English feast at Southampton as Sri Lanka suffer series whitewash
Sri Lankan batsmen crumbled like ninepins as England coasted to a comfortable 89-run win to clean sweep the three-match T20 series at Southampton yesterday. Chasing a formidable target of 181 runs to win, Sri Lanka showed no resilience as they succumbed after a poor display of batting, that was on par an amateur or upcoming [...]
Special trial for World Junior Championships 2021
Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) has made plans to conduct a special selection trial on July 25 at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo to pick athletes for the World Junior Athletics Championships to be held in Nairobi, Kenya in two months. SLA selects athletes for international and regional events based on the performances of the National [...]
No Schools Sports Festival for second year running
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has decided to forego the National Schools Sports Festival, for the second year running, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic state, which promises exceedingly slim hopes of resuming sports activities at school level. The MoE had to shelve the Schools Sports Festival in 2020 and with very little time to [...]
Amasha secures silver at NISSAC
Sri Lanka secured two medals and are in line for a few more at the 60th National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship (NISSAC) at the Netaji Subhas National Institute of Sports in Patiala, Punjab by the end of second day of the meet. Sprinter Amasha de Silva secured a silver medal for Sri Lanka yesterday in [...]
Herath joins BCB as spin consultant
Left-arm spin legend Rangana Herath will join the Bangladesh national team as their spin bowling consultant until the T20 World Cup, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced yesterday. Herath was keen to join the local coaching setup but Sri Lanka Cricket showed little interest in hiring him. This is Herath’s first major coaching role since retiring [...]
Hamstring injury rules Avishka out of England tour remainders
Opening batsman Avishka Fernando has been ruled out for two weeks after he sustained a hamstring injury during Sri Lanka’s five-wicket defeat to England in the second T20 international on Thursday. Thus, the opener came back into the side having missed the last two tours in the West Indies and Bangladesh due to substandard fitness, [...]
From Katukithula to Sweden
Thirty-six-year-old Michael Kallbäck is a Swedish sports agent of global standing. But his amazing life story began in a tiny village in Sri Lanka. Michael was born in 1985 and grew up in Degerfors, Sweden, brought up by Swedish parents. He is one of the first established agents to represent both men and women athletes. [...]
Euro clay and grass event clusters
From the 1970’s natural surfaces began to give into artificial surfaces for easy maintenance. Arguably, the exhibition of the game suffered on artificial surfaces. Of recent, nearly four decades later, the surface preference is reversing. Europe home of good many popular sports is reverting to natural surfaces to exhibit tennis. Their effort is to bring [...]
‘Nice guys’ can also win!
New Zealand have won the world Test cricket championship; the nice guys finished first. But what if they won because they were the nicest guys? A preposterous idea, but what if the Kiwi victory, sweetly redemptive after the outrageous misfortune they suffered in the last one-day World Cup final, was not just heart-warming? What if [...]
SLR join hands with Schools Section to conduct virtual World Rugby Pathway Programmes
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) and Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football Association (SLSRFA) conducted a meeting, which ended in a productive environment with regard to conducting virtual courses and programmes by World Rugby (WR). The meeting took place via zoom technology with SLR being represented by its Development Chairman, Fazal Mohamed and SLSRFA headed by B.A. [...]
‘Believe’ sponsor Sri Lanka Athletics team for India
National track and field athletes, who left the island on Wednesday to compete in the 65th Inter-State Athletics Championship in Patiala, India, were geared with new competition kits by ‘Believe’ sportswear. ‘Believe’ is the sports and active wear arm of Ceylon Sports, which is to be launched in the near future. The groundbreaking initiative by [...]
Respect, Understand and Move Forward
For the second year running, the pandemic hit Olympic Day celebrations in Sri Lanka stayed indoors but, the iconic June 23 celebrations went on full steam — virtually on NOC Sri Lanka’s official Facebook Page from 9.00am onwards. This year too, the event had its special features like the first ever dedicated Olympic Day Song [...]
Sri Lanka Cricket appoints 12 School Cricket Provincial Coordinators
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) appointed 12 ‘School Cricket Provincial Coordinators’ to find young talent in the country, covering all age groups. Accordingly, the appointed coordinators will represent the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association (SLSCA) at all age group selections, covering District and Provincial cricket. The coordinators will work with District and Provincial Associations, School Coaches, [...]
Two Sri Lankans qualify for Queen’s Chess Festival world event
Two young Sri Lankan chess players, Sanudula Dahamdi and Oshini Gunawardena, qualified to take part in the finals of the Queen’s Chess Festival, a world event which began this weekend. Sanudula Dahamdi, 14, of Musaeus College, has been selected for the finals of the Queen’s Chess Festival – rating less than 1800 Group while 9-year-old [...]
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 [...]