Naveed Nawaz, former Sri Lanka cricketer has been recommended by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) to be the national coach of the Sri Lanka national men’s cricket team, it is learnt.

Sanjeewa Rajakaruna of Sri Lanka Army and Nadeeka Ranasinghe of Vidyarathena SC were adjudged the most scientific men and women boxers respectively at the 80th Layton Cup Boxing Championship held at Royal MAS Arena. Conducted

Arika Wickremasinha, a seventeen year old youngster became the topic of the golf course when she won the Double Crown at the recently concluded Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) Ladies events.

Tons by opener Nushal Dharmaratne and Nethma Karunaratne helped Ananda College coast to a comfortable 125 run win over Dharmasoka MV Ambalangoda in a high scoring Under 19 limited over encounter played at Ambalangoda yesterday. Dharmar

‘Guwan Hamuda Papedi Sawariya’ 2022, the annual cycling event organised by the Sri Lanka Air Force, has joined hands with SLT-Mobitel as the Official Telecommunications Partner for the second consecutive year.

India’s crushing victory over Sri Lanka was an impeccable start to Rohit Sharma’s reign as Test captain but the all-format leader says creating a bench strength to secure the team’s future will be a bigger challenge to him than winning matches.

The Sri Lanka national hockey team left for Jakarta Indonesia yesterday to take part in the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) Cup 2022 Men’s Qualification Preliminary Round Tournament. Ten teams a

St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota beat St. Thomas’ College, Matara by 204 runs in their Under 19 Inter Schools Limited Over cricket counter concluded at Katugastota yesterday. Batting

Ravindra Jadeja was hailed yesterday as one of the world’s best all-rounders after his swashbuckling unbeaten 175 with the bat and nine-wicket haul with the ball propelled India to a first Test victory over Sri Lanka inside three days.

India spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin shared eight wickets to lead the hosts to victory over Sri Lanka by an innings and 222 runs inside three days of the opening Test at Mohali yesterday. Rohit Sh

Former Antonian, Rizmy Shariff, won the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) conducted Millennium Trophy 2021 Gross event at their club course recently. Chamara Abeyratne was the runner-up in the same event. Shariff c

Skipper Kamindu Mendis, Lahiru Udara and Sahan Arachchige shone for Kandy in the final day’s proceedings of the National

Northern Province won the Independence Trophy 2022 Ceylon Inter-Province Trophy final against Southern 3-1 with an unbe

Rishabh Pant smashed 96 to help India to 357 for six in the first Test against Sri Lanka after Virat Kohli fell agonisingly short of fifty in his 100th five-day match on Friday. Pant, a wicketke

Sri Lanka will once again seek their first Test match victory on Indian soil, a feat that has eluded even the best of their sides in

Half tons by Ashan Priyanjan and Chamindu Wijesinghe were the highlights of the first day’s play in the National Super Le

Sri Lanka’s 32-year-old leg spinner Jeffrey Vandersay is “doubtful” for the first Test match against India. He twisted his ankle in the third and the final T-20I at Dharamshala last week and had to leave the field. His over was completed by

Sri Lanka’s reigning junior and senior national snooker and billiard champion Mohamed Thaha Irshath kept the country’s flag flying at the ongoing World U21 Snooker Championship which is in pro

Two matches are down for decision in the ongoing National Super League four- day cricket tournament scheduled to be played from today at the R. Premadasa and Pallekele stadiums. Kandy, J

More than three decades since former India captain Kapil Dev is said to have predicted that Sri Lanka will find it difficult to win a Test series in India, the words of the Haryana Hurricane still ring true.

Prof. Arjuna de Silva, the Chairman of the medical panel of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will personally supervise, guide and monitor the fitness and skin fold level of Bhanuka Rajapaksa. The 30-year-old top order batter has missed being selected f

The 80th Layton Cup Men’s and Women’s Boxing Championship conducted by the Boxing Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) will be worked off from March 2 to 5 at Royal MAS Arena stadium, Colombo.

Football Sri Lanka (FSL) will allocate Rs 64 million to Football Leagues for administrative purposes for 2022 on the concept of FSL President Jaswar Umar’s “Restart Football”. Accord

Half tons by Vishwa Supun, Denuwan Pramod and Kushan Wijerama helped St. Servatius’ College Matara to dominate proceedings against Isipathana College in the drawn Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at the Uyanwatte Stadium in Matara

Sasanka Nirmal shone with a ton while Inushka Thimira and Pawan Sandesh made half tons to help Devapathiraja MMV Rathgama make a formidable score of 337 on day one in the Under 19 inter

Kyle Verreynne cracked an unbeaten 136 as South Africa declared their second innings at 354 for nine in the second Test in Christchurch yesterday, setting New Zealand a record 426 to win. The highest fourt

LG Abans will be the principal sponsor of the 23rd Tour de Air Force (Sri Lanka) three-day Cycle Race, organised by the Cycle Union of the Sri Lanka Air Force. This is th

Shreyas Iyer hit an unbeaten 73 to lead India to a record-equalling 12th successive Twenty20 international victory as they whitewashed Sri Lanka in the three-match series yesterday. Chasing 147 for

The Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVB) has chosen nine men’s teams and eight women’s teams for the Munchee Super League Volleyball Championships, which is due to begin on April 20 at Volleyball House Indoor Stadium