A fine knock of 66 with 5 fours and 3 sixes by 17 year-old Kavinda Pullukuttiarachchi helped Kandy Youths Cricket Club to score a thrilling ten-run win over Kandy Clouds Crickets Club in their Division III cricket tournament match played at Galagedera Central College Grounds, Galagedera yesterday. For Kandy Youths medium pacer Muhammed Munazir took [...]

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Kolkata Knight Riders beat Pune Warriors by 7 runs in an IPL tournament match played at Kolkata on Saturday. Kolakata 150 for 5 in 20 overs (Gautam Gambhir 56, Brendon McCullum 42, Angelo Mathews 2 for 17, Bhuwaneshwar Kumar 2 for 26) Pune Warriors 143 for 8 in 20 overs (Saurav Ganguly 36, Angelo Mathews [...]

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Rajasthan Royal beat Kings XI Punjab by 43 runs in an IPL tournament match played at Mohali on Saturday. Rajasthan Royals 177 for 6 in 20 overs (Rahul Dravid 46, Shane Watson 36, Brad Hodge 36, Ryan Harris 4 for 32, Piyush Chawla 2 for 38) Kings XI 134 for 8 in 20 overs (Shaun [...]

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Chennai Super Kings beat Deccan Chargers by 10 runs in an IPL tournament match played at Chennai on Friday. Chennai 160 for 6 in 20 overs (Faf du Plessis 42, MS Dhoni 34, Suresh Raina 32, Veer Pratap 2 for 35) Deccan Chargers  150 for 5 in 20 overs (Cameron White 77, Shikhar Dhawan 36, [...]

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St. Peters registered an easy 36-24 win over their traditional rivals St. Joseph’s at Bambalapitiya on Friday, May 4 to retain Rev. Fr. Basil Weeratunga memorial shield. Winners scored 36 points through 4 goals, a try and a penalty while Josephians scoring through a goal, try and a penalty. It was a tense match as [...]

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Sri Lanka's sole technical officer at IAAF, P. H. D. Waidyatilaka, will be taking wings to Doha, Qatar this week to take charge of the IAAF Diamond League Championship. The meet will be held on May 11 in Doha. Waidyatilaka has officiated at many major Athletics championships including Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Commonwealth [...]

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May and June becomes un extraordinary busy months for school rugby players and referees as 105 matches of the Singer League 2012 will be played during the 60 days. This figure does not include most of the traditional fixtures between the schools. Schools rugby fixtures during May & June   Date Team 01 Vs Team [...]

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Six matches of the Holcim FA Cup Football tournament will be played on Saturday & Sunday despite Wesak Full Moon poya, the most prestigious poya day of the year, falling on Saturday. Only one match will be played in Colombo City limits while all other matches are played in suburbs and outstations. "Holcim" F.A Cup [...]

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Anuk Fernando of St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa, will lead a strong Sri Lanka Under 17 team for a three match One Day series in Bangalore, India. Despite being a junior national side of a leading test nation, Sri Lanka U-17 cricketers play the three One Day matches against Coca Cola XI, which is a provincial [...]

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Sri Lanka’s Shuttle star Niluka Karunaratne’ participation at the forth coming London Olympic is confirmed by the Governing Body for the based in Malaysia. According to the ranking of the participants Niluka is placed in the 30th slot out of 38 in the men’s category thereby assuring him to compete in the Men’ Singles. The [...]

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The strong Trinity College should call the shots when they take on S. Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia in their traditional clash for the Canon R.S. De Saram Shield rugby match to be played at the Trinity College Rugby Stadium at Pallekele today (Friday) at 4.30 pm. Hemaka Amarasuriya of Singer Sri Lanka will be the [...]

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Lumbini MV overcame Carey by 17 points to 05 in their Singer Division B inter-school rugby encounter played at the Air Force grounds in Ratmalana yesterday. Lumbini MV led 5-0 at the breather while accumulating their points through a goal and two tries to the solitary penalty by Carey. Scrum half Ashan Prarthana scored two [...]

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Mahaweli Marians, Royal Rockers and Volga Warriors qualified for the final round of the Inaugural Cricket tournament conducted in Bandarawela by the old boys association of Bandarawela Tamil Central College at the Bandarawela Municipal grounds. Mahaweli Marians beat TMMV Tuskers by 13 runs, Royal Rockers beat Nile Nagas by 59 runs and Volga Warriors beat [...]

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The postponed Division 1A Singer under 20 inter-schools rugby encounter between traditional rivals St. Peter’s and St. Joseph’s will be kicked off today at Bambalapitiya at 4.30 p.m. The match which was scheduled to be played on April 20 was called off due to heavy rain forcing the match commissioner to call off the match. [...]

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Mumbai Indians beat Pune Warriors by 1 run in an IPL tournament match played at Pune on Thursday. Mumbai Indians 120 for 9 in 20 Overs (James Franklin 25, Sachin Tendulkar 34, Bhuneshver Kumar 2 for 9, Ashish Nehra 2 for 19) Pune Warriors 119 for 6 in 20 Overs (Mithun Manhas 42, Robin Uthappa [...]

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The redevelopment work on the Sugathadasa Stadium at a cost of Rs. 113 million is to be completed by May 15 said the managing Director of the ‘Gahakola’ Landscaping Dharmasiri Rahubadde. He said once the they receive the Standardization Certificate from the International governing body for athletics which is expected before May 15 they are [...]

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An eighteen member Junior Table Tennis team is due to leave the island to compete at the Junior World Table Tennis Championship to be held in Thailand from May 5 to May 9. The junior paddlers are to compete in age groups under 12, 15, and 18. They will also take part in the Thai [...]

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The Postponed Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Athletic Association which was held at the Sports Medicine Unit Auditorium saw many incidents take place before the commencement and the Director General Mrs. Ranjani Jayakody had to request the Minister of Sports to arrive at the venue. When Director General was about to start the [...]

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The Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka in conjunction with the Ministry of Education is making arrangements to distribute 1500 TT tables to Schools island wide (including North and East). This was stated by re-elected President of the TTASL Lasantha Alagiyawanna at a media briefing held at Otters Aquatic Club. He said that the Ministry [...]

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Ananda outclassed Dharmapala Pannipitiya by 56 points to nil in their Singer Under 20 Division 1C rugby encounter played at the Air Force grounds in Ratmalana yesterday. Ananda having led 36-0 at lemons made up their points through three goals and seven tries. Today Carey will confront Lumbini MV in a Division 1B encounter of [...]

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