Marcus Stoinis smashed an unbeaten 59 off 18 balls to power Australia to a seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka and reinvigorate their Twenty20 World Cup defence on Tuesday.

Bangladesh won their first-ever game in a Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 today, with Taskin Ahmed taking 4-25 as the Netherlands imploded early and never recovered, losing by nine runs.

All-rounder Mitchell Marsh said today that defending champions Australia were confident of bouncing back from their opening defeat at the T20 World Cup declaring: “Our best is the best in the world.

An unbeaten 82 from Virat Kohli led India to a last-ball win over Pakistan to supercharge their bid for a first Twenty20 World Cup crown since 2007 in front of 90,000 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Disciplined bowling and an unbeaten half-century by Kusal Mendis powered Sri Lanka to a nine-wicket hammering of Ireland in their opening Super 12 match at the T20 World Cup on Sunday.

The United Arab Emirates won their first-ever game at a Twenty20 World Cup on Thursday to upset Namibia by seven runs and send the Netherlands into the Super 12 stage of the tournament.

Opener Kusal Mendis slammed a 44-ball 79 as Asian champions Sri Lanka beat the Netherlands by 16 runs to sweep into the Super 12 stage of the Twenty20 World Cup on Thursday.

Fast bowler Dushmantha Chameera will likely miss up to three months of cricket, with the player expected to now undergo a pre-planned ankle surgery, after being ruled out of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 today.

Karthik Meiyappan lit up the Twenty20 World Cup with a hat-trick Tuesday but it was in vain as Sri Lanka dismissed the United Arab Emirates for just 73 to get their campaign back on track.

Bas de Leede took two wickets and made an unbeaten 30 as the Netherlands took a giant step towards the Twenty20 World Cup Super 12 on Tuesday with a tense five-wicket victory over giant-killing Namibia.

Bowlers led by Bas de Leede helped the Netherlands edge out the United Arab Emirates by three wickets in a tense low-scoring match of the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday.

Jan Frylinck smashed 44 runs and took two wickets as Namibia hammered Asia Cup champions Sri Lanka by 55 runs to cause a major upset in the opening match of the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday.

India breezed to an eight-wicket win against Sri Lanka, to win the Women’s Asia Cup for a seventh time, at Sylhet today.

It has been several years since Sri Lanka entered a global cricketing tournament with as much confidence and positive momentum as they will carry when they kick off their T20 World Cup campaign in Australia this Sunday.

Namibia, participating in their first ICC Global event in 18 years, enjoyed a relatively impressive campaign in last year’s T20 World Cup held in Oman and the UAE, and Gerhard Erasmus’ team will be eager to build on their recent gains and prove t

The rescheduled Lanka Premier League will begin on December 6, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced on Friday, with the tournament broken down into three stages.

Sri Lanka pulled off a stunning one-run win over Pakistan in the semi-final of the Women’s Asia Cup in Sylhet yesterday, booking a place in the title-decider for the first time since the tournament shifted to T20 format.

Batting in the subcontinent is an art, and those who have mastered it – such as Sachin Tendulkar, Kumar Sangakkara Rahul David, Mahela Jayawardena and Mohamed Yusuf – had a very solid technique to handle the biggest threat in the subcontinent –

Opener Kusal Mendis shone with a quick-fire 29-ball knock of 54 inclusive of six boundaries and three sixes in Sri Lanka’s first T20 World Cup warm-up match against Zimbabwe, played at Melbourne on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka Air Force produced some magnificent 7s rugby to beat Havelock Sports Club 24-10 in the Cup final at the Sri Lanka Rugby 7s, at the Race Course Grounds on Sunday.

In Group A, the two top teams, CCC and Moors SC continued their winning streaks recording their fourth wins.

The revamped club rugby 7s tournament will kick off this Saturday at the Race Course Grounds without powerhouse Kandy SC, with the remaining club teams joined by Western Babarians in Segment A of the renamed Sri Lanka Rugby 7s.

By Harsha Amarasinghe A very tall and a very skinny boy from Matale moved out to living in hostels at the Moors Sports Club in Colombo 2, nearly 12 years ago in an attempt to make it big in the domestic cricket.

The participation of Kandy SC at this weekend’s club 7’s tournament hangs in the balance with Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) making a u-turn on its written confirmation to provide accommodation to the champion club. Kandy SC, being the only outstation sid

Both DS Senanayake College (‘B’ division champions) and giant killers of school rugby, Vidyartha College, settled to share the Cup after their final ended in a 10-all draw at the Nittawela Rugby Stadium in their Sri Lanka Schools Rugby Football A

A turn of fortunes on the field has resulted in a renewed sense of belief among his players and trust in the methods put forward by the coaching staff, Sri Lanka’s cricket Head Coach Chris Silverwood believes.

Justifying mankading in cricket has been a very difficult task for years, but since we now live in a world where people like Mahindananda Aluthgamage claim that those who chased away former President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa would regret it on their death

Football Sri Lanka (FSL) President Jaswar Umar today warned that there is a great danger of the world football governing body – the FIFA banning Sri Lanka in the coming days.

Charith Asalanka had a nightmare of an Asia Cup despite the Sri Lankan team eventually emerging as the champions following that sensational victory in the final against Pakistan a couple of weeks ago.

Asia Rugby’s (AR) sensational progress under the President Qais Al-Dhalai took another giant step forward as they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rugby Africa (RA) further expanding the cooperation between two of the biggest regiona