The Three Musketeers concede with appeals
Banned cricketers Kusal Mendis, Danushka Gunathilaka and Niroshan Dickwella have appealed to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the Sports Ministry to reconsider their suspensions and fines. The cricketers admitted to breaching the bio-secure bubble during the recent England tour and were banned for six months from domestic cricket, one year from international cricket and imposed [...]
COVID positives force Sri Lanka to pull out of FIBA 3×3 U18 WC
Sri Lanka had to unwillingly pull out of the FIBA 3×3 Under-18 World Cup, after six players in the touring contingent were tested positive for COVID-19 upon a mandatory PCR test. The eleventh-hour shocker, which forced Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) to make a reluctant U-turn, came as a heavy blow after the six players [...]
RCB signs Hasaranga and Chameera for UAE leg of IPL
All-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga and fast-bowler Dushmantha Chameera will play for Royal Challenges Bangalore (RCB) in the UAE leg of IPL 2021.The franchise announced the signing of two Sri Lankans yesterday. Hasaranga, ranked No.2 in T20 bowling, was the was the Player of the Series in the recently concluded three-match series against India taking seven wickets [...]
Chandimal returns, four rookies called in
Former Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal has earned a recall to the national white-ball side as selectors named him in a 30-man squad to play South Africa in a six-match limited over series. The squad also includes uncapped players in Dilshan Madushanka, a 20 year-old fast bowler, spin bowling all-rounder Sahan Arachchige, off-spinner Mahesh Theekshana [...]
COVID takes away four sports personalities within a week
Four sports personalities — Ibrahim Hamid, Zulki Hamid, Zulsky Passela and Shiyam Sideek — passed this week due to complications caused by COVID-19. Ibrahim Hamid, a former Zahira College and Police SC rugby captain and match commissioner of Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR), passed away on Thursday evening in Colombo. Ibrahim played for Zahira and later [...]
Karting prodigy Yevan eyes F1 circuit
At 14, an ordinary teenager would have dreams and ambitions, mostly sugarcoated or illusory. But for Yevan David it’s all about commitment, dedication and action. The London-born and Singapore-based youngster to Sri Lankan parents, has dreams that are extraordinary — to become the first Formula 1 driver from the island nation. To achieve his goal, [...]
US Open series, the last leg
The pioneering four nations that ventured into promoting tennis as early from 1880 to 1920 were Britain, USA, Australia and France. It rewarded them to be the first four to win the coveted inter-nation competition, the Davis Cup. When tennis history talks about great players, often they are from these four nations. Their promotional model, [...]
A medal apiece
As the world is getting ready to embrace the Tokyo Paralympics 2020 next week, a contingent of nine Sri Lankan para athletes left the country on August 20 in search of glory. They have been training intensely under the supervision of the National Paralympic Committee and the Ministry of Sports. The focus is on javelin [...]
Winfield Sports deliver groundbreaking 3D VR signage
Winfield Sports, Sri Lanka’s premier sports branding and marketing organisation with a 22-year pedigree, delivered another first and groundbreaking commercial 3D VR (Virtual) signage branding during the recently concluded Indian ODI and T20I series in Sri Lanka. The 3D VR was tested successfully during the ‘Nidahas Trophy’ Tri-Series in March 2018, and this was first [...]
The Tokyo Olympics must bury old sins and unearth new hopes!
The post-Olympic rhetoric was predictable! Both from the delegations who braved the COVID bubble as well as the locked out opposition, who wantonly took up cudgels with the powers that be. Tokyo is best forgotten with our retinue of talent fallen by the wayside but it also unearths a grim story of any pretensions to [...]
India drown England to win second Test at Lords, but……..
India continued to stamp their prowess as a ‘cricket power house’ bowling out the founders of the game, England in the second innings of the second Test, in under two sessions of play on day five. An outstanding feat by India to register their third victory at The Lords, considered the ‘home’ of cricket. India [...]
Manel Dharmakeerthi reelected as head of SLWF
Manel Dharmakeethi was unanimously reelected as the President of Sri Lanka Wushu Federation (SLWF) for the second consecutive term of 2021-2025 at the federation’s election, which was held via Zoom Technology. Dharmakeerthi completed his first tenure of 2017-2021 as the President of SLWF and represented Sri Lanka at different capacities at regional and international competitions [...]
Sri Lanka’s first ever Formula 1 e-Racing Championship to flag off
Formula 1 gaming has been on quite the ride over the past 40 years, but without much Sri Lankan representation. All that is about to change as the local boys line up to participate in Sri Lanka’s first ever Formula 1 Championship conducted in joint partnership between Mandarin Reid eSports and SIM Racing Lanka. The [...]