Sprinter Kalinga Kumara exonerated of doping charges
Promising 400m sprinter Kalinga Kumarage has been been exonerated of all charges after the Sri Lanka Anti-Doping Agency (SLADA) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) failed to establish that there were banned substances in his body or that he has violated anti-doping rules. Kumarage, who tested positive for the banned substance dehydrochloomethyltestonsterone, an anabolic steroid, at [...]
Hathurusingha faults SLC over handling of ball-tampering issue
Suspended Head Cricket Coach Chandika Hathurusingha has strongly criticised Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) handling of the ball-tampering incident in 2018 in the West Indies where he along with captain Dinesh Chandimal and manager Asanka Gurusinha were given the maximum possible punishment under existing laws. They got eight suspension points by independent Judicial Commissioner Michael Beloff, [...]
SLC rejects Dharmadasa’s bid to replace Sumathipala on ExCo
Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) Executive Committee has rejected a request by businessman Jayantha Dharmadasa to join cricket administration after the position of the immediate past president got vacant following the exit of Thilanga Sumathipala. Dharmadasa who lost to Shammi Silva at the SLC election early this year has made a request through the Ministry of [...]
The confusion of 34 and the fog effect
The Sri Lanka table tennis team may have to rush into their preliminary round matches of the 13th South Asian Games (SAG), as the flight they are travelling had to make an emergency landing in an airport elsewhere. The Air India flight, which also carried the Sri Lanka golf squad, besides few other officials en [...]
CR & FC hold onto a close win
CR & FC had to grind hard in order to record a close 17-13 win over Police SC in their opening fixture of the Dialog Rugby League 2019/2020 worked off at Longden Place yesterday. As the rain poured down throughout the course of the match, both teams struggled with ball-handling. Therefore, all the forwards had [...]
Blueprint to amend archaic Sports Law ready but will it see light of day
The Sports Ministry has decided to remove some of the intrusive and restrictive clauses from the old Sports Law No 25 of 1973 to give more independence to national sports associations and to resolve conflict with international laws that govern sports bodies. The blueprint has already been done but whether the new Government will proceed [...]
Snags aplenty in Sri Lanka on way to SAG!
On this day, December 1, the South Asian Games (SAG) in Nepal, will unfold with the opening ceremonies heralding a galaxy of sports competitions in this Asian region and our backyard as it were! On record over the years, India goes out there to dominate the arenas that stretch from Kathmandu to Pokhara and beyond, [...]
S. Thomas’ on first innings
Half tons by Kishan Munasinghe and Dilmin Ratnayake helped S. Thomas’ record an easy first innings win over St. Servatius Matara in a rain shortened Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter at Mt Lavinia yesterday. St Servatius Matara 180 (Pushpitha Dilshan 88, Kesara Nuwantha 26, Chirath Neththaru 20: Randiv Goonesekera 4 for 43, Dilmin Ratnayake 3 [...]
St. Joseph’s, Museaus win big
St. Joseph’s College Colombo (55 points) and Museaus College, Colombo (52 points) emerged boys and girls champions at the 50th Sir John Tarbet Junior Athletic Championship concluded at the Sugathadasa Stadium Colombo yesterday. Lyceum college Wattala (46 points) became the runner up in the boys segment followed by D. S Senanayaka College with 42 points [...]
Kandy firm favourites
Kandy Sports Club, the defending league champions will be out for the first time this season, that too in front of their home crowd at Nittawela when they host the visiting Air Force outfit today. Kick-off is scheduled at 3.45 pm. Kandy is packed with national players and this encounter will see two Kandy-born players [...]
Dialog National Netball Championship on Dec 14 and 15
Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, Dialog Axiata PLC, continuing its promise of developing sports in Sri Lanka has come forth once again to power the Dialog National Netball Championship for the second consecutive year. The national tournament will be played on December 14 and 15, at the Anuradhapura Public Ground. This is the major tournament [...]
