Signs of Olympic quagmire deepening
Ten days have gone since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) summoned the top officials of the Ministry of Sports and National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOC) but the cold war between the two local factions remains intact. The current NOC office-bearers enjoyed an extension to their present tenure, which was supposed to end on [...]
NOC turmoil: Are individuals holding sports to ransom?
Could sports survive without politics or if one looks at the equation from another angle, could sports be entirely void of politics – well the answer could be quite tricky. Just delve into the past and the very Olympic philosophy. Take for instance, Marathon, an integral part of the modern day Olympics. The legend says [...]
Johnson, Warner lift Australia
England are teetering on the brink of a second humiliating defeat in two Ashes Tests after fast bowler Mitchell Johnson rampaged through their out-of-form batting once again at stumps on the third day in Adelaide on Saturday. Johnson took 7-40, including a wonderful spell of 5-16 in five overs after lunch, as England were rattled [...]
Prabagaran and Thangaraja tie for second spot
Sri Lanka made a strong start to the Professional Golf Tour of India’s (PGTI) Dialog Enterprise International tournament, with both Kandasamy Prabagaran and Nadaraja Thangaraja notching up 46 points to finish tied for second place behind table-leading Indian, Angad Cheema (52 points), after the opening day’s play concluded at the Royal Colombo Golf Club yesterday. [...]
Brendon’s school of cricket to tour India
Brendon’s School of Cricket is embarked on its 16th tour of India (Bangalore and Mysore) on December. The team is billed to play 12 matches during the 16-day tour, which includes matches against leading cricket Academies in Bangalore and University academies in Mysore. Six Under-12 matches and Six Under-14 matches will be played against the [...]
Former greats shine at Veterans all island inter-club TT C’ship
The Veterans Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka ‘A’ team comprising Dr. G.N. Lucas (Captain), M.M.M. Lafir, Rajiva Wijetunga and Sarath Wijesooriya won the Men’s ‘A’ division beating Singer Sports Club comprising Wasantha Perera (Captain), N.M. Thilakananda and Priyantha Perera by 3 matches to one. Astron Sports Club comprising Gamini Moraes (Captain), Percy Welsh, Kumara [...]
BRJA to train referees and judges
The Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (ABA) is scheduled to conduct a new course for aspiring referees and judges who are interested in enhancing their present career to the national level boxing. The programme is organised jointly by the ABA and the Boxing Referees and Judges Association (BRJA). This programme will be open for [...]
Two Thilinis in women’s final
Thilini Hendahewa and Thilini Jayasinghe shuttled their way into the women’s final at the 7th SSC ranking badminton tournament continued at the club indoor stadium yesterday. In the first semi final, Thilini Hendahewa beat Lekha Shehani in two straight sets 21/15, 21/19. In the second semi final, Thilini Jayasinghe was taken to a three setter [...]
Balaras SC and United SC emerge champions
Balaras Sports Club Boralesgamuwa and United Sports Club Nattandiya emerged champions in the men’s and women’s finals at the Dialog President’ Cup Volleyball Championship which concluded at the National Youth Services Centre Indoor Stadium in Maharagama yesterday. Balaras SC got the better of United SC in the men’s final with a three set to one [...]
Picketing campaign called off
A massive protest and picketing campaign was planned in front of a leading sports body. At the last moment, however, it was called off apparently due to pressure from the top. Behind this protest, picketing was a key figure in the sports arena. It is understood that the protest was against a leading sports personality [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local CRICKET: MCA-DPMC Bajaj Div ‘E’ League Commercial Leasing vs Ceylinco Insurance at St. John’s Panadura Asian Alliance vs Commercial Bank ‘B’ at Ananda Mawatha RUGBY: Dialog Division ‘A’ Army vs CH&FC at Diyagama Kandy vs Navy at Nittawela FOOTBALL: Dialog Champions League 2013 Quarterfinal Colombo FC vs Don Bosco at VFS Kalutara Cargills Food [...]
