With confidence regained, Sri Lanka aim higher at T20 WC
Sri Lanka will start their World Cup campaign this month with confidence, on the heels of their surprise victory at the Asia Cup last month. Risking a first round exit after their humiliating loss in the tournament opener to Afghanistan, Dasun Shanaka led the 2014 champions to the title, winning all remaining five encounters. It [...]
India beat SL in Women’s Asia Cup opener
Sri Lanka suffered a 41-run defeat at the hands of India in their opening game of the Women’s Asia Cup 2022 at Sylhet in Bangladesh yesterday. Put into bat first, the Indian women posted 150 runs for the loss of six wickets and rattled out the Lankan lasses for 109 runs with 10 deliveries to [...]
Isipathana in line for third title
Reigning Schools League and Knockout champions, Isipathana College turned out to be the firm favourites at the ongoing Sri Lanka Schools Under-20 Rugby 7s Tournament which kicked off at Nittawela yesterday. Isipathana had already booked their slot in the Cup quarter-final which will take place today with the powerful Isipathana booking their quarter final berth [...]
Sahan, Irfan steer Ace Capital to second win
Left-arm spin duo Wanuja Sahan and Mohammad Irfan combined with effect to steer Ace Capital record a convincing win of an innings and 22 runs over Air Force and guide their side to the second outright win of the SLC Major Club Cricket Tournament with a day to spare in the match concluded at Welisara [...]
Thora draw first blood at Hayman first-leg
S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia drowned their arch-rivals Royal College 23-10 at the 29th Hayman Trophy’s first-leg last evening at the Sugathadasa waters. In matter of minutes since the kick off, Royalists wasted no time and opened the scoring. Thomian captain and No.7 Dirhen Dias, after opening the scoring for his school, once again scored [...]
All-round Vishan helps St.Peter’s crushing win
An all-round performance by Vishan Halambage helped St. Peter’s College to an easy seven wicket win over St. Joseph Vaz College in their U-19 school limited over cricket match played at Bambalapitiya yesterday. After restricting visitor’s for 182 run, the home side reached the target in the 31st over with Vishan hitting an unbeaten 117. [...]
Mixed concerns on ‘footballisation’ of cricket
There’s growing fear of cricket going football’s way with the sprouting of franchise-based T20 cricket leagues everywhere. Football is primarily club based, unlike cricket. National teams only play for the World Cup and other major tournaments like the European Championships, Copa America, Asia Cup and the Africa Cup of Nations. There are some bilateral football [...]
Cricket, netball and now basketball – Asian champs in their own right
Sri Lanka’s sporting scene has been sitting pretty with Cricketers and Netballers cementing their statuses as Asian Kings and Queens. The double delight only became a triple triumph this Thursday (29), when the women’s basketballers also joined the champion’s club when the cagers were crowned as South Asian Basketball Association (SABA) champions. Kayesha Siriwardana, a [...]
Football blame game turns ugly
A greater section of the local football fraternity are pointing fingers to now-defunct administration of Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) headed by Jaswar Umar, for the present calamity of the sport in the country. This comes aftermath a series of exchange in opinions by two parties, one mainly by a collaborated faction of former [...]
Sri Lanka T20 WC team jersey unveiled
MAS Holdings, South Asia’s largest apparel tech manufacturer, unveiled the official cricket jersey to be worn by the Sri Lankan national team at the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia this year. The jersey was handed over by the Chairman of MAS Holdings, Mahesh Amalean and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) [...]
St. Sebastian’s, Sangamitta Balika clinch Super ‘A’ badminton team titles
St. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa and Sangamitta Balika Vidyalaya, Galle, clinched the boys’ and girls’ Super A Division titles respectively at the Under-19 Inter-Schools Badminton Team Championship which took place in Colombo. The all-island tournament, organized by the Sri Lanka Schools Badminton Association (SLSBA) at the Royal College Sports Complex and the D S Senanayaka College [...]
Renown FA and Pallekanugala NS impress at Seethawaka Invitational Junior Football tourney
Renown Football Academy and Pallekanugala National School impressed at the Invitational Junior Football Tournament organised and conducted by Seethawaka Football League and Sunday Football Academy last week at the Philip Gunawardene ground in Puwakpitiya. Renown FA claimed the categories of Under-16 Boys, Under-14 Boys and Under-10 Boys while Pallekanugala NS won the Under-16 Girls, Under-14 [...]
Zahira College OBA ‘Sports Extravaganza’ in full swing
The Old Boys’ Association (OBA) of Zahira College is in the process of organising an annual ‘Sports Extravaganza’ which is a series of sporting events in line with its Annual Fellowship Day Programme. The badminton event took place on September 24 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium while the bowling at the Excel World Bowling Alley [...]
Historic victory for Lyceum Wattala
For the first time in the history of sports, an international school has claimed the trophy as overall champions under boys and as overall runners-up in the girls’ categories. Lyceum International School, Wattala became the first ever international school in the district to win this prestigious championship recently in the 90th Sir John Tarbat Senior [...]
Lyceum’s Mihila Jayaweera to lead Sri Lanka junior shuttle team at South Asian Championship
Mihila Jayaweera of Lyceum International School, Wattala was appointed as captain of the national Junior team that represented Sri Lanka at the South Asian Junior Badminton Championship 2022 held in India. Mihila was also the national junior champion from 2018 in his respected age group. As an upcoming young sportsman Mihila has been an outstanding [...]