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by Sa’adi Thawfeeq
Aravinda de Silva is a name synonymous with cricket around the world and when a legend like him speaks everyone has to sit back and listen because what he says is what he has learnt through his own experience.
The most pertinent message De Silva made as chief guest at the 41st Observer/Mobitel School Cricketer of the Year awards ceremony at the Colombo Hilton on Friday...
Fast bowler Lasith Malinga who retired from ODI cricket during the Bangladesh series will continue to lead Sri Lanka in T20 Internationals after being retained as captain for the three-match series against New Zealand starting at Pallekele on September 1.
Malinga’s appointed however according to chairman of selectors Ashantha de Mel is only for this series.
“We will see...
For the cricket team of S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia the 2018-19 season has been the most rewarding probably in their history under Dinesh Kumarasinghe who sadly will be quitting his post after six years as head coach.
During this period Kumarasinghe, a respected and renowned cricket coach has done wonders with the school to turn their first eleven cricket team into a...
Former Sri Lanka cricket captain and present chief ICC Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle who was the first recipient of the prestigious Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year award in 1979 and 40 years later the chief guest at the 40th Observer/Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year awards night held at Hilton Colombo on Tuesday passed on some key messages to three...
Chief guest at the 40th Observer/Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year awards night Ranjan Madugalle promised that he is prepared to attend the 50th awards night of this prestigious function even travelling on a turbo-charged wheel chair.
Madugalle who was the first recipient of this contest in 1979 when he won the Schoolboy Cricketer award as the captain of Royal...
by Sa’adi Thawfeeq
There is a common saying that “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” and, in this aspect, former Sri Lanka cricket captain...
The national women’s cricket team, unlike the men’s, did not have a feeder system because there was no cricket played at the...
Hathurusingha is back as head coach and business is as usual :With the Cricket World Cup barely ten months away Sri Lanka and...
Sri Lanka took a stranglehold of the second Test after their spinners Akila Dananjaya and Dilruwan Perera had bowled South Africa...
Coach of the beleaguered South African team Ottis Gibson said that the accuracy of the Sri Lankan spinners was causing a mental...
Following their tense two-wicket win over hosts Sri Lanka on Friday, Bangladesh and India have proved they are the best teams in...
Sri Lanka’s drop in the ICC One-Day International rankings from third in 2015 to sixth in 2017 can be attributed to many factors...
The death of Radley Classen in Adelaide Australia last month brought to an end the famous Classen family that dominated school...
Memories are usually short in this topsy-turvy world we live in and it would be pertinent to recall the severe injustice done to...
Geoff Wijesinghe, former editor of the Daily News and Sunday Observer and one-time head of ‘Lankapuvath’ the country’s only...