SLR skips Rugby Asiad
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) has formally announced its decision not to take part in the upcoming Asia Division I Rugby Championship, scheduled to take place in Manila, the Philippines in June. Lately Sri Lanka has been focusing more seriously on the 7s format of the game whereas the Island Nation annually engages in only the [...]
Vihan, Denuwan and Harshitha claim crowns
As the famous saying goes — ‘it’s not over till it’s over’ — the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy / Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018 has managed to provide that excitement many of our readers have been expecting. The Most Popular competition, where schoolboys and girls of three different segments were involved, [...]
Ugly scene mars Petes victory
An ugly scene marred the Under 19 inter-school rugby encounter after St. Peter’s came out victorious by 20 points to 14 against Isipathana when some spectators manhandled a touch judge and in the melee empty bottles were thrown bringing the game to disrepute. The match was played at Havelock Park last evening. However, the Peterites [...]
Fancied cueists advance to next stage
Fancied cueists won their first round matches of the All Island Lanka Plate billiards tournament on day one played at Moors Sports Club billiards table yesterday. The All Island Lanka Plate tournament is the final qualification tournament to select the 16 cueists who will contest along with the 16 top ranked billiard players of the [...]
Unfancied Malaysian stuns cycling world champion
BRISBANE AFP April7, 2018: Cycling sprint world champion Matt Glaetzer said he felt embarrassed after he was dumped out in the early stages at the Commonwealth Games in front of a shocked Australian crowd on Saturday. Glaetzer was the hero on Friday when he romped to gold in the men’s keirin, but less than 24 [...]
Matthew Abeysinghe renews Sri Lanka record
Ace swimmer Matthew Abeysinghe established a new Sri Lanka record in Men’s 100m Freestyle swimming to reach the semi-final in his favourite event, but could not find a place in the final at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast yesterday. Abeysinghe and fellow swimmer Akalanka Peiris impressed during the morning session in their respective heat [...]
Ace Harshana keeps Sri Lanka hopes alive
Harshana Godamanna kept Sri Lanka’s hopes alive against Indonesia on day one of the Davis Cup Group II relegation tie with a comfortable 2-0 win in the second singles encounter played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo yesterday. Harshana overcame Indonesian opponent David Agung Susanto with ease after Sharmal Dissanayake had to surrender [...]
Wesley defeat Zahira 26-7
Wesley College got the better of Zahira College 26-7 in a Singer Schools League Rugby Championship game where the ball moved free in the first half at Maradana yesterday. A heavy downpour in the second half reduced the game to one of errors taking the sting off what would have been a game that saw [...]
Russel Arnold takes up LPL director post
As Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) roll out plans to revive the defunct Sri Lanka Premier League under a new banner called Lanka Premier League (LPL) later this year, the Board has signed up cricket commentator Russel Arnold as tournament director. Arnold, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who took to cricket commentating following his retirement, is [...]
Injured Chameera doubtful for West Indies Tests
Fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera is set to miss the first Test against West Indies in June after he suffered a stress fracture during the first match of the ongoing Super Four Provincial Cricket team. Chameera, who represents Team Colombo in the four-team tournament, bowled 11 overs against Team Galle before returning to the dressing room [...]
Pink ball Super Four cricket starts today
After high scoring draws in the opening fixtures last week, teams will begin their second four-day Super Four Provincial tournament matches this afternoon. The matches will be played as day-night games using the pink ball. Accordingly Team Galle captained by Suranga Lakmal will take on Dambulla led by Dimuth Karunaratne at the Dambulla international stadium. [...]
Rain prevents a decision in St. Anne’s- Maliyadeva Big Match
St. Anne’s were in a winning way when rain in mid-afternoon, followed by bad light later prevented a decision in the Big match between St. Anne’s and Maliyadeva at the Welagedera Stadium. The man-of-the-match was the Annite skipper Randheera who had five wickets and a belligerent knock of 30 on the first day. Wanitha Wanninayake [...]
Mahanama makes 126 for 6 before rain arrives
Only 43 overs of play was possible on day one of the Under 19 Division I semi final encounter between Mahanama Colombo and St. Joseph’s played at Bambalapitiya. At stumps Mahanama taking first lease of the wicket were at 126 for 6. The match will be continued today. Chief Scores Mahanama Colombo 126 for 6 [...]
Vinod and Taniya impress to reign champs
Vinod Weerasinghe cruised to a 6 & 5 victory over Sathsara Dilshan to win the Rukmini Kodagoda Challenge Trophy and the Title of Sri Lanka Junior Boys Champion 2018. Vinod winner in 2016, Runner-up in 2017, clinched the Junior Champion Title for the second time, playing excellent Golf in the Final. The Sri Lanka Junior [...]
