In a remarkable display of golfing skills, 15-year-old long-range hitting junior golfer, Reshan Algama wrote his name in history by emerging triumphant at the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) Club Championship which concluded last weekend at their cour

An impressive match haul of 4 for 6 in two overs by stand-in skipper Dhananjaya de Silva paved the way for Dambulla Aura to record a comfortable 20-run win over B-Love Kandy in their Lanka Premier League T20 encounter played at the R. Premadasa Stadi

Joint defending champions Trinity Collage will take on Prince of Wales Collage in the semi - final encounter of the Under 17 Division One limited over tournament scheduled to be played from 9.30 a.m. at the FTZ ground in Katunayake today. Trinity l

CR & FC will be setting up a Fan Zone during the Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2023 matches during the month of October and November 2023. CR & FC President, Tikiri Ellepola along with General Committee and Trustees presented HE Jean- Francois Pactet, Fre

The Colombo Strikers kept their hopes of reaching the Lanka Premier League play-offs alive with a nine-run win over B-Love Kandy yesterday, in a match that came down to the wire before fast-bowler Matheesha Pathirana delivered the killer blows. Chasi

The Sri Lanka team for the IAAF 19th World Athletic Championship 2023 is scheduled to leave for Budapest, Hungary, tomorrow (August 15). Out of the 214 IAAF-affiliated associations, 2,087 athletes representing 207 countries will compete in the 2023 W

DFCC Bank clinched the NDB-sponsored MCA ‘C’ Division Cricket League with a convincing seven-wicket win over Nawaloka Hospitals and swept all the awards on offer as well. In the final played at the MCA ground on Saturday (12), Nipun Premarathne c

Sri Lanka’s budding badminton talents yesterday departed for Nepal for the South Asia (U-17 and U-15) Regional Junior Championships 2023. The championship, organised by Badminton Asia and hosted by the Nepal Badminton Association, will take place f

The winningest franchise in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) find themselves in a position they have not been in before, after a seven-wicket defeat to the Galle Titans yesterday left the defending champions Jaffna Kings waiting till the final day of t

The first match of the Dialog Inter-Schools Rugby Super Round segment is scheduled to be kicked off today at 4.00 p.m. with St. Peter’s College hosting St. Anthony’s College at Bambalapitiya. Apart from the league encounter this will also be p

The youngest of the lot 12-year-old Thejas Rathis Kanth booked his place in the quarter-final stages of the 102nd Royal Colombo Golf Club Championships, beating Chandana Gunasekera in the 18th hole to win 1-up. Along with Thejas, Reshan Algama, Jaco

Sri Lanka’s Ayomal Akalanka and Nilupul Pehesara won silver and bronze medals at the 7th Commonwealth Youth Games yesterday (10) at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago. It was the first time since 2015 that Sri Lanka won medals at

The election of office bearers of Football Sri Lanka, that is expected to pave the way for FIFA to lift its international suspension of Sri Lanka, will take place by September 16 under the supervision of FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC

Gamer.LK, the premier Esports events organiser in Sri Lanka, concluded its 5th edition of Women’s Cyber Games, (WCG) the largest female-focused Esports event in Sri Lanka. The two-day event took place recently where female players competed in 14 ti

Several former Sri Lanka football stars have formed a football wing of St. Benedict’s College. Among them are former Sri Lanka captain and past President of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka Anura de Silva, Tilak Peiris, one of the founder me

Suryakumar Yadav smashed 83 off 44 balls as India beat West Indies by seven wickets in the third T20 international in Guyana on Tuesday to keep the series alive. After India lost T20 debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill cheaply in pursuit of

The Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVB) to host the 7th Central Asia Men’s Challenge Cup 2023 Volleyball Tournament. According to a request by the Central Asian Volleyball Association (CAVA), the tournament will be held from October 9-15 at S

Sylvestrian Sports Club beat Black Eagle CC by six wickets in their Kandy District Cricket Association Division III conducted cricket encounter which was worked off at the Pallekele Prison ground recently. Black Eagle CC 187 in 40.4 overs (Janaka Wij

The 102nd Club Championship at Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) quarter-final stages will be worked off today (10) and continued till August (13) at their course at Borella. Ladies Silver and Bronze too will take place on the same day. Club champion

A top knock of 102 inclusive of 16 boundaries by Sehadu Sooriyaarachchi which was his third ton and half tons by Hirun Matheesha and Thevindu Wewelwala helped Royal College Colombo to record a convincing first innings win over Maris Stella Negombo in

Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) disbursed the first set of monthly allowance to the coaches whose athletes are representing Sri Lanka at the Asian Games with support of their main sponsor DAMRO Holdings. Each coach was presented Rs 40,000. They will be

The 102nd Club Championship at Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) quarter-final stages will be worked off today (10) and continued till August (13) at their course at Borella. Ladies Silver and Bronze too will take place on the same day. Club champion

Bronze medalist at the 2023 Asian Youth Athletic Championships and up and coming Sri Lankan athlete Ayomal Akalanka of Ambagamuwa MMV qualified for the final of the 400m Hurdles for boys at the 7th Commonwealth Youth Games yesterday. The Commonwealth

Hindu National College Matale advanced to the pre-quarter final of the ongoing SLSCA Under 15 division 3 inter-school cricket tournament as they beat St. Joseph’s College Bandarawela on the first innings in their match played at the Urban Council g

ndia’s cricket board earned a surplus of around $1.5 billion in the five years to 2021-22, the country’s parliament heard during a rare look into the sporting body’s finances. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does not typicall

Australian swim king Kyle Chalmers yesterday said the Paris Olympics will be his third and last, but the sprint star insisted it did not mean he was retiring. The 25-year-old scorched the field to win 100m freestyle gold at the world championships

Sponsored for the 12th consecutive year, the CBL Samaposha Inter-School Under-14 Football Tournament, held at the Racecourse Grounds in Colombo, concluded on a successful note recently. Organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Football Association (SLSFA),

Colombia captain Catalina Usme is “dreaming big” and coach Nelson Abadia wants to “make history” as the last team standing from the Americas plots the downfall of England in the Women’s World Cup quarter-finals. The 25th-ranked South Ame

The absence of three injured first-choice players will be a massive challenge for South Africa in their Rugby World Cup defence, according to three former Springbok captains including Jean de Villiers. Fly-half Handre Pollard, centre Lukhanyo Am a

A Sri Lankan cricket star who has been stranded in Australia for more than eight months will be allowed to travel domestically after his bail conditions were eased.