Would ‘Bullring’ end Lankan blues today
By Champika Fernando in Johannesburg A drubbing at the hands of a new-look South African side in the series opener on Friday ruined Sri Lanka’s plans to kick start the limited- overs leg on a winning note. The team now faces the embarrassment of a series defeat when the second T20 takes place at the [...]
Hambantota back in action with Bangladesh Tour
By S.R. Pathiravithana With its growing international status, the Bangladesh Tour of Sri Lanka should be of special significance where the present Lankan national cricket is concerned. The Lankans upon concluding their T-20 engagement against Australia in February will be back at home taking on the high-riding Bangladesh cricketers when they will play two tests, [...]
CCC in command with two huge centuries
R on Chandragupta and Lahiru Madusanka cracked contrasting tons to guide CCC to a strong position against Tamil Union in a high scoring match at the end of the second day’s play in the Premier Super Eight cricket encounter played at the Colts ground. Ron slammed a 157 with 20 boundaries and a six while [...]
Joes ride on Nipun’s ‘ton’ at Darley Road
Under-19 Cricket By M. Shamil Amit Nipun Sumanasinghe, Cameron Guruge and Jehan Fernandopulle shone for St. Joseph’s domination against Trinity in their traditional Under-19 Inter-School drawn cricket encounter concluded at Darley Road yesterday. Nipun cracked 158 in 183 balls. The inning included 19 boundaries and a six. Cameron and Jehan made knocks of 70 and [...]
Dilesh and Alankara reck havoc at Havelock Park
Badureliya SC’s left arm pace and right arm spin combination of Dilesh Gunaratne and Alankara Asanka wrecked the batting of Moors SC on day two to give them the advantage when play stopped on day two in the Premier Plate Championship cricket encounter played at the BRC ground. Dilesh and Alankara shared eight wickets to [...]
Santhush topples Lakshina
Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 As the second week’s results of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 contest comes out, Santhush Goonathillake of St. Peter’s College Colombo has revved up to take the lead dislodging his skipper Lakshina Rodrigo from the [...]
Hameed Al Husseinie takes on Maris Stella
Hameed Al Hussienie College Colombo and Maris Stella College Negombo will clash in the finals of the President’s Cup Inter-School Invitation Football Tournament today at the Racecourse ground at 3.30 pm with President Maithripala Sirisena as the Chief Guest. The tournament has been organised by the Group of 80s Hameed Al Hussienie College to celebrate [...]
Thisuri seeking to clinch second title
Sri Lanka’s Thisuri Molligoda who won the Astoria Tennis Tour first tournament will be seeking to clinch her second title win when she qualified to the final of the ATTW2 tournament with a win against compatriot Kemalie Herath in the semi-final encounter played at the SLTA hard courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday. Thisuri cruised to [...]
Air Force submerge Kalutara PCC in deep waters
Left and right arm pacies Sahan Jayawardena and Milan Priyanath and right arm spinner Achira Ernaga shared seven wickets between them to put Kalutara PCC in deep trouble when play ended on day two in the Premier Tier B cricket encounter played at the Surrey Village ground in Maggona. Kalutara PCC resuming from their overnight [...]
Kandy fail to impress in facile win
Kandy SC must surely have disappointed their many supporters by their slightly lackadaisical display (especially in the second half), though winning over the Police by 34 points (4 goals, 2 penalties) to 23 (1 goal, 2 tries, 2 penalties) at Police Park. Kandy dominated the lines out through the efforts of Shehan Pathirana and Suhiru [...]
Sailors crash through to a huge win
Backs Dinusha Fernando and Chanaka Chandimal posted hat-tricks as Navy SC recorded a resounding 81-23 win against a reforming CH and FC side in a second round game of the Dialog Division ‘A’ Club Rugby League Championship match played at Longdon Place yesterday. The Sailors stamped their supremacy in the encounter but CH and FC [...]
Heavy showers no dampener for gritty Havies
The heavy downpour which came down on Havelock Park yesterday proved to be helpful to the Havelocks. The Park Club waded through the mini-pool which resembled their grounds ultimately helped them to down Air Force 37-29 after being tied all 17 all at the breather. Air Force scored first try in the tenth minute through [...]
Lankans fail in spite of Avishka heroics
Sri Lanka Under-19s failed to overcome the African jinx that is plagued even to their senior side, as they crashed to a 39-run loss against South Africa Under-19s in the ongoing Tri-Nation Under-19s Tournament. Despite beating the third team of the competition, Zimbabwe, twice, the Lankan youth succumbed to their second straight defeat against the [...]
