The Hayman is back, and bound to bring with it some fun and excitement. It’s superb to see how water polo has grown in Sri Lanka with the annual Royal – Thomian game having to be moved out of the home and away tradition into proper Olympic sized pools, primarily for accommodation of a growing following. Sometimes I miss the ...
Had a chilled out weekend after a long while. R and R from the last one which was quite literally a battle for survival. Wrote some rude e mails for work. Liberating stuff. Cracking night at a friend’s 30th as well. Well done Raj! So Sri Lanka played some cricket on Friday and Sunday. Do you really care? I don’t. ...
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So the DM has struck again portraying Sanath Jayasuriya, the Chief Selector, as being entirely miffed at the so-called ‘leaking’ of team plans to the press. Sangakkara and Mahela have previously fallen foul of the establishment for their utterances, but the due have had a peaceable relationship with Sanath upto now, after the whole ‘retirement’ saga was dealt with. You ...
The Sri Lanka U21 Water Polo team emerged from Malaysia with a bronze medal at the 50th Malaysian National Age Group Championships. This is a creditable performance in the long journey to be competitive in Asia. The Malaysian championship features other Malaysian regional teams and also had two invitational national teams from Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. As expected therefore, the ...
The finals of the Clifford Cup ended brilliantly. Unless you were one of the outnumbered Havelocks fans or players. The stunning 27-22 comeback, after trailing by 16 points at half time, Navy underlined their supremacy as the best side in the league this year. While several doubters may have wondered about Navy’s capability, they put all those doubts to rest ...
Yesterday was the Ladies v Visakha annual water polo encounter for the Edussuriya Trophy. The encounter started in 2004 has gained momentum and is now in its tenth year. I was called on to do the commentary for CSN and was, in hindsight, very happy that I was able to do so, because the games – both junior and senior ...
Let it be known that Richie McCaw is not only the best flanker the world has ever seen, and one of the greatest rugby players ever produced. He is also – more importantly, in fact – a salt of the earth nice guy. So Richie actually leaving a bad taste in anyone’s mouth (metaphorically, I’ve never met his girlfriends) is ...
The one thing the authorities didn’t think of – and you can’t really blame them for it at all – is that the December weather may just dampen what could otherwise be a very open season of Dialog Rugby action. Most of these weeks matches were affected in some way by rain, and the quality of rugby is obviously diluted, ...
What’s wrong with our World Cup squad, I hear you ask? Well a lot, if you ask me. Yes, this is a 30 member pool and there are a lot of untested names. But the most notable absentee in the squad is Logic. With Foresight also being unlucky to be left out. But let’s face it. This 30 isnt’ going ...
Been away for a few days. Just had the most amazing experience of adversity up the Mahaweli. It’s great when a bunch of total strangers band together in a survival effort. Much more interesting than football. I’ve often said that I am the Anti Fever Pitch. Nick Hornby’s book ‘Fever Pitch’ is a must read for any Arsenal fan, and ...
It appears that All Black fans and non-All Black fans have one thing in common. They expect the Blacks to turn up and thrash all comers. Luckily, for the few discerning rugby fans, there’s enough objectivity to realise that world rugby has never been more competitive. As a result, when 91,000 people gathered at Wembley, many would have expected a ...
I’ve been holding this one back a bit. But it’s too late now for any of this to make any real difference to the training regimens of Trinity or Royal. But given the amount of Royal bashing I did after the entire Patana episode, I thought I owed them some unsolicited advice. Here’s how Royal should make up the 12 ...
That was your final. NZ, SA that…was your final. What an amazing game of cricket, and what a shame they are so few and far between. I’m enough of a cricket fan to be actually happy Sri Lanka didn’t sneak through to that semi final, because the fare that would have been dished out would have made me cry. There’s ...
I was reading an article from the Economist today on the falling ratings of CNN. Apparently because it doesn’t support or condemn either candidate CNN is losing ground to Fox and MSNBC. The article had a genius line. “CNN are fair. Viewers hate that” Hilarious. But true. What is about us that abhors balance so much? This is entirely true ...
Poland will not be a pushover today! They may have made heavy weather of the Madagascans but as their spokesman said, they’d been travelling 24 hours and are a better side than that. One hoped Sri Lanka had learned their lessons but it does not appear to be so. At least the front 5 are solid and should be able ...
I haven’t been this excited about a Sri Lanka game since about 2007. The Tuskers play Kazakhstan in just over 24 hours time and it looks like it’s going to turn out to be a scorcher. And I don’t mean just weatherwise. Sri Lanka have improved with each of the two games they’ve played so far in the HSBC A5N ...
That was an anticlimax wasn’t it? It’s like really hitting it off with this girl at a party and then finding out she has a boyfriend. And he’s good looking, has cooler wheels, and is successful, but a bit of a dick. Regardless, you don’t stand a chance. New Zealand had lost that game before they walked on the pitch ...
I didn’t write a preview to the quarter finals, because I was afraid. Afraid of exactly what happened, and afraid of all hate I’d receive for surmising that it might happen. Afraid that I was already getting too emotional about the retirements to be objective about the cricket. It happens, sometimes. There’s no way I can avoid doing a review ...
It was one of those weekends again. RC v SPC Royal v Peters has become one of the great modern rivalries. The contrast between the styles of play have been one of the reasons for this, but somehow both teams manage to bring out the best in each other. SPC roared into a 19 – 0 lead early on in ...
