Kusal Mendis strikes career best 200
A magnificent maiden double ton by skipper Kusal Mendis (200 in 300 balls) helped CCC record a first innings win over NCC in the Premier Tier A Super Eight inter-club cricket encounter concluded at P. Sara Stadium yesterday. Mendis was in sublime form hitting 24 boundaries and a six in his marathon knock as CCC [...]
SLC end 2019 on a bad wicket
Insufficient inbound tours – and none against India, England and Australia on home soil – has caused Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to lose revenue from international cricket in 2019, leading to a net deficit of Rs 471mn at the end of the financial year. This is still better than what SLC had expected as it [...]
Top CR&FC official denies rumours of player exodus
A top CR&FC official has refuted reports that there has been an exodus of players because their salaries were cut after the rugby season was affected by the coronavirus epidemic last season. “No one has said they are leaving. None of the boys have signed contracts. After the Covid we anyhow cancelled all the contracts. [...]
Empowering a ‘white elephant’
Transparency and integrity are two key words which are lacking in the lexicon of administrators running national sports associations in Sri Lanka. This may be a thing of the past if the National Sports Council (NSC) headed is given more teeth by Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa who is keen to overhaul the structure of sports [...]
Serasinghe ton puts Moors in command
Sachithra Serasinghe’s sparkling century put Moors in command in the SLC Premier League Plate Championship decider against Lankan CC on day one at the NCC grounds yesterday. The 33-year-old, playing his 136th First Class match, oozed with elegance for his 151, which guided Moors from a struggling 6/2 to 274/4, a position from which they [...]
SLR should not be confrontational: CR&FC president
CR&FC president Hiran Muttiah has urged Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) to engage in a broad dialogue with all stakeholders including players without being confrontational taking into consideration the many challenges faced by the clubs in a post-Covid situation to promote and develop the game. With the Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU) of which CR&FC [...]
Is winning medals barometer of success?
The measure of success in any sphere of activity or life is without doubt the happiness you derive from achieving your target. In the wide world of sports many of us are under the mistaken notion that the adrenaline which drives one to go faster in pursuit of glory is the ultimate prize. The thrill [...]
Joseph Kenny to sail again
Sailing sport stalwart Joseph Kenny will be unanimously re-appointed as the President of the Yachting Association of Sri Lanka (YASL) at its 58th Annual General Meeting (AGM). Kenny, an active sports administrator for many years, will serve another tenure of two years at the helm of YASL after the upcoming AGM scheduled for August 31. [...]
MCA Senior 6s next week
The Senior Citizens of MCA cricketing fraternity are hurriedly getting back in to shape, dusting their boots and getting their flannels dry cleaned in readiness for the 02nd Maliban –MCA Masters ‘Sixes’ 2020, to be held on Saturday, August 29, simultaneously at the MCA and DS Senanayake College grounds, commencing 8.30am. So far the following [...]
Clay Target shooting resumes in Payagala with CTSCC Club Day
After a lapse of more than a year, the Clay Target Shooting Club of Colombo (CTSCC) resumed shooting activities with its first Club Day, which was held last Saturday at the clay target shotgun range in Payagala. The Club Day not only signified the resumption shooting sports, which was forced to stall activities due to [...]
Tennis behind closed doors?
In the annual global professional tennis schedule US-Open is the last of the four Grand-Slam events. The Australian Open was played in January – it escaped the virus. The second, French Open was postponed. The third, the Wimbledon was cancelled. It is US Open time. US Open is scheduled to start on the 31st of [...]
M.A. Ameer – A versatile and flamboyant soccerite no more
The demise of M.A. Ameer removes from our midst an outstanding personality and a class footballer who will be greatly missed by the wide circle of friends, footballers and fans of this country. My relatively long and close association with Ameer both as a player and a pal gives me the edge over the others [...]
Sri Lanka fail to enter Group II level in FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020
The Sri Lanka chess team made an early exit from the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 after failing to enter the Group II level following defeats against Botswana and Portugal in round seven and eight last weekend. Sri Lankans opened the quest for the Olympiad on a promising note by defeating number 1 International Cripple [...]
Lyceum Wattala win Overall Scrabble Championship for 13th consecutive year
Lyceum International School, Wattala clinched the Inter-International Schools Scrabble Championship for the 13th consecutive year. The tournament, organised by Lyceum Wattala, was held recently at the Zeus Hall and Lyceum, Wattala were the undefeated champions for the 13th consecutive year. Lyceum Wattala became champions in the Junior, Intermediate and Senior categories as they were declared [...]
Alethea International awards sponsorship to 12 football players
Alethea International School, Sri Lanka has awarded 12 football players who are trained by Manchester Soccer Academy (MSA) with full academic and sports scholarships. Sri Lanka MSA provides world class training under the guidance of professional and experienced coaches in Sri Lanka led by Augustine George, the founder of the academy. The training sessions consist [...]