New Zealand’s Tim Southee will miss the World Cup’s opening match against holders England and potentially some of the following matches due to an injured thumb, stand-in-skipper Tom Latham said Wednesday.

Saudi distance runner Mohammed Yousef Alasiri has become the second reported doping case at the Asian Games and has been provisionally suspended, officials said.

Sri Lanka slumped to a eight-run defeat to Afghanistan in their Asian Games Men’s Cricket quarter-final, despite the best efforts of their last-wicket pair to fashion a sensational win.

Afghanistan registered a six wicket win over Sri Lanka in their final warm-up match before the ICC Men’s World Cup at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Tuesday.

Nadeesha Dilhani Lekamge won the silver medal in the women’s javelin throw event at the 2023 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China today.

Sam Cane said he was excited to be back captaining New Zealand from the start as head coach Ian Foster on Tuesday made nine changes to his side to face Uruguay at the Rugby World Cup.

India’s superstar cricketers endured a 3,400km (2,170 miles) cross-country journey to play a World Cup warm-up only for the match to be abandoned without a ball being bowled on Tuesday.

Acting Skipper Kusal Mendis smashed a sparkling century as Sri Lanka piled up a formidable 294 runs in their second World Cup warm-up fixture against Afghanistan played at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, India today.

Sri Lanka’s middle distance runners Tharushi Karunarathna and Gayanthika Abeyratne qualified for the Women’s 800m finals of the 19th Asian Games continued in Hangzhou, China today. The finals of these events will be held tomorrow at 4.55 p.m. (Sr

Sri Lanka Skipper Dasun Shanaka will not take part in today’s warm-up game against Afghanistan, as the all-rounder is recovering from a ’strain’ he experienced on his left elbow following the earlier game against Bangladesh.

In an exciting development for the Esports community, the Sri Lankan Women’s National Team powered by Dialog was selected to represent Sri Lanka at the IESF World Esports Championship 2023 and other international tournaments.

Former India captain and a member of the World Cup squad, Virat Kohli returned to Mumbai amid Anushka Sharma’s 2nd pregnancy news, the confirmatory announcement by the couple is awaited.

Golfing sensation and 15-year-old, Reshan Algama, made waves once again, this time at the 86th Nuwara Eliya Golf Club (NEGC) Championship held in Nuwara Eliya.

England and New Zealand clinched rain-hit victories on Monday in their final World Cup warm-up matches before they clash on Thursday in the tournament opener.

Sri Lanka’s disappointing returns at the Asian Games continued with the Mixed 4x400m relay team being disqualified for a lane infringement after initially bagging a Silver medal.

India target a third World Cup when cricket’s global showpiece gets underway on Thursday with the country buoyed by a growing, international self-confidence and with a sport which unites and divides the sub-continent like no other on the verge of j

Having suffered another set-back in his attempts to reform Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe has hinted, in a letter to the International Cricket Council (ICC), that he intends to take legal action against the current office

Trinity College edged out D.S. Senanayake College 5-0 to win the All Island Under-16 ten-a-side rugby tournament played at their rugby stadium in Pallekelle today.

Roshan Ranasinghe, Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister, has urged the ICC to reconsider its requirement for the International Sports Coordination Committee on Cricket (ISCC) to be endorsed by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). In a letter to Geoff Allardice, ICC’s

As anticipation for the upcoming 2023 ODI World Cup intensifies, cricket pundits from across the globe are collaboratively engaging in discussions to forecast the tournament’s potential winners and underdogs.

Sri Lanka badminton Olympian Niluka Karunarathna has officially announced his retirement from international sports today.

The fifth and sixth of the seven Nestomalt Cycle Challenge events organised by the Cycling Federation of Sri Lanka with the blessings of the Ministry of Sports and sponsored by Nestle Lanka PLC under the brand Nestomalt held around the vicinity of Vi

The All Island Under 16 10-a-side Rugby tournament will be worked off tomorrow (30) at the Trinity College Rugby Stadium in Pallekele and Bogambara Stadium in Kandy.

The first leg of the 30th Dr. R.L. Hayman Trophy Royal-Thomian Water Polo encounter will be played tomorrow while the second leg will take place on October 7 at the Sugathadasa Swimming Pool Complex.

Mohammad Rizwan smashed a century to help Pakistan score 345-5 against New Zealand in a World Cup warm-up match on Friday.

Pathum Nissanka and Dhananjaya de Silva scored half-centuries as Sri Lanka failed to capitalize on a fast start, to be restricted to 263 for 9 in their Cricket World Cup warm up match against Bangladesh in Guwahati.

Sri Lanka’s Kalinga Kumarage and Anura Darshana progressed to the final of the Men’s 400m event at the Asian Games, while Nadeesha Ramanayake emulated her male compatriots in the Women’s 400m.

The World Cup warm-up match between South Africa and Afghanistan at Thiruvananthapuram was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Friday.

An Afghan boxer has been provisionally suspended for failing a doping test at the Asian Games, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said, the first reported drugs case at the event.

Former Football Sri Lanka (FSL) President Jaswar Umar was elected to the top post once again, beating rival candidate Dacshitha Sumathipala 45-20 at the elections conducted today.