Rugby – 2012 season By T M K Samat IN a move to regain rugby’s lost crowds, clubs are to be allowed two foreign players each in the 2012 A division competitions, scheduled to kick-off in June. The move follows the partial success achieved last season when the bottom-four clubs of the 2010 league were [...]
By T M K Samat IN a dramatic departure from tradition, Havelock SC has appointed as 2012 captain a player who joined the club only last season. Normally, the 1915-founded club appoints one of its senior players, counting five-six seasons, as leader. But it made its first exception at last week’s AGM by giving the [...]
Rugby – Carlton Super 7’s – Colombo Leg By Milinda Gunawardena After an eventful two days in Kandy, the Carlton Super Sevens rugby tournament kicked off the first day of the second leg at the Royal Sports Complex in Colombo yesterday. The tournament which has created a carnival atmosphere and two days of scintillating display [...]
By Dinouk Colombage The Rugby World Cup 2011 concluded last weekend in the most spectacular fashion, as hosts and favourites New Zealand held off a spirited French effort to lift the Webb-Ellis trophy. A game that should never have been, was not expected to produce the heart-thumping end it did. Going in to their first [...]
Six players have been shortlisted for the IRB Player of the Year Award this year including four players who are set to star in Sunday’s Rugby World Cup final. All Black trio Piri Weepu, Jerome Kaino and Ma’a Nonu made up half of the list of nominees for rugby’s World Player of the Year award, [...]
New Zealand and France clash in Cup Final By Dinouk Colombage Six weeks of gruelling rugby is behind us and the 2011 Rugby World Cup has reached its peak today, when New Zealand and France take on each other in the final. For many people this was not the match-up expected, but for the home [...]
By Dinouk Colombage The 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand has lived up to the hype; we have now seen the four most positive nations play one another in the semi-final stages. What is more interesting is that courtesy of Ireland’s upset win over Australia in the group stages the tournament will now see [...]
Rugby World Cup 2011 Mils Muliaina is set to win his 100th Test cap in New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup quarter-final with Argentina on Sunday Head coach Graham Henry has named a team showing six changes in personnel and one positional switch following the 79-15 win over Canada. Ma’a Nonu and Corey Jane return to [...]
Rugby World Cup 2011 By Dinouk Colombage South Africa capped off their group stage in the World Cup with a hard fought 13-5 win over Samoa. The win also saw the Sprinkboks book a place in the quarter finals, while the pacific island was forced to head back home. A try from Bryan Habana [...]
Rugby World Cup 2011 By Dinouk Colombage The 2011 Rugby World Cup has moved in to week three and is reaching the business end of the tournament. The players are acclimatised and the teams aqre pushing for places in the knockout rounds. Last week saw a collection of minnow nations push for a surprise berth [...]
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