319 gold medals up for grabs as Games declare open today in Kathmandu
With a strong contingent of athletes, Sri Lanka posses the rare opportunity of topping the medals tally of a South Asian Games in its history of 13 editions. One of the main reasons behind Sri Lanka’s likelihood of taking a top place, will be the decision of India, the regional powerhouse in sports, to cut [...]
History making netballers from Ladies get Singapore tour
After being the pioneers in introducing the game of Netball to girls schools in Sri Lanka, 2019 was a Red Letter year for Ladies’ College as it made history by winning the All Island Netball Championships, Under 18 for the first time in it’s 119 year history. Having been Runner-up in 2018 to Visakha Vidyalaya [...]
Rivith, Shenal, Yenula guide POW to victory
An unbeaten ton by Rivith Jayasuriya and two fine bowling performances by Shenal de Silva and Yenula Dewthusha paved the way for Prince of Wales to record a convincing innings and 51-run win over Zahira Colombo in the Under-13 Inter-School Cricket encounter played at Moratuwa. Trinity and Mahanama Colombo too recorded innings wins against Kegalu [...]
Blue Water’s ground SriLankan
Blue Water’s, Wadduwa grounded SriLankan Airlines in the Men’s final while Amaya Lake, Dambulla beat Cinnamon Grand in the Women’s final to retain the Travel Trade Sports Club Cricket ‘Sixes’ titles at its 42nd edition, held at the Steel Corporation Grounds, Athurugiriya, last Sunday. Forty-one men’s teams and 13 women’s teams participated in the tournament [...]
Sri Lanka karatekas win 13 gold medals in South Asian event
The Sri Lanka karate team made history at the fifth edition of the South Asian Karate Championships winning 13 gold medals to emerge runners-up at the three-day tournament worked off from November 7 to 9 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sri Lanka, fielding 60 players, dominated the first day’s proceedings, claiming 11 gold medals, 13 silver medals [...]
Mercantile T20 tourney put off
The 3rd phase of the 27th Singer-MCA Premier League 2020, the T20 tournament was postponed indefinitely till the prevailing weather conditions improve. The tournament was earlier scheduled to get underway last week, but the Tournament Committee was compelled to postpone due to prevailing rainy weather. MCA cricket in the top two divisions were hampered by [...]
Young Amandika hits spotlight
Sri Lanka Schools shooting sensation Amandika Amarasinghe earned the highest accolade for her prolific performances, as she became the Best Athlete of the Year at the National Shooting Sport Federation (NSSF) Awards Ceremony 2019, held at the Raffles Banquet Hall in Kotte. Amarasinghe, a student of Devi Balika Vidyalaya who had represented Sri Lanka as [...]
Team IOM win Diplomatic Cricket 2019
The Diplomatic Missions and UN Agencies in Colombo jointly organised the annual Diplomatic Cricket Tournament 2019, which concluded successfully at the Malay Cricket Club, Colombo. The local employees of Diplomatic Missions, as well as diplomatic staff participated in the tournament. Diplomats of the South Africa, Canada, Oman, Iraq, South Korea, Thailand and Pakistan were present [...]
World Cup in focus as Sri Lanka look to rectify their mistakes in West Indies
It will be a quick turnaround for the Sri Lanka under 19 cricket team after their disastrous tour of Bangladesh. They are embarking on a tour of West Indies where they will play a tri-nation series that the hosts will be involved along with England. This will be their final preparations before the World Cup [...]
ATP final, a Greek Austrian affair
London would have missed Federer, Djokovic and Nadal in the ATP final but not the class of their Tennis. Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece beat Dominic Theim of Austria, in the final last Sunday to win the year end ATP Professional Men’s Tennis title of 2019. It was an exhibition of Tennis at a different level [...]
Harvey accepts fault for Bradman not averaging 100 in Test Cricket
In my previous contribution I had inadvertently included Les Favell and Ron Archer as members of Bradman’s 17-member team that toured England in 1948. This was the tour when for the first time Australia went through an entire tour of England unbeaten. No wonder the media named them ‘Invincibles’. In Bradman’s autobiography, he describes Indian [...]
