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Hambantota mystery outfit to play rugby next season
Is it a bird…….is it a plane…. No it is a ruggerite With the 2013 club rugby season being pushed forward for November, it is made to know that the number of Division A segment teams will increase to ten with the inclusion of another team, in the form of either Kurunegala RFC or Hambantota [...]
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Herath hopes spin will trouble Aussies
SYDNEY, Dec 22, 2012 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath Saturday said that because Australian batsmen have faced so little quality spin bowling recently he is a good position to take wickets in the upcoming Boxing Day Test. Australia struggled against the fast bowling attack of South Africa earlier this summer, losing the three Test [...]
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Binura pips Thillakaratne in five set marathon
Squash Nationals By David Stephens Binura Jayasuriya produced the match of his life to beat an in-form Saman Thillakaratne in a five-set (5/11, 19/17, 3/11, 11/1, 11/8) marathon, and booked himself a place in the semifinals of the men’s bracket of the Janashakthi National Squash Championships, played at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. Jayasuriya demonstrated tremendous [...]
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Slimline FC wins inaugural Fencing National Championship
Slimline Fencing Club Pannala won the inaugural National Fencing Championship held at the Unichela Fencing Club premises in Panadura. Slimline FC won seven medals which included three gold, three silver and a bronze. Unichela FC emerged runners-up. Pradeep Dunukiyanga of Slimline FC was adjudged the best fencer of the two-day competition.- Pic by Amila Gamage
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SLC says no one has officially informed us about retirement
Speculation in Down Under is rife about Tillakaratne Dilshan consideration of following Lasith Malinga into retirement from Test cricket this year, and Australian Big Bash teams keen on signing one of the world’s most potent short-form batsmen, SLC says that none of the cricketers have informed them officially about such decisions. Director Cricket Operations, Sri [...]
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Lankans will never forget that Boxing-Day Test
The Warne-Murali series second Test begins on Wednesday By S.R. Pathiravithana Nineteen years ago the cricket-mad Lankans counted their days till the boxing day Test became a reality, but, their adrenaline began to pump not because of the cricket that was dished out but because of an umpire by the name of Darrell Hair who [...]
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Want to be a national star? Get your KPI right
We must put our jigsaw together, says head of coaching For most Sri Lankans, cricket is something just more than a sport. Besides the fraction who makes a living out of it, there are millions of Lankans who think about the game, smile when the country’s score reads 150 for no loss and frown when [...]
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IRB keen to take oval ball to North
An adventurous journey taking you off the beaten track to places was the experience as explained by Sanath Martis the SLRFU National Development Coach. Sports is picking up in the North and the first major cricket tournament in the war affected Northern part of Sri Lanka was played in May. The Jaffna Premier league popularly [...]
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Piranha House pips Barracuda House
Piranha House piped Barracuda House to emerge overall winners at the 58th SSC Swimming Gala at the SSC pool recently. The Annual Gala organized and conducted by the SSC Swimming House Committee, Chaired by Dushmantha Karannagoda with the assistance of NAASU was participated by over 300 swimming members in a programme of 175 events. Ranjith [...]
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At least a six-year plan is a must says Julian Bolling
By Bandula Molligoda “Sri Lanka does not have swimmers even to compete in the Asian standards, despite the fact that we have enormous resources in the country like the vast sea around us, a large number of rivers and swimming pools in practically almost all schools and districts” said one of Sri Lanka’s most prominent [...]
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Test win Down Under – any Lankans dream
By Trevine Rodrigo in Melbourne If Sri Lanka’s top three cricketers believed in Santa Clause, their wish for a Christmas present would be no secret. Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillekeratne Dilshan have wowed fans all over the world for a decade and a half with their cricketing brilliance and although figuring in four World Cup [...]
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No more mercenary airmen
The Airmen have been flying high during the past 365 days according to its Sports Unit head Wing Commander Chandana Deepthi. But hereafter they will not have any contracted players running with the emblem. “We had a three-segment plan this year under short, mid and long term. Our prime objective was to curtail contract players [...]
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Therapuththa NS in big win
By P.D. de Silva Therapuththa National School Ambalanthota opened their under 19 cricket season with an innings and 245 run win against Rajapaksa Central College Weeraketiya. This under 19 division three tournament game was played at the UC grounds, Hambantota. Rajapaksa Central electing to bat first were shot out for a paltry 34 runs in [...]
