Nilfer over Marija for CWG
Disregarding the recommendation made by the National Rugby Selection Committee, headed by Ashoka Jayasena, to appoint former star flyhalf and present Kandy Sports Club coach, Fazil Marija as the Head Coach of the Men’s 7s team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, it is reported that the Competent Authority had already made a decision to appoint [...]
Attack on Maxi; true motives unclear
The General Secretary of National Olympic Committee (NOC), Maxwell de Silva is currently being treated at the General Hospital Colombo, after being attacked by two unidentified men, who romped into his residence in Mutwal on Friday night. The two unidentified men, who had walked into de Silva’s residence had covered themselves, and had attacked him [...]
St. Joseph Vaz claim hard fought win
St. Joseph Vaz College recorded a hard-fought win against traditional rivals St. Mary’s College, Chilaw in their 11th Limited Over Encounter, also known as the Battle of Fraternal, played at the UC ground in Chilaw yesterday. Put into bat first, St. Mary’s managed to post 221-9 with Shenol Appuhamy top scoring with 84, while Kaushan [...]
Ananda NS, Puttalam reach Div III quarters
Ananda National School, Puttalam reached the quarter-finals of the SLSCA Under-19 Division III Tier ‘B’ segment, after overcoming Mahanama College, Monaragala by 8 wickets at Puttalam yesterday. Electing to bat first, Mahanama Monaragala were restricted to 148-9, forcing the game to become a low-scoring affair. Two unbeaten knocks by Steven Ruwintha (56) and Suneth Tharanaga [...]
Softlogic scrape through 3DH Intl
Softlogic’s Vikum Sanjaya and Chamod Battage sharing seven-wickets between them with the former picking up three helped their side edge out 3DH International by only three-runs in the MCA ‘B’ Division encounter yesterday. Played at Moratuwa, Sofltogic posted 194 in the 39-overs-a-side match. In the batting lineup too, Sanjaya cracked a cameo of 36, in [...]
Warnakula’s hat-trick set up Lanka’s 5-2 win over Singapore
Sri Lanka national men’s hockey team made a good start to the 9-nation Men’s Asian Games Qualifiers, beating Singapore 5-2 last evening in Bangkok. Sri Lanka placed in Pool ‘B’ with Bangladesh, Indonesia and Singapore, will face Bangladesh on Tuesday in their next group match. Though Singapore took the early lead, scoring two goals in [...]
Kent amass 595, but SLC Development XI respond well
After being battered by the county side Kent, who raced to amass 595 runs for the loss of 8 wickets before declaring, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Development XI responded quite effectively to deliver the hosts the similar rage in their four-day game, being played at Canterbury. At the time stumps were drawn on the second [...]
Mahanama thrash DSS by 173 runs
Mahanama College thrashed their traditional rivals D.S. Senanayake College by 173 runs in the 16th Battle of the Golds Limited Overs encounter played at Dambulla yesterday. D.S. Senanayake perhaps would regret their decision to bowl first as Mahanama posted a mammoth total of 290, yet were bundled out with nine deliveries to go. Koojana Perera [...]
Tame draw at Moratuwa; Ananda sniffing victory
After a poor show in the first half, St. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa amended their approach with a better performance, while Trinity College dominated from all aspects in their drawn Inter-School Under-19 two-day cricket match, which ended at Moratuwa yesterday. After trailing by 105 runs after the first innings, St. Sebastian’s were 223 for the loss [...]
Can Silverwood add that missing flavour?
Expectations are fairly-tale high as Sri Lanka welcomes Chris Silverwood as Head Coach of the national cricket team, ending a long search for Mickey Arthur’s successor. But a quick turnaround of fortunes under a new coaching set-up–that also includes Assistant Coach Naveed Nawaz–is a snowball’s chance in hell. Silverwood, who succeeded Trevor Bayliss as head [...]
Bat ‘boldly’ Silverwood to his side
The new head coach of the national cricket team – Chris Silverwood – called his charges to be ‘positive’ and ‘brave’ in their batting in a bid to cut down the run-less ball frequency. “What I’m saying is we have to bring ‘smarts’ into that as well. But I do want them to be positive; [...]
US-based high jumper Thiwanka gets gold clearing 2.20m
Ushan Thiwanka, the Sri Lankan high-jumper based in USA, clinched gold clearing a height of 2.20m in the Men’s High Jump event at the Lone Star Conference’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships, early yesterday. The 24-year-old Lankan, representing Texas A&M, topped the ranking beating Justin Lewis (2.11m) and Dakari Hill (2.08m). The former Maris Stella [...]
Chalitha Pushpika ranks top as Sri Lanka gear up for Asian Games
M.H. Chalitha Pushpika topped the list of 31 golfers, who are engaged in a ranking programme aiming at preparing for the upcoming Asian Games, which is set to be held during September in China. Pushpika scored 69, 72, 72 and 71 points to gross 284 and stand out of the rest, at the April Golf [...]
Savinka and Ranithma clinch Summer Season titles
Young sensations Savinka Weerasekara and Ranithma Liyanage clinched the Open Men’s and Women’s Single titles at the Summer Season All-Island Badminton Championship concluded at the Municipal Indoor Stadium in Nuwara Eliya last weekend. Savinka Savinaka Weerasekara, a student of D.S. Senanayake College, overcame 16-year-old Aashinsa Herath of Royal College, who was the top seed, in [...]
Why debase our team to the CWG?
Sir, The newspapers are informing us that the sports contingents to CWG will only comprise of medal prospects and those teams who could fund themselves or have the benefit of sponsors. This latter condition we feel is wrong in principle as teams will then go for the wrong reasons and not on merit. At a [...]
Susal and Sachini reign supreme
The reigning national champion, 17-year-old FIDE Master, Susal de Silva of Nalanda College retained the Men’s title while four-time winner Sachini Ranasinghe emerged victorious in the Women’s category at the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship 2022. Susal secured the title for the second successive year scoring 10 points out of possible 13 games in the [...]
Sri Lanka’s women Esports athletes step-up at Gamer.LK’s Women’s Cyber Games
Since 2015, Gamer.LK has conducted activities dedicated to women gamers at its major tournaments which have seen an increasing number of participants. In 2019, Gamer.LK began the Women’s Cyber Games with the intention of providing a dedicated platform for female gamers to showcase their skills. Gamer.LK, the premier Esports company in Sri Lanka announced the [...]
Oshini Gunawardhana victorious at National Youth Chess Championship 2022
Oshini Gunawardhana of Wycherley International School, Colombo grabbed yet another title, winning the Under-10 Open category at the National Youth Chess Championship 2022 organised by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka. Oshini is the only female participant to have claimed a title in the Under-10 Open category. Oshini also earn the spotlight at many occasions during the [...]