Attaab, Hansaja and Sanujan win silver medals in Sweden
Three top class Sri Lanka Youth boxers won silver medals at the ‘King of the Ring’ International Boxing Tournament 2019 held in Sweden last week. Trinity’s Attaab Manzil, Vidyartha’s Hansaja and Jaffna boy (Hartley College) Sanujan, stamped their class in the three-day event which featured some top class youth boxers from hosts Sweden, England, Norway, [...]
Ranil Peiris to defend title
Defending champion Ranil Peiris will look to stamp his class once again when he takes the field at the 85th Nuwara Eliya Golf Clubs (NEGC) Club Championship which will take place on December 7 and 8 at the club’s golf course. Last year, Pieris got the better of Priyanga Hapugalle by 3 shots at the [...]
Chalitha and Kalpani win big at Mercantile Table Tennis
Chalitha Ranjana of Seylan Bank and Kalpani Herath of MAS won the Gold medals in the Men’s and Women’s Open Singles events at the 64th Mercantile Open Table Tennis Championship 2019 at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium tables last weekend. Participated by 187 players representing 35 mercantile establishments competed in nine individual and three [...]
Aubrey Kuruppu: Remarkable teacher gentleman far excellence
It is one month since our remarkable teacher left us forever, creating a void that could never be filled in our hearts. Memories of him linger on, prevailing in our lives. His sudden exit ended a brilliant career in the field of academics, cricket and rugby that had commenced 40 years ago. I met Aubrey [...]
13th MCA Inter-Academy Junior Tourney from next week
The MCA Cricket Development Committee together with the MCA Tournament Committee will conduct the 13th edition of the Inter-Academy Under-13 and Under-15 30-over Tournaments 2019 from December 7 to 21. The tournaments are held in culmination of MCA Cricket Academy’s 17th Anniversary Celebrations. DFCC Bank has come forward to sponsor the tournament for the first [...]
Denuja Chamuditha claims match bag of 10 wickets
Denuja Chamuditha, bowling left-arm leg-spin captured a match bag of 10 wickets to help Sri Devananda College, Ambalangoda register a first innings win over Upananda College, Galle in the Under-13 Division III cricket encounter played at the Upananda ground. Batting first, Sri Devananda posted a first innings score of 186 with Malith Pamudaya (46) and [...]
Gateway crowned All-Island Basketball champions
Gateway College Colombo beat St. Peter’s College Colombo to win the All-Island Under-19 Boys ‘A’ Division Basketball championship played for the Papare Cup. With this win, the winning team of Gateway has established themselves to be unconquerable with their unprecedented track record of winning the ‘A’ Division championships thrice – Under-15 in 2015, Under-17 in [...]
Lyceum Int. Wattala and Museaus shuttlers keep their school flags flying
Lyceum International School, Wattala and Musaeus College, Colombo shuttlers kept their school flags flying high at the All-Island Under-13 Badminton Championship worked off at the Municipal Council Indoor Stadium in Katukelle. Lyceum Intl’ School won the Boys championship while Museaus College emerged champions in the Girls’ Championship respectively. Organised and worked off by the Chandananda [...]
Renown FA emerge champs
Renown Football Academy edged out Saunders Academy 1-0 to clinch the FFSL Under-12 Inter-Academy Football Championship 2019, concluded at the Racecourse ground in Colombo. The Final Stage of the competition was held with the participation of 12 teams, who emerged winners of First and Second stages Accordingly Barcelona FA, First Touch FA, Saunders FA, Manchester [...]
Nobel retains BSC Athletics title
Nobel House retained the Overall Championship at the Annual Inter-House Track and Field Meet of the British School in Colombo (BSC) worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo recently. Nobel House dominated proceedings in all age group categories in the Boys’ and Girls’ Championship and finished well ahead with a total of 1,034 points. [...]
All set to return with a bang
The much awaited ‘Cricket Encounter’ organised by the Zahira College Past Cricketers’ Association (PCA), will be held for the fifth consecutive year at Maradana on December 21. More than 120 past cricketers came together to counter heavy rain and got the swamped ground ready in record time to have a successful encounter in 2015, which [...]