Former captains Younus Khan and Muhammad Yousuf will no longer be considered for selection by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after an inquiry into reports of infighting on the disastrous tour of Australia.
The PCB chose to implement the recommendations of an inquiry committee to also hand out 12-month bans to Shoaib Malik and Rana Naved and fine Shahid Afridi and wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal three million rupees ($35,000) and Umar Akmal two million ($24,000). Report -JNW
Defending champions Wayamba Province registered convincing 95 runs win over Ruhuna in the final played at De Zoysa Stadium in Moratuwa yesterday. In the process Wayamba retained the title for the third successive year.
Wayamba’s Jeewantha Kulatunga the only centurion of the tournament was named the man of the tournament with Mahela Jaywardena taking the man of the final award. Ruhuna’s Dinesh Chandimal and Basnahira South’s Janaka Gunaratne carried away the award for the best batsman and bowler of the tournament. The champion Wayamba team received a cash award of Rs. One million with runners-up Ruhuna receiving Rs. 500,000/-.
Scores:- Wayamba 208 for 8 in 20 overs (Mahela Jayawardena 91, Kushal Perera 34); Ruhuna 113 in 13.2 overs (Dinesh Chandimal 64)-JNW
New Zealand beat Sri Lanka 3-2 with victory in the final singles match of the Davis Cup Oceania Zone Group II tie at the National Tennis Centre in Colombo. Sri Lanka began the final day trailing 1-2 having lost the two opening singles before winning the doubles match on the previous day. While in the last day out of two single games Sri Lanka win one and lost one-JNW
Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge has ordered the terms of the Interim committees governing Rugby, Badminton and Swimming will be dissolved before the end of this month, said Sports Ministry Secretary S. Liyanagama.
“We have asked the Director General of Sports of the Sports Ministry to conduct 2010 elections for the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU), Sri Lanka Badminton Association (SLBA) and Sri Lanka Aquatic Sports Union (SLASU)-JNW
Three Sri Lankan pugilists left the Island to represent the country at the 19th Asian Youth Boxing championship scheduled to be held in Tehran from March 4th to 10th. The boxers are T. B. R. I. Warnasuriya (Light Fly 48 Kgs- Vidyartha College), H.M.D.V.R. Herath (Fly 51 Kgs-Vidyartha College) and W.V. Suduwelikanda (Bantam (54 Kgs- Royal College, Colombo)-JNW
North Korea beats Turkmenistan 5 goals to 4 by penalty shoot outs to clinch the AFC challenge cup football championship in final played at Sughadasa Stadium on Saturday. With the win North Korean has now qualified to play 2011 Asian games in Quarter-JNW
St. Peters College started the schools rugby season color full note with grabbing all island School Rugby seven a side championship on Saturday. They beat Trinity College 38-10 in final held at Royal Sports Complex-JNW
Kamran Akmal and Rana Naved are the two players allegedly under investigation by the Pakistan Cricket Board for their involvement in match-fixing.
The Voice of America quoting a highly placed source in the board reported that both the players were dropped for the T20 international series against England in Dubai this month for this very reason. According to the source, the PCB acted after the International cricket council provided them with information that linked the two players to match-fixing-report-JNW
Sri Lanka’s junior under 14 tennis players in a remarkable showing finished on top with an unbeaten record at the world junior tennis contest that concluded at the SLTA hard courts on Friday.
Their final encounter was with number one seed Malaysia and the combination of Sharmal Dissanayake and Alexander Fairbanks came out with an excellent performance to win all their matches. With this win the Sri Lankan juniors qualify to play in the next round to be held in China later in the year. This is however the first time that Sri Lanka’s junior tennis players progressed beyond the first round-JNW
India ’s Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to score a double century in one-day internationals on Wednesday.
Tendulkar, who opens the batting in ODIs, achieved the feat in the second one-dayer against South Africa, his 200 not out guiding the home team to 401-3 in 50 overs. Tendulkar reached 200 with a single off Charl Langeveldt in the final over of India’s innings on Wednesday, having earlier broken the world record for the highest individual score of 194 held by Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry.
India won 3 match ODI series 2-0 against South Africa after winning winning the final by 153 runs. Asanka
Kandurata Province won the Sri Lanka Cricket Inter Province Limited Overs Cricket championship beating Ruhunu Province by three wickets in their final played at Moratuwa on Sunday. Ruhunu 263/7 in 50 overs; Kandurata 264/7 in 49.1 overs ( Sangakkara 76, C.K. Kapugedara 50)-JNW
Sri Lanka clinches two titles at the ITF Junior Tennis Championship concluded at the SSC courts, Maitland Place.
Amritha Muttiah became the first Sri Lankan girl to win an ITF title when she clinched the under-18 singles title while Sri Lanka’s boys’ doubles pair of Amresh Jayawickrema and Vimuktha de Alwis brought honor to the country when they defeated their opponents from India in final-JNW
Kandurata and Ruhunu qualified to clash in the final of the Inter-Provincial limited over tournament when they won their semi final encounters against Wayamba and Basnahira South played at the NCC ground and De Zoysa Stadium in Moratuwa on Friday.
The two teams will now contest in the final scheduled to be played on Sunday at De Zoysa Stadium in Moratuwa-JNW
Sri Lanka went out from the AFC challenge cup football tournament after they lost to Tajikistan by 3 goals to 1 in the second group “A” match at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday. Sri Lanka lost to Myanmar 4-0 in the opening game and will meet Bangladesh in the final group match on Saturday-JNW
Myanmar defeated host Sri Lanka by four goals to nil in the opening game of the AFC Challenge Cup football tournament in group “A’ at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Feb 16. Other group “A’ match Bangladesh beats Tajikistan 2-1-JNW
