SGM on May 13 and elections only after June 22
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) ran into a major controversy on Friday after the Attorney General’s (AG) Department questioned the legality of the scheduled election saying the country’s richest sports body has contravened the Sports Regulations in force. SLC scheduled its election of office bearers for May 19 with nominations set to close on Friday (April [...]
No freebies for future high profile athletic meets: NOCSL Chief
The onus of taking Sri Lanka’s athletes to high profile meets is on the respective National Federations, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) President Suresh Subramanium says, warning that no athlete could participate in top meets if he or she fails to meet the required standards. He says the NOCSL has decided to encourage [...]
Galle’s Malinga makes a comeback in Dambulla
With the completion of the Super Four Provincial cricket tournament, the focus now is going to be on the Super Four Provincial limited overs tournament. Sri Lanka Cricket has finalised the arrangements for the tournament to be played from May 2. The four teams contesting will be led by Dinesh Chandimal (Team Colombo) who are [...]
Sanjeewa Wins inaugural PFGP
The Pin Fernando Grand Prix April Edition sponsored by UTE Engineering played at the Army Diyatalawa Golf Course, created history at the Army Diyatalawa Par 70 Golf Course. The relatively short but challenging Course provided a great experience to the National players. New Course record of 66 (4under Par) was set by J M D [...]
Nishantha R. challenges Sumathipala in bid for SLC presidency
Former Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Nishantha Ranatunga says that he has forwarded his nomination at the request of a host of stake holders who were of the view that the incumbent SLC chief Thilanga Sumathipala should not get a free passage. Airing his views to the Sunday Times Ranatunga said “I represent a powerful anti-Sumathipala [...]
400m runner Kumarage joins athlete’s elite group
Kalinga Kumarage cruised to 400m title with a personal best time of 46.08secs at the final day of the first Selection Trial concluded at the newly laid Sugathadasa Stadium track on Saturday. The 25-year-old sprinter from Sri Lanka Army blazed the track with a near-perfect run as he maintained a brisk speed from start to [...]
It was the day of the chestnut mare ‘Alcazaba’
Keeping her continuous winning spree intact, ‘Alcazaba’, the chestnut mare, who earned the title ‘Queen of Nuwara Eliya’, clinched the RTC Governor’s Cup 2018 in style at the Nuwara Eliya Racecourse yesterday. The 1400metre race had all the excitement that horse racing could offer with 12 runners bidding for the century old coveted trophy. Owned [...]
Sandun double leads Richmond to glory
An all-round performance by Sandun Mendis paved the way for Richmond to record a comfortable 29 run win over St Peter’s in the final of the Under 19 Division One limited over tournament final played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium yesterday. Sandun made a top score of 42 and then ended with an impressive [...]
Lanka Chess puzzle 5
Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist, Former 10 times Women’s National Chess Champion, 1st Woman Fide Master and the 1st Lady Fide Instructor, Mrs. Suneetha Wijesuriya, President and the Chief Instructor of Anatoly Karpov Chess Club of the Russian Centre and Lanka Chess Foundation and the Director and the Principal of Lanka Chess Academy International, published her [...]
St Anthonys qualify for semifinals
An unbeaten knock of 99 by Navodya Wijeyakumara helped St Anthony’s qualify to the semi-final of the Under 19 Division Two limited over tournament when they recorded a convincing 65 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method against Devapathiraja MMV Rathgama in the quarter final encounter played at Darley Road. At Darley Road – St Anthony’s [...]
Lankans stroll back to the international Football arena
Sri Lanka is left with 128 days from today before their meeting with the high profile Indian team at the SAFF Suzuki Cup 2018 Football Championship, at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sri Lanka is slotted in Group ‘B’ alongside the strong and defending title holders India and 2008 winners Maldives in a [...]
Roshan and Muduwanthie top Slicers in Sabaragamuwa
Roshan Dharmapriya of Ratnapura District and Maduwanthie Gunadasa of Kegalle District showed their prowess in emerging champions in the Men’s and Women’s Singles Carrom competition held at the Auditorium of Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council last week. This competition was held to select both Men’s and Women’s teams to represent Sabaragamuwa Province at the 44th National Sports [...]
Govt. to haemorrhage billions to salvage Hambantota faux pas
The Finance Ministry will borrow money from People’s Bank to settle billions of rupees in outstanding bills submitted by China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd (CHECH) for the construction of the cricket stadium in Hambantota. Cabinet approved the decision on the recommendation of a committee headed by Minister of Special Assignments Sarath Amunugama, after Sri Lanka [...]
When Royal’s ‘Bulla’ Bulletized Trinity 50 years ago
I am not superstitious. Yet there is something about Royal and decades that end in ‘8’. It was in 1948 that Royal first won the Bradby under Ashy Carder when Azwer Mohamed captained Trinity. The record book speaks for itself since: Royal, as if on cue, won the Bradby in every decade since then that [...]
Signed, sealed and delivery on its way
The plaque at the entrance to the Peradeniya University Administration building says; “More open than usual”. This does not in any way refer to the 74th Bradby Shield. Having won the opening joust 39-7 with a very convincing all round display, Royal has effectively gift-wrapped the Shield for acceptance after the second leg at Pallekele [...]
Role of match referee: setting up boundaries for discipline
Roshan Mahanama definitely is a different kettle of fish. As an international cricketer and top order batsman, he did not mind shifting his position in the lineup, considering the status of the game and what was required at that moment. Essentially, he was a No.3 batsman in international cricket yet, he has batted from opening [...]
Sri Lankan girls bounce high in tennis
Sri Lanka joined the top ten countries in the Asia-Oceania region at the recently concluded Junior Federation Cup tennis competition in Malaysia on April 16-22 coming ahead of more fancied India and New Zealand. The Sri Lankan team consisted of Anjalika Kurera (Ave Maria Convent, Negombo), Savini Jayasuriya (Bishops College), Oneli Perera (St. Bridget’s Convent) [...]
Which Sports Minister will go to the Football World Cup; does it really matter?
We have just heard and read that the debonair Minister of Sport (MoS) has resigned with his No-Confidence Motion colleagues, having been caught in the offside trap, and an interim MoS, the fast talking Legal eagle appointed in his place, for how long is anybody’s guess! The Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) must be [...]
Nadal’s 11th Monte Carlo title
The European aura of Monte Carlo did act as the curtain raiser of the continent’s Tennis season. The jewel of the French Riviera, with the blue Mediterranean as its backdrop, the Monte Carlo Country Club hosted the ATP 1000 event. It was an attractive start to the European season. In the last 10 years, 3 [...]
Is it that ‘Bonza’ has cleared the first hurdle!
The Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU), the power in local rugby has outvoted the incumbent President Asanga Seneviratne. The Sunday Times learns that 14 votes were in favour of the Vice President Lasitha Gunaratne while only four voted for Seneviratne. Sources involved in the voting believe that only one Division ‘A’ Club voted for [...]