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Danny Morrison excited by New Zealand pace trio
By Shayan Siddiqui New Zealand are often described as the ‘dark horses’ of International cricket, regularly competing with the top teams despite not being blessed with the world class talent possessed by other nations. They demonstrated a prime example of their sporadic brilliance recently in the two Test series in Sri Lanka, a country renowned [...]
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Tennis player development
Integrated systems for player development have greater advantages, fun and success rate than linear systems. Linear method goes from aspect to aspect. “Development Phase” in a player is too short for it to succeed. Fun and Success rate are two of the key ingredients for anyone to learn fast. Integrated systems have both. Go for [...]
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Motivator-hygiene theory and refereeing
Rugby people moan and complain about referees and say that in the past they did not do it for money. They talk on the stature. Pressed on they would say of former players who refereed and earned respect because of that. The game being faster and fitte referees are needed and universally the tendency is [...]
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Sailors conquer horizon
National Sailing Championships 2012 By Naushad Amit Sri Lanka Navy personnel conquered the sea waters outside Panadura Fisheries Harbour as they took major honours during the National Sailing Championships which was held on December 15 and 16. The Sri Lanka Sailing championship which reached the sea waters for the first time this year since its [...]
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The gruelling travails of Mulafer and hockey
By Aubury Kuruppu Matale has for long been the cradle of hockey in Sri Lanka and probably will be in the future. The Wijekoon family is synonymous with the games played with a curved stick. Ranjith Wijekoon was a dazzling centre forward who found a place in the Asian all stars eleven. Growing up in [...]
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Lawson proposes relaxation of ball-tampering rules
Cricket’s ball-tampering laws should be relaxed to permit bowlers to pick the seam and redress the growing imbalance between bat and ball, former Australian Test paceman Geoff Lawson believes. The ex-Pakistan national coach described the rules as overkill, and so prescriptive as to allow ”mischief-making” such as Sri Lanka’s informal complaint about Peter Siddle and [...]
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Sachin drives and makes a gross 233
Last year’s runner-up Sachin de Silva continued his prowess over three days to win the Sri Lanka Junior Golf Championship for the second time at the Royal Colombo Golf Club in Colombo on Friday. He made 78, 73 and 82 in the respective days to complete with a total aggregate gross score of 233 while [...]
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How they see sports 2012
Another year has drawn to a close and with it a long lineup of sporting events which included the Olympics and the T20 World Cup. So how exactly did people view the general performance and growth of Sri Lanka’s sports this year, progressively or regressively?
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Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET: SLC Premier L/O Tournament Colts vs CCC at Colts Badureliya vs Tamil Union at Kalutara Saracens vs SLPA at Royal College Moors vs Panadura at Moors NCC vs Kurunegala Youth at NCC Chilaw Marians vs Air Force at R. Premadasa Ragama CC vs Bloomfield at Bloomfield Army vs Navy at Panagoda Lankan CC [...]
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Freestyle wrestling faces firm tussle
By David Stephens Freestyle wrestling was not made for the weak-willed or faint of heart. Among the world’s oldest competitive sports and undoubtedly the most complete form of wrestling, it tests a wide array of physical and mental attributes and pushes its practitioners to the outer limits of their discipline and commitment. It for this [...]
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Royal College win D.S. Senanayake Trophy
Royal College cruised to a convincing 57 to 41 point win over S. Thomas’ College to retain the D.S. Senanayake Challenge Trophy for another year when they opposed each other in their Annual Under 19 Basketball fixture at Reid Avenue recently. At the end of the first quarter the Royalists held a 14 to 11 [...]
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Sanga wows at Vidura
Sri Lankan cricket star, Kumar Sangakkara, visited Vidura College Colombo, prior to engaging in the ongoing tour to Australia. According to officials of Vidura College, many of the school’s young sportsmen and women were enthralled by Sangakkara’s visit, which was organised by Nations Trust Bank. “The main idea behind Mr. Sangakkara’s visit was to persuade [...]
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Royal’s swimmers tear ahead in 2012
By Bandula Molligoda Royal College, Colombo, has enjoyed a stellar run in the pool this year, emerging school swimming champions in several swimming competitions. This achievement is considered very rare because it is after many years that Royal, captained this season by Kanitha Munasinghe, has won three major tournaments. The three major tournaments that Royal [...]
