Kumara lifts Sri Lanka’s first Commonwealth Games medal
Promising weightlifter Dilanka Isuru Kumara won Sri Lanka’s first medal at the 22nd Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England yesterday. Kumara produced a fine performance to secure the bronze medal in the 55kg weight class as he lifted 105kgs in the snatch category and 120kgs in the clean and jerk category to finish in third place [...]
Wesley outclass Rajans
Wesley College not only ended their Dialog Schools Rugby League Round 1 with a win, but also moved forward to Round 2 with a magnificent performance after beating Dharmaraja College by 31 points (5 tries, 3 conversions) to 12 points (2 tries, 1 conversion) at the Nittawela Rugby Stadium yesterday. At the short breather winners [...]
Royal crush Thomians to keep Mustangs Trophy
Royalist Sadisha Rajapaksha stroked an unfinished and match-winning knock of 69, guiding his school to a thumping 8-wicket win at the 45th Mustangs Trophy encounter last evening at the SSC grounds. Played before a few hundred schoolboys, the Royal-Thomian finally returned to the conventional conditions of playing in the presence of spectators. Royal, the defending [...]
World Junior C’ships: Athletes to fly finally
The junior national athletics team, who were stranded in Colombo due to an administrative mishap were finally able to take wings to Cali, Columbia after a timely intervention by the Minister of Sports. The seven athletes were to leave for the World Under-20 Athletic Championship 2022 in Colombia, but were kept in the dark by [...]
Science win over St. Peter’s, yet both bow out of league
St. Peter’s College failed to display their fighting guts as last weekend against group leader’s Wesley, as they suffered a shock 10-12 defeat at the hands of Science College in their final first round game of the Dialog Schools Rugby League 2022 at Ratmalana yesterday. The Peterites had the privilege of scoring first and even [...]
Abeykoon targets semi-final spot in Birmingham
Twenty-four years after Sriyani Kulawansa and Sugath Thilakaratne won silver and bronze medals at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Sri Lanka’s new foster boy Yupun Abeykoon kicks off Sri Lanka’s campaign tomorrow at the 22nd Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England carrying the hopes of a 22 million people. He will be in action [...]
Sri Lanka shift focus on white-ball cricket after Tests
After back-to-back home Test series against Australia and Pakistan, Sri Lanka will shift focus to white-ball cricket with two major international tournaments around the corner. The hosts managed to level each two-match series against Australia and Pakistan despite losing the first Test in both. The Asia Cup, which Sri Lanka will be host country notwithstanding [...]
Muddle over CWG selection trials – who’s telling the truth?
Sri Lanka Squash’s (SLS) selection process for the ongoing Commonwealth Games (CWG) at Birmingham, England, has not been all in good order, but only a problem and a controversy-marred process, where, eventually, a team of four – two boys and girls – were dispatched, but missing out the three-time national champion, Fathoum Issadeen. Yet Issadeen, [...]
Soldiers book final berth
A brilliant allround performance by national discard Seekkuge Prasanna ensured Army’s entry to SLC Major Clubs Limited Over final with a crushing 124-run win over Ace Capital at the second semi-final played at the NCC grounds yesterday. After setting a target of 247, all what the star-studded Army unit needed was just 27.2 overs to [...]
Lankan Shihab Rizan dreams of glory at inaugural Commonwealth Esports Championships
With Esports making its debut as a medal sport at the inaugural Commonwealth Esports Championships alongside the Commonwealth Games 2022 to be held in the United Kingdom in August, for Shihab Rizan, it is an opportunity and an exceptional honour to represent his motherland. Shihab, a 28-years-old, Sales and Marketing Manager, sealed his berth with [...]
MAS Holdings partner Lankan athletes up to Paris 2024
Bodyline (Pvt.) Ltd., a subsidiary of MAS Holdings, will be the official clothing partner of Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA), from 2022 till the Paris Olympics in 2024. This partnership became active last Thursday at an official event held in Colombo, where Dinesh de Silva, the Chief Executive Officer of Bodyline, officially handed over the athletic [...]
Rybakina- dark horse of Wimbledon
When a player is 23 in the WTA ranking and have no big title wins, she is well outside the favourite line up to win Wimbledon. Rybakina’s best credential before winning 2022 Wimbledon was being former world junior number 3 as a Russian and winning relatively little known WTA title in Eastern Europe this year. [...]
What a victory – a once in a lifetime moment!
While hangovers of many who witnessed the great Nalandian victory two weeks ago may be still lingering in their heads, I thought of penning down my recollections of this comprehensive win. This was a rare chance of seeing Nalanda winning the big match after 69 years. It was the nine-decade old tradition of the Battle [...]