Chaos rein following SLR suspension
The country’s rugby is in a state of uncertainty, following the suspension of Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) by the Sports Ministry and handing it over to a competent authority — the Director General of Sports Development of the Ministry of Sports, Amal Edirosooriya, without a proper explanation. But overriding the decision taken on April 1, [...]
Kandy claim honours at NSL finals
Oshada Fernando’s fine form of yet another century (109) and bowlers keeping Jaffna under check ensured his team Kandy remained on top with a big lead of 269, when bad light forced premature stumps at day-03, yesterday, in Galle. The hill country capital was 52 for one, after dismissing Jaffna for 227, in the concluding [...]
Rain ensure tame draws
With rain hampering majority of proceedings, two traditional Inter-School two-day cricket games ended in tame draws, while Sri Devananda took the upper hand at stumps on the first day against Devapathiraja Rathgama in their game began yesterday. St. Joseph’s travelled to Reid Avenue to take on Royal, who earned honours of their drawn game with [...]
143rd Roy-Tho on July 21, 22, 23 pending SSC clearance
The 143rd Battle of the Blues between Royal College and S. Thomas’ College, has been confirmed for July 21, 22 and 23, but will be subject to SSC clearance, the traditional venue of the blue riband schools big match encounter, the Sunday Times learns reliably. An insider said, that as it is, the Joint Organising [...]
Match evenly poised
The final of the Major Club Emerging 3-Day Tournament between Sebastianites and Colts at P. Sara Oval, is evenly poised as a possible decision awaits towards the third and final day of the decisive game. Sebastianites were put into bat first and were skittled out for 142, but Colts could not dominate on that advantage, [...]
Silverwood takes charge as Sri Lanka Head Coach
After a four-month hunt, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) signed up Chris Silverwood, who was removed as Head Coach of England after their 4-0 Ashes defeat in Australia last year, as Head Coach of the National Men’s team. He is expected to arrive soon in Sri Lanka to take over the job as Sri Lanka looks [...]
Spirited Touch outruns Alcazaba for second time
For a second time in a span of two years, Spirited Touch, now owned by MGMR Racing, and ridden by Indian jockey P.S. Kaviraj, outsmarted Alcazaba, the chestnut mare owned by Deepthika Jayakody, to snatch the RTC Magic Million Cup held last Tuesday at the Race Course in Nuwara Eliya. A close finish and an [...]
Coach Fernando conducts training programmes in three nations
Renowned badminton coach, Darshana Fernando, who is based in Canada for decades, is currently on a coaching tour in the Asia Pacific region conducting training and coaching programmes in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Fernando made a brief stop in Colombo on his way to training project in the three countries, which has become an annual [...]
Gayanthika and Nilani shatter national records
Middle distance runner Gayanthika Abeyratne set a new national record in the Women’s 800m with a time of 2:01.44secs at the Centenary National Athletics Championships which is being held at the Diyagama Stadium. The Asian gold medalist shattered the previous record of 2:02.52secs held by Dilshi Kumarasinghe in 2021. The 35-year-old, who trains under Sajith [...]
Sri Sumangala back in top division
Sri Sumangala College Panadura became eligible to return to the elite league next season after they emerged victorious against St. Sebastian’s College Katuneriya by 7 wickets in the SLSCA Under-19 Division II Tier ‘A’ final played yesterday at the BRC ground. The winners could be contended with themselves after deciding to bowl first, as they [...]