Defiant Ashen, Dewmina save St. John’s from defeat
A fighting unfinished seventh wicket partnership between Dewmina Ekanayake (11 n.o.) and Ashen Milinda (20 n.o.) deprived Ananda Sasthralaya, Kotte of their 3rd victory in the Battle of Sri Jayawardenapura series at the R. Premadasa International Stadium yesterday. In the 22nd cricket encounter between St. John’s College, Nugegoda and Ananda Sasthralaya, Kotte commenced on Friday [...]
Disappointed rugby faithfuls
The college songs were sung with a fair amount of gusto. The teams were lined up for the introduction which never took place. All attention was on the external factor. The casus belli was the state of the ground. The markings had been obliterated and Referee Aquib Jamaldeen, quite rightly was not prepared to start [...]
Vinod and Taniya impress to clinch championships
Vinod Weerasinghe cruised to a 6 & 5 victory over Sathsara Dilshan to win the Rukmini Kodagoda Challenge Trophy and the Title of Sri Lanka Junior Boys Champion 2018. Vinod winner in 2016, Runner-up in 2017, clinched the Junior Champion Title for the second time, playing excellent Golf in the Final. The Sri Lanka Junior [...]
Old Anandians dethrone Old Royalists at Baseball
Old Anandians defeated reigning Sri Lanka Baseball champions Old Royalists in the quarter-finals of the Sri Lanka Baseball Championship for the Singer Cup at the Sri Lanka-Japan Friendship Baseball Grounds, Diyagama yesterday. Old Anandians with this 10/9 win qualified to meet Sri Lanka Army in the second semi-final which was scheduled to be played in [...]
To eat the cake and have it
Angelo Mathews will not bowl again. To prolong his career amidst recurring leg injuries, the national cricket selectors want their best player to be a specialist batsman across all formats. This is part of a strategy cricket selectors and team management are now implementing to manage player workload and minimize burnout. Mathews is one cricketer [...]
A sway to the side and the Gold rush was over
Even after 20-years of competition,Chinthana wants to go on It was a lion-hearted effort, but, lion-hearted efforts necessarily do not win medals. He thought like a champion and competed like one, but, at 77kgs the competition was far tougher than the ‘Gold’ winning 62kgs. Finally Chinthana Vidanage finished in the 5th place of that category [...]
New track at Sugathadasa ready for South Asian junior meet
The Sugathadasa Stadium track, which was renovated at a cost of Rs 275 million, will be declared open tomorrow, in time for Sri Lanka’s junior track and field athletes to prepare for the South Asian Junior Athletics meet to be held in Colombo in May. The laying of a new running track began in September [...]
‘Little England’ comes alive to the thunder of hooves
The Royal Turf Club (RTC) set off its April Holiday Season Horseracing calendar with the Easter Sunday Cup Raceday, in which, Santos, ridden by L. Dayalan, bagged the main trophy, at the Racecourse in Nuwara Eliya last Sunday. Dayalan guided Santos, owned by the Edwards, to edge out Charlemagne, owned by James Mathews, to claim [...]
SL Women placed 7th in Asia, highest ever in its history
Sri Lanka (SL) Men’s and Women’s Squash teams taking part in the 19th Asian Senior Squash Team championship at Cheongju International Squash Stadium, South Korea, from March 21-25 ended their their campaign on mixed fortunes, as the Women’s team defeated Pakistan in Pool and Knockout rounds, while the Men’s team defeated Chinese Taipei and Thailand [...]
14 teams for Sri Lanka T-Cup Cycle Race
Fourteen teams have confirmed their participation for the 2nd edition of the Sri Lanka (SL) T-Cup International Cycle Race of 350 km to be worked off on May 4-6. The 14 teams from Thailand, Australia, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore will join the SL National Team and the SL President’s [...]
Gajaba Regiment Colours Nite for its outstanding sports personnel
The 2nd annual Awards Ceremony of the Gajaba Regiment (GR) of Sri Lanka Army, was held at the Bishops’ College Auditorium in Colombo recently, under the patronage of Army Commander Lt.Gen. Mahesh Senanayake as Chief Guest and former Test Captain Mahela Jayawardene as Guest of Honour, at the invitation of the Colonel of the Regiment, [...]
HNB Grameen outplay Expolanka to clinch title
Man of the Match Skipper Habeebul Ismath leads from the front HNB Grameen Finance with a magnificent display of fielding, coasted to a comfortable 89-runs win over Expolanka Group in the 15th Ceylon Cold Stores PLC sponsored, ‘Elephant House-Lemonade’ Trophy, MCA ‘D’ Division 40-Over League Tournament Final 2018, at the MCA Grounds last Sunday. HNB [...]