Sri Jayewardenepura University does well in cricket
The University of Sri Jayewardenepura, emerged champions of the Sri Lanka State Services Cricket (C Division) 2011, was the 2nd runner’s up of Bangalore Inter-college cricket tournament which was organized by 21st Century Sports Consultants under the international cricket exchange program from 24th to 28th November 2013, in Bangalore, India. The results were decided on [...]
Fazal’s header gives Renown win over Blue Star
After collapsing in the battle for possession throughout most of the match, Renown made maximum use of the one clear-cut chance which came their way, with Mohamed Fazal heading home from a corner to give his team a 1-0 win over Blue Star, during their Dialog Champions League quarter-final played at Longden Place yesterday. Blue [...]
Colts, Ragama CC continue winning spree
Colts and Ragama CC continued their winning spree when they chalked up their fourth successive win of the Premier limited over tournament with victories over Air Force and Panadura SC in the matches played at Reid Avenue and Surrey Village ground in Maggona yesterday. Colts win against the Airmen was achieved with three balls to [...]
New school rugby format to get the nod
The proposed tournament format for the Schools Rugby 2014 season has received the green light from the Executive Committee of the Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Association (SLSRFA). Susantha Mendis the Secretary of the SLSRFA said the proposed format was approved at an Ex-co meeting held on December 2. The format has been accepted by all [...]
Havelocks SC prevail over CR 29-23
Havelocks SC came back in the final stages of the second half of their Dialog Rugby League 2013 rugby tournament encounter against traditional rivals CR and FC to secure a close 29-23 victory in the match under lights at Havelock Park yesterday. It was the Red Shirts who held on to a slender one point [...]
Thomian cricket to take off with JAT
JAT Holdings confirmed its commitment to nurture young sportspersons by sponsoring the S. Thomas’ College cricket team. JAT will sponsor the S. Thomas’ first XI team for two seasons beginning from this year. Managing Director of JAT, Aelian Gunawardene of handed over the sponsorship to S. Thomas’ College Warden Professor Indra de Soysa. Marc Bilimoria [...]
A friend almost to a fault – “Bulla” was inimitable
The stentorian voice which reverberated in the country’s court houses with the words “Me Lord! The facts are intrinsically interwoven”, has been stilled forever. It epitomises the very spirit of my dear friend Chitta Ranjan de Silva (more affectionately known as Bulla) and to the extent his life was so “intrinsically interwoven” with family, friends, [...]
MAC Holdings sponsors Joes First Eleven Cricket
Harith Jayasuriya, Chief Marketing Officer, MAC Holdings Private Limited makes a symbolic presentation to Dylan Fernandopulle, Captain of St. Joseph’s College First XI Cricket team to mark the Sponsorship of the Cricket Team for the second successive year. Also in the picture is Dilshan Perumal-Manager MAC Holdings, Fr Sylvester Ranasingha – Rector SJC, Janaka Deegodagamage [...]
Ananda joyful with Laugfs
The Ananda College cricket team will be sponsored by Laugfs Holdings for the current season. This partnership was announced at a press conference held at the MCA premises where officials of Laugfs and Ananda were present. Picture shows Managing Director of Laugfs Thilak de Silva (second from left) presenting the official playing kit to Ananda [...]
Arthur Ashe inspired Afro-American tennis
Arthur Robert Ashe, the African American Tennis player who is in a class of his own, achieved great heights within the little space and opportunities available to him in the sixties. To honour him, the US-Open Tennis Stadium in Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, New-York was named ‘Arthur Ashe Stadium’ in 1997. Ashe exalted world Tennis [...]
Asanga and Gregory to drive Asian rugby to its destiny
If everything goes to plan, then Asanga Seneviratne will take over the position of secretary-general of the Asian Rugby Football Union at its council meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia today. The former Sri Lanka flyhalf and current president of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union will replace the longstanding Hong Kong representative Ross Mitchell who [...]
