Sports LNP - Shanika breaks lockdown shackles to erase 35 year old athletics record
Emerging school athlete Shanika Lakshani competing alongside seniors shattered one of the oldest athletics records when she clocked 4:33.40 seconds to finish…
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Sports LNP - Rabada added to South Africa squad for Wanderers Test
Rabada last played a Test against England at St George’s Park in January (Getty) Sri Lanka’s problems in South Africa worsened on Monday when Kagiso Rabada was…
Sports LNP - School athletes’ prospects at National Athletics Championship
When the track and field sport resumes action this weekend after more than a year on the sidelines due to the Covid 19 pandemic, not only the top national…
Sports LNP - Top athletes to vie for Olympic qualifying standards
More than half a dozen top national athletes will have tough Olympic qualifying marks or achieving better world rankings as their prime targets when they…
Sports LNP - Puttalam Zahira FC wins Soccer Tournament
Puttalam Zahira FC Qatar has become the champions of Ozee Soccer Seven Tournament beating Mawanella Zahira FC. The 2020 Edition of the Ozee Soccer Seven…
Sports LNP - SJB rakes up dubious track record of Indian conglomerate selected by govt. to run ECT
The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) yesterday said that the proposed handing over of the Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal to India’s Adani Group contravened…
Sports LNP - Sports Sri Lanka Badminton brings on Li Ning – Lanka Shuttle Challenge 2020
All year long, most of the national athletes have been training without a goal in sight. As in most sports, Badminton too had its fair share of missed…
Sports LNP - Dhananjaya Lakshan– a star in the making
There was a major upset in the Lanka Premier League yesterday as table toppers Colombo Kings were sent packing by Galle Gladiators, who won a thrilling contest…
Sports LNP - Herschelle Gibbs suspended by Colombo Kings, Rangana Herath appointed new coach
Herschelle Gibbs has been suspended as a coach by Colombo Kings, it is reliably learnt here. The 46-year-old South African opener came to Sri Lanka as a…
Sports LNP - Steyn rejuvenates Kandy Tuskers
The arrival of Dale Steyn seemed to have rejuvenated Kandy Tuskers as they put up a splendid show to beat the in form Jaffna Stallions in a Lanka Premier…
Sports LNP - Jaffna Stallions highly impressive in LPL
Jaffna Stallions’ CEO Ananthan Arnold (middle) in conversation with the team’s overseas signing Shoaib Malik. COO Paven Savuntharasa is also in the…
Sports LNP - Await ten team IPL in 2021
The BCCI has signalled the likely addition of two new teams to the IPL for the 2021 edition. That, along with the “discussion” on including cricket in the 2028…
Sports LNP - Pandemic forces Sri Lanka Athletics to take unprecedented steps
The current pandemic situation has forced Sri Lanka Athletics to take an unprecedented step in including two track athletes, who are currently serving drug…
Sports LNP - Pandya, Jadeja, Thakur hand India consolation win
Virat Kohli spoke of the “need to improve body language in the field and the bowling” going into the final One-Day International in the three-match series.…
Sports LNP - Spinners dominate in Dambulla Viikings win
Dambulla Viikings skipper Dasun Shanaka smashed a half-century as his side beat Colombo Kings in the LPL at Suriyawewa yesterday. Colombo Kings had gone about…
Sports LNP - Kandy Tuskers pick up first win in LPL
Danushka Gunathilaka fought a lone battle for Galle Gladiators posting 82 runs in his team’s LPL fixture against Kandy Tuskers at Suriyawewa yesterday. Kandy…
Sports LNP - Diego Maradona – Argentina’s flawed football icon
Dazzling, infamous, extraordinary, genius, outrageous. Diego Maradona. A flawed football icon. One of the game’s most gifted players, the Argentine boasted a…
Sports LNP - LPL rocked by corruption scandal
A former Sri Lanka cricketer is under probe after his alleged attempt to entice a player into corrupt practice in the inaugural Lanka Premier League tournament…
Sports LNP - Dambulla Viikings gear up to conquer
While a captain is to be officially named this team is not short on leadership; in Dasun Shanaka, Upul Tharanga and Ireland international Paul Stirling,…
Sports LNP - Steyn to play LPL, but could miss early games
Lanka Premier League received a shot in the arm after it was confirmed that pace sensation Dale Steyn will be arriving in the island shortly and will turn out…
Sports LNP - Wallabies vs Pumas – Stalemate!
This match was played in Newcastle, Sydney, between two teams who are getting a reputation for playing rough and tumble rugby rather than the silky-smooth…
Sports LNP - 2002 world medals that Sugath and Rohan never received
It was a time when Sri Lanka had in possession some of Asia’s best sprinters. Sri Lanka was so strong in the men’s 400 metres from mid 90s to early 2000s, when…
Sports LNP - My11Circle comes on board as title sponsor of LPL
A galaxy of global stars which includes Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews will be taking part in the 15-day extravaganza. In a major boost to the inaugural…
Sports LNP - Left-arm quick from Hungama could be next big thing in cricket
Left-arm quick Dilshan Madushanka has suddenly become the talk in cricket circles after he was drafted into the Sri Lankan squad that will tour South Africa…