Sesha Umaya of Lyceum International, Wattala excelled at the recently held International Schools Athletics Championships as she established two new meet records in the Under 16 age category. Umaya clocked 12.53 seconds to create a new meet record in the 100 metres dash and cleared a distance of 5.12 metres to improve the meet record […]
By A Special Sports Correspondent Members of the Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club (CR&FC) did the century-old institute proud by winning the prestigious Clifford Cup on Sunday (March 5) after beating Navy Sports Club (Navy SC) in the final at Race Course Grounds in Colombo. The ‘Red Shirts’ led by scrum-half Kavindu de Costa laid […]
by Rex Clementine You don’t always agree with Dimuth Karunaratne. You tend to think that he’s too soft, too relaxed, suffers fools like Niroshan Dickwella gladly and adopts a defensive approach when it comes to selections. But who cares. Our opinions should be limited to newspaper columns only and shouldn’t go beyond. Under Dimuth Sri […]
Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ quarter-final A hurricane knock of 44 runs by Shenel Samarathunga and all-round bowling performances in the first innings helped St. Benedict’s fight back to earn a semi-final spot as they defied formidable Richmond in the Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ tournament quarter-final at Dombagoda on Tuesday. After being […]
Under 19 Traditional Cricket Matches Anjala Bandara reached the thousand runs milestone for the season as he top scored with 138 runs for Mahanama to post 457 runs against Prince of Wales on day one of their Under 19 traditional cricket encounter at Mattegoda on Tuesday. Bandara’s run-a-ball knock included 11 fours and two sixes […]