OTHER NEWS South Asian champion Priyadarshani tests positive for banned drug Brandix to support weightlifter at Olympics Charith Senanayake appointed manager Lankans will rejoice Sachin's feat - Arjuna    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend Algama removed from SLC 01-05-2008 The services of Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) media manager Samantha Algama was terminated last night by the Cricket board President Arjuna Ranatunga. Speaking to media Algama alleged the move was related to a tender controversy and the publicity it got in the media. “If he thinks by terminating my services he can silence the media then he is sadly mistaken.” Print Version | Email to friend

South Asian champion Priyadarshani tests positive for banned drug Wed, 23-07-2008 21:00:00 Premila Priyadarshani who won the 100 metres gold medal at the South Asian Athletic Championships in March has tested positive for a banned drug, Athletics Association sources revealed yesterday. Priyadarshani had tested positive for the drug Terbutaline at the recent National Athletics championships in Colombo where she was subjected to a random test after finishing second in the 100 metres behind her arch rival N.C.D Priyadarshani. The results of the test done by ... |FULL STORY|

Brandix to support weightlifter at Olympics Wed, 23-07-2008 20:00:00 Champion weight lifter Chinthana Vidanage, one of just eight prospects from Sri Lanka at next month’s Beijing Olympics, received a valuable morale booster from his employer Brandix Lanka Limited when the country’s largest apparel exporter presented the athlete with a token of its support. Less than two weeks before he leaves for the greatest challenge in his athletic career, Vidanage was presented with sports gear and an assurance that his 25,000 colleagues at Brandix would also be... |FULL STORY|

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Charith Senanayake appointed manager Wed, 23-07-2008 13:00:00 Former Sri Lanka cricketer Charith Senanayake, a teammate of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) interim committee chairman Arjuna Ranatunga at Ananda College and also in the national team was appointed yesterday as the new manager of the Sri Lanka cricket team ending a prolonged controversy over the post just on the eve of the first cricket test starting today against India. The interim committee members who met at the SLC headquarters in a lengthy meeting agreed unanimously to the appointm... |FULL STORY|

Lankans will rejoice Sachin's feat - Arjuna Tue, 22-07-2008 20:00:00 SLC chief and World Cup winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga told media that Sri Lankans will rejoice Sachin's feat. "Everyone in Lanka is keen to see him bat in real cricket and not cow-boy (shorter version) cricket. There are no words to describe him. One has to just look at his record. It says everything. He is the best batsman I have seen," Arjuna has been quoted as saying in the Indian paper Mid-Day. ... |FULL STORY|

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