Sri Lankan Sean Serasinghe to toss coin at Wimbledon
Sean Seresinhe (A13-year-old, Sri Lankan living in the UK ) was picked up for the ‘Coin Toss’ on July 11 at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. He was selected in an online speech contest where he had spoken how the pandemic affected children and their mental health. Picture shows Sean rehearsing in Wimbledon Tennis courts.
Who will have the last laugh?
Sri Lanka cricketers protesting over their annual contracts are likely to meet their Waterloo with cricket authorities deciding to shut the door on those refusing to sign the deals on offer. This was a major point of discussion on Friday, when Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) hierarchy met with members of the cricket technical advisory committee [...]
No more ‘lovely’ cricket
On and off the field, Sri Lanka cricket is in shambles. A team that enjoyed rousing success across all formats for years after winning the 1996 World Cup is now a global farce. If the performance in the current England series didn’t expose the depths cricket has fallen to, last Sunday’s incident in Durham shows [...]
Enter 5-team National Cricket League
In an attempt to create a more competitive first-class structure, a proposal has been made to play five-team National Cricket League–a tournament similar to the inter-provincial tournament. The Sunday Times is in possession of a copy of the draft designed by the cricket technical advisory committee headed by Arvinda de Silva. Under the proposal, the [...]
Fleet of overseas players for LPL 2
All-rounder Shakib Al-Hasan, James Faulkner, Nicolas Pooran, Sheldon Cottrel and Usman Khawaja are among those high profile cricketers to have registered with the second edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL). The tournament will be held from July 30 to August 22 where all matches will be played at the Hambantota Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium like [...]
Nimali grabs Olympic spot from Nilani
With barely 19 days remaining for the Tokyo Olympics, Sri Lanka is yet to make a confirmed statement on what the finishing providence of representatives on and off the field. Weeks earlier, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC) issued an official statement which said of a ‘strong’ team of eight athletes, with a total [...]
Promising young cricketer, Chrishen Warnasuriya to play in Surrey
A young cricketer from S. Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia, Chrishen Warnasuriya, has been awarded a scholarship by a specialist cricket school based in the Surrey Hills, in the south east of England, to study and play cricket there. The 13-year-old allrounder who represents S. Thomas’ and SSC, Chrishen is a talented cricketer who has opened [...]
Vidyartha receives 10 side wickets from SLC
Vidyartha College received the facility of 10 side wickets to make use of the school’s senior and junior cricket teams for their training purposes. The addition to the Vidyartha College ground come as a result of continuous pleas and requests made by the Vidyartha College Old Boys’ Association, headed by Ranjith Weerasinghe, to Sri Lanka [...]
Four players share top spot
Kosala Amaratunge of JMC International School, Kalutara won the championship after three others, Senuka Ahangama of D.S. Senanayake College, Bridjesh Saravanabhavan of Gateway International School and S.M.M.P. Kulathilake of Sangabodhi Vidyalaya, Nittambuwa, shared the highest points of 7½ out of 8 games. All four players were unbeaten where they just gave one draw to their [...]
19 heralded with Olympic Advanced Sport Management Diploma Awards
The awards ceremony of the Olympic Solidarity Advanced Sport Management Course 2019/2020 was held at the National Olympic Committee’s Hemasiri Fernando Auditorium recently. On this momentous where the inner sanctity IOC gospel protruded nineteen young men and women walked aisle to be heralded real Olympic people. Speaking on the occasion NOC SL’s programme Director B.L.H. [...]