Vaas heaps praise on pace and swing of Chameera
After Dushmantha Chameera claimed his maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs to lift Sri Lanka to a morale-boosting victory ahead of a tough assignment in England, the team’s bowling coach Chaminda Vaas heaped praise on the right-arm paceman’s ability to generate pace and swing at the same time. Chameera, 29, was simply the stand-out performer in [...]
Rugby chief hopeful of commencing high performance project to win medals
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) conducted its Annual General Meeting (AGM) yesterday from 9.30am via Zoom technology with representatives from Asian Rugby (AR) joining in as observers. The existing office-bearers, headed by SLR President Rizly Illyas will continue to operate for another year as sports activities were minimal throughout the country and even worldwide due to [...]
Mathews unavailable for England tour for personal reasons
Angelo Mathews has made himself unavailable for selection up until mid-June due to personal reasons, meaning there’s no chance of former skipper making the trip to England for the limited over series. Mathews is among several other seniors including skipper Dimuth Karunaratne dropped for the Bangladesh series which Sri Lanka lost 2-1 but given its [...]
NOC vows to send ‘strong’ contingent of 8 for Tokyo Games
Sri Lanka’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) yesterday said that it would send a “strong” contingent of eight athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to be held from July 23 to August 8 in Japan. The NOC’s list confirmed equestrian Mathilda Karlsson, gymnast Milka Gehani de Silva and shooter Tehani Egodawela as participants but the remaining [...]
New concerns arise after batting debacle in Bangladesh
The 1999 Cricket World Cup in England is considered one of the low points in Sri Lanka’s proud cricketing history. But it paved the pathway for then youngsters such as Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Rangana Herath to enable Sri Lanka to be a dominant force in world cricket. After 22 years, the newly appointed [...]
Swiatek, Nadal win in Rome
The events WTA-1000 and ATP-1000 are of the prestige after the four Grand Slam in the professional tennis calendar. In the European clay circuit, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome are ‘1000’ category events. Final of these is not beginner meeting place but two big names playing for a title. As such, 6/0, 6/0 is not a [...]
Brazil’s answer to cricket bat shortage? Make their own!
POCOS CALDAS REUTERS May 21: When Brazil’s rapidly growing cricket programme threatened to run out of bats, the solution was both simpler and harder than anyone anticipated: make your own. Matt Featherstone, the former England amateur cricketer who is now president of Cricket Brazil, approached carpenter Luiz Roberto Francisco with a traditional bat made of [...]
Jaswar aims to ‘restart’ Sri Lanka football in digital era
Royal College, Colombo is not renowned for producing football stars but Jaswar Umar who took up the whistle while still playing for school and rose to become an international Match Commissioner, has come up with a vision to make Sri Lanka a “nation of football in South Asia”. An accomplished football administrator pioneering Sri Lanka’s [...]
Dirty Linen awash in Football Elections!
The National Football Elections is rescheduled for June 7, 2021. Meanwhile, the local media is inundated with brash innuendo and the sordid undercurrents that have prevailed between the two existing papandu clans in the country. It is in fact somewhat topical that the camps are based in the two coastal cities of Negombo and Kalutara, [...]
Basnayake reappointed president of CPRFU
Central Province Rugby Football Union (CPRFU) and its current committee were re-appointed at their virtual Annual General Meeting (AGM) which took place recently. This virtual event took place due to the prevailing pandemic situation in the country. Former Trinity, Kandy SC, national rugby skipper and double International, Pradeep Basnayake was re-appointed as the President while [...]
Samudra Devi school girl Sithuli, 15, soars into the national limelight in high jump
A puny 15-year-old girl from Samudra Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Nugegoda Sithuli Sadithya is emerging as an athletic prodigy after soaring into the limelight at the National Athletic Trials in April with a record-breaking performance in the high jump. She won the Junior Women category with a leap of 1.67metres which surpassed the best effort of [...]
Esandi Newansa grabs championship
The Sri Lanka Online Youth Under-16 Girls Rapid Chess Championship 2021 came to a remarkable end with four players scoring six points each out of possible seven games topping the ranking table, wrapping up the tournament. The young Chess sensation Esandi Newansa of Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda became the champion with the better tie-breaker. Esandi showed [...]
Miranga’s journey in making Trinity proud
Another Trinitian has taken it by storm!! A sound sport personality proved that basic sports psychology enhances academic and leadership performance. Miranga Subasinghe, is a prominent character among the students who have obtained best (4 As) results at the GCE Advance Level examination 2020, having upheld the glory of his school Trinity College. Miranga positively contributed [...]
Tharushi, 19, a promising paddler
Tharushi Dilesha, a 19-year-old student of Mahamaya Balika Vidyalaya, Kadawatha, won the Under-20 Girls’ Singles title at the Women’s Table Tennis Championship held at the Gampaha Indoor Stadium. Tharushi, who started her playing career in January 2016, prospered to become a promising paddler with hard practice and experience. She possesses a natural talent for the [...]