Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were spared the ignominy of having to potentially pull out of the tour of England this month, after the players in the squad for the limited over series today agreed to sign declaration letters ahead of their scheduled departu

According to sources at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the players will tour even without signing tour contracts.

“I train 2 1/2 hours a day at home with my personal trainer (Nigel Aaron) and I am confident of meeting the fitness and skin-fold levels in 30 days,” the 30-year-old left-handed batsman said.

This has been confirmed by Prof. Arjuna De Silva, the chairman of the Medical Panel of the Sri Lanka Cricket.

This new development was confirmed by Aravinda de Silva, the chairman of the Cricket Advisory Committee.

Tillakaratne, who was coach of the Sri Lanka Under-19 team between 2018 and 2020, is expected to serve in the capacity of Head Coach for at least a couple of years.

Harrop’s only first-class match was against the visiting Indian team in 2003. He later pursued a career in physiotherapy.

They both failed the run tests which were conducted recently during the Bangladesh tour.

According to sources in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), Manoj Abeywickrama will continue to be the fielding coach on the England tour.

The dashing left-hander who has not been offered an annual contract by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) claims that he has been treated in an unfair manner.

National Olympic Committee (NOC) chairman Suresh Subramaniam denied the claims of NOC nominating 58 officials for the Tokyo Olympics set to go ahead in July 2021.

It is also speculated that all players, except Ashen Bandara, who travelled to Bangladesh have been retained for the England tour.

On Friday, while releasing the playing conditions for the World Test Championship Final, the ICC announced that a draw or a tie will see both teams crowned as joint winners. The ICC has also made provision for the reserve day if the time is lost duri

This decision was conveyed to Sri Lanka’s National Olympic Committee (NOCSL) by the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Tripartite Commission, NOC SL president Suresh Subramaniam told the ‘Daily Mirror’.

As per a leaked document from the Ministry of Education which has been addressed to all the Provincial Directors of Education, all schools have been advised to follow the ‘circular No. 20/2009 dated 30.06.2009 and reference No. Ed/1/15/2/3/5 of the

The two others, who returned false-positives on Saturday, Isuru Udana and bowling coach Chaminda Vaas, are CVOID-19 negative, it was confirmed.

17 year-old Tharushi Karunaratne of Walala A. Ratnayake MMV qualified for the World Junior Athletics Championships after she came second in the Women’s 800m at the first stage events of the 99th National Athletic Championships, which is also a qual

The National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) is making preparations for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games which is less than a year away.

Sri Lanka are set to host two legs of the Asia Rugby Sevens Tournaments according to Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) President Rizly Illyas.

Cricketers offered central contracts have been given a deadline of June 3 by which they are expected to sign, according to Aravinda de Silva, the Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) Technical Advisory Committee.

The three-member group of former administrators K. Mathivanan and NishanthaRanatunga, and former Test captain BandulaWarnapura have withdrawn their names from the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) elections, effectively ensuring the unopposed return of the Sha

Pay cuts are not the only issue that Sri Lanka national team players have had with their central contracts which are yet to be signed, but there are other issues as well, it is learnt.

The number of athletes sponsored under the ‘Next Olympic Champ’ programme, an initiative by Crysbro in partnership with the National Olympic Committee, has increased to 20.

According to highly placed sources in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the 40-year-old McDermott had applied for a short break a few days ago and he did not join the hotel bio-bubble and has not been coaching the players.

The online petition titled ’’Cancel the Tokyo Olympics to protect our lives’’ was launched earlier this month by Kenji Utsunomiya, a lawyer and former candidate for Tokyo governor.

Abeykoon surged into the national limelight when he smashed Himasha Eshan’s record of 10.24s when he clocked 10.16s at a competition in Germany earlier this year.

’’A few senior players attended the meeting and the others joined via zoom,’’ the source, familiar to the development, said.

An independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal has unanimously cleared former Sri Lanka player Avishka Gunawardene of two charges against him under the Emirates Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Code, allowing him to resume participation in cricket with imm

According to well-placed sources in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the procedure of vaccination was performed at Narahenpita in Colombo.

According to highly placed sources in SLC board office, the selectors have decided to explain to them the reasons for dropping or resting them.