In this episode of Counter Point, Lankadeepa’s Daminda Wijesuriya and Daily Mirror’s Shehan Daniel discuss the potential implications of the Minister of Sports dictating who is appointed to the national cricket selection committee.

Police SC, leaders of the Nippon Rugby League Plate Segment, pulled off a thrilling one-point win over Army SC in a hard-fought match played at the Police Park on Friday (10).

Sri Lanka ‘A’ opener Nishan Madushka’s third ton against the visiting England Lions was the highlight of the drawn 2nd unofficial Test concluded at the Galle International Stadium on Friday.

Police Sports Club will take on Army Sports Club in the plate segment of the inter club league rugby tournament at Police Park on Friday (10).

Trinity College completed a first innings win over Wesley College in their Inter School Under 19 cricket encounter which concluded at the Asgiriya Stadium in Kandy today.

Ceylonese Rugby Football Club (CR&FC), who are completing 100 years of excellence, are set to organize the CR&FC Centenary Rugby Sevens Tournament as part of their century celebration.

Ahan Wickramasinghe and Avishka Fernando slammed tons for Kandy and Colombo against Jaffna and Galle on day one of the four day National Super League cricket encounter played at the SSC and ground and Sooriyawewa Stadium.

The visiting England Lions took a slender lead as Sri Lanka ‘A’, batting the second time, ended the penultimate day of the four-day 2nd unofficial Test match on 202 for 3, at the Galle International Stadium on Thursday.

Half tons by Alex Lees, Josh Bohannon and Jamie Smith helped the visiting England Lions to make a bold reply of 234 for 3 in reply to host Sri Lanka ‘A’s score of 332 on day two of the four day 2nd unofficial Test match played at the Galle Intern

Rashmi Mudalige and Vishwanie Wanniarachchi won the Under 19 and Under 15 Singles badminton titles at the 38th Junior Nationals Championship 2023 played recently at the Sugathadasa Indoor courts.

Opener Lasith Croospulle shone for Sri Lanka ‘A’ on day one of the four-day 2nd unofficial Test match against England Lions played at the Galle International Stadium on Tuesday.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and National Olympic Committee Of Srilanka (NOCSL) have made arrangements to hold the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023 Sri Lanka Official Fun Run tomorrow (February 7) at 5.00pm at Colombo International Finance City (Port C

The national cricket selectors are awaiting an invitation from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to select the red and white ball teams for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand where Sri Lanka will two Test matches, three ODIs and three T20Is.

Kandy SC had it relatively easy against Navy SC in the other Cup championship match recording a comfortable 37 points to 28 win at Welisara yesterday.

CR and FC pulled off another close win over traditional rivals Havelock SC by 17 points to 14 in the Nippon Paint Rugby Cup Championship encounter played at Longden Place today. It was a repeat of their close first round league encounter win which th

Air Force SC too made a repeat performance of their Nippon Paint Rugby League encounter against Army SC by coming out on top with a comfortable 27-16 victory in another Plate Championship match played at the Air Force ground in Ratmalana today.

It was a repeat performance of the Nippon Paint Rugby League tournament by Police SC against CH & FC in their first Plate Championship encounter as they recorded an easy 41-26 win in the match played at the Racecourse ground in Reid Avenue today. Thi

Nishan Madushka led Sri Lanka ‘A’s fight back and was supported by Lakshitha Manasinghe and Nuwanidu Fernando against the visiting England Lions on day three of the 1st unofficial Test match played at the Galle International Stadium.

The HSBC Future Lions Golf grassroots programme, conducted for the second time in a partnership between Sri Lanka Golf (SLG) and HSBC, will be held from February 24 to April 9.

We have heard and seen of teachers serving schools with dedication for two, three or nearly four decades to produce disciplined citizens but it is rarely that we hear of any individual who serves almost the same period in sports activities of a schoo

Sri Lanka ‘A’ openers Oshada Fernando and Nishan Madushka led the side’s fight back after England Lions further strengthened their hold on day two of the first unofficial Test match played at the Galle International Stadium.

Chamari Athapaththu was picked to lead the Sri Lanka Women’s cricket team for the forthcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup cricket tournament scheduled to be held in South Africa.

Gateway College proved its supremacy by winning the 4th Annual Football encounter played against S. Thomas’ College Mount Lavinia 3-2 and retaining the Neville De Alwis-Ralph Alles Challenge Trophy at the Racecourse Grounds Colombo.

The Department of Sports Development (DSD) has decided to call for nominations through a newspaper advertisement for the 2023 Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Committee.

St. Anthony’s Katugastota pulled off a convincing innings and 79 runs over Ananda College in the Under 19 inter-school cricket encounter concluded at Ananda Mawatha which they are achieving after a lapse of 74 years with the last being in the year

Former Sri Lanka cricketer and former Sri Lanka head coach Chandika Hathurusingha is all set to be apppointed as Bangladesh head coach of the Bangladesh cricket team.

The Nalanda Past Cricketers Association (NPCA) will conduct the first ever T10 tournament for schools, slated to be held on April 10 and 11 in four venues.

All-rounder Dewmi Vihanga was the only Sri Lankan in the inaugural ICC Under 19 Women’s T20 World Cup Team of the Tournament, named by the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday.

CR and FC lived up to the expectations of their fans when they pulled off a comfortable 22 points to 18 win over Army SC in the inter-club Nippon Paint Rugby league encounter played at Longden Place on Sunday.

Back-to-back-to-back tries and a last minute penalty booted over helped Navy SC pull off a thrilling one-point (32-31) win over Air Force SC in the Nippon Paint Rugby league encounter played at Welisara on Friday.