The winningest franchise in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) find themselves in a position they have not been in before, after a seven-wicket defeat to the Galle Titans yesterday left the defending champions Jaffna Kings waiting till the final day of t

The first match of the Dialog Inter-Schools Rugby Super Round segment is scheduled to be kicked off today at 4.00 p.m. with St. Peter’s College hosting St. Anthony’s College at Bambalapitiya. Apart from the league encounter this will also be p

The youngest of the lot 12-year-old Thejas Rathis Kanth booked his place in the quarter-final stages of the 102nd Royal Colombo Golf Club Championships, beating Chandana Gunasekera in the 18th hole to win 1-up. Along with Thejas, Reshan Algama, Jaco

Sri Lanka’s Ayomal Akalanka and Nilupul Pehesara won silver and bronze medals at the 7th Commonwealth Youth Games yesterday (10) at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Trinidad and Tobago. It was the first time since 2015 that Sri Lanka won medals at

The election of office bearers of Football Sri Lanka, that is expected to pave the way for FIFA to lift its international suspension of Sri Lanka, will take place by September 16 under the supervision of FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC

Gamer.LK, the premier Esports events organiser in Sri Lanka, concluded its 5th edition of Women’s Cyber Games, (WCG) the largest female-focused Esports event in Sri Lanka. The two-day event took place recently where female players competed in 14 ti

Several former Sri Lanka football stars have formed a football wing of St. Benedict’s College. Among them are former Sri Lanka captain and past President of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka Anura de Silva, Tilak Peiris, one of the founder me

Suryakumar Yadav smashed 83 off 44 balls as India beat West Indies by seven wickets in the third T20 international in Guyana on Tuesday to keep the series alive. After India lost T20 debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill cheaply in pursuit of

The Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVB) to host the 7th Central Asia Men’s Challenge Cup 2023 Volleyball Tournament. According to a request by the Central Asian Volleyball Association (CAVA), the tournament will be held from October 9-15 at S

Sylvestrian Sports Club beat Black Eagle CC by six wickets in their Kandy District Cricket Association Division III conducted cricket encounter which was worked off at the Pallekele Prison ground recently. Black Eagle CC 187 in 40.4 overs (Janaka Wij

The 102nd Club Championship at Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) quarter-final stages will be worked off today (10) and continued till August (13) at their course at Borella. Ladies Silver and Bronze too will take place on the same day. Club champion

A top knock of 102 inclusive of 16 boundaries by Sehadu Sooriyaarachchi which was his third ton and half tons by Hirun Matheesha and Thevindu Wewelwala helped Royal College Colombo to record a convincing first innings win over Maris Stella Negombo in

Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) disbursed the first set of monthly allowance to the coaches whose athletes are representing Sri Lanka at the Asian Games with support of their main sponsor DAMRO Holdings. Each coach was presented Rs 40,000. They will be

The 102nd Club Championship at Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) quarter-final stages will be worked off today (10) and continued till August (13) at their course at Borella. Ladies Silver and Bronze too will take place on the same day. Club champion

Bronze medalist at the 2023 Asian Youth Athletic Championships and up and coming Sri Lankan athlete Ayomal Akalanka of Ambagamuwa MMV qualified for the final of the 400m Hurdles for boys at the 7th Commonwealth Youth Games yesterday. The Commonwealth

Hindu National College Matale advanced to the pre-quarter final of the ongoing SLSCA Under 15 division 3 inter-school cricket tournament as they beat St. Joseph’s College Bandarawela on the first innings in their match played at the Urban Council g

ndia’s cricket board earned a surplus of around $1.5 billion in the five years to 2021-22, the country’s parliament heard during a rare look into the sporting body’s finances. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does not typicall

Australian swim king Kyle Chalmers yesterday said the Paris Olympics will be his third and last, but the sprint star insisted it did not mean he was retiring. The 25-year-old scorched the field to win 100m freestyle gold at the world championships

Sponsored for the 12th consecutive year, the CBL Samaposha Inter-School Under-14 Football Tournament, held at the Racecourse Grounds in Colombo, concluded on a successful note recently. Organised by the Sri Lanka Schools Football Association (SLSFA),

Colombia captain Catalina Usme is “dreaming big” and coach Nelson Abadia wants to “make history” as the last team standing from the Americas plots the downfall of England in the Women’s World Cup quarter-finals. The 25th-ranked South Ame

The absence of three injured first-choice players will be a massive challenge for South Africa in their Rugby World Cup defence, according to three former Springbok captains including Jean de Villiers. Fly-half Handre Pollard, centre Lukhanyo Am a

A Sri Lankan cricket star who has been stranded in Australia for more than eight months will be allowed to travel domestically after his bail conditions were eased.

Openers Nishan Madushka and Rahmanullah Gurbaz shone for Jaffna Kings in the comfortable six-win over Colombo Strikers in the 13th match of the Lanka Premier League T20 tournament played under floodlights at the Pallekele International Stadium yester

An all-round performance by skipper Wanindu Hasaranga paved the way for B-Love Kandy to coast to an easy 89-run win over Galle Titans in the 12th match of the Lanka Premier League T20 tournament encounter played at the Pallekele International Stadium

While recalling life lessons that helped him become the all-time leading run scorer in international cricket, former India captain Sachin Tendulkar highlighted the importance of focusing on the early moments, nutrition and education of children, duri

Colombo FC won the City League President’s Cup for the fourth time. Colombo FC beat Maligawaththa Youth 2-0 in the final held at the City League ground. The winners Colombo FC was awarded Rs. 150,000 in cash and the runner-up Maligawaththa You

Royal Colombo Golf Club (RCGC) conducted Monthly Medal for July 2023 was won by Yasser Farook, in the overall Nett event, at the RCGC course in Borella recently. The event which was teed off with more than 250 golfers was sponsored by First Capita

Thurstan College, who at one time were one of the leading rugby playing schools in the island having brushed shoulders with all the leading schools, have fallen back in recent times, stumbling from the top division down to the lower ranks. They we

Liverpool SC beat Kandy Bloomfield CC by 38 runs in their Kandy District Cricket Association conducted Division III cricket encounter which concluded at the Prison ground in Pallekele recently.

Five adults were taken into custody in connection with the alleged assault on a group of school children during the football match between Wesley College Borella and Zahira College Maradana on Monday (07) at the Cooray Park Stadium in Wellawatte.