THE desolate stands before which Sri Lanka played out its Davis Cup Group Two tie last weekend said it all. It is not always followers of local tennis get a chance to demonstrate their support of the national team because it’s not always that Colombo gets to host a Davis Cup tie, the only men’s [...]
IF the importance of today’s reverse singles in the Davis Cup Group 2 tie hasn’t already diminished to only of academic interest, then Sri Lanka tennis has a lot to cheer about. The young national team doing duty is virtually second-string, and for them to have kept the raging favourities and bottom seed Thailand guessing [...]
SINCE the inauguration of the inter-club rugby competition back in 1950, the season has kicked-off sometime in May/June and concluded in August/September. But now it is to be slotted into the November-March timeframe. Changing a 62-year habit no doubt will hurt the sensibilities of those with a sense of nostalgia for the past, but, for [...]
SO the winds of change swept through Sri Lanka cricket last week, and coming as it did amidst the national team’s dreadful free fall, few could’ve been surprised by the shake up. After four straight series losses in Test and ODIs and resultant demotions in the ICC rankings, you’d naturally expect administrators to react. And [...]
ASANGA Seneviratne, president of the SLRFU since last week, was deputy in 2010 and 2011; so it’s rather extraordinary that he should describe the administration of the last two years as “a lesson on how not to administer”. More pointedly he told a newspaper interviewer, Monday, there had been “a complete breakdown” in governance. Such [...]
MAHELA Jayawardene’s prolonged failure is a worrying concern, and though it would be wrong to singularly blame him for the country’s fourth straight Test series defeat, the no.4’s sub-par contributions is a significant reason for the continued cataclysm, plunging the team to sixth in the ICC rankings, from third a shade over a year ago. [...]
Any move to rid the SLRFU of it’s hefty Rs.21m.-debt is to be commended. With a lack of funds seriously impeding the game’s development over the past three seasons, especially with the reduction of Provincial Unions to a state of defunctness, there’s a compelling need to achieve solvency quickly. But there are dangers: the dire [...]
Over the past five seasons Sri Lanka rugby has been so persistently harassed by controversies that it’s excusable should followers include in their New Year wish-list a plea to spare the game of the old convulsions. But, as nominations for the Jan 7 the SLRFU elections were received in the final week of the old [...]
Despite the pompous fanfare with which Thilanga Sumathipala announced last month his intentions to run for Sri Lanka Cricket presidency, there was more than one reason to believe that he was only blowing hot air. And so it was: the controversial one-time cricket boss dropped out, supposedly of his own accord, from the January 3 [...]
CUSTOMARILY, the SLRFU holds its AGM in late January or early February; so, the decision to call the 2012 meeting as early as January 7 is a tad curious. AGMs are all about elections, and with intense politicking marking rugby union elections in recent years, it is excusable to suspect political motives behind the decision [...]
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