Super League pre-season tournament to resume tomorrow

The second round robin league matches of the Super League pre-season tournament organised by the Football Federation of Sri Lanka (FFSL) will take place on February 27 and 28 at the Sugathadasa Stadium.

Defenders FC will take on Red Star SC at 5:00 p.m. and Colombo FC will meet Up Country Lions SC at 8:00 p.m. on February 27.

Blue Star SC will face Ratnam SC at 5:00 p.m. and Blue Eagles SC will take on New Youngs SC at 8:00 p.m. on February 28.

Ten of the leading premier clubs are taking part in this pre-season competition which runs until March 24.

A total of 20 games will be played. In the first round of matches, Blue Star beat Red Star 2-0, Colombo FC beat Blue Eagles 2-0, Sea Hawks and New Youngs were engaged in a 1-1 draw. The match between Defenders FC and Renown SC was postponed.

Sri Lankan shares ended higher for a second straight session yesterday, helped by gains in industrial and financial stocks.

The benchmark stock index closed 1.42 percent higher at 7,476.34. Conglomerate Expolanka holdings jumped 15.1 percent as the top boost on the index, while Browns Investments gained 7.4 percent.

Tess Agro added 40 percent to end the day as the top percentage gainer on the index.

Sri Lanka’s consumer prices rose 3.3 percent year-on-year in February compared with a 3 percent rise in January, data from the statistics department showed.

Trading volume on the CSE All Share Index rose to 101 million from 75.7 million in the previous session.

Foreign investors were net sellers, offloading Rs.854.7 million (US$ 4.41 million) worth of shares, according to exchange data.

Equity market turnover was Rs.3.01 billion, data showed.

The Sri Lankan rupee was last quoted at 194 against the U.S. dollar, as of 1109 GMT.