LNP - Australia cricket team to tour Sri Lanka in early 2025

2024-11-01   |   Sports

The Australia Men's National Cricket Team will tour Sri Lanka from January to February 2025 to participate in a two-match Test series and one ODI.  T...

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LNP - Sri Lanka ODI squad named for West Indies series

2024-10-18   |   Sports

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced the 16-member Sri Lanka squad, captained by Charith Asalanka, for the three-match ODI series against West Indies...

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LNP - Sri Lanka script history, beat West Indies in T20 series for first time

2024-10-17   |   Sports

Sri Lanka thrashed West Indies by 9 wickets on Thursday (October 17) to take the series by 2-1. Maheesh Theekshana and Wanindu Hasaranga chipped in wi...

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LNP - Nissanka, Wellalage power Sri Lanka to series-leveling win over West Indies

2024-10-16   |   Sports

Sri Lanka produced a dominant performance to defeat the West Indies by 73 runs in the second T20I at Dambulla on Tuesday (October 15), leveling the se...

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LNP - Hirunika resigns as national organiser of SJB women’s wing

2024-10-14   |   Sports

Former MP Hirunika Premachandra states that she is resigning from the post of National Organiser of the ‘Samagi Vanitha Balawegaya’, the women’s...

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LNP - Jayawardene returns as Mumbai Indians head coach ahead of IPL 2025

2024-10-14   |   Sports

Mahela Jayawardene has been re-appointed as the head coach of the Mumbai Indians after spending the last two years as the franchise’s global head of...

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LNP - SLC confirms Sanath Jayasuriya as national team’s head coach

2024-10-08   |   Sports

Sri Lanka Cricket has confirmed the appointment of Sanath Jayasuriya as the head coach of the national team. The Executive Committee of Sri Lanka Cric...

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LNP - High-level IMF team to visit Sri Lanka this week

2024-10-01   |   Sports

A high-level team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by its Director of the Asia Pacific Department, Krishna Srinivasan, is scheduled to vis...

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LNP - Kamindu Mendis sets historic world record in 8th Test match

2024-09-26   |   Sports

In a remarkable achievement, Kamindu Mendis has become the first-ever player to slam fifty-plus scores in eight consecutive Test matches.  The stylis...

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LNP - Cricket Australia bans ex-Sri Lankan cricketer Dulip Samaraweera for 20 years

2024-09-19   |   Sports

Cricket Australia (CA) has banned former Sri Lankan Test player Dulip Samaraweera for 20 years after he “committed a serious breach” of the organi...

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LNP - Prize money announced for T20 World Cup 2022

2022-09-30   |   Sports

The ICC announced that the winning side at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022 in Melbourne on November 13 would receive prize money of $1.6 million, wit...

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LNP - RW, Modi discuss Sri Lanka’s economic crisis in Tokyo

2022-09-29   |   Sports

President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed Sri Lanka's debt restructuring when the two held informal discussions...

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LNP - IMF team to visit Sri Lanka by month-end for staff-level agreement

2022-08-19   |   Sports

The Governor of the Central Bank says that Sri Lanka’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is making good progress and that an I...

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LNP - Mahinda thanked Modi

2022-03-24   |   Sports

While thanking Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing Indian economic development assistance and credit facilities, said that he would expe...

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LNP - Sri Lanka beat Australia by 5 wickets in 5th T20I

2022-02-21   |   Sports

Sri Lanka defeated Australia by 5 wickets in the fifth and final T20I game between the sides at Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday. Kusal Mendis' unbe...

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LNP - Only 3 out of 10 locos in operation; 120 coaches not used yet; SLSMU says

2021-12-31   |   Sports

Only three locomotives imported from India have been commissioned and none of the imported train coaches have been added to the drive, the Sri Lanka S...

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LNP - Patients bear the brunt as GMOA strike enters third day

2021-12-23   |   Sports

With the trade union action by the Government Medical Officers Association entering the third day, patient care services have been highly affected acr...

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LNP - Basil lands in India for talks with Modi

2021-12-01   |   Sports

Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa landed in New Delhi a short while ago and was received at the airport by High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda. During h...

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LNP - Sri Lanka four wickets away from big win over West Indies

2021-11-25   |   Sports

Sri Lanka need just four wickets to win the first Test against West Indies in Galle after setting the all-but-impossible target of 348 today's penulti...

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LNP - Basil to visit India for bilateral talks with PM Modi

2021-11-23   |   Sports

Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa will visit India to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, foreign minister GL Peiris said today. His w...

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LNP - Sri Lanka, India to co-host T20 World Cup 2026

2021-11-17   |   Sports

ndia and Sri Lanka are set to co-host the 2026 T20 World Cup, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced. The ICC announced the names of the 12...

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LNP - You’re one of most important players in Lankan cricket history: Muttiah tells Mahela

2021-11-15   |   Sports

Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan has called his former teammate and the ICC's latest Hall of Fame inductee Mahela Jayawardene one of the ga...

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LNP - England defeat Sri Lanka by 26 runs in Sharjah

2021-11-02   |   Sports

Jos Buttler smashed a magnificent 101 not out, as England registered their fourth consecutive win, beating Sri Lanka by 26 runs in a Super 12 match to...

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LNP - Australia beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets

2021-10-29   |   Sports

Australia beat Sri Lanka by seven wickets in a Super 12 contest at the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in Dubai on Thursday. Kusal Perera and Charith Asalanka ...

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LNP - ICC allows Sri Lanka’s beloved, noisy papare bands play at T20 World Cup in Dubai

2021-10-28   |   Sports

The infectious music of the wildly popular Sri Lankan papare bands will soon be heard at the T20 World Cup. Hundreds of Sri Lankan cricket fans in the...

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