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Michael Tissera: A Lifetime of Grounded Achievement-by Krishantha Prasad Cooray Source:Thuppahis Krishantha Prasad Cooray, in The Island, 7 April 2024, where the title runs thus: “Michael Tissera at 85: Gentlemen’s gentleman” ….. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Michael Tissera with his children and grandchildren When people who have the same first name meet up, there’s name-related humour. The more, the merrier, obviously, especially if they are good friends and enjoy friendly banter. Today I am thinking of three people who share the name Michael: Michael Tissera, Michael Sproule and Michael De Zoysa, all three who played cricket for St Thomas’ College, Mt Lavinia. The first of course is the bigger name associated with the gentleman’s game. Today I remember these three gentlemen sending everyone into fits of laughter as they talked among themselves, each referring to the others by name. It went something along the following lines: ‘Yes Michael, as I was ...

Apr 13, 2024 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Abu Fuard, D.P de Silva, Darrell Lieversz, Herbert Fernando, Krishantha Prasad Cooray, Lasantha Rodrigo, M Devaraj, Mano Ponniah, Michael Tissera, Ranjith Fernando, Stanley Jayasinghe, Sylvester Dias

Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs furious after the batting debacle against India scoring only 55 runs, then losing to Afghanistan by 7 wickets – By Sunil Thenabadu After this disastrous batting display against India collapsing for a paltry 55 runs ,thereafter to Afghanistan by seven wickets , to console the irritated fuming cricket fanatics very appropriately the Minister of sports and youth affairs Roshan Abeysinghe had requested the President and the supporting staff of the Sri Lanka Cricket to resign immediately before he takes drastic action. The Minster of sports and youth affairs Roshan Ranasinghe via his media division has expressed his discontentment on the dismal performance of our cricket team once again in the hands of India losing the WC encounter by a massive margin of 302 runs the worst defeat inflicted on Sri Lanka since participating in all world cups from year 1975.The defeat recently has made all ...

Nov 5, 2023 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged "CRICKET, Angelo Matthews, Anura Tennakoon, Avishka Fernando, Charith Asalanka, Cricket in Sri Lanka, Dimuth Karunaratne, Dinesh Chandimal, Duleep Mendis, ICC, Kusal Janith Perera, Kusal Mendis, Micheal Tissera, Pathum Nissanka Sadeera Samarawickrama, Ranjith Fernando, Roshan Ranasinghe, Roy Dias, Sanath Jayasuriya, SL Cricket, Sunil Wettimuny, The ICC world cup

St. Anthony’s has emerged as a force to be reckoned with in rugby-By Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews St.Anthony’s College, Katugastota has produced some top rugger players, from the day they took up the game of rugby. They took to rugby long after they played sports like cricket, boxing hockey, football and athletics. Only in the ‘1950’s they took an interest in the game of rugby with Bruce Winter as the first captain. The side was coached first by famous Trinity College product Bobby Jayaweera who did his best and later Maurice Perera helped in coaching. From the day, they handled the oval shaped ball, the game became very popular.. In the early days, it remained just an introduction of the game for quite some time, with no signs of attracting the enthusiasm of youthful Antonians.. Though they started rugby in the 1950’s it was only in 1961 that unprecedented enthusiasm was ...

Nov 24, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Barney Daniel, Chris Duff-Tytler, Christy Gomes, Denzil Halangoda, Elmo Joachim, Ernest Tissera, Franklyn Paul, John Emmanuel, Ken Duff-Tytler, Koelmeyer, Linton Vanstarrax, Michael Macky, Mike Joseph, Mohan Ratwatte, N. Vander Pooten, Niyas Majeed, Patrick Gunaratne, Ranjith Fernando, Ronnie Bolling, S Mulholland, S. Dunuwille, S. Kadirgamaraj, Saliya Kulatunga, St.Anthony’s College, Tom Thenuwara, Travis Baptist, Upali Fernando, W Wijeratne, Walter Lodewyke, Wilmot Wijeratne

Muttiah Muralitharan no-ball controversy: What really happened when Ross Emerson had called Muralitharan for throwing? By DIXIT BHARGAV Source: The SportsRush Muttiah Muralitharan no-ball controversy: Even after three years, the Sri Lankan bowler continued to face trouble against the Australian umpire. Back in the day, legendary Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was accused of “throwing” during two consecutive tours of Australia by the same set of umpires. Happening for the second time, the incident ended up becoming one of the greatest controversies ever witnessed in the sport. During the Benson & Hedges Series 1995-96, Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka were fighting a tough battle. In the seventh match between Sri Lanka and West Indies, Sri Lanka were bundled out for 102 in 45.2 overs after winning the toss. Nonetheless, this was not the only setback which the Sri Lankans received. During West Indies’ innings, umpire Tony McQuillan called Muttiah Muralitharan’s ...

Apr 25, 2020 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles Tagged Arjuna Ranatunga, DIXIT BHARGAV, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ranjith Fernando, Ross Emerson Comments 0