Dr. Geethanjana Mendis to be asked to vacate post »
October 3, 2011, 9:30 pm by Lal Gunesekera Well known Neuro Physician, Dr. Geethanjana Mendis, who headed the Sports Medicine Unit of the Ministry of Sports for numerous years, is to be asked to vacate post with ‘immediate effect’. Reasons for his removal were not divulged by Sports Ministry officials and even Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage [...]
India wins World cup for the second time »
Lankans look while cup slips through Yuvraj selected man of the series By S.R. Pathiravithana reporting from Mumbai One point two billion frantic Indians just broke into joyous jubilation while Sri Lanka’s Nuwan Kulasekera who was partly responsible for the Lankan respectable total of 274 for 6 will never forgive himself. With the Indian score [...]
Manmohan invites Zardari, Gilani for Mohali World Cup semi-final »
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to watch the India-Pakistan cricket World Cup semifinal to be played at Mohali in Punjab on March 30. In virtually identical letters to Mr. Zardari and Mr. Gilani, Dr. Singh said he planned to watch the semifinal. [...]
Lanka record best NRR at World Cup »
Meets England in Saturday’s quarter-final: Dinesh Weerawansa Sri Lanka has registered the best net run rate (+2.582) out of all 14 teams which competed in the semi-league qualifying round of the ICC World Cup 2011 cricket tournament in the subcontinent. On completion of the 42 first round matches, during which seven teams competed under two [...]
පකිස්තානය අභියස ශ්රී ලංකාව ලද අනපේක්ෂිත පරාජයේ ඇතුළත කතාව »
අයි සී සී ක්රිකට් ලෝක කුසලානය දිනා ගැනීම සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකාවට ඇති බලාපොරොත්තු සලිත කරවමින් ශ්රී ලංකා පිල සෙනසුරාදා රාත්රියේ පකිස්ථානය හමුවේ ලකුණු 11 ක අනපේක්ෂිත පරාජයක් ලැබුවේය. පකිස්ථානය සිය පන්දුවාර 50 තුළ ලබා ගත් ලකුණු 277ට පිළිතුරු වශයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ලබා ගත හැකි වූයේ කඩුලු 9ක් දැවී ලකුණු 266ක් පමණි. පකිස්ථානය වෙනුවෙන් එම කණ්ඩායමේ [...]
SLRFU ARBITRARILY DISSOLVES THE WESTERN PROVINCE TO PREVENT ASANGA BECOMING THE UNION PRESIDENT »
The Sri lanka Rugby foot ball Union today arbitrary dissolved the Western Province the largest Provincial Union and threw the up coming Election on the 26th of Feb in to disarray. The SLRFU had called an inquiry last Tuesday giving the provincial officials just 1 days notice and hadn’t even informed them of the reason [...]
Sri Lanka´s Master Plan to Lose the 2011 Cricket World Cup »
Sun, 2011-02-13 03:23 By Ravindra Wickremasinghe The 2011 Cricket World Cup is upon us and this is an ideal time to revisit and update the article by this author published in The Asian Tribune on November 27, 2005 titled, What should be done to stop the decline in Sri Lankan Cricket?* The article was a [...]
Vaas is a true victim of politics »
After much speculation and debate among the cricketing fraternity, as to the composition of Sri Lanka’s squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, the squad was finally announced. Selectors’ worldwide face a difficult and thankless task, since any squad selected, would come in for criticism by some. This is simply because everyone cannot be accommodated [...]
Former SL shadow coach Hathurusingha to emigrate to Australia »
Sa’adi Thawfeeq December 7, 2010 Chandika Hathurusingha, the former Sri Lanka Test opener and one-time shadow coach of the Sri Lanka team, who was suspended by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on disciplinary grounds in June, has decided to emigrate to Australia with his family, after he was found guilty by an inquiry and expelled. The [...]
Sangakkara, Samaraweera steady after early strikes »
The Bulletin by Andrew Fernando November 23, 2010 Tea Sri Lanka 81 for 3 (Sangakkara 25*, Roach 2-24) v West Indies Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details A damp outfield and gloomy conditions meant that only 37.2 overs of play were possible on the first day of the second Test at the R. Premadasa stadium in [...]
