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Can we bet on Sanath’s last strand?

Can we bet on  Sanath’s last strand?

In hindsight it was a wise move by Sanath Jayasuriya to shave his head long before he arrived at the decision to take over as the chief cricket selector of Sri Lanka Cricket. Otherwise he would have been plucking his hair out strand by strand every time one of the young troopers took a bullet [...]

SLPL out; what’s next?

SLPL out; what’s next?

As a concept the Sri Lanka Premier League T-20 tournament which was orbited with fanfare and crash-landed a year later is seemingly over. The transit T-20 tournament which comprises four namesake outfits to choose the team that represents Lanka at the Champions League T20 got off the ground in a miniature scale at the R. [...]

Dhammika, Nuwan back Sanga’s effort

Dhammika, Nuwan back Sanga’s effort

Right arm pacies Dhammika Prasad and Nuwan Kulasekera combined with effect after Kumar Sangakkara had the laid the foundation to steer Kandurata Maroons to a 14 run win over Ruhuna Reds in the second match of the Inter-Provincial T20 cricket tournament played at R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. The pair shared five wickets between them helping [...]

Janaka, Suranga guide Basnahira Greens

Janaka, Suranga guide Basnahira Greens

A 31 ball knock of 40 with one boundary and four sixes and an impressive bowling figures of 3 for 20 by Suranga Lakmal helped Basnahira Greens to begin the Inter-Provincial T20 tournament with a 14 run win over Uthura Yellows in the first match played in the morning session at R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. [...]

Exclusive golf magazine

Exclusive golf magazine

The inaugural edition of ‘Exclusively Golf’, a magazine dedicated to golf will be launched on August 23 at the Victoria Golf and Country Club in Digana, Kandy. The launch has been deliberated to coincide with the 126th Amateur Golf Championship of Sri Lanka which will be held from August 19 to 23 at the VGCC [...]

Richard Dharmapala – the first junior national rugby captain from Science College

Richard Dharmapala – the first junior  national rugby captain from Science College

Sri Lanka Youth, Commonwealth under 18 player Richard Dharmapala will become Science College Mount Lavinia’s first Youth National Captain in their school rugby history which spans over 40 years. Having contributed to the Junior National team regularly over the past few years, No doubt that Richard Dharmapala’s selection will add to the already impressive list [...]

Sharmal takes first round in the stride

Sharmal takes first round  in the stride

Current Junior National Champion Sharmal Dissanayake took a commanding stride toward defending his title as he dismantled a Dasun Fonseka who was out of his depth, with a frighteningly clinical 6-0, 6-0 bashing on the first day of the 98th Junior Tennis Nationals at the SLTA Courts yesterday. Dissanayake though was not at his best [...]

Sports Strapping introduced

A one day workshop which is free of charge that explains the new techniques of sports called the “Introduction to Sports Strapping” conducted by Dr. Dulan Kodikara” will be held at the CR and FC in August 12, from 9 am to 5 pm. The programme is organised by Total Sports. For registration you can [...]

Annual inter house double wicket cricket tournament of Sanath Jayasuriya Cricket Foundation’s Cricket Academy

Annual inter house double wicket cricket tournament of Sanath Jayasuriya Cricket Foundation’s Cricket Academy

South Africa show our young guns still stuck in the middle

South Africa show our young guns still stuck in the middle

So another meaningless one-day and Twenty20 series has come to an end. Instead of playing proper Test cricket against South Africa, Sri Lanka Cricket decided to scrap that in its chase for dollars by replacing it with the more commercially viable shorter versions of the game. And what did this three-week long exercise prove? That [...]

Six wicket win for SL under 23

Sri Lanka under 23 cricketers posted an easy six wicket win over the touring Nepal national team at the Bloomfield ground recently. Taking first lease of the wicket, the tourists were wrapped up for 127 runs with Pritam Baskota top scoring with an unbetean 41. The local team with opener Udara Jayasundera leading the way [...]

Jaffna Speed Fest to rev on September 14

Jaffna is set to open its doors to the world of motor racing for the first time as the Jaffna Speed Festival, which consists of a motor race, a cycle race and a marathon, gets under way on September 14 and 15 in the city.Organisers Carlton Motor Sports Club (CMS) have opened the motor race [...]

