Lanka bowled by its own doosra
It all began with someone shouting “The leopard has come to the village” to mislead the villagers and the game went on and on. Now it’s a case of the leopard really coming to the village and attacking the people. How true that narration is, even though it has trickled down the ages in folklore. [...]
Lanka’s double trouble — ICC Ex-co seat and access to funds denied
The SLC Interim Committee is scheduled to urgently meet tomorrow to ascertain what steps it should take with regard to the ICC’s holding on to funds due to Sri Lanka on a charge of Political interference in matters with regard to cricket. Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lankan cricket Ashley de Silva told the Sunday [...]
Isipathana, Trinity and Royal going great guns
The Singer U20 Schools inter-schools rugby league season of 2015 is in full swing and from the three rounds of matches that have been completed three teams — defending champions Isipathana, runner-up Trinity and Royal — are going great guns. The three teams have so far remained unbeaten winning all their three matches that they [...]
Hingis and Mirza Doubles saga
Martina Hingis was the former world’s number one singles player from Switzerland. It is she who started the Swiss Tennis rolling nearly two decades ago towards its present success and then came Roger Federer. Sania Mirza was the top ranked player in India and had a well recognized world ranking. Many would also know her [...]
Athula Senarath no more
The icy hand of death touched Athula Senarath a few days back at the comparatively young age of 51. Athula, a fine-scoring left-hand bat, captained Kingswood College in the 1983-84 season. He scored a few centuries in his school career, but more importantly, provided lots of excitement with his brand of batsmanship. He also played [...]
Governor’s Cup rescheduled for April 21
For the first time in the history of 144 years of the prestigious Governor’s Cup horse race meet, the final outcome of the main race was decided as ‘null and void’ after an objection raised by a jockey. The 144th edition of the most looked-forward-to horse race event was held on April 15 at the [...]
Naveed, Nipuna and Thomas in the limelight
Mohamed Naveed, Nipuna Nuwan and Jason Thomas continued in the limelight on the third day of the fourth Mahaweli Reach Junior Tennis Championships held in Kandy yesterday. Naveed, who annexed the Senior Boys Singles and Doubles over the last two years, looks set to repeat the feat. Naveed a lad from Zahira College Matale now [...]
Memorial service
A memorial service will be held to mark the first death anniversary of Ruxan Dias, a former St. Peter’s College cricketer, at the St. Mary’s Church in Dehiwela at 6.30pm on Monday. Dias was a prominent sportsman at St. Peter’s during his days and later became a successful banker.
Adjumain re-elected Malay CC President for third year
Ramalee Adjumain was re-elected as the President of the Colombo Malay Cricket Club (CMCC) for the third year while Rinaldin Rahaman and Irfan Allang were elected as the secretary and club captain at the 143rd annual general meeting of the CMCC which was eld at the club auditorium recently. Office bearers for ensuing year 2015/16: [...]
How come others cannot do it?
Price of entrance tickets and missed conversions, and post red card decisions, referees at junior matches dominated rugby talk last week. Schools Rugby draws crowds that keep the game alive. Does this mean that fans will pay whatever is asked for entrance? The talking point was the charge of one thousand rupees for the Thomian [...]
Why weren’t these questions asked earlier?
Former Sri Lanka Cricket Selector Pramodya Wickramasinghe has come out strongly and blamed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for the country’s lackluster performance at the recently concluded World Cup. We believe that Wickramasinghe is echoing the sentiments of the four-member selection panel who had Sanath Jayasuriya as its Chairman. Wickramasinghe has faulted many persons including the [...]
The waiting game
The waiting game A meeting between lovers of a certain game was disturbed by an opposing party at their headquarters recently. This set of lovers of this particularly game changed the venue and went to the extent of holding the meeting in secret at a leading hotel. Even this meeting was broken into and the [...]
Dandeniya shuttles ahead amidst protests
As the Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Badminton Association which was to be held on January 25, 2015 was postponed and nominations for a fresh AGM is to be called in the near future. A letter of protest had been sent to the Director General of Sports objecting to the special permission that [...]
Ashan and Aravind — trail blazers
With the absence of defending champion Dinesh Deheragoda, Ashan Silva proved his might becoming the champion driver while Indian rider K.P. Aravind retained his crown as the champion rider at the 23rd Fox Hill Supercross motor racing event held at Diyatalawa yesterday. The team championship for drivers was snatched by Ezy Racing represented by top [...]
St. Benedict’s celebrates Sesquicentennial with U19 double wicket
St. Benedict’s College Kotahena who are celebrating their Sesquicentennial (1865-2015) have made arrangements to conduct a schools invitation double wicket cricket tournament scheduled to be played on April 25 and 26 at their school ground in Kotahena. The tournament jointly organized by the Old Benedictines Sports Club and the St. Benedict’s College cricket wing will [...]
A century of rugby legends of Havelocks
Havelock Sports Club is one of the premier rugby clubs in Sri Lanka and the Havies celebrate their centenary this year. Sri Lanka was gifted with many talented rugby players by Havelocks in its rugby annals. There were times that Havies were tagged as te kings of local rugby, especially in the sixties and in [...]
Nalanda Badminton team wins Under 19 super ‘A’ championship
Nalanda College Badminton team emerged 2015 Super ‘A’ champions at the Under 19 age group championship organized by the schools Badminton Association and held at the Royal College Indoor Badminton courts. Unbeaten throughout the tournament Nalanda beat S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia and Royal College Colombo during the group stage 5 – Nil respectively and [...]
Lyceum Junior TT Champs
Lyceum International School, Gampaha secured the top spot at the recently concluded All Island Schools Under 10 Table Tennis championships organised and conducted by the Sri Lanka Schools Table Tennis Association and played at the S. Thomas’ College Indoor Stadium tables. It was a notable achievement by this set of youngsters to win the top [...]
Shuttle crown for OKI Wattala
In their maiden appearance at the All Island Inter Schools Badminton Championships 2015, OKI International School, Wattala emerged winners in the ‘E’ Division. The Wattala lads didn’t show any signs of nervousness as they marched to the championship with fine team work and better understanding. On their way to the finals they beat Thurstan College [...]
Cricket by the bull’s horn
The fourth edition of the Red Bull Campus cricket will kick off with the preliminary round matches on May 9th 2015. Fourteen local campus teams will battle for the Red Bull Campus cricket championship and the winners will qualify to take part in the World Campus cricket Finals scheduled to be held in India on [...]
Young talent to the fore at Carrom Nationals
Young and promising talent was exhibited at the recently concluded 14th Junior Carrom Nationals 2015 worked off at the Carrom Federation Headquarters, Maharagama. The event was organised and conducted by the Carrom Federation of Sri Lanka it was evident that a bright future lay ahead the game of carrom in Sri Lanka and will find [...]
