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Excerpted from te authorized biography of Thilo Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe (Continued from last week) Thilo continues: “The Ven. Bhikkhu Sumedha, a long-time friend who had grown up in Switzerland, spent his early hermit years as a Buddhist monk at Situlpauwa and at the top of Vedahitikanda. He later obtained higher ordination, and died […]

For the first time in history, three Sri Lankan boxing officials have been elected to serve on the various commissions of the Asian Boxing Confederation (ASBC). Hemantha Weerasinghe (Referee and Judge), Syamalee Prabuddhika Lokuyaddehige (Women), and Dr. Tharanga Aruggoda (Medical) were elected to serve on the respective ASBC Commissions from 2023 to 2027 at the […]

Royal Challengers Bangalore now remain the only team without a win in the inaugural season of the Women’s Premier League. The Smriti Mandhana-led side have now lost three out of three, this time going down by 11 runs to Gujarat Titans, who in turn finally tasted victory after two tough defeats. Brief Scores: Gujarat Giants […]

Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ Cricket Quarter-finals   by Reemus Fernando    Number four batsman Naren Muralidaran dropped anchor with a marathon 243-ball innings for St. Joseph’s to post 218 for nine wickets at stumps against Wesley on day one of the Under19 Division I Tier ‘A’ two-day tournament quarter-final match at Darley Road […]

Sesha Umaya of Lyceum International, Wattala excelled at the recently held International Schools Athletics Championships as she established two new meet records in the Under 16 age category. Umaya clocked 12.53 seconds to create a new meet record in the 100 metres dash and cleared a distance of 5.12 metres to improve the meet record […]

By A Special Sports Correspondent Members of the Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club (CR&FC) did the century-old institute proud by winning the prestigious Clifford Cup on Sunday (March 5) after beating Navy Sports Club (Navy SC) in the final at Race Course Grounds in Colombo. The ‘Red Shirts’ led by scrum-half Kavindu de Costa laid […]

By Rex Clementine You don’t always agree with Dimuth Karunaratne. You tend to think that he’s too soft, too relaxed, suffers fools like Niroshan Dickwella gladly and adopts a defensive approach when it comes to selections. But who cares. Our opinions should be limited to newspaper columns only and shouldn’t go beyond. Under Dimuth Sri […]

Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ quarter-final A hurricane knock of 44 runs by Shenel Samarathunga and all-round bowling performances in the first innings helped St. Benedict’s fight back to earn a semi-final spot as they defied formidable Richmond in the Under 19 Division I Tier ‘A’ tournament quarter-final at Dombagoda on Tuesday. After being […]

I refer to the opinion piece titled ‘Tears of hypocrisy’ – a response by G.A. D. Sirimal in The Island of 01 March. Referring to one of your previous editorials where you have raised the question as to why the Mahanayaka Theras wouldn’t care to rein in unruly monks, Sirimal wanted to know what happened to a […]

Under 19 Traditional Cricket Matches Anjala Bandara reached the thousand runs milestone for the season as he top scored with 138 runs for Mahanama to post 457 runs against Prince of Wales on day one of their Under 19 traditional cricket encounter at Mattegoda on Tuesday. Bandara’s run-a-ball knock included 11 fours and two sixes […]