FIFA performance Programme in Sri Lanka

FIFA performance Programme in Sri Lanka

FIFA, the world football governing body launched its Performance Programme in Sri Lanka last Wednesday at the Football House in Colombo. The programme which got off to a start on August 7 will go on till August 13. It will cover many areas, mainly focusing on football management functions. Alongside this programme, the Asian Football [...]

Nalanda and Vijaya college are joint champs

Nalanda and Vijaya college are joint champs

The all island under 15 boys and girls hockey championships 2013 concluded at Astro turf in Matale produced two joint champions, Nalanda college Colombo and Vijaya college Matale in the boys’ segment and Seethadevi Kandy and Sirimavo Bandaranayaka girls Colombo in the girls championship. The adverse weather conditions-heavy rain with gusts of wind-which lasted over [...]

Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

It was a widely held perception prior to the tests at Trent Bridge and Lords that England would retain the Ashes this summer and go on the win again Down Under in four or five months time. The more optimistic forecast was 10-0. And why not? England had the obdurate Cook, the stylish Trott, the [...]

Lankans far behind even in the corner lane

Lankans far behind even in the corner lane

Although Sri Lanka met its major goals for the FINA World Championships, with swimmers improving their timings and strengthening ties with the international swimming community, the country is still a fair distance away from registering podium finishes on the Asian and world circuit, the team’s coach Julian Bolling revealed. “It was a nice coming-together. But [...]

Guruge reelected to head Maliyadeva OBA

Guruge reelected to head Maliyadeva OBA

First- class club cricketer and Junior National selector Chandana Guruge has been re-elected as the president of the Maliyadeva college old boys Association in their annual general meeting held at the college premises recently. He started playing cricket at the age of 13 and represented his Alma – mater from 1976. He has represented the [...]

Shuttling back and forth with Lanka at the bottom

Shuttling back and forth with Lanka at the bottom

Chinthaka Fernando (Former junior national coach)“When you compare things with how they were a few years back you can see that the junior standard has dropped very badly. The main reason for this is that the present and previous presidents didn’t do anything for the sport’s development. That’s what happens when politically appointed people come [...]

SLSSSA shot up with hot rods

SLSSSA shot up with hot rods

The Sri Lanka Schools Shooting Sports Association (SLSSSA), for the first time ever, received a bequest of a match air rifle and a match air pistol courtesy of Colombo Logistics. SLSSSA, which inaugurated its official nationals event last year, after being officially recognised as a schools’ sport governing body, after existing for 19 years without [...]

Sanjiv and Niranjalee win golf elite event

Sanjiv and Niranjalee win golf elite event

Sanjiv Vairavanathan emerged the Elite Club Men’s overall champion while Niranjalee Amarasuriya took the grand prize for the Elite Club Ladies’ overall winner at the 4th annual Etisalat Golf Classics which recently concluded at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC).Vairavanathan and Amarasuriya also were awarded all-expenses paid golf tours to Abu Dhabi from Etisalat Elite [...]

Sunday Sports Guide

Local CRICKET: SLC Under-23 Division II final league round match at Colts RUGBY: Mercantile Sevens at Longdon Place TENNIS: 98th National Championship at SLTA SCRABBLE: Sri Lanka Open International at Global Towers, Colombo TABLE TENNIS: YMCA Age Group Novices at Bristol Street CARROM: Federation Cup at CFSL, Maharagama International CRICKET: England v Australia at Chester-le-Street, [...]

The ‘US-Open’ warm ups

The ‘US-Open’ warm ups

It is now the hard-court season of Tennis in North America. Washington ATP Masters hard-court title went to Juan del Potro of Argentina last week and the Canadian hard court is on now. There will be warm up hard-court tournaments like Cincinnati and Salem before the US-Open, the last Grand Slam of the year which [...]

Renovated racecourse brought renovated rugby hype

Renovated racecourse brought renovated rugby hype

What is next in Sri Lankan Rugby is the question fans ask at the end of the Carlton Sevens. The big names of the park in the world were at Galle and the former racecourse ground in Colombo. The newly done paddock and the surroundings looked attractive. Te renovated stands of the racecourse provided a [...]

Graham Ford issue – SLC watching the developments

Graham Ford issue –  SLC watching  the developments

Sri Lanka Cricket is on the watch on developments regarding the news that coach Graham Ford has been offered by the English County Surrey to take over. So far the South African born Graham Ford that he has not decided on any future plans and he would review his options once his contract with the [...]

