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Minister of Sports Namal Rajapaksa has appointed a management committee to handle the administrative affairs of Sri Lanka Cricket.…

SLPP Chairman Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday (29) asked whether the UK would hand over wartime dispatches (January-May, 2009) from i…

Karunaratne pleaded guilty to the offence and accepted the proposed sanction, so there was no need for a formal hearing (ICC) Sri …

The Badminton National Championship 2020 concluded with Olympian Niluka Karunaratne successfully defending the men’s singles t…

Another 1,000 acres of the Somawathiya National Park were been grabbed yesterday by an organised group who removed boundary post…

op Row: H.C. Sampath Hettiarachchi – Captain, H.M. Dinesh Priyantha, H.G. Palitha Bandara, K.A. Samitha Dulan, K.G. Gamini Eka…

The Sports Ministry yesterday brought Sri Lanka Cricket down a notch by appointing a high profile Cricket Committee. While Crick…

People’s Merchant Finance PLC relocated its Kurunegala branch to a more conveniently accessible location No. 2 South circular Ro…

Sri Lanka Cricket has issued an ultimatum to its contracted players after eight of them failed a fitness test in Colombo. A pool…

Emerging school athlete Shanika Lakshani competing alongside seniors shattered one of the oldest athletics records when she clock…

When the track and field sport resumes action this weekend after more than a year on the sidelines due to the Covid 19 pandemic, n…

More than half a dozen top national athletes will have tough Olympic qualifying marks or achieving better world rankings as their …

Puttalam Zahira FC Qatar has become the champions of Ozee Soccer Seven Tournament beating Mawanella Zahira FC. The 2020 Edition of…

The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) yesterday said that the proposed handing over of the Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal to …

All year long, most of the national athletes have been training without a goal in sight. As in most sports, Badminton too had it…

Herschelle Gibbs has been suspended as a coach by Colombo Kings, it is reliably learnt here.  The 46-year-old South African o…

The BCCI has signalled the likely addition of two new teams to the IPL for the 2021 edition. That, along with the “discussionâ…

The current pandemic situation has forced Sri Lanka Athletics to take an unprecedented step in including two track athletes, who a…

Dazzling, infamous, extraordinary, genius, outrageous. Diego Maradona. A flawed football icon. One of the game’s most gifted pla…

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 …

Left-arm quick Dilshan Madushanka has suddenly become the talk in cricket circles after he was drafted into the Sri Lankan squad t…

Twenty Sri Lankan cricketers and support staff of the national cricket team had gone through PCR tests yesterday. The results of…

Atapattu (far right) had her first failure of the tournament as her team failed to chase 119 to secure the title The Supernovas le…

Chamari Atapattu with a brilliant half-century and Radha Yadav, with her nerves of steel while defending 10 runs in the final ov…

Former Test captain Sanath Jayasuriya has completed a two year suspension imposed on him by the International Cricket Council an…