Virat Kohli will step down as captain of the Indian Twenty20 side after the upcoming World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, the player said yesterday. Kohli, also the te

Syria beat Sri Lanka 3-0 to continue their winning streak in the Davis Cup Asia Oceanic group III match-up being worked off in Jordan yesterday.

Liverpool Manager Juergen Klopp said his side got carried away by their own football after a topsy-turvy 3-2 victory over AC Milan in

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) today denied media reports that certain players in the national team that played in the T20I series against South Africa did not fully commit themselves or deliberately underperformed on the field. “Sri Lanka Cricket has no

Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) will conduct a zoom lecture for National Technical Officials (NTO) and other senior technical officials to

Former Sri Lankan fast bowler Champaka Ramanayake believes that the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) should “retire” the number

It doesn’t take a deep dive into cricket analytics to see what the biggest headache for Sri Lanka cricket is ahead of the T20 World Cup – a cursory glance at the list of top run scorers in the recently concluded T20I series against South Africa w

Four women boxers from Sri Lanka Air Force will represent the country at the 58th World Military Boxing Championships, which begins in Moscow, Russia today. The four boxe

OOpeners Quinton de Kock and Reeza Hendricks scored unbeaten half-centuries as South Africa completed a humiliat

Lasith Malinga, perhaps Sri Lanka’s most iconic fast-bowler, announced his retirement from T20 cricket in a video on his per

The 2022 edition of the International Schools Athletics Championship (ISAC) is likely to be postponed once again due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. The 2021 meet was also not held due to the same reason. The meet is s

Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) will conduct their first selection trial targeting the fourth Asian Youth (Under-18) Championship during the third week of November at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo. The final sel

Being disrupted by hecklers while serving for the match only made Daniil Medvedev’s first Grand Slam title that much sweeter when it came Sunday at the expense of Novak Djokovic in the US Open final. World numbe

The Sri Lanka Football Squad is set to leave for Qatar tomorrow to participate in a special training camp in preparation f

Emma Raducanu’s stunning US Open triumph showed the British teenager can “rule the world” of women’s tennis, according to her former coach.

All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan says Bangladesh will head to the T20 World Cup later this year full of confidence after series wins against Zimbabwe, Australia and New Zealand.

Sri Lanka will field a 20-member contingent for the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, which will be held from Decemb

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday confirmed the 15-man squad who will represent the island in next month’s T20 World Cup in t

It was somewhat ironic that on the day Sri Lanka announced its 15-member squad for the T20 World Cup, they also displayed one of their worst batting efforts at home, losing to South Africa by nine wickets in the second T20I yesterday.

McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo won the Italian Grand Prix after a frightening crash between title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen.

Sri Lanka will look for back-to-back T20 series wins for the first time in four years when they take on South Africa in a three-match series beginning at the R. Premadasa Stadium today. Sri Lanka br

Football Sri Lanka (FSL) are planning to conduct a four-nation invitational football tournament from November 8 to 17 at the Racecourse Grounds in Reid Avenue, Colombo. This is the first tim

India picked off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in their 15-man squad for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup and named Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who led them to the 2007 title, as the team mentor on Wednesday. Ashwin last played a

Bangladesh named yesterday all the players who completed a series win over New Zealand in their squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup.

The Sports Ministry and the Department of Sports Development has allocated a sum of over Rs.158m for the Sri Lankan Team,

Sri Lanka Tennis outfit left for Amman in Jordan today early morning for the Asia/Oceania Group III to be staged in Jord

The National Sports Festival will not be held for the second successive year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Sports Ministry s

World soccer’s governing body FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings into Sunday’s Brazil v Argentina World Cup qualifier which was abandoned after five minutes amid farcical scenes. Brazilian health authorities invaded the pitch to stop the g

Four wickets on debut from spinner Maheesh Theekshana helped Sri Lanka complete a 2-1 series win that moved the hosts, temporarily at least, to fifth in the ICC World Cup Super League standings. On an R. Pre