Ruchiru triple see Virtusa through

Ruchiru triple see Virtusa through

Ruchiru Samarasinghe from Virtusa shredded a flimsy defensive effort from Alliance Finance to storm over the line thrice and lift his side to an emphatic 22 (1 goal, three tries)- 5 (1 try) win in their Shield clash at the Dialog Mercantile Rugby Sevens, played at Longdon Place yesterday. The victory placed Virtusa alongside several [...]

Jaffna EZ toast of Northern Sports Competition

Jaffna EZ toast of Northern Sports Competition

The Jaffna Education Zone maintained their consistency in the Northern Provincial Schools Sports Competition, organized by the Provincial Department of Education, Northern Province, with an imperious all-round display at the Duraiyappah Stadium in Jaffna. Even though the Valikamam Zone, which emerged the champion in 2010 and 2011, did well in the track and field events, [...]

Antonian tag rugby fest on August 17

St. Anthony’s College Kandy (SACK), one of the leading Division ‘A’ school rugby teams in Sri Lanka over the past few decades, is set to stage its second tag rugby carnival, organised by the Antonians Rugby Trust Fund (ARTF), at the CR & FC grounds on August 17. Over 3000 current students, past pupils and [...]

SLIIT and UoM shine at badminton

The women from SLIIT and men from the University of Moratuwa were crowned champions at the 8th Shuttle Festival, conducted by the badminton team and Sports Division of the UoM, at Moratuwa recently. In the women’s team event, SLIIT overcame the University of Kelaniya, while the men’s ‘A’ team of the University of Moratuwa got [...]

Talented keeper-batsman Radesh honoured at BSC prize-giving

Talented keeper-batsman Radesh honoured at BSC prize-giving

Sri Lankan allrounder Tillekeratne Dilshan was the chief guest at the annual prize-giving of The British School in Colombo, held at the school auditorium. It also turned out to be a very memorable day for young Rahul Radesh, who received his credentials as the new cricket captain of the school for the 2013/14 season from [...]

STC Matara beat Aloysius by 20 runs

St. Thomas’ College Matara won their Under 17 Division One second round match against St. Aloysius College Galle by 20 runs. The match was played at the Mahinda College grounds on August 7. STC, batting first, were bowled out for 164 in 45.2 overs. W. A Madhusanka captured four wickets while Gihan Niroshan, Viranduwage and [...]

Vidura ready to tackle school rugby challenge

Vidura ready to tackle school rugby challenge

Vidura College Colombo, who are making a gradual impact in the schools’ sports arena, adopted rugby as their newest sport. This development was initiated by two Pereras who proved to be handy rugby players during their school career. The men behind the promoting this full-contact sport at Vidura are none other than Dulanjan Perera and [...]

Nestle honoured in Maldives for sporting contribution

Nestle honoured in Maldives for sporting contribution

The Ministry of Human Resourses, Youth and Sports of Maldives recognised the contribution and commitment of Nestle Lanka at a felicitation ceremony held in Male, Maldives. Its Managing Director Ganesan Ampalavanar was presented with a special token of appreciation by Mohamed Sheriff, the Minister of Human Resources, Youth and Sports for the Republic of Maldives, [...]

STC Matara beat Aloysius by 20 runs

St. Thomas’ College Matara won their Under 17 Division One second round match against St. Aloysius College Galle by 20 runs. The match was played at the Mahinda College grounds on August 7. STC, batting first, were bowled out for 164 in 45.2 overs. W. A Madhusanka captured four wickets while Gihan Niroshan, Viranduwage and [...]

Stamford hold Sirimavo 4-4

The touring Stamford High School girls’ hockey team, playing their last fixtures of their tour of Sri Lanka, rallied in the second half of their game against Sirimavo BV to record a four-all draw at the Astro turf recently. In the first session of play, Sirimavo BV had the game virtually in their pockets with [...]

Cricketing double for Eagles

The Eagles’ teams claimed a double when they won the ‘A’ and ‘B’ segments of the Sanath Jayasuriya Cricket Foundation Inter-House Cricket Carnival that was sponsored by A. Baur and Company and played at the CCC grounds recently. In the Under 9 final they defeated Riders by 14 runs. In the ‘C’ group final, Black [...]

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