Mark your calendars for a week of strategic brilliance and fierce competition as the Western Juniors & Girls Chess Championship 2023 descends upon the Auditorium of the Board of Investors of Sri Lanka (BOI) on the 8th floor of the World Trade Center, Colombo 01 – West Tower, from November 29th to December 5th. A Pan-Asian Clash of Titans This ...
Sri Lanka squad has been selected for the upcoming Men’s U19 Asia Cup 2023. Sineth Jayawardene will lead the 15-member Sri Lanka squad while Malsha Tharupathi has been named as his deputy. Sri Lanka U19 Team enter this Asian showpiece event on the back of having registered ODI series wins against West Indies U19 and Pakistan U19 in last two ...
The man who won the inaugural World Cup and defended the title four years later, Clive Lloyd once said, ‘catches win matches’. More than four decades after those golden words, the West Indian legend’s words are still relevant in the modern-day game although cricket has undergone significant changes since ODI World Cups were first played in white clothes and red ...
Former West Indies player Marlon Samuels has been banned from all cricket for six years after an independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) Anti-Corruption Code. Samuels, who was charged by the ICC (in its capacity as the Designated Anti-Corruption Official under the ECB Code) in September 2021, was found guilty by the Tribunal ...
Photo courtesy of Goethe-Institut Artists and writers throughout the ages have depicted the horrors of war in graphic detail in their work. From Wilfred Own’s poems about World War I to Picasso’s painting Guernica on the Spanish Civil war, Erich Maria Remarque’s book All Quiet on the Western Front and Banksy’s images on the Israeli West Bank wall, the creative ...
I wanted to write about two terms that are of particular political interest to me in these terrible days of absolutely barbaric assaults on civilians in Gaza and the West Bank and the shocking silence of the mainstream media: writers' bloc (yes, not ‘block’ and the apostrophe after and not before the 's') and dead-lines (not ‘deadlines’). I can’t. I’ve ...
The one ton MK-84 bombs Israel gets from America to drop on native Palestinians. Each costs around $16,000. Just follow the money to understand why. (Via)Most people — even in the highly propagandized West — support at least a ceasefire in occupied Palestine. Even with a mass media constantly explaining why this is fine, most people do not like seeing ...
I had all the intensions of diving when east coast season started in 2023. I couldn't do much in west coast season this time since Sawanthi went through a surgery and needed a lot of rest, leaving me to play the typical family man role, for a change. By June, I was more than ready. While we are based in ...
When I wrote last week about the joys of finally getting to my roof garden, after weeks of rain, I managed only to show the roses on the east side, though the last picture was of the west of the big basin with the temple flower tree and now. This was understandable for there were not so very many blossoms ...
The Times talking about mutilated Israeli babies, while actually showing Palestinians. That’s how lazy the propaganda is. The thing about incitement to genocide is that it doesn’t need to make sense. It is, in fact, better if it doesn’t.The West — its media, its politicians, and far too many of its people — is now openly genocidal. We are witnessing ...
The Sri Lanka U19 squad has been announced for the upcoming tour of Pakistan, which will begin on the 15th October. Royal College batter Sineth Jayawardene will continue to lead the side, while Richmond College leg-spinning all-rounder Malsha Tharupathi has been named the vice-captain of the 16-member touring party. Most players in the Sri Lanka U19’s last assignment against West Indies retained ...
Sri Lanka U19 Men’s Team will travel to Pakistan on the 12th of October to participate in one Youth Test match and 5 Youth ODI matches. >>Photos – West Indies U19 tour of Sri Lanka 2023 – 3rd Youth ODI The tour will begin with the one-off 4-day game from 15th October and the 5-match ODI series will be played ...
Only six teams have featured in all World Cups since the tournament’s inception in 1975 and Sri Lanka is one of them. The team has played 80 games in World Cups since their first encounter against West Indies at Old Trafford and won 38 and lost 39. Two games had ended in no results while one game was a tie – ...
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Jordan Johnson’s magnificent 157* couldn’t prevent a defeat for West Indies U19s in the second Youth Test against Sri Lanka as the hosts won by 7 wickets and claimed the series victory 1-0 at Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla. Sri Lanka were only 2 wickets away from cleaning up the visitors second innings at the beginnings of the ...
Soon after I got back from England I decided that I wanted still more roses for the roof garden. It was clear the barbaton daisies were not working in the corner bed in the south west of the garden, and when I found the rose Anuruddha gave me doing well there, I thought I might as well dedicate that bed ...
Vihas Thewmika showed more disciplined bowling to claim another 5-wicket haul as the Sri Lanka U19s took the early advantage of the 2nd Youth Test against the West Indies U19s on the opening day at Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla. >>Vihas Thewmika 6-for outshines Jordan Johnson’s century After winning the toss, West Indies U19s Captain Nathan Sealy decided ...
Vihas Thewmika spun a web to claim six after Jordan Johnson’s fighting 149-run knock on day four as the first Youth Test between Sri Lanka U19s and West Indies U19s ended in a draw at Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla. After being washed out for the final two sessions completely on day three, the Windies resumed the final ...
Rain played a significant role as only 24.5 overs were bowled on day three of the first Youth Test between Sri Lanka U19s and West Indies U19s at Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla. The visitors began the third day at 27/1 following a massive first-innings total posted by the home team on day two. The two Vishwas, Vishwa ...
Dinura Kalupahana blasted an unbeaten 150 as Sri Lanka U19s dominated day two of the first Youth Test against West Indies U19s at Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium in Dambulla. The hosts resumed the second day at 163/3 after a rain-hampered opening day, during which only 38 overs were bowled. Right-arm pacer Isai Thorne provided the Windies with the perfect ...
