Sri Lanka rely on Aussie nemesis — the spinners
Australians showed scant comfort against spinners on slow turners during the ODI series and hosts Sri Lanka will look to exploit this weakness again in the two-match Test series starting on Wednesday in Galle. Accordingly, selectors have brought in right-arm leg-spinner Jeffery Vandersay into the 18-man squad which includes Test regulars Praveen Jayawickrema, Lasith Embuldeniya [...]
India Women win by five wickets; lead series 2-0
India Women registered their second-straight win by beating their Sri Lankan counterparts by five wickets in their second T20, thereby taking an unassailable lead in the three-match series, last evening at Dambulla. In the low-scoring match, the tourists were in a minor spot of bother. However, their skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, finishing the match with a [...]
Warne’s family uncertain of being present for Galle Test
Late spin legend Shane Warne was not a popular figure among Sri Lankans in the 1990s but his contributions towards the country’s most disadvantaged kids after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 helped change that feeling. Warne died on March 4, 2022, during a holiday in Thailand and nearly four months into his shocking demise, [...]
Test nightmare as Mishara likely to be banned for one year
Promising wicket-keeper batter Kamil Mishara faces a possible one year ban after he had pleaded guilty to breaching the player code of conduct. Mishara, 21, was expelled from the national cricket team during the series against Bangladesh in May after he had taken a ‘visitor’ to his hotel room despite warnings from the hotel authorities [...]
Trinity beat S. Thomas’ to regain Canon de Saram Shield
Trinity College pulled off a magnificent 20 points (2 tries, 2 conversions, 2 penalties) to 13 points (1 try, 1 conversion, 2 penalties) win in their Dialog Inter-School Under-20 rugby encounter played at the Pallekelle Rugby Stadium yesterday. With this win Trinity regained the Canon de Saram Trophy from the Thomians which they lost out [...]
Wesley too strong for hapless Vidyartha
Wesley College steamrolled past a hapless Vidyartha College by 38-7 in their Dialog Schools Rugby League Championship 2022 game played at the CR&FC ground in Longdon Place yesterday. After causing devastation against the visitors in the first half, where Wesley single-handedly scored four converted tries and led 28-0 by halftime, the home team made at [...]
Peterites bounce back to stall Rajans
St. Peter’s College managed to overcome a threatening burst by Dharmaraja College to secure a 27-12 win in their season opener of the Dialog Schools Rugby League Championship 2022 match played at Bambalapitiya yesterday. Both teams were locked at 12-all at halftime, yet the Peterites turned the table after the turnaround to complete a deserving [...]
Thivanka to skip WC and CWG
Ushan Thiwanka Perera, the current record holder in Men’s High Jump in Sri Lanka and South Asia, will likely miss two important upcoming events – the IAAF World Championships and the Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham, according to sources. USA based Ushan had reasoned out that with assistance coming, at the wrong time and wrong place, [...]
55th Inter-District Combined Schools U-20 Championship tomorrow
The halted – Inter-District Combined Schools U-20 Hockey Boys’ and Girls’ Championship – organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Hockey Association will return tomorrow since 2018, at the Astro Hockey Turf Reid Avenue The four-day tournament, this year in its 55th chapter, will see 13 teams from the boys and seven from the girls. The [...]
The day sea of blue turned yellow
At a time of distress, it was cricket that delivered a semblance of comfort to an angry and desperate public battling an economic meltdown. In November 2019, expectations had been high for a ‘system change’ that would ‘herald vistas of prosperity and splendour’ to a nation that’s burdened with institutionalised corruption across all levels. But [...]
Boxer from remote Northern hamlet targets CWG triumph
There is a saying behind every successful man, there is a woman. In the case of Vittalis Niklas, it’s his sister. His bonding with boxing began when he used to escort his sister to boxing lessons. Now, having mastered the art himself, he is already a history maker becoming the first Northern boxer in the [...]
7s teams gear up for CWG with intense training
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) has arranged three outbound training sessions for the members of the national men’s and women’s rugby 7s teams, ahead of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, England. With exactly 32 days before the Rugby 7s scheduled to kickoff, the three specially designed outbound adventure programme, to be held on three different [...]
‘Sharing, friendship, joy in effort and always doing the best’ – Olympic Day 2022
In the ever-changing world, all are adjusting to the new normal and here at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) it is dubbed as “together, for a better world”. The new normal has deep meaning and significance mainly owing to the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and dicey political situation that has engulfed the whole globe. [...]
Gateway wins third basketball title in a row
The Gateway College juniors comfortably beat Elizabeth Moir School by 31-8 at the semi-final and went on to eat Colombo International School by 19-10 to win the Under-13 Inter-International Schools’ Basketball Championship that was hosted by the Colombo International School. Earlier in the year, Gateway College secured the Under-17 and Under-19 championships of the same [...]
Nestlé Milo collaborates with Barcelona Football Academy of Sri Lanka
Nestlé Milo joined hands with Barcelona Football Academy of Sri Lanka to celebrate the Academy’s fifth year anniversary. Held at the Racecourse ground in Colombo, this football tournament saw active participation from over 500 talented children across different age groups. Being a brand that has long been associated with sports and physcial activity, Nestlé Milo [...]
Nevindu sponsored by Dymec and DSS OBA batch of ‘89
Nevindu Lakman, the Under-19 Junior Squash National champion, was jointly sponsored by Dymec Private Limited and the D.S. Senanayake Old Boys’ Association’s Batch of 1989 for the 29th Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship 2022, scheduled to be held from June 15 to 19 in Thailand. Suren Kohombange, the President of Sri Lanka Squash (SLS), CEO [...]