India: Friend, Big Brother or Saviour?
When eight Indian cricketers went into isolation after Kurnal Pandya tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the second T20 international against Sri Lanka, it sent shivers down Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) spine. The tourists had every reason to back out. With nine players were in quarantine, they were just down to 11, not counting the [...]
Shanaka guides Greys to second straight win
Skipper Dasun Shanaka guided SLC Greys to their second successive win, cruising to an easy 35-run win over SLC Reds in a Dialog-SLC Invitation T20 League match played at Pallekele yesterday. Chasing 155 runs for victory, Reds were all at sea losing wickets at regular intervals and were eventually restricted for 119-9. Oshada Fernando played [...]
SLASU to dive deep for future of all four aquatics sports
Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU) intends to request the Ministry of Sports to obtain services of Chinese coaches for the national coaching set up on a long term plan. Through this SLASU intends to seriously focus on four categories of aquatic sports, as the coaches would be drafted under the China-Sri Lanka cultural programme. [...]
Royal-Thomian postponed again
The twice-postponed 142nd annual big match cricket encounter between Royal and S. Thomas’ colleges, has been ‘postponed’ once again after obtaining necessary approvals and making all logistical and technical arrangements to conduct the event at Sooriyawewa on September 9, 10 and 11. The main reason according to a letter jointly issued by the two heads [...]
Alleged ‘tender rig’ at ISM?
An alleged attempt to ‘rig’ a tender by ‘tailor-making the technical specifications’ to suit a hand-picked party has come to light at the Institute of Sports Medicine (ISM), with an aggrieved party protesting over alleged violation of procurement guidelines. The ISM recently called for tenders to supply, install, commission, train and maintain equipment for its [...]
State-run sports venues to go private
In a major development, the Government is to enter into public-private partnerships (PPPs) to maintain all State-owned sports complexes and stadiums in the country. Accordingly, all stadiums and grounds at national, provincial and district levels owned and managed by the Sports Ministry or the Sports Development Department or funded by the same will be brought [...]
Budding sprinters off to Kenya
Aspiring sprinter Medhani Jayamanne will be among the seven young athletes that will represent Sri Lanka at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from Tuesday. Jayamanne qualified for the Women’s 100m and 200m events at her last two outings — at the First National Trials in Colombo and at the [...]
A dream of a brave hearted war hero
In 2018, Suresh Ranjan Dharmasena and Lasantha Ranaweera won the bronze medal in wheelchair tennis Men’s Doubles at the Para Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. This was the first major success for a sport that was introduced to Sri Lanka nearly two decades ago in 2002. Since then, the players have shown a steady progress [...]
Duckworth, Lewis and Senaka
The World Cup semi-finals between England and South Africa in 1992 became a talking point of the cricket world due to an ‘unfair’ rain related rule that cost South Africa a spot in the finals of the World Cup. South Africa’s task of gathering 22 runs from 13 balls was reduced after a brief spell [...]
Two promising pugilists for Asian Meet
Sri Lanka Boxing Federation (SLBF) will bank heavily on two promising teenage pugilists — Kavindu Karunasinghe and Mihiran Umayanga — who will represent the country at the Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships 2021 to be held in Dubai from August 17 to 31. Karunasinghe, 16, from Dheerananda Central, Pilimatalawa, will compete in the 50kg [...]
Dialog powers SLC Invitational T20 League
The ongoing inaugural SLC Invitational T20 League, will be sponsored by Dialog Axiata PLC with the sponsor committing to telecast all matches of the 13-day competition live from the Pallekele International Stadium. As the title sponsor of the tournament, Dialog will also power the four teams, SLC Blues, skippered by Dhananjaya de Silva, SLC Reds, [...]
Gamer.LK announces Singer Esports Premier League 2021 with Rs.1 million prize pool
Sri Lanka’s premier Esports company Gamer.LK announced the Singer Esports Premier League – a franchise based PUBG Mobile League consisting of 12 teams and a Rs.1 million prize pool. With over 2,000 Esports athletes expected to compete for a spot in the 12 teams, will be Sri Lanka’s largest Esports league. The event will be [...]
Seniru and Amaya take honours
Seniru Ranuth Nagasinghe of Lyceum International School, Nugegoda excelled in the Western 1 Open event by scoring a total of 7½ points out of possible 8 games to win the Inaugural Sri Lanka Online National Novices Chess Championship 2021 convincingly. He was unbeaten in all 8 rounds scoring 7 wins straight along with Mihin Kuruppuarachchi, [...]
The Sri Lanka National Chess Championships Cycle 2021
The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is willing to start the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship Cycle 2021, Open and Girls, with the Sri Lanka National Novices Division Chess Championships from last weekend of May 2021. The event will be held as Swiss System events of five, six and seven rounds according to the number [...]