Seylan Bank annexes two netball titles
Defending Champs Seylan Bank emerged champions at the Inter-Company Netball Cup Championships, defeating HNB in the final 44-41 at the St. Joseph’s College Indoor Stadium in Maradana yesterday. The tournament was conducted by Sri Lanka Sports .Com. Thirteen teams took part in the contest. Last year too Seylan Bank and HNB came into the final [...]
African debacle: Lollipop cricketers can’t win matches
At the end of the third Test at Johannesburg, Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews said, “I have been a part of many defeats as captain… yes… this is certainly the worst. We are extremely disappointed with the result. When it came to preparations, we did our best where, even in Sri Lanka, we tried to [...]
Kandy sinks Navy; quality Aussie referee ensures safe Rugby
Speculation was rife on the eve of the Kandy-Navy match that, Chairman of Sri Lanka Rugby Union (SLRU) Tournament Committee (TC), Lasitha Gunaratne (LG), had resigned. Talking to the Sunday Times, Gunaratne confirmed he has sent in his resignation to the Union, but continues to hold office as its Vice President. A Letter of Demand [...]
Melbourne’s ‘AO’ is Australian-Open
The ‘Australian-Open’ has been branded with a stylized ‘A’ and a ‘O’. It was originally played on grass courts in Sydney, and moved to Melbourne only a few decades ago. In doing so, they also coupled the idea of having another type of Court, making the 4 Grand-Slams events to be played on four different [...]
CR – Army encounter should be absorbing
The Army may have lost the tournament opener to the CR&FC by a single point. However, the two teams have had contrasting fortunes since then. CR’s title aspirations are non-existent right now. However, they would like to win today’s game against the soldiers at Longdon Place if only to keep ahead of the pack that’s [...]
Come join us if you wish to play cricket at 50+
Newly formed the Colombo Masters Cricket Association (CMCA) is a unit that is keen on keeping the senior cricketers in the country actively engaged in the game. The birth of the CMCA was the brainchild of Sunil Silva, a senior cricketer who lives and plays cricket in the United Kingdom with former Ananda cricketer Mahesh [...]
Fernando Grand Prix 2017 flags off on Tuesday (24)
The Sri Lanka Golf Union Amateur Golf Calendar for 2017, flags off on Tuesday, with the Pin Fernando Grand Prix, powered by CAT Solar, on behalf of United Tractor & Equipment Pvt Ltd. The CAT Solar Pin Fernando Grand Prix, played over 4 stroke play rounds is a significant SLGU calendar event, since these rounds [...]
Pakistan and Sri Lanka extremely passionate about cricket: Pak Envoy
A Pakistani youngsters cricket team led by veteran Pakistani International players Imran Nazir, Rana Naveed and Faisal Iqbal, visited the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka this morning. The Pakistani team is currently in Sri Lanka to participate in Ali’s ICPL T20 Tournament which is being held from 13-19 January 2017. The tournament includes [...]
National Sports: Administrators’ plaything for personal gain
It’s very alarming that, Lankan Athletics, which was not 2nd to any in the Asian circuit or, even in the peripheries, has degenerated to such extent that, we have no hope of a medal outside of the South Asian region. What is the reason for this decline? This is what those who have been at [...]
WHOM WILL THEY VOTE FOR?
A big party is planned on the beaches of Negombo and all have been invited to attend it. The reason for this big bash is that the elections are around the corner and the present boss is in fear of losing his position and wants to make sure that by giving this big bash, he [...]
‘Rags’ to Gold in Kickboxing
Kumuda Prasanna, who hails from Horana, in the suburbs of Colombo, was unable to pursue higher studies. But, he doesn’t regret it, as he is more comfortable as a Thai Kick-Boxer, a sport with a high risk of physical injuries. Unemployed at present, the 29-year-old is a National figure as the first local athlete to [...]
Ronan joins the Hall of Fame
Sri Lanka Air Force and the Eagles’ Golf Links hosted the Commander’s Cup – 2017 Annual Golf Tournament, which was concluded in the picturesque settings of China Bay, close to the harbor city of Trincomalee. The tournament, played under the ‘Handicap rules’ was open to all and started off at 8.30 hrs with the participation [...]
