) will clash in the finals of the Red Bull Campus Cricket 2021 to be played at the BRC grounds in Colombo today. In the first semi-final CCC beat SLIM by 8 wickets while Imperial easily romped to victory with a 5-wicket win against Esoft in the second semi-final. [...]
Kurunegala YCC, Police SC feature in a thrilling tie
Kurunegala YCC and Police SC featured in a thrilling tie in their final Group ‘C’ round robin match of Major Club T20 cricket tournament match played at the CCC ground yesterday. The two sides ended with identical score of 155 but with the group matches which came to end as Kurunegala YCC ended in the [...]
Army overall champs at Rowing Nationals
Sri Lanka Army dominated the 36th Senior and Intermediate Rowing Nationals 2021 concluded at the Diyawanna Rowing Centre in Koswatte yesterday. The men and women of Army claimed the championship in Open Men, Open Women and Intermediate Men with the most number of gold medals to emerge the overall champions of the two-day competition. The [...]
Wesley dominate drawn match at Mt Lavinia
Wesley dominated the drawn Under-19 Inter-School cricket encounter against S. Thomas’ which concluded at Mt. Lavinia yesterday. The highlight of the match was a top knock of 142 made by Wesley opener Sahil Dias on day one, who in the process equaled the highest individual score made by Sri Lanka legend M. Sathavisam way back [...]
Tharusha, Thevindu steers Isipathana
Half tons by Tharusha Nethsara and Thevindu Dickwella helped Isipathana record a close 6-run win over St. Joseph’s in a Under-19 Limited Over cricket match played at Darley Road. Isipathana taking first lease of the made a modest score of 213 and then restricted St. Joseph’s for a score of 207. Scores Isipathana 213 for [...]
St. Anthony’s rout Maris Stella
St. Anthony’s College thrashed Maris Stella College by an innings and 67 runs in their Under-19 Inter-School cricket encounter which concluded at Katugastota yesterday. St. Anthony’s made 320 in their first innings and restricted Maris Stella for 120, enforcing a follow-on. Kaveen Fernando top scored for Maris Stella with 21, while Divyesh Ramiya, Asitha Wanninayake, [...]
Sprinter Kumarage
Sprinter Kalinga Kumarage has been cleared to resume his athletic career. The 400 metre runner was first suspended in 2019 over doping charges and then exonerated after a Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency (SLADA) disciplinary inquiry. But SLADA subsequently challenged that decision, only to have the Appeal Panel dismiss it this week, allowing Kumarage to compete [...]
Nihara Jayatilleke spearheads RTC project to empower ‘horse-women’
President of Royal Turf Club (RTC) Nihara Jayatilleke revealed a comprehensive plan to get women involved into horse racing at Sri Lanka’s only available racecourse in Nuwara Eliya. The first and only female to head a turf club in Asia, Nihara made the announcement coinciding with the International Women’s Day, as RTC look forward to [...]
Masters on show at Inter-Club Basketball Tournament
The Masters Basketball Sri Lanka (MBSL) will revive its activities with the Inter-Club Basketball Tournament 2021 for men and women of 35 and above age group. The three-day tournament is scheduled to take place from March 26 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo. The tournament is played with the total participation of 35 teams [...]
Top 18 to shoot at NSSF Trap Open today
The NSSF Trap Open Championship 2021 will come to end today at the Clay Target Shooting Club of Colombo’s Shotgun Range in Payagala, Kalutara with two rounds to be completed to determine the winners. Out of a total of 65 shooters, who competed in three rounds of 25 shots each, the Top 18 shooters were [...]
Fancied cueists advance to second round
The All-Island Lanka Plate Snooker Championship which is the second qualifying tournament to select the 16 players who would join the 16 national ranked players to contest in the forthcoming 68th National Snooker Championship got underway at the MICH billiards table yesterday. The tournament is contested by 41 cueists who qualified after the completion of [...]
Sri Lanka Legends powered by Dialog
The rampaging Sri Lanka Legends cricket team who are at present competing for top honours at the ‘T20 Road Safety World Series played off in Raipur, India, is sponsored by Dialog Axiata PLC. Today Sri Lanka Legends will take on England Legends to complete the league games. Sri Lanka has already qualified for the semi-finals [...]
Open Secrets of player development
A few decades ago, there were only two players anyone could recall from the Balkan states: Ilie Nastase and Ion Tiriac. They were Romanians. Sri Lankans who played in the Indian circuits of 1960s and 1970s would have seen and played against many from the Balkans. India circuit during the European winter attracted the cream [...]
Park Strikers emerge BPL winners
Park Strikers, led by Tharanga Sanjeewa defeated Owitta Warriors led by Mohomed Parsi Fazeer at the Bangalawatte Premier League (BPL) limited overs cricket tournament held at the Bangalawatta Sports grounds in Wattala on March 7. Adhil Jiffry from Park Strikers was adjudged player of the tournament. Mohamed Ramiz from Park Strikers won the award for [...]
A dream come true for aspiring athletes
As international track and field events including the postponed 2020 Olympics prepare to get underway, Sri Lanka’s athletes have received an important boost in the form of the Ritzbury Mawbimata Weerayek initiative. Ritzbury, Sri Lanka’s No.1 brand of Chocolates from CBL Foods International (PVT) Ltd, has a longstanding tradition of fostering sporting talent in the [...]
Sanudula Dahamdi emerge champion
Sanudula Dahamdi of Musaeus College won the 2nd Sri Lanka Women’s Chess Grand Prix 2021 convincingly concluded at the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka headquarters. The 14-year-old led the event from the start and finished with 9 points out of possible 11 games. She strongly came up with a win in the penultimate round, the [...]
Thurstan keen to retain Naomal Fernando Challenge Trophy
The annual golfing contest between the old boys’ golf teams of Thurstan and Isipathana colleges will be held for the fourth consecutive year at the Royal Colombo Golf Course (RCGC) on March 14. The tournament is played for the Naomal Fernando Challenge Trophy, donated by the distinguished old boy of Isipathana, Naomal, who is also [...]
Sri Lanka’s Srimantha making vast strides in Canada
Srimantha Wijeyeratne, the former St. Peter’s College and Sri Lanka Under-19 Youth player is continuing his passion of cricket after his successive stints for his alma mater St. Peter’s and the national youth team with immense success. He is making vast strides and going great guns in Canada where he is domiciled now having migrated [...]
11-year-old Haritha Hansana champion with full score
Haritha Hansana from Denipitiya Primary School emerged champion at the inaugural CFSL Online Youth Under-12 Championship 2021 with the perfect score of 9 out of nine games. Hansana beat Krithik Koneshwaran, Methan Sritharan, Asini Gamage, S. Fairooz, B.A.M. Arachchi, Sithum Pahasara, Pamok Samaranayake, Sasula Pathirana and S.S.L.N. Dandeniya without much trouble to win the title. [...]
Tokyo Cement and Foundation of Goodness extends support for Southern coaching camps
The partnership between Tokyo Cement Group and the Foundation of Goodness was extended for 2021 to facilitate Southern Cricket Coaching Camps. S.R. Gnanam, the Managing Director of Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC and Kushil Gunasekera, the Founder and Chief Trustee of the Foundation of Goodness, recently extended the partnership between the two organisations for the [...]