The next Rugby League World Cup will take place in the southern hemisphere in 2026, it was announced Thursday. France pulled out of hosting the event, originally scheduled for 2025, in May, saying that the tournament carried unacceptable financial ri

Former Indian cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin is not in favour of scrapping bilateral One Day International cricket, and the potential further ‘shortening’ of the game.

A couple of days after the Ashes series ended, Australia and England were in for a rude shock as the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday said it docked points and fined both the teams for maintaining slow over-rate.

The Bilawal Bhutto-headed committee, formulated by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, will gather on Thursday to decide on the nation’s 2023 World Cup participation. According to media reports, the panel hasn’t taken a stance against partici

Former Trinity College cricketer and Nuwara Eliya District Coach Kavinda Jayasuriya will be the Head Coach of St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota, with effect from today.

It’s still early days in this season’s Lanka Premier League but B-Love Kandy may already be sweating about their chances in the tournament after a second successive defeat exposed their brittle batting, in a 83-run loss to the Galle Titans at the

Secretary General of Sri Lanka’s National Olympic Committee (NOCSL), Maxwell de Silva, has come under intense scrutiny of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Ethics Committee after allegedly meeting a banned IOC official, Sheikh Ahmad Al-

Babar Azam scored a half-century before the Colombo Strikers’ bowlers rallied to restrict B-Love Kandy’s batsmen in a 27-run win at the R. Premadasa Stadium today, bouncing back from their defeat on the opening day of the Lanka Premier League.

England beat Australia by 49 runs to win the fifth Test at The Oval on Monday and end the Ashes series all square at 2-2 after the tourists suffered a dramatic collapse.

Galle Titans prevailed over Dambulla Aura after their match ended in a high scoring thrilling tie the second match of the Lanka Premier League tournament played at the R. Premadasa Stadium today.

Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe said neither Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) nor the rights holder for the Lanka Premier League (LPL) had sought his permission before conducting this year’s edition of the LPL.

All parties have decided to unite to re-establish the football administration in Sri Lanka that has been banned by FIFA and to rebuild the sport in the country which has been inactive for almost a year.

It may only have been the opening game of the tournament, but the defending champions Jaffna Kings made their case as the team to beat in this year’s Lanka’s Premier League tournament with a 20-run win over the Colombo Strikers on Sunday.

The two relatives of Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe, who the Daily Mirror reported earlier this week were among individuals who received letters of endorsement from SLC for Australian visas last year, were names put forward by SLC President Shammi

Australia will need to break a host of records if they are to win the fifth and final Ashes Test, but batting coach Michael Di Venuto is confident his team can do it.

D.S. Senanayake College will have an opportunity to guarantee their place among the teams in the Super Round of the Dialog Schools’ Rugby League Division One tournament when they take on St. Joseph’s College tomorrow.

Pakistani batsman Imam-ul-Haq and Zimbabwean fast bowler Richard Ngarava were among the last minute additions to Colombo Strikers and Galle Titans franchises respectively, ahead of the fourth edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) that starts on S

Sri Lanka Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne does not believe that captaincy is a burden to him. This he reiterated after his team lost both the Test matches and thus the series against the visiting Pakistan team.

BCCI secretary Jay Shah has said that three member nations have written to the ICC for a change in their World Cup schedules.

Left-arm spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja masterminded the rout of an abject West Indies team as India romped to a five-wicket victory with more than 27 overs to spare in the opening One-Day International of a three-match series at Kensingt

Sri Lanka suffered their worst defeat at home, losing the second Test against Pakistan by an innings and 222, at the Sinhalese Sports Club.

Sri Lanka is scheduled to play home and away matches against Yemen on October 12 and 17 as part of the FIFA World Cup 2026 and Asia Cup 2025 qualifying round stage one.

World Rugby yesterday (July 26) said it would allow Sri Lanka to field rugby sevens teams for the Asian Games later this year, despite standing suspended by WR.

England Test captain Ben Stokes has revealed he has no plans to reverse his decision to retire from one-day cricket and play at this year ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup and will instead use the time out of the game to consider surgery for his ongoing

Sri Lanka fast bowler Asitha Fernando has been reprimanded for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the third day of the second Test against Pakistan in Colombo on Wednesday.

Football’s world governing body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have approved and included Sri Lanka into the official draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on a strict conditional basis.

Opener Abdullah Shafique’s maiden double century and an unbeaten 132 by Agha Salman put Pakistan in the box seat Wednesday on day three of the second Test against Sri Lanka.

The West Indies wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva’s mother was moved to tears after meeting Virat Kohli after day two of the second Test. in a heart warming video, Da Silva’s mother, Caroline Da Silva, a die-hard Kohli fan, hugged and embraced and Koh

Two relatives of Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe were also part of the non- Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) contingent that travelled to Australia for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup last year with letters from SLC, sources claimed.

Questioning how a draft of the Auditor General’s report into Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) finances was leaked, SLC President Shammi Silva denied that the local governing body for cricket in Sri Lanka had funded the trips of celebrities and family member