Alliance Finance sponsor swimmer Akalanka and shuttler Sachin
In furtherance of its commitment to building a dynamic nation, Alliance Finance is sponsoring two promising young athletes who are representing Sri Lanka at the Commonwealth Games that is on right now. The sporting careers of 22-year-old badminton star Sachin Dias and 18-year-old swimming sensation Akalanka Peiris are being supported by this well respected finance [...]
‘Tonners’ Sathiska Saranga (MAS), Heshan Lakshitha (Hirdaramani) weekend stars
Century makers, Sathiska Saranga (MAS Silueta ‘B’) and Heshan Lakshitha (Hirdaramani Group) shared the spotlight in the ongoing16th David Pieris Group of Companies sponsored ‘DPGC’ Challenge Trophy – MCA ‘E’ Division 25-Over League Tournament 2018, continued last weekend. Sathiska Saranga hit a hurricane 121-runs in 63 balls with 6 sixes and 16 fours, to enable [...]
Scorpion Shooting in late April at Welisara
The second Air Rifle and Air Pistol Championship organised and conducted by the Scorpion Shooting Club will be held at the Welisara Naval Shooting Range during the third and fourth weeks of April. Over 300 young shooters have confirmed their participation at this five-day event which is scheduled to be held during the weekend of [...]
Traveler Football Cup Final today
The Traveler Cup football final between Crystal Palace vs Geli Oya SC will take place today at the Weegulawatte Grounds, Gampola commencing at 3 pm. The Gampola Football League is conducting this tournament. The Traveler Global PVT. Colombo is conducting this competition for the 21st time. The winning team will receive Rs. 50,000 and the [...]
TT bowling backed by Pearl of Asia
Pearl of Asia for the first time has come forward to sponsor the popular Travel Trade Sports Club Bowling Championships 2018. The 17th edition of the tournament was held on Friday, at the Strike Cosmic Bowling Centre, Excel World, Colombo. Entries were called from the 170 strong TTSC Membership. The Official sponsorship handing over ceremony [...]
Harshana here to ensure SL Tennis is ‘Goda’
Just as the first four letters of his surname ‘Goda’ explains in Sinhalese, Harshana Godamanne, has now transformed himself to be an inspirer in local Tennis. As his close friends call him, ‘Goda’, which means ‘accomplished’ or ‘perfect’, Godamanne has every right to be the guiding light of a young Sri Lanka (SL) Davis Cup [...]
Sri Lanka Rugby, stop wheeling your scrum
Tampering is how the media described the saga of an unsigned letter dated March 20, purportedly sent by Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) to the Minister of Sports (MoS). Rugby circles buzzed with news about a letter supposed to be sent by SLR to the MoS about the appointment of a new Selection Committee comprising Rohan [...]
City Football League President’s Cup
Colombo Football Club clinched the City Football League President’s Cup for the third successive year after beating Saunders by 2 goals to 1 in an equally-fought final played at the City Football Complex grounds. The game, from the first touch, itself was fast pace and in the sixth minute owing to a misjudgment by the [...]
Cinnamon Lakeside ‘B’ dethrone Mt. Lavinia Hotel to clinch title
Cinnamon Lakeside (CLS) ‘B’ led by Shelton Silva sliced through the tournament to become the new winners of the Travel Trade Sports Club (TTSC) Men’s Team Championship,when they dethroned defending champs Mt. Lavinia Hotel (MLH) in a tense final at the Galadari Hotel, ‘California Grill’ Roof Top Restaurant last Saturday. Seventeen Men’s teams participated on [...]
Entries called for FIVB Level 2 Volleyball Coaching Course
The Level 2 Volleyball Coaching Course of the Federation of International de Volleyball (FIVB) will take place from May 7 to 11 in Sri Lanka. The course is being conducted by the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation. The coaching course could be attended by those who have got through the Level 1 with two year coaching [...]
How the Aussies react to Smithgate
Two weeks and two Test matches lost, the Australians are still shell-shocked by their cricket shame and whenever I speak to an Australian reporter invariably and coyly they would slide down and ask “Chum! What do you think about the cricket business in Australia?” The Royalty special: The Commonwealth Games gives us a timely reminder. [...]
Americans on the podium after a while
Next to winning Grand Slam events, winning WTA Premier Mandatory and ATP Masters 1000 are the biggest things in professional Tennis. In fame and prize money it counts. Miami-Open in Florida is one such event. The event will move to a new location at Hard Rock stadium next year, after staging it in Crandon Park [...]
CEAT flags off 2018 Motor Races on all cylinders
CEAT is back at the starting grid for the 2018 Motor Racing season, continuing with its own Racing team for the 6th consecutive year, title sponsorship of the sport’s premier championship and support to the ‘1-Make’ series of races. Sri Lanka’s leading tyre brand and principal corporate patron of Motor Sports in the country, CEAT [...]