Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) has appointed veteran athletics Administrator G.L.S. Perera as Chairman of its Technical Officials and Media sub-committee.

Canadian Denis Shapovalov produced a storming finish to beat Karen Khachanov in five sets and reach the Wimbledon semi-finals yesterday, his deepest run at a Grand Slam tournament. The quarter-final s

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday announced the appointment of a five-member panel to inquire into the alleged misconduct of three players during Sri Lanka’s tour of England last month. A day before

England have had to select an entirely new squad for their limited-overs series against Pakistan after three players and four staff members tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said. “Following P

Sri Lanka Cricket’s Director of Cricket, Tom Moody, has stayed back in England, it is learnt. According to

Football Sri Lanka (FSL) President Jaswar Umar has decided to conduct several Open inter-school football tourna

Strike rate has to be the only possible reason why Dimuth Karunaratne was dropped from the ODI side despite averaging 36 since the Cricket World Cup in 2019. Sri Lanka was in shambles when he took over as captain and he guided the team reasonably wel

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has given the national cricketers until this morning to sign their tour contracts or face omission for the series against India. Originally given till 8 p.m. last night, the players were granted an extension till this morning

Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) announced that the entries of Yupun Abeykoon (men’s 100m) and Nimali Liyanarachchi (women’s 800m) were confirmed as participants for the Tokyo Olympic Games by World Athletics yesterday. The Nationa

Air Force Commander Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana has decided to promote Olympic-bound judoka Chamara Nuwan Dhar

Sri Lanka T20 player Bhanuka Rajapaksa was fined $5,000 and handed a suspended one year ban Monday for giving interviews critical of the national board management. Sri Lanka Cricket said th

Second seed Aryna Sabalenka battled past a determined Elena Rybakina 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 in the Wimbledon fourth round yesterday to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career. Rybakina bro

All five teams in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) will have at least one or two Under-19 players, and the management

Sri Lanka escaped a 3-0 whitewash at the hands of hosts England as the third and final ODI fixture was called off due to persistent rain yesterday. Tom Curran put England on top against a struggling Sri Lanka outfit as the pacie picked out four wick

England crushed Ukraine 4-0 in Rome on Saturday to set up a Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark, who continued their remarkable run by beating the Czech Republic in the last eight earlier. Harry Kan

England seamers Sam Curran and David Willey shared nine wickets to set up a crushing eight-wicket victory over Sri Lanka yesterday as the hosts chased down 241 with seven overs to spare to go 2-0 up in the three-match one-day international series.

Sri Lanka Golf Union (SLGU) became the first national sports association to adopt the ‘Safe Sport’ policy formulated by t

Four-time national weightlifting champion Asoka Bandara has been elected President of the Sri Lanka Weightlifting Federatio

Four athletes have qualified to represent Sri Lanka at the World Under-20 Athletics Championships to be held next month.

Jaswar Umar pledged to implement his plans to ‘Restart Football’ both locally and internationally after being elected President of Football Sri Lanka (FSL) by a majority of six votes yesterday. The FSL elections postponed five times was held in

Artem Dovbyk netted a dramatic winner in stoppage time at the end of extra time as Ukraine squeezed past 10-man Sweden 2-1 at Hampden Park on Tuesday to book a Euro 2020 quarter-final clash with England. The final whistle

Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup winning coach Dav Whatmore is “most likely” to coach one the five teams in the Lanka Premier League

Three Sri Lankan cricket players ordered to leave the tour of England on disciplinary grounds will be dropped from a home series against India in July, officials said yesterday. Dubbed the “terrible trio” by media, vice captain Kusal Mendis,

Joe Root celebrated his 150th one-day international appearance with an unbeaten half-century as England claimed a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in their series opener at Chester-le-Street yesterday. Chasing a target of 1

Arrangements have been finalised by the Department of Sports Development and the Election Committee for the election of office

The Ministry of Sports has rejected a national rugby squad put forward by Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) which will force them to organize a domestic 7’s rugby tournament within the next two months. Daily Mirror learn

Italy-based Sri Lankan sprinter Yupun Abeykoon and Nilani Rathnayaka (3,000m steeplechase) complete the squad of nine athletes for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games which will be from July 23 to August 8. They join Mathilda Karlsson (equestrian), Milka

The three cricketers, Kusal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka, who were suspended by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Monday after breaching the team’s bio-secure bubble in Durham, claim they went out of the team hotel (Radisson Blu) to

The recent scenes in England have to be the lowest point of Sri Lanka Cricket for many reasons. After the national team was embarrassed on the field in Southampton, three senior members of the team opted to hit the town in Durham which only d

Sri Lanka suspended three players on Monday, including vice-captain Kusal Mendis, and withdrew them from the upcoming one-day international tournament in England over a breach of their bio-secure Covid bubble. Mendis and Niroshan Dickwell