Deal with the cinders beneath the Ashes
From ashes to ashes; dust to dust, Bell tolled for the Aussies and Agar faded to a summer’s dream. However much I tried to clip it from my thoughts, this willow war between the queen’s two sons just kept rushing back to me. The margin of skill was almost the same between the two teams. [...]
Sunday Sports Guide
Local ATHLETICS: Sir John Tarbet Senior Championship at Sugathadasa Stadium Heart to Heart Road Race from Torrington at 7.00am BILLIARDS: 61st National Championship at Sugathadasa Hotel RUGBY: Western Province Open Inter-Club 7s at CR&FC ground CARROM: Inter-Club League Tournament at CFSL, Maharagama SQUASH: SSC Open at SSC courts BASKETBALL: Carlton Cup 5.30pm: Peterite Youth vs [...]
Sunny Mount hold Saunders
Sunny Mount SC held the more fancied Saunders FC to a nil all draw in their Division II Soccer Tournament 2013 fixture conducted by the Colombo Football League at the M.H. Mohamed playground, Wanathamulla recently. At Moragasmulla, a goal by striker Aman Nazib the Maldivian in the 50th minute and a penalty converted by goal [...]
Anuranga and Wasana are Jetwing sprint champions
Uren Anuranga of Harindra Resort and Spa and Thilini Wasana of Jetwing Lighthouse were the sprint champions when they ran in front to win the men’s and women’s 100 metres sprint events at the Jetwing Sports Fesitval that was held at the Bloomfield ground recently. Results. Winners only: 100 m men Uren Anuranga, 100 m [...]
TV girls a big headache!
TV girls a big headache! Sports journalists and cameramen covering the recent National Sports Festival were in deep trouble as they were prevented from doing their jobs by two females belonging to a TV network. Obviously these two girls had a lot of power and went about their task and in the process prevented the [...]
US Open 2013 : Second week magic
When New York’s stormy weather settled, the US Open produced the best Tennis of any tournament of the early rounds this year. The original venue for US Open was New York’s ‘Forest Hills’ with its grass courts. It was moved to the current location “Flushing Meadows” in 1979 with courts transformed to acrylic ‘hard’. America’s [...]
Sri Lanka poised for European doubleheader in October
“From ninth place a year ago to fourth place in the Asian Sevens circuit is a great achievement.” That was how the President of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union Asanga Seneviratne described the performance of the ‘Tuskers’. He went on to say, “The boys did well through commitment and played their hearts out.” He [...]
Was the Colts issue a non-starter?
Well known cricket administrator K. Mathivanan who resigned from the post of Vice President of Sri Lanka cricket and also withdrew from the race to the presidency of Colombo Colts Cricket Club says that he is done with the game of cricket and will never return. A disappointed Mathivanan told the Sunday Times, “I am [...]
Sport-o-Rama
Other results Netball: – Aitken Spence Apparel ‘B’ beat Aitken Spence Shipping 9-7. – Best player was A.B.H. Dikshani of Aitken Spence Apparel ‘B’ Tap Rugby: – TNT beat Aitken Spence Travels 7-2. – Best player – Roshan Thomas. Tug-o-War: – Women: Aitken Spence Travels beat Aitken Spence Garments 2-0. – Men: Elpitiya Plantations beat [...]
‘Record-breaking’ comeback for Himasha
Himasha Eshan of Kalutara MV making his first appearance after undergoing a one year and a half ban made a record breaking comeback when he eclipsed the Boys Under-20 100m dash event with a new timing of 10.69 seconds which he achieved in the fourth heat which was held at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. Himasha [...]
Trinity deprived by rain
Trinity College were deprived of a probable outright win by rain and gloomy conditions at Asgiriya on the second day of their Schools Under-19 Division I match against Moratu Vidyalaya yesterday. The match was called off without a ball being bowled on the second day. Amrith Sri Mahan and Ravin Sayer (5 for 10 and [...]
Sinaly wins Girls’ U9 SSC squash title
Chanithma Sinaly faced negligible resistance from her opponents in the Girls’ Under 9 category of the SSC Open Squash Championships, as she effortlessly tore past Nethanya Mendis to a title-clinching 11/1, 11/2, 11/0 triumph in the age group’s finals, played at the SSC squash courts yesterday. Her victory saw her complete a strong run which [...]
Schoolboy cricketers felicitated
The Southern Province Cricket Umpires Association (SPCUA) felicitated the four schoolboy cricketers from Matara who were selected to the Sri Lanka Under 17 and 19 teams at their annual get-together held at the Uyanwatta Stadium yesterday. Lasith Lakshan of St. Thomas’s College Matara was a member of the Sri Lanka Under-17 team that toured England [...]
Billiards nationals to continue from tomorrow
The knockout rounds of the 61st National Billiards Champion which will determine the master of cues will begin with the participation of Sri Lanka’s best controllers of the three-ball game tomorrow. 21-time national champion and defending title holder K.H. Sirisoma will be the firm favourite amongst 15 other contenders when the competition sets off from [...]
Rugby referees call for SGM amidst chaos and uncertainty
The Sri Lanka Society of Rugby Football Referees (SLSRFR) will hold a Special General Meeting (SGM) on October 14 at the Havelock Sports Club according reliable rugby sources. The development was confirmed to be accurate according to notices sent to its 17 members who have been called for the SGM. Upon further investigation these 17 [...]
Three-day break between games a must
The inter-school cricket season, which will be staged very soon, is set be played on an even keel this year around. Last season’s schools first XI cricket faced a setback, with the withdrawal of two leading cricket-playing schools — Royal College Colombo and S. Thomas’ College Mt. Lavinia. Now the school cricket authorities of Sri [...]