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Ashani flips her way to multiple-medal finish
Pic and text by Gamini Mahadura Chalanima Ashani, the captain of Sacred Heart Convent in Galle, won four medals at the All-Island Schools Gymnastics Championship. Ashani won three golds and one silver medal in the competition, participating in the Under-19 age category. She won gold medals in the floor exercise, uneven bars and pommel horse [...]
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Galle annihilates Matara by 177 runs
Galle District annihilated Matara district by a mammoth 177 runs in the Prima inter-district Under 15 championship match, played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium on Thursday (6). The star of the match was Kaweesh Pushpakumara of Dharmasoka College Ambalangoda, who scored an unbeaten 158 runs in an equal number of deliveries with three sixes [...]
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Rasheed and Yahani win Tibhar TT tournament
Rasheed Azeez of Royal College and Yahani Mendis of Girls High School Mt. Lavinia won the Tibhar Academy Internal Table Tennis Tournament, held at Samamandiraya, Ratmalana last weekend. This tournament was organized by the Tibhar Table Tennis Academy, under the guidance of former national players W A Buddhasiri and Namal Gunasekara. Nearly 80 players participated [...]
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Richmond take Under 10 chess title
Pic and text Gamini Mahadura Richmond College Galle won the Under-10 Division ‘A’ title at the Inter-Schools Team Chess Championship, which was organised by the Schools’ Chess Federation of Sri Lanka. The tournament was held at the auditorium of St. John’s College Nugegoda. The victorious team was captained by Chandupa Samarasekara and also had [...]
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Gateway and Royal Institute win U-17 titles
International School’s Under 13 & Under 17 Badminton Tournament – R.I.T Alles Challenge Throphy 2012 By Bandula M Gateway College and Royal Institute performed outstandingly at the second annual Under 13 and 17 R.I.T Alles Challenge Trophy badminton touranment, organized by Gateway College, to clinch the Under 17 titles in the boys and girls categories respectively, [...]
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England through in a cliffhanger
England’s stand in skipper Eoin Morgan hit a twenty six ball 49 not out to take England to a cliffhanger last ball victory by 6 wickets over India and square their two match T-20 series at 1-all at Mumbai yesterday. Chasing a stiff target of 178 runs to win in 20 overs England made 181 [...]
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Baseball gets its own ground
Sri Lanka’s inaugural Baseball Complex will be declared open at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Sports Complex in Ditagama, Homagama today. This international standard baseball facility according to insiders has been constructed in accordance to the specifications of the IBF (International Baseball Federation). According to Dinesh Perera, the media coordinator for the Sri Lanka Amateur Baseball/Softball Association [...]
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Schools face player release dilemma
Under 19 inter-provincial cricket tournament in January By Naushad Amit The Under-19 Inter-Provincial cricket tournament organised by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) could not get off due to bad weather, prompting the organisers to postpone the competition. The tournament was scheduled to begin on Tuesday (18) but was postponed indefinitely. However, after an emergency meeting among [...]
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Past cricketers of Lumbini reunite
Past cricketers of Lumbini College Colombo will reunite at the college premises at 5.30 pm on the December 28 2012. All those who have represented Lumbini College at cricket are requested to contact Chaminda de Silva 0777769498 or Ranil Dhammika 0712998369 or Pradeep Nishantha 0712948287 for more information. (PDdeS)
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Changes won’t disrupt Test attack: Siddle
Australia’s fast-bowling spearhead Peter Siddle says an ever-changing Test pace attack won’t hurt the team’s ability to bowl as a unit. After changing the entire three-man pace attack from the second to third Tests against South Africa, then making two more changes for the first Test against Sri Lanka in Hobart, Australia are set for [...]
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Mayilankadu Gnanamurugan wears JFL KO crown
By Sam Hensman, Jaffna Gnanamurugan of Mayilankadu (Chunnakam) crowned themselves with glory. They won the Jaffna Football League’s Knockout Title beating St. Nicholas, Navanthurai 3-0, in a tense final played on the Gurunagar Singing Fish Grounds, in front of a football crazy crowd. The match had all the ingredients of a classic duel. After a [...]