By Reemus Fernando The Department of Sports of the Ministry of Education has made amendments to its sports programmes that will pave the way for a couple of new long distance events to be included in track and field competitions from the upcoming season. The Under 18 age category will have the 3,000 metres […]
How deleting game apps, rare cooperate sector backing, golden rendezvous of a coach powered Lakvijaya to a national record By Reemus Fernando When Janindu Induwara Lakvijaya clocked 13.82 seconds to win the second heat of the men’s 110 metre hurdles at the Selection Trial held at Diyagama last week, the former St. Peter’s College […]
by Reemus Fernando Athletes selected for the forthcoming Asian Youth Athletics Championships have been requested to find funds for their traveling and other expenses as the Ministry of Sports has halted funding teams for foreign tours. The athletes and their schools have been informed to find funds amounting to rupees 650,000.00 per person for their […]
England smashed the highest ever women’s T20 World Cup total in a record 114 run thrashing of Pakistan in Newlands to complete an unbeaten group phase Brief scores: England 213 for 5 (Nat Sciver-Brunt 81 , Danni Wyatt 59, Fatima Sana 2-44) beat Pakistan 99 for 9 (Tuba Hassan 28, Katherine Sciver-Brunt 2-14) by 114 runs
South Africa’s path to the semi-finals was scrappy to the last, but they’ll take it. Losing the first match of the Women’s T20 World Cup to Sri Lanka put the hosts on a slippery slope from which they had to claw their way back. On a cool Tuesday night, returning to Newlands for the first […]