Category: Sports News

Hyderabad: Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Kumar Sangakkara feels keeping the Sri Lankan players out of the Chennai matches in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League is not going to “curtail” the spirit of the game. Bowing to intense political pressure, the IPL governing council last week withdrew top Sri Lankan players from all the […]

Opener Kusal Perera hit an explosive maiden half-century off 44 balls to steer Sri Lanka to a 17-run win over Bangladesh in a one-off Twenty20 international in Pallekele on Sunday. Sri Lanka, put into bat, rattled up 198 for five wickets with Perera hitting five fours and four sixes in his 64. Bangladesh finished on […]

Dinesh Chandimal, Sri Lanka’s T20 international skipper and has rejected offers to play in the sixth edition of the IPL, cricket board sources claimed. […]

(CNN) — A high profile member of FIFA’s executive committee, has been provisionally banned from “football related activity” for 90 days, the world governing body said Monday. Sri Lankan Vernon Fernando Manilal has been suspended at the request of the Michael Garcia and Hans-Joachim Eckert, who chair the investigatory and adjudicatory bodies of FIFA’s Ethics […]

Bangladesh were all out for 638 in their first innings at the stroke of tea on the fourth day of the first test against Sri Lanka on today (Monday). […]

Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim posted centuries on Sunday to help Bangladesh to 438 for four in reply to Sri Lanka’s 570 for four declared on the third day of the first Test at Galle International Stadium. […]

The executive committee of Sri Lanka cricket has appointed an independent panel to probe into the objects against the contestants for next year’s race for the chairs at the Maitland Place office. […]

Sri Lanka declared their first innings on 570 for the loss of 4 wickets on the second day of the opening Test against Bangladesh in Galle on Saturday. […]

(Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan blasted a swift half-century as Sri Lanka ended the first session of the first test against Bangladesh on 132 for one wicket on Friday. After Angelo Mathews had won the toss on his test debut as captain, Sri Lanka openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Dilshan soon found their stride, scoring runs comfortably […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim is confident that his team can take advantage of a depleted Sri Lankan squad and secure a maiden test win over their opponents in the two-match series starting in Galle on Friday. […]

With the Tamil Nadu government refusing to host Sri Lankan athletes on political grounds, the third leg of the Asian Grand Prix scheduled to be held in Chennai on May 16 has now been shifted to Colombo. […]

Sri Lanka batsman Thilan Samaraweera will meet the national selectors on Wednesday after expressing his desire to retire from international cricket. He has written to Sri Lanka Cricket, who asked for “meaningful dialogue” before “finalising such a decision”. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s national cricketers dropped a controversial pay demand on Sunday, clearing the way for them to play against Bangladesh in a forthcoming series, a senior official said. […]

Like Australia and India, Sri Lanka too are in the throes of transition, though from their perspective, it’s as much to do with the leadership group as the playing group. […]

Sri Lanka’s entry into a new phase of international cricket under the country’s youngest ever captain Angelo Mathews received a devastating blow when Mathews’ imposing predecessor Mahela Jayawardene injured his finger and will be ruled out of the homes series against Bangladesh starting in the first week of March. […]

AUSTRALIA’S women cricketers have stormed to a sixth World Cup victory in India with an awesome display of bowling that demolished West Indies’ powerhouse batters and elevated 22-year-old pace bowler Ellyse Perry to almost certain pin-up status. The champion team posted the biggest winning margin in the history of women’s World Cup finals, snatching a […]