SLC rain to douse cricket drought
Sri Lanka’s bid to fill the void created by Zimbabwe’s pull-out with another series has come a crop. The Lankan cricket management tried to entice the West Indies, New Zealand, Australia, England or South Africa for a series of matches, but the response has been largely negative. Both England and Australia are making preparations for [...]
Travails of a sport that produced a world champion
Hotel Galadari, the hosting venue of 5th World Carrom Championship held in Colombo in November 2012, is in line of suing the Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka (CFSL) according to reliable insiders. According to reliable information the CFSL still owes Hotel Galadari a sum of Rs. 700,000 after using the venue and its facilities. Hotel [...]
Come Colombo Marathon
With the intention of hitting 5000 runners by next year, the 13th edition of Colombo Marathon, organised by Lanka Sportreizen (LSR) jointly with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotional Bureau and SriLankan Airlines, will be held on October 6. The biggest marathon to be held on Sri Lankan soil will set off at 6.00am on October [...]
Sparks Fly at CGF General Assembly 2013
Controversies raged at the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly held in Glasgow, Scotland on 16 August 2013. On the sidelines of the General Assembly, delegates from participating countries were provided with the opportunity of visiting the athlete’s villages and the venues for the various sports disciplines for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, [...]
The Karting season begins
The CMSC-UE Sports Karting Championship 2013 which comprises four legs of competition will take place at the Sri Lanka Karting Circuit in Bandaragama. The competition organised by the Ceylon Motor Sports Club (CMSC), Sri Lanka’s oldest motor sport club, will revv off with the first leg on September 12 at Bandaragama, under three event classes. [...]
Test Cricket History of Sri Lanka – out on Sep 13
Veteran sports journalist and television presenter Sarath Jayasinghe will launch his latest book titled ‘The Test Cricket History of Sri Lanka’ at the Kularatne Hall, Ananda College on September 13 under the patronage of Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage. A large gathering of former Sri Lankan Test captains are billed to grace the occasion. Parliamentarians [...]
BCCI’s income nosedives
The earnings of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the game’s richest body worldwide, took a hit in 2012-13, compared to the previous year’s revenues. Its gross income was a massive Rs 93.14 crore lower than that in 2011-12, and the surplus was a significant Rs 60.37 crore less, forcing the Board [...]
Good defence a must if Sri Lanka is to challenge for sevens supremacy
The Sri Lanka rugby sevens squad would do well to do a crash course on the Art of War by Sun Tzu, a Chinese military general and philosopher who lived six centuries before the birth of Christ, if they want to take one step more and challenge the big guns in the Asian Sevens Series. [...]
On the reverse at break-neck speed
The game of football for me has been a way of life since my formative years as a lad in school and that has given me much pleasure and achievement, watching, playing and coaching. Football is one of the truly international sports and its popularity and glamour is reflected in the enormous appeal it has [...]
Shanker Prabad boots four for Commercial Credit
Centre forward Shanker Prabad was in cracking form for Commercial Credit when he booted four goals in their 7-0 win over Courtaulds in a Mercantile Soccer fixture conducted by the Mercantile Football League at the City Legue ground recently. At the short whistle Commercial Credit were in the led with three goals to nil. In [...]
Soccer!! There is a hole in the bucket dear President
Sri Lanka’s campaign at the SAFF Cup football tournament has been tainted by a string of lacklustre performances, the worst of which came against the Maldives, who subjected their regional neighbours to a 10-0 drubbing. A few years ago such an embarrassing margin of defeat would never have been imagined, especially to the Maldives, a [...]
Trinity and Dharmaraja
Hometown rivals from Kandy, Trinity and Dharmaraja colleges, were declared joint champions at the Milo All-Island Schools Under- 16 Division I 12-a-side rugby tournament, played at the Bogambara Stadium last Thursday and Friday. The Lions and Rajans were forced to share the Cup championship when both teams failed to score a single point during two [...]
Ragama SC defend Cricfest title
Ragama SC retained the Six-a-Side Cricfest 2013 title final, organized by the second year students of the Science Faculty for the fourth consecutive time and sponsored by Commercial Credit, when they defeated Achievers Lanka Business School by 35 runs in the final, played at Thurstan Road recently. A total of 81 teams competed under two [...]
Kimiko makes more waves in the pool
Fourteen-year-old swimming star Kimiko Raheem qualified for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in Nanjing, China 2014 at the recently-concluded fourth FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai. For Kimiko, the youngest of the Raheem family, with swimming champ sisters Mayumi and Machiko, this year has been her best with several records. The others [...]
Resilient Jason and Shehan build SSC ‘A’ victory
Man-of-the-Match Jason de Silva and Shehan Perera, the tailenders, brought glory to SSC ‘A’ with their brilliant ninth-wicket partnership, as they went on to clinch the MCA 11th Anniversary, 8th Inter-Academy Under-15, 30-over cricket tournament, beating MCA ‘Blues’ at the Thurstan College ground, last Sunday. Jason and Shehan put on an unbroken stand of 48 [...]
ACBT conquer SLIIT at annual cricket clash
The Australian College of Business and Technology (ACBT) recorded two tremendous victories over the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) in both the T20 and 50-over cricket matches, held annually between both institutes. The ACBT team was captained by all-rounder J D Ruban and the SLIIT team was headed by Ruwan Mapa another talented [...]
Tenacious Thisuri thrives on tennis court
Only a few months ago, a downcast Thisuri Molligoda found herself struggling through a trench of frustration and disappointment.Sidelined with a wrist injury for many months, one of the junior tennis circuit’s top stars was unable to train consistently and frequently stumbled over opponents she’d usually dismiss with minimal exertion and abundant virtuosity. Gazing at [...]
