Category: Sports News

The cricket world has been left shattered by the death of Australian batsman, Phillip Hughes. The 25-year-old suffered devastating head injuries when he was struck while batting at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday. […]

Sri Lanka defeated England by 25 runs in the first one-day international in Colombo on Wednesday to take the lead in the seven-match series. […]

England were frustrated by rain in Colombo as their final warm-up match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. The tourists were due to take on a Sri Lanka A side for the second time in three days ahead of the first one-day international on Wednesday. But persistent rain at the P. Sara Oval meant […]

Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews is now the No 1 all-rounder in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Rankings for One-Day International (ODI) All-rounders. Despite Sri Lanka losing the ODI series to India 0-5, Mathews was one of the success stories and performed brilliantly with the bat. In the last ODI at Ranchi, he smashed 139 […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has defended the decision to send Angelo Mathews and Co. for the unscheduled tour to India. […]

Innings Sri Lanka 242 (Jayawardene 118, Dilshan 53, Yadav 4-53 ) v India A disastrous batting Powerplay that cost Sri Lanka three wickets for 16 runs sucked the oxygen out of an already endangered innings and set the visitors on course for their third mediocre score of the series. On a track expected to feature […]

HYDERABAD: Nearly 1,500 police personnel will be deployed for the upcoming one-day international cricket match between India and Sri Lanka at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal on Sunday. Cyberabad police said 56 cameras would be installed in and around the stadium and a command control room will also be set up to monitor […]

Ahmedabad: Sri Lanka batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan is hopeful of his team’s comeback in the five-ODI series against India despite a crushing 169-run defeat in the first game at Cuttack on Sunday. The Sri Lankans, chasing a mammoth 364 to win, were rattled by fast bowlers Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav at the start of their […]

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has said that his team does not have an ideal preparation for the upcoming tour of India as they were concentrating on fitness, and not skills, during the break from international cricket. […]

Sri Lanka won the gold medal after beating Afghanistan in the final match of Asian Games Men’s Cricket Competition played at Yeonhui Cricket Ground, Incheon on Friday. […]

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed in a media release yesterday that ‘as per the recommendations of the special committee appointed to select the National Head Coach, The Executive Committee of SLC unanimously approved and appointed Marvan Atapattu to the position of National Head Coach of Sri Lanka Cricket with immediate effect’. […]

Ross Emerson has spilled the beans. It’s taken 15 years but at least now we know an injustice took place and an apology is a must. That apology must go to the man who suffered much trauma and he is none other than Muttiah Muralitharan. How many cricketers themselves heckled and jeered at him throughout, […]

Australia have built a concrete-based artificial ‘slow track’ at its National Cricket Centre to train batsmen to deal with the spin pitches of the subcontinent. […]

Sri Lanka Cricket Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga faced fresh allegations yesterday after the President of SLC, Jayantha Dharmadasa, alleged that the Secretary had violated the SLC Constitution and abused power! Ranatunga’s conduct as a cricket administrator has been questioned in several quarters over the years. Star cricketer Kumar Sangakkara has been one of his main critics […]

Kumar Sangakkara won the Most Popular Cricketer of the Year Award at the Dialog sponsored annual cricket awards, held last night in a glittering ceremony at Waters Edge, Colombo. […]

NEW DELHI: The Indian men’s hockey team will take on Sri Lanka Sep 21 while the women will clash against Thailand September 22 in their opening matches of the 17th Asian Games to be held in Incheon from September 19 to October 3. […]