Sri Lanka lose to Trinidad 28/70

Prince GUNASEKARA reporting from Singapore

NETBALL: Sri Lanka suffered a humiliating 28-70 defeat at the hands of Trinidad and Tobago in their opening match of the Asian netball championships worked off at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall in Singapore yesterday.

Trinidad and Tobago who are placed tenth in the World Rankings completely dominated the game and piled up the points almost at a will.

They took a commanding 16-6 lead at the end of the first quarter and went on to lead 34-10 and 53-19 in the second and third quarter respectively.

Tharjani Sivalingam collected 22 goals from 22 attempts while Shashika Samarasinghe contributed eight goals from 13 attempts. Earlier Singapore defeated Canada 44-33 in the curtain raiser match of the tournament.

Sri Lanka’s second match of the tournament will be on Wednesday against Canada.

They will confront the hosts Singapore in their third match of the tournament on Friday.