By T. M. K. Samat THE SLTA will launch its inaugural Bartleet Finance-sponsored Tennis-12 inter-school tournament this month – with 260 players from 38 schools poised to enter the fray. The May 25-27 event on the SLTA courts is an extension of the Tennis-10 program inaugurated in 2010. “What was started in 2010 as an [...]
Aggreko International, the Global leader in the rental of Power and Temperature control has come forward to sponsor the Royal Rugby teams (all age groups) yet again in 2012. The company which had been the main sponsor in the previous years of Royal Rugby agreed to the sponsorship of the total Royal Rugby teams (all [...]
Airtel Lanka recently entered into a partnership with Kingwood College, Kandy whereby Airtel would sponsor the schools’ Rugby team for a period of 2 years. Kingswood College created history by introducing Rugby to Sri Lanka in 1891 under the guidance of the school’s founder L. E. Blaze. In 1906, the first ever match between two [...]
Dav Whatmore, coach of the Pakistan Cricket team and former coach of the Kolkota Knight Riders believes that corrupt players must be dealt with very strongly to rid the game of the menace of match fixing. Speaking on the recent spot-fixing controversy that rocked the Indian Premier League Whatmore said that the news was saddening [...]
By Richard Browne The world was a very different place in 1987. No mobile phones or personal computers, the Berlin Wall was still standing and the nuclear threat was still lurking. It was also the year when a young Guyanese/English batsman made his first class debut aged 17 for Middlesex. Mark Ramprakash appears to be [...]
More controversy has hit IPL season 5. IPL cricketer Luke Pomersbach, a foreign recruit of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team, was arrested for allegedly molesting a woman from the US and allegedly beating up her boyfriend at Delhi five-star hotel, the Maurya Sheraton. The incident reportedly happened after the Delhi Daredevils-Royal Challengers Bangalore match on [...]
James Anderson and Charlotte Edwards have been named as England’s cricketers of the year for 2011/12. Fast bowler Anderson, and women’s captain Edwards, received their awards – along with Kent batsman Daniel Bell-Drummond as development cricketer of the year, and disability cricketer of the year Callum Rigby – at a Lord’s dinner hosted by the [...]
Somerset have signed Twenty20 record holder Richard Levi for their Friends Life t20 campaign.The South African batsman struck the quickest international century against New Zealand in February in just his second match for the Proteas. Levi smashed 117 not out off 51 balls, with his ton coming off just 45 deliveries, to guide his side [...]
Formula 1 – Spanish GP review Pastor Maldonado turned from grand prix winner to hero as Williams’ celebrations for his debut victory went up in flames. Just 90 minutes after being hoisted up on the shoulders of rivals Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen on the podium, having taken the chequered flag in the Spanish Grand [...]
Schools Rugby Round-up St Peters beat Trinity 34-29 in a blockbuster game in Trinity’s own backyard in Kandy to maintain their impressive form this season and inflict the Lions first defeat this season. Both sides put in a wonderful display of fast open rugby which had the capacity crowd on their toes as the game [...]
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