Proteas down Lions in nail-biter chase
A hat-trick by Wanindu Hasaranga and a career-best innings from 23-year-old opener Pathum Nissanka could not stop the South Africans from stealing a hard-fought 4-wicket win over Sri Lanka in their Super 12 game here at the Sharjah Cricket ground yesterday. South Africa needed 31 off the last three overs when Hasaranga, who had removed [...]
England thrash Australia by eight wickets
Opening batsman Jos Buttler smashed an unbeaten 71 as England hammered Australia by eight wickets to register their third successive win in the Twenty20 World Cup on Saturday. England fast bowlers Chris Jordan and Chris Woakes shared five wickets between them to bowl out Australia for 125 after they elected to field first in Dubai. [...]
Sri Lanka to remain neutral in ‘BLM’ movement
Quinton de Kock’s decision to skip his T20 World Cup game against West Indies was greeted with mixed feelings with some showing strong disapproval while others, like the former England skipper, Michael Vaughan, who called on the South African Board to respect a player’s personal wishes. De Kock was under fire when he refused to [...]
A battle ruined by rain
Country’s longest-running big match and the world’s second oldest inter-school cricket encounter, turned into a rather swift affair, dominated by wet weather, wet outfield and bad light, which all together spent more time in the field than the players, forcing a dead, dull, draw in the 142nd Battle of the Blues, concluded yesterday at the [...]
ESoft crowned inaugural Red Bull Campus Cricket Women’s National Finals winners
ESoft Metro Campus were crowned the winners of the inaugural Red Bull Campus Cricket Women’s National Finals, when they comfortably overcame Sky Academy by 61 runs in the grand final, played at the Thurstan College cricket ground yesterday. In a rain-shortened game, where each side were given 14 overs, Sky Academy won the toss and [...]
Rain hampers Major Club Cricket
Rain hampered proceedings in the Major Club Limited Over Tournament with only one result coming out by defending champions NCC, who overcame Air Force SC by 20 runs on the D/L method at the Air Force ground in Katunayake yesterday. NCC took the first lease and made 139 runs and then forced Air Force to [...]
Another rain ruined day at Pallekele
The first Unofficial Test match between Sri Lanka ‘A’ and Pakistan Shaheens saw rain spoiling proceedings of the third day with only 39 overs of play possible after a late start. The day’s proceedings saw overnight batsmen Saud Shakeel and Omair Yousuf reaching their half tons. Saud remained unbeaten on 86 and Omair made 78, [...]
Bandula Warnapura: A man of many feathers in his ‘cricketing’ cap
Only hours before the Sri Lankan team were about to open their World Cup account in Abu Dhabi last Monday (18), the entire Sri Lankan cricketing fraternity was shaken by the sudden passing away of – Bandula Warnapura – the island’s first Test captain. Though Lankans won the game comprehensively, it was marred by a [...]
Elite women’s tennis
Jelena Osterpenko is from Baltic Latvia, was not a known player in 2017. The dominance then was with Americas and Europe. 19-year-old Osterpenko as an unseeded player won the coveted French Open title in 2017. In the following four years, her success model was to become the teenage champion parade format. Career wise, Osterpenko’s best [...]
Series whitewash, a confidence booster for young Lankans
Sri Lanka Under-19s cricket team commenced their preparations for the ICC Youth World Cup in an extraordinary manner, when they whitewashed the defending champions Bangladesh on home soil in the five-match One Day International series. Since the conclusion of the previous Youth World Cup, held in South Africa in 2020, where Sri Lanka returned home [...]
Trap Nationals next weekend at Payagala
The National Shooting Sports Federation of Sri Lanka (NSSF) will conduct the NSSF Trap National Championship 2021 at the Clay Target Shooting Club of Colombo’s Shotgun Range in Payagala, Kalutara from November 4 to 7. This will be the first national-level event to be conducted by the NSSF after the outbreak of COVID-19 caused a [...]
Lucrative prize bag on offer at Li-Ning WPBA Open Championships
A total of half-a-million rupees will be on offer for the winners of the Li-Ning Western Province Badminton Association (WPBA) Open Badminton Championships, which will take place at St. Joseph’s College Indoor Stadium from November 11 to 14, Sri Lanka Badminton (SLB) announced. The high profile tournament, organised jointly by WPBA and SLB, will see [...]
Six rowers to represent Sri Lanka at BIMSTEC 2021
The Amateur Rowing Association of Sri Lanka (ARASL) will send a young and aspiring team of six oarsmen and oarswomen to represent the country at the upcoming Youth Water Sports Championship 2021, conducted by the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Coorperation or BIMSTEC to be held in Bhopal, India. The [...]
Oshini wins bronze in Girls’ Under-10
Oshini Devinya Gunawardena of the Ferguson High School, Kandy won a bronze medal at the Asian Youth Online Girls Under-10 Chess Championship 2021 last Sunday. Oshini, being the World Youth Online Girls Under-10 champion, dropped 1½ points early in first four rounds, but managed to recover by winning all other games. She scored a total [...]
Inaugural Red Bull Campus Women’s Cricket kicks off
The inaugural Red Bull Campus Cricket Women’s Championship kicked off last Wednesday at the Thurstan ground on Colombo. Four teams are in contention in the first ever competition namely Esoft Metro Campus, National Youth Corps, Sky Academy and Wadduwa Central College. The matches are scheduled from Wednesday through the weekend with a game scheduled on [...]