Joes down Thora in a thriller
St. Joseph’s College held off their nerves to record a thrilling 30-28 win against S. Thomas’ College and claim the Lady Jayatilleke Trophy in a Dialog School Rugby League Championship 2022 match played at the Havelock Park yesterday. From the moment of kick off, to the final whistle excitement was intact in this thrilling match, [...]
Royal trounce hapless Kingswood
Royal College thrashed a hapless and torn out Kingswood College team by 53-0 in their Dialog Schools Rugby League Championship 2022 match played at the Royal Sports Complex yesterday. Royal, one of the favourites to win the schools rugby plum this season, was far too superlative for a Kingswood side that is rather below par [...]
The plot that went wrong at Galle
The annihilation it faced on Friday could force the Sri Lanka cricket team’s think-tank to restrategise ahead of the second and final Test against Australia starting at the same venue next Friday. Australia steamrolled the hosts inside two-and-a-half days to record a comprehensive 10-wicket win in a Test that lasted just 153.2 overs in all. [...]
Agar to return home, replaced in squad by Holland
Australia left-arm spinner Ashton Agar has been ruled out of their second Test against Sri Lanka, which begins on 8 July. The 28-year-old will fly home after failing to recover from a side strain and has been replaced by left-arm finger spinner Jon Holland. Agar, who hasn’t played a Test since 2017, was not considered [...]
History awaits for four squash players set for CWG
For the four squash players – Ravindu Laksiri, Shameel Wakeel, Chanithma Sinaly and Yeheni Kuruppu – endorsed by the Ministry of Sports and set to represent Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Games (CWG), history is on the cards, the Sunday Times can confirm, exclusively. Accordingly, in news that eclipses everything for the very first time [...]
Sandeesh shines for Sebs
Sebastian’s Sandeesh Fernando was pick of the player for his 47 and a match bag of eight-wickets in their drawn traditional encounter against the Royal College Colombo at Royal, concluding yesterday. Chief scores: Sebastians: 173 all out (57.1) (Sandeesh Fernando 47, Mahen Silva 41, Sadeesha Rajapaksha 5/37, Gishan Balasooriya 3/58)Royal: 113 all out (35.5) (Sineth [...]
Batters do the talking in drawn big match
Batters from both the schools shown with Minindu Siva, the top scorer of the match, only to miss out on a big match century (87), in their drawn low-scoring 67th Battle of the Mangosteen big match concluding yesterday at Surrey Village, Maggona. At close, Kalutara Vidyalaya had gained a lead by 156. Chief scores: Kalutara [...]
Rajans gain slender lead over Nalandians
Dharmajara College Kandy after posting 170, on the back of opener Sachintha Dissanayake’s 70, managed to keep Nalandians at bay reducing them to four down for 94. At the end of day one, Nalandians were having a deficit of 70. Dulara Bandulasena so far with two wickets, also thwarted Yasiru Samarakoon from a fifty in [...]
Rajans hold Science to a draw
Science College, the giant killers in the Dialog Schools Rugby League 2022 had to settle for a 15 all draw against Dharmaraja College at the Nittawela Rugby Stadium yesterday. Both teams scored their points through 2 tries, 1 conversion and a penalty. At the short breather Science led 7-5. Referee Dilum Deeshana In another encounter [...]
No dollars, no problem; Lanka to still send 164 for CWG 2022
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC) boasted that it would send a ‘strong’ contingent of 164 members for the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2022, which will begin in Birmingham, England later this month. This, however, comes in contrast to the contingent Sri Lanka sent to Gold Coast of Australia in 2018, where the whole [...]
Table Tennis Commonwealth Games selection creates stir
The Sri Lanka table tennis team, scheduled to take wings to Birmingham, England later this month for the Commonwealth Games 2022, may have already cleared the doubts of predicting what the outcome could potentially be with their performances at a recent top domestic competition. All four paddlers selected for the CWG 2022, interestingly, were defeated [...]
Europe’s second half Grass court season
With the French Open, the European clay-court season ends. Players shift their tactical and stroke making skills to fit the grass court game. Wimbledon, which is All England Lawn Tennis Championships and one of the four annual Grand Slam event, is on grass. There are 11 Grass events leading to Wimbledon. Until a few years [...]
FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup: Women in main tournament; Men need to qualify
Sri Lankan men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball teams will take to Marina Bay Sands, Singapore next week for the – FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup – with the men needing to go through qualifiers while their women’s team having already qualified to the main tournament. 3×3 is one of the two formats in the fast-paced fascinating [...]
Quickee.lk partners with Royal College Rugby for 2022
Quickee.lk, Sri Lanka’s favourite online marketplace, has stepped forward to co-sponsor the Royal College 1st XV rugby team for the ongoing schools’ rugby season. The team from Quickee.lk and the Royal College Rugby Football Advisory and Management Committee met with the Principal of Royal College to complete formalities cementing the partnership. The Sri Lanka schools’ [...]
Wesley College holds traditional ‘Rugby Jersey Presentation’
The annual Rugby ‘1st XV Jersey Presentation’ ceremony of Wesley College was recently held at the College premises, marking the significant juncture of handing over the rugby jerseys to the senior squad. Honorary chief guests, the school’s administration, old boys of the college and parents of the squad members attended this occasion. While most rugby [...]
Susal wins gold in the highest division
Susal de Silva of Nalanda College won the gold medal of the highest age group, the Under-18 Open event, at the Western Asian Chess Championships 2022. He scored a total of 6½ points out of 9 games with wins against Mohamed Rayyan of the Maldives, Zhandir Bizigitov of Kazakhstan, Bin Yashid Mujahid of the Maldives [...]
National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka celebrates ‘Asian Games for all’
The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC) conducted a national level drawing and painting contest under the auspices of the Olympic Council of Asia and the Organising Committee of the Asian Games Hangzhou 2022 for children under 13 years of age to mark the celebration of ‘Asian Games for all’. This enabled everyone a [...]
Sanudula wins Queen’s Chess title, earns a trip to witness World Chess Olympiad
Sanudula Dahamdi of Musaeus College won the Rating Category event of 1600-1799 of the Queen’s Chess Festival Blitz Chess Championships 2022 conducted by the FIDE Women’s Commission scoring seven points out of nine games. She recorded wins against Pasipanodya Valentine of Zimbabwe, Jimenez Salas Maria Teresa of Peru, Davari Sara of Iran, Lampard Alice of [...]
Susal becomes Sri Lanka’s new chess International Master
Susal de Silva of Nalanda College became Sri Lanka’s youngest International Master (IM) after his performance of winning the gold medal at the Western Asian Youth Chess Championships 2022. Susal, the most promising youth chess player in the country, won the Sri Lanka National Chess Championships consecutively in 2021 and 2022. He has claimed more [...]
AIS students to compete at Junior World Rowing Championship
Rovinya Wijesekera and Shaylon Gunarathna of Asian International School (AIS) have been selected by the World Rowing Federation to compete at the Junior World Rowing Championship to be held in Italy in July this year. Rovinya and Shaylon have qualified to represent Sri Lanka at this prestigious world event based on their outstanding performance as [...]