Category: Sports News

Kumar Sangakkara, the No. 1 ranked Test batsman, is raring to pick up his bat after a finger injury sustained during the ODI series with India in July forced him into a break. Prior to his injury, Sangakkara had a successful year in all three formats leading to four ICC awards nominations including the Cricketer […]

Sri Lanka pacer Lasith Malinga feels that his side will have a distinct advantage over other countries during next month’s Twenty20 World Cup as most of the island nation’s players have prepared well by competing in the Sri Lanka Premier League. […]

Afghanistan’s top cricket official on Friday demanded more technical support from the cricket world to build on his team’s success. […]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is investigating alleged corruption in Sri Lanka, which centres around a taped conversation, a Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) press release has said. […]

Usain Bolt says he will continue to “push the barriers” after finishing London 2012 as a triple Olympic champion for the second time. After claiming 100m and 200m golds, the 25-year-old anchored Jamaica to victory in the 4x100m relay in a new world record time of 36.84 seconds. […]

Usain Bolt became the first man to retain both Olympic sprint titles as he led home a gold and green Jamaica clean sweep in the 200m. Bolt matched Michael Johnson’s then world-record time from the Atlanta Games of 19.32 seconds as he held off training partner Yohan Blake in silver and Warren Weir in bronze. […]

Virat Kohli cracked a half-century and Irfan Pathan bagged three key wickets to help India post an easy 39-run win over Sri Lanka in the one-off Twenty20 international in Pallekele on Tuesday. […]

Usain Bolt defended his men’s 100m title in stunning style at London 2012, winning Sunday’s final in an Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds. The Jamaican, who holds the world record, finished ahead of countryman Yohan Blake and American Justin Gatlin. […]

Andy Murray captured the biggest title of his career with an emphatic victory over Roger Federer in the Olympic men’s singles final at Wimbledon. Murray beat the Swiss world number one in straight sets, 6-2 6-1 6-4, on a raucous Centre Court. […]

Badminton player K. Parupalli of India beat Lankan player Niluka Karunaratne 2 sets to 1 to enter the quarter finals of the London Olympics a short while ago. […]

India 255 for 4 (Kohli 128*, Raina 58*) beat Sri Lanka 251 for 8 (Tharanga 51, Tiwary 4-61) by six wickets Virat Kohli was once again the architect of a successful Indian chase, one that clinched the ODI series for India – they took an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match competition. Kohli anchored India’s […]

Sri Lankan captain Niluka Karunarathne beat world number 8 Tago Kenichi in his first round match at the Olympics a short while ago Karunarathne comprehensively beat the Japanese 21/16 and 21/18 in the mens single badminton match in the first round of the Olympics. […]

Sri Lanka’s batting mainstay Kumar Sangakkara is out of action for a ‘minimum of four weeks,’ Sri Lanka Cricket announced here on Saturday. […]

The Queen has declared the London Olympics officially open, before seven young athletes were given the honour of lighting the ceremonial flame. The show featured British celebrities and sportspeople, including David Beck ham and Bradley Wiggins, and screen characters Mr Bean and James Bond. […]

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Seamers Thisara Perera and Angelo Mathews shared six wickets as Sri Lanka came back strongly to level the five-match series at one-all with a crushing nine-wicket win over India in the second one-day cricket international on Tuesday. […]

Having made peace with the West Indies Cricket Board, explosive batsman Chris Gayle today returned to the country’s Test side after more than 18 months. […]