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The much awaited Grand Royal Derby organised by the Royal College Class of '69 will be held today at the Mt. Lavinia beach. Over 60 horses will be participating with ten races scheduled to be worked off. The Grand Royal Derby will be the main race.
Top class horses like Emparado ridden by Razik and owned by Dr. Noohu, Formula One ridden by Ravi and owned by Suranjith Premadasa, Libo Queen ridden by Lalith of Nuwara Eliya fame and owned by Gamini Kodituwakku, Charlot Prince ridden by another top rider from Nuwara Eliya Mathi Alagan and owned by Savin Abeyratne and Ancient Warrior, another horse being ridden by Lalith and owned by Nigel Austin, will be the main attraction at the races.
The Class two race too will be a big draw with Two to Gold, Dancing Brave, White Lighting and Timeless Appeal, being the favourites.
The ladies event will also be an interesting race with top lady riders Christine Anderson, Nihara Ratnam, Natash Hendrick and Inika Patel fighting for honours while Gamini Kodituwakku, Suranjith Premadasa, Kamal Senaratne and Dr. Sinharaja Delgoda will battle it out in the men's race. The races will begin at 9.00.a.m. -MSA
Arjun Dharmadasa, the Chairman of the Rugby Development Commitee has been appointed as Manager of the Sri Lanka Under-19 rugby team for the forthcoming Asian rugby championship to be staged in Japan, in December.
The SLRFU Council took this decision to appoint Dharmadasa as Manager, with Asanga Seneviratne as coach. Asanga will be assisted by Priyantha Gunaratne, the present coach of St. Anthony's College, Katugastota. SACK, enjoyed a successful season in this year's schools rugby tournament. Seneviratne has done a good job with the Army rugby team. The soldiers may not have won trophies, but they are undoubtedly the team of the season. (BW)
By Bruce Maurice
Mangalika Senadeera of C.I.C. (General) was the women's long jump champion at the 16th Ceylinco Group athletics championship which began at Thurstan Road yesterday.
Seven finals were worked off including the women's shot putt final which was won by K.M. Indrani also of C. I. C. (General).
The rest of the finals will be worked off at the same venue on November 10.
By Marlon Fernandopulle
Bloomfield were poised to clinch the Under 23 Championship after their medium pace bowlers Dhrshana Gamage and Tharanga Lakshita ripped the CCC batting apart to bowl them out for 107 in the final at Maitland Place yesterday.
Following the washout on Friday Bloomfield captain Sanjaya Rodrigo won the toss and invited CCC to take first lease of the wicket. The Maitland Crescent club started off badly losing both their openers Daminda Ranaweera and Jehan Mubaraq before their total reached double figures. From then onwards Bloomfield wrested control with Gamage and Lakshita claiming three wickets each and ripping the heart out of the CCC batting.Only Malintha Thotuwilage(27) and Nisal Randika(23) offered some resistance as CCC crashed to 107 all out.
Bloomfield were given a solid start with openers Ian Daniel (40 n.o) and Chaminda Ruwan (22) putting on 49 for the first wicket. Although they lost the wickets of Ruwan and skipper Sanjaya Rodrigo in quick succession Bloomfield worked their way to be 87 for 2 wickets and heading towards an easy first innings win when bad light stopped play at 6.10 p m.
CCC - 107 all out(Malintha Thotuwilage 27 Nisal Randika 23 Fareez Maharoof 18 Dharshana Gamage 3/23 Tharanga Lakshita 3/21 Kelum Gangodawila 2/34 Kaushal Lokuarachchi 2/23)
Bloomfield- 87/2 at close(Chaminda Ruwan 22 Ian Daniel 40 n o Thilina Kandambi 16 n o Amila Ratnaike 2/48)
From Daminda Wijesuriya in Sharjah
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Sunday - Sri Lanka cantered to a seven wickets win over Pakistan in 38.1 overs in the second match of the Champions Trophy Cricket Tournament in Sharjah yesterday.
This was also Sri Lanka's second win in the tournament having beaten Zimbabwe comprehensively on the first day of the contest on Friday.
Avishka Gunewardena led the run hunt with a not so impressive 88 and when he just about seemed set to score his century he was caught smartly by Sohaib Malik off the bowling of Akhtar for 88. Avishka gave three chances and his knock was not all that good to write home about.
However with Avishka's dismissal it was left to Mahela Jayawardena and and Russel Arnold to get the winning runs which they did without much fuss. At the close Mahela Jayawardena was unbeaten on 29 while Russel Arnold was unbeaten on 10.
One really cannot take the shine off Pakistan for this defeat as they fielded a full strength bowling attack with even Wasim Akram being in the line-up. However they have not figured in any international games for about three months.
However it was felt that the score of 176 that they put up was not quite sufficient to make a match of it.
By virtue of the fact that Sri Lanka won the game in 38.1 overs, well within the 50 overs gives Sri Lanka bonus points which should hold them in good stead in the contest.
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat but they never accounted for Sri Lanka's new bowler Nissanka who gave them a torrid time. At the same time Nissanka took two wickets - that of Younis Khan and Rashid Latiff.
But it was the tall and powerfully built Dilhara Fernando who, he seems to have wider shoulders now, generated a lot of pace on the Sharjah turf. Dilhara was the best bowler claiming three for 43.
Pakistan found run making a difficulty and with the greatest effort they managed to take their score to 176 in 56.6 overs with Yousuf Youhana being the highest scorer with 47.
Muralitharan, Sri Lanka's ace spinner, was not at his usual best but even though he claimed the wicket of Abdur Razzaq just when the Pakistani batsman was settling down for a good score. Skipper Sanath Jayasuriya as usual gave good support by claiming three wickets - that of Yousuf Youhana, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.
Sri Lanka will take on New Zealand in their first World Cup game in Bloemfontien on February 10, 2003.The Sri Lanka s game are as follows.
Feb 10: vs New Zealand, Bloemfontein; Feb 14: vs Bangladesh - Pietermaritzburg; Feb 19: vs Canada - Paarl; Feb 24: vs Kenya -Nairobi; Feb 28: vs West Indies -Capetown; March 3: vs South Africa-Durban (MF)
S.Thomas College Mt. Lavinia batting first scored a formidable 202 for nine before declaring on the first day of the Lemonade Trophy inter-school cricket match against Dharmapala at Mt Lavinia yesterday. Kaushal Silva top scored with a handsome 71. Dharmapala in thier turn were 32 for 2 at close.
The match will be continued today at 9.30 a.m.
S.Thomas - 202 for 9 declared (Kaushal Silva 71, Denham Williams 40, Jeevan Mendis 14; Viraj Indika 3 for 34, Rasika Ranasinghe 2 for 12)
Dharmapala - 32 for 2 at close (Asela Peiris 20 n.o.) -MSA
DURBAN, South Africa, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Gary Kirsten led South Africa to a comfortable six-wicket win over India in the triangular series final on Friday.
Kirsten scored 87 as the hosts cruised to 187 for four in reply to India's 183, clinching victory with 7.5 overs to spare.
South Africa's left-handed opener, who faced 108 balls and hit nine fours and a six, was dropped on 23 with the total 44 without loss by VVS Laxman at second slip off the bowling of seamer Javagal Srinath.
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