David Miller registered a stunning knock of 101 off 116 balls to help South Africa score 212 runs while batting first at Eden Gardens. Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc took three wickets each for Australia to make a difference in the second semifinal.
A matchbag of nine wickets by spinner Prabath Jayasuriya and a half century by Manoj Sarathchandra helped SSC to record a comfortable innings and 62-run win over Colts CC in their Major Club three-day Cricket Tournament match played at the Colts Grounds. This was SSC’s third outright win of the tournament.
In response to reported threats on the life of Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe, three additional police officers from the Ministerial Security Division (MSD) have been assigned to strengthen his security detail.
Mohammed Shami has now completed 50 wickets in World Cup matches through the course of his latest spell against New Zealand in the 2023 semi-final. Remarkably, the speed veteran became the fastest cricketer in history to achieve the landmark figure, in terms of matches as well as in terms of number of balls bowled.
Defending champions Trinity College and St Joseph’s College booked their berths to the semi finals of the Under 19 Division One Tier ‘A’ inter-school limited over cricket tournament when they came out victorious against Mahanama College Colombo and last year’s runners up Richmond College in the quarter final encounters played at Kandana and Thurstan ground.
Pakistan cricket underwent a major shake-up on Wednesday in the aftermath of the team’s World Cup flop as Babar Azam quit as skipper with Shan Masood becoming Test captain, Shaheen Shah Afridi taking the reins of the white-ball side while coaches were downgraded.
Football legend David Beckham was seen with cricketing icon and fellow UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Sachin Tendulkar during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 semi-final between India and New Zealand in Mumbai.
Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe requested the Speaker to appoint a separate Parliamentary Committee, chaired by an opposition MP, to conduct an investigation into Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) instead of the investigations by the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).
A match bag of nine wickets by spinner Prabath Jayasuriya and a half ton by Manoj Sarathchandra helped SSC to record a comfortable innings and 62 run win over Colts CC in the Major Club three day cricket tournament played at the Colts ground. This was SSC’s third outright win of the tournament.
The 5km half event of the All Island School Games conducted by the Ministry of Education and sponsored by Nestle Lanka Pvt Ltd under the brand Nestomalt which concluded at Galle saw W.H. Kavindu Madushan of Kaburuwala National College and K.Y. Chamindi of Makandura Central coming out on top in the boys and girls categories respectively.
Pakistan fast-bowling legend Waqar Younis raised the topic of reverse swing as a dying art in modern-day white-ball cricket and gave a unique suggestion to the International Cricket Council (ICC) to reinvigorate the lost skill in the One-Day Internationals format.
Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe refutes the President’s Media Division (PMD) report, asserting that there were no discussions or Cabinet directives regarding future appointments to interim committees.
Amidst the recent dispute between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe over the appointment of an interim committee for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), the Cabinet has decided that any future interim committee appointments for SLC must receive Cabinet approval.
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India-Sri Lanka ferry service operates smoothly