Dialog Axiata PLC has extended corporate backing for the 19th year as official sponsor of the country’s blue ribbon cricket encounter, the 145th Battle of the Blues Big Match between the traditional rivals Royal College and S. Thomas’ College - played for the prestigious Rt. Hon. D. S. Senanayake Memorial Shield on March 7, 8 and 9 at the SSC Grounds in Maitland Place.
Security has been tightened in the Jharkhand capital after US-based designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun threatened to disrupt the fourth Test match between India and England in Ranchi, officials said.
Afghanistan leg-spinner Noor Ahmad has been banned for 12 months by ILT20’s disciplinary committee for breach of contract with his franchise Sharjah Warriors. Noor becomes the second player after fellow countryman Naveen-ul-Haq to be banned by the ILT20 for the same reason.
Sadeera Samarawickrama and Angelo Mathews together laid the foundation for a resounding 72-run win for Sri Lanka against Afghanistan in the second T20 played at the Rangiri Dambulla Stadium yesterday which enabled the host side to take a 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
CR & FC ended a 26-year league drought when they claimed the Inter Club Rugby League 2023/24, going unbeaten the whole season, as an inspired second-half performance saw them beat defending champions Kandy SC 33-25 at Longdon Place in front of a packed house.
Riding a wave of confidence after their convincing One Day International (ODI) series win in Kandy, Sri Lanka gears up to face Afghanistan in a three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series starting at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium today.
Chanaka Perera of the Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) continued his form in tandem to secure the first Sri Lanka Golf (SLG) National Ranking Championships 2024, in a thrilling culmination for this four-day event, which concluded at the Nuwara Eliya Golf Club.
The Sri Lanka Girls’ and Boys’ Team qualified to play in the semi-finals of the ITF Asia/Oceania Under-14 Pre-Qualifying Junior Tennis Tournament Team Championship when they came out victorious in their respective quarter-final matches played at the SLTA Courts in Green Path, Colombo.
UK based club cricketer Rizwan Javed has been banned from all cricket for 17 ½ years after he was found guilty of five different breaches of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) Anti-Corruption Code for Participants (the ‘Code’).
The Sri Lanka junior girls’ and boys’ team qualified to the quarter finals of the ITF Asia/Oceania U14 Pre-Qualifying Junior Tennis Team Championship when they came out victorious in their matches played at the SLTA tennis courts in Greenpath, Colombo.
Afghanistan player Mohammad Nabi has ended Shakib Al Hasan’s long tenure as the number one all-rounder in the ICC Men’s ODI Player Rankings after smashing a fine century in the first ODI against Sri Lanka in Pallekele.
India-Sri Lanka ferry service operates smoothly
Tourist arrivals surpass 63,000 in first half of October
EDB gets new chief
Colombo welcomes Cinnamon Life