India sweeps the board in Sepaktakraw
As expected India swept the board at the second Asian Sepaktakraw Championship concluded at the St. Joseph’s Indoor Stadium last weekend. India dominated the championship as they won all the championships – Women’s Doubles, Women’s Regu, Men’s Regu, and Men’s Doubles events with ease.In the Women’s doubles preliminary rounds Indians beat Nepal 2-0, Pakistan 2-0 [...]
Ranjith Samarasekera — the allround Sportsman
The Anthonian Cricketing fraternity is immensely saddened by the passing away of Ranjith Samarasekera at the age of 78. Ranjith’s services to his Alma Mater took many forms. Representing the College cricket team from 1955 to 1959, he played in the company of stalwarts such as Ranjith Doranegama, S.W. Seneviratne at al and showed that [...]
Galigamuwa Central wins seven Volleyball Championships
The girls of Galigamuwa Central College, a leading school in the Kegalle District, won seven volleyball competitions at all island level in 2016 thus displaying their skills in the sport in no uncertain terms. They bagged five championship titles, one runners-up berth and three third places. The team is under 18 years of age. But [...]
SLC to build international cricket stadium in Jaffna
“Giving every outstanding cricketer a fair opportunity to represent Sri Lanka is the underlying theme of Sri Lanka Cricket’s ambitious National Development Plan for 2017. To achieve this, the current SLC administration strongly believes that the development of the provincial cricket infrastructure and proper stadium facilities will uplift the standards of the school and local [...]
Kanrich ‘B’, CDB both unbeaten, clash for supremacy
Two unbeaten and well balanced teams– Kanrich Finance (KanFin) ‘B’ and Citizens Development Business (CDB) will lock horns in the 14th Elephant House Lemonade Trophy MCA ‘D’ Division 40-Over League Tournament 2016 Ffinal today at the MCA Grounds, commencing 10 am. KanFin ‘B’ with 6 crushing wins under their belt, go out as favourites.They beat [...]
CDL throw in the towel — all out for 39
It was a massacre of the innocents the manner that LB Finance ‘B’ annihilated Colombo Dockyard by 294 runs, in the ongoing 6th ‘BMW/Hyundai’ Trophy, MCA ‘C’ division 50 over League Tournament 2017, continued last week-end. LBF ‘B’ sent into bat piled up a mammoth 333 for 6 in 50 overs, as their openers Hashan [...]
Kanrich meets CDB in the final today
Kanrich Finance ‘B’ and Citizens Development Business (CDB) made easy passages to the final of the ongoing 14th ‘Elephant House Lemonade’ Trophy, MCA ‘D’ division 40-over League Tournament 2017. In the semi-finals played on Thai Pongal day, Kanrich Finance ‘B’ demolished Softlogic Holdings by eight wickets whilst CDB crushed Expolanka Group by five wickets. Softlogic [...]
SL’s Blind Cricketers to participate in World Blind 20-20 Tourney
 Acontingent of 17 Sri Lanka’s Visually Handicapped Cricketers and 3 officials will leave for India on January 31, to take part in the 2nd 20-20 World Blind Cricket organised by the World Blind Cricket Council, to be held from February 1-12. A well balanced team of 11 seniors and 6 freshers led by Chandana Deshapriya [...]
Whistle blowers get their due recognition
With the ambitions of building up the image of the referees and drawing in young blood, the Sri Lanka Society of Rugby Football Referees (SLSRFR) conducted its inaugural Rugby Referees’ Awards 2016 at Hotel Galadari last week. A total of 30 awards were given away on the night dedicated to those who contributed to Rugby [...]
Panadura SC and SLPA CC in close tussle
The Premier Tier B which was originally scheduled to be contested by ten teams was brought down to nine with the exclusion of Negombo CC is going to be a closely contested affair between Panadura SC and Sri Lanka Port Authority CC (SLPA CC). All nine teams in the fray have played six matches each [...]
Chilaw Marians, Ragama CC take top slots
The conclusion of the league matches of the Premier League domestic inter-club cricket tournament saw Chilaw Marians and Ragama CC coming out on top as leaders of the two groups. The tournament contested by 14 teams divided into two groups of seven in each was closely contested with Chilaw Marians ending as the top team [...]
High-flying SriLankan Airlines out to retain title
The Luxe Asia sponsored 32nd Travel Trade Sports Club Swimming Championships 2016 will be held today (22) at the Thurstan College Pool, from 9.30 am onwards. The meet was earlier scheduled for December 3, 2016, at the same venue, but had to be postponed due to unavoidable circumstances. The Meet, governed by the technical rules [...]