Rugby’s money culture and the grasshoppers
Beaten 81-10 by CR who by themselves are trying to find their feet is a story of where to CH. Just as much as two new teams have swelled numbers in the league can the rugby people live happily ever after. The worry however is about the future of some of the old rugby playing [...]
The three Anuras of Sri Lanka cricket
In different eras three Anuras represented Ceylon/Sri Lanka at cricket and made memorable contributions towards the progress of the game. Anura Polonowita and Anura Tennekoon were in limelight Sri Lanka’s pre-Test status era and later Anura Ranasinghe was there in the seventies and eighties. There was a rare similarity among these three talented cricketers, all [...]
We thought cricket was a gentleman’s game
I was ashamed to read what Graham Gooch had said in defence of sledging that it is a compliment to be sledged. It is certainly not a part of the game to disturb a batsman to get him out — it is a low, mean and dirty practice. Equally shocking was a report that stated [...]
Sri Lanka tracking towards world fame in rugby
Sri Lanka’s recent surge towards Asian top shelf in Rugby has drawn attention to the top teams who have dominated for decades, and they are taking notice of an emerging contender for world contention in a sport that is popular in a country that has played the game for over a hundred years. Yet, are [...]
Kayaking catching up in Sri Lanka
Of the wide union of skills Kayaking demands, the three most crucial are probably dexterity, teamwork and cast-iron willpower. Proponents of the sport in Sri Lanka have had to rely heavily on each of these qualities in a bid to get things going locally. As a result, within the span of just a few years, [...]
Lankan delegates attend AFC administration and management seminar
Ranjith Rodrigo, the president of Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) called upon the local delegates attending the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Administration and Management Seminar at AFC House in Malaysia, to apply the knowledge gained at the two-day workshop to boost football in their homeland. He spoke to 55 FFSL officials who are undergoing [...]
Red Bull new recruit Daniel Ricciardo coming to Sri Lanka
Daniel Ricciardo, who will partner quadruple-winning champion Sebastian Vettel for Infiniti Red Bull Racing in the new Formula One season, has earmarked Sri Lanka as the destination for his first foreign tour. The 24-year-old driver will take one of Red Bull’s championship F1 race cars to Galle on December 13 before driving through Colombo on [...]
Bandara and Pradeep for Indian golf championships
Two of Sri Lanka’s top amateur golfers Vijitha Bandara and D.M. Pradeep have been selected for the upcoming 113th Indian Amateur Golf Championship 2013 by the Sri Lanka Golf Union. This will be the first occasion that Bandara and Pradeep are representing Sri Lanka at India’s most prestigious amateur golf championship, which will be played [...]
Marauding Sailors meet the fleet footed Kandy SC
With the Dialog Division ‘A’ club rugby season into its fourth week, quite a few teams have fallen by the wayside. The main challengers for supremacy – Kandy SC, the Havelocks and the Navy – as expected, remain unbeaten and in contention. This evening Nittawela will bear witness to the fall of another titan when [...]
Slimline BC Pannala seeking to retain national title
The 89th National Boxing Championships 2013 is scheduled to be worked off from December 9 to 13, at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium from 3.00 p.m. onwards each day. The national boxing championship, conducted by the Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (ABA), will see the cream of boxers from leading boxing clubs in the island [...]
The Sports Law is there as a set of guidelines
The Sports Law exists as a set of guidelines to maintain order and accountability among the country’s numerous sporting bodies, thereby helping their respective sports to flourish in a healthy and transparent atmosphere. But is this the case or is it providing more hindrance than help?
Spain face Dutch in World Cup repeat, England draw Italy
COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil, Dec 7-Dealing up a World Cup draw full of intrigue, FIFA on Friday set up a tantalising group phase at next year’s World Cup where reigning champions Spain will open their defence with a rematch of the 2010 final against the Netherlands. The draw in the northeastern beach resort of Costa [...]
