The 22-year-old Jayawickrama is a slow left arm orthodox bowler and will replace Lasith Embuldeniya, who is out due to injury.

Former Isipathana and national hockey player Mervin Preena won the Captain’s Cup while former Kingswoodian Nayana Dehigama accounted for the President’s Prize at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) conducted Foursome, Captain’s Cup, President’s

Former national team fast-bowler Pramodya Wickramasinghe was today appointed as the new Chairman of the Selection Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket.

Trinity put up a formidable 243 on the board with the help of fine half centuries by Umair Raizan (71) and Ranuda Somaratne (52). With this win Trinity booked their berth for the quarter-final encounter which will take place after the Sinhala and Tam

Wickramasinghe’s knock helped Royal, who took first lease of the wicket, make a formidable score of 319 for 7 and DSS in their turn, despite a ton by Abishek Liyanaarchchi, were able to muster a score of only 255 runs.

The news comes a month after the Tillakaratne Dilshan-led Sri Lanka Legends side came runners-up in the Road Safety World Series tournament held in India where they put together a string of memorable performances that captured the attention of fans b

Issuing a statement on Tuesday’s COPE hearing, the parliament media unit stated that the committee’s Chairman Prof. Charitha Herath had also instructed the Ministry Secretary to conduct an inquiry and submit its findings within three months.

Speaking on the Sri Lanka national team’s next assignment which is an inbound series with Bangladesh, de Silva said that the matches will be worked off sans-spectators as was case during the recent series with England as well as last year’s Lanka

The Old Boys of Trinity College defeated the Old Boys of Royal to win the G. C. Wickremesinghe Challenge Trophy at the Victoria Golf and Country Resort, Digana last weekend. Trinity won six team events while the Royalists accounted for three of them

The Minister confirmed the appointments through a gazette (No. 2221/56) issued on Thursday.

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar entered hospital Friday as a precautionary measure after testing positive for coronavirus.

St. Anthony’s College beat S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia by eight wickets in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter in Katugastota today.

St. Joseph’s College Colombo beat St. Anne’s College in their Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter played in Kurunegala today.

Trinity so far has beaten De Mazenod, Wesley and D. S. Senanayake this season, and will play Gurukula MV on April 7 at the Asgiriya Stadium.

The former Royal College, University of Colombo Badminton and Table Tennis player Jehaan Ismail was appointed as Captain of the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC).

The old boys of Royal College will go out fully determined to defend the G. C. Wickremesinghe Challenge Trophy on April 3 when they tee off with their traditional rivals Old Trinitians at the picturesque Victoria Golf and Resorts.

John Keells Properties (JKP) participated as a silver sponsor for the annual Dialog Enterprise Rotary Metropolitan Par 3 Golf Classic, highlighting its contribution over the years to the golfing community in Sri Lanka.

Contrary to reports that an exhibition match between Sri Lanka legends and the current national team could be organized in April, the Sports Minister said; “The match will probably be played before or soon after LPL although we haven’t really fin

“I haven’t actually received such a letter thus far, but I really want school rugby to start. Obviously, the schools should follow the health guidelines and get the practices started as soon as possible. I have no objections with this,” Rajapak

Last Sunday, Perera just missed out on the record, scoring fifty in 13 balls, in a List A match between Army SC and Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club. He did however, become just the ninth cricketer to score six sixes in an over in a professional

St. Peter’s College Bambalapitiya and Mahanama College Colombo recorded their third successive wins to maintain their unbeaten record in the ongoing Under 19 Division One limited over tournament.

S. Thomas’ helped by a knock of 57 by Malith Perera taking first lease of wicket made a modest score of 187 and Maliyadeva in their turn were 151 for 6 when rain stopped proceedings with the target at stoppage being 160 runs.

Manjula Kumara Wijesekera’s 17-year-old record of 2.27 m was broken by the old boy of Maris Stella College, Negombo, who is currently following his higher studies at the States.

Gurukula MV, after bowling out the home team for 169 runs, was guided by Rashmika Mevan who made a top score of 52 and was supported by useful knocks from Kemira Nayanatharu and Janitha Shehan, enabling them to reach the target with ease in the 27th

Sachin Tendulkar has tested positive for Covid-19 and has entered home quarantine.

Sivarajan won the 26-kilometre men’s race in a time of 2 hours 29 minutes and 29 seconds while Krishanthani clocked a winning time of 2:55:30 in the women’s race.

Recently appointed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Director of Cricket Tom Moody said that while currently in a rebuilding phase, he is confident that cricket in the country is capable of being taken back to its glory days.

Oshada Fernando was dismissed nine runs shy of a second Test century but his contribution helped Sri Lanka put in an improved batting effort and take a 153-run lead over the West Indies in the first Test in Antigua. At stumps on day three earlier thi

The Sports Ministry is making arrangements to conduct the marathon, race walking and cycling events of the 46th National Sports Festival from March 26 to 29 in Kataragama.

Sri Lanka showed little fight on the first day of the opening Test against the West Indies folding for just 169 runs yesterday, with the home side’s former captain Jason Holder taking 5 for 27. There was little r