9th Asian Junior Squash Championships
Sri Lanka triumph

Sri Lanka beat Singapore 3-0 in the 9th Asian Junior Squash championship at the National Squash Centre yesterday.

Hirantha Goonasena, Navin Samarasinghe and Kavinda Cooray played superbly to beat Singapore in the team championship, keeping alive Sri Lanka’s hopes of being placed fifth.

Cooray beat Ong Pon Kwang in a match which went the distance 8-10, 9-5, 5-9, 9-5, 9-1.

Samarasinghe dropped one game before winning 9-4, 9-2, 4-9, 9-5. The experienced Goonasena beat Teing Kuan in straight games 9-1, 9-1, 9-0.

Sri Lanka boys will meet Thailand while the girls will meet Japan tomorrow. (D.R.)

Ranatunga and Jardine

Sri Lanka cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga has become the most hated figure in Australia since English skipper Douglas Jardine who unleashed Harold Larwood to stop run-machine Donald Bradman during the ‘Bodyline’ series.

"No captain since Douglas Jardine has stirred greater emotion in this country than Ranatunga," writes Ted Corbett, a correspondent for ‘The Hindu’ newspaper.

A Perth radio station had in fact asked its listeners to boo when Ranatunga took the field on Sunday, to turn their backs on his team and to clap the umpires all the way to the middle at the start of the match against Australia.

This was after Ranatunga was let off with a suspended six-match ban after being found guilty of improper conduct in the match against England at Adelaide.

Dias (6-34) puts DSS on top

Left arm leg-spinner Lassana Dias of D.S. Senanayake College claimed six wickets for 34 runs to dismiss Richmond College, College for 159 in a inter-school cricket match at Wijerama Mawatha yesterday.

In reply, D.S. Senanayake were in the driving seat at 98 for the loss of one wicket with opener Muditha Maduwantha being unbeaten on 49.

Scores

Richmond 159 all out (A. Rideegammana 43, D. Sumathipala 35, L. Dias 6-34, M. Alwis 2-13) D.S. Senanayake 98 for one at close (M. Maduwantha 49 n.o., Shashi Lafir 18, M. Gajanayake 15 n.o.)

Police thump 11
By T. Rajah

Sri Lanka Police trounced Nawalapitiya Football League by 11 goals to nil in their Singer Super League Football encounter played at the Jayathilake Stadium on Sunday.

The winners led 5-0 at the short whistle in this tournament organised by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka.

Anura de Silva controlled the game.

Comrades, Duthians victorious
By T. Rajah, our Badulla Sports Corr.

Comrades Sports Club defeated their arch rivals Old Duthians Sports Club by 7 goals to nil in their Badulla League "A" division football encounter on Saturday at Vincent Dias Stadium, organised by the Badulla Association Football League.

At the short whistle the winners led 3-0.

M. Rizwan (2), M. Naushard (2), K. M. Fuard, M. R. M. Rifkhan and S. H. Arachchige scored goals for the winners.

Referee: C. A. B. Marasinghe.

In another "B" Division encounter at the same venue on Friday, Dharmadutha Sports Club beat Central Sports Club by 8 goals to 2 after leading by 1-0 at the short whistle.

Duminda Priyadarshana (4), Eroshan Dissanayake (3) and Chanaka Dinesh scored for the winners.

C. A. B. Marasinghe officiated.
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