It is a significant boost for the Kandy franchise, after both their marquee overseas players, Chris Gayle and Liam Plunkett, withdrew from the LPL.

The 40-year-old Afridi has replaced the team’s first choice captain Sarfraz Ahmed, who withdrew to join the national team that will travel to New Zealand on Monday.

Sony Pictures Networks have acquired the exclusive pay television & IPTV broadcast rights for the Lanka Premier League (LPL) in South Asia.

Teams will be ranked based on the percentage of points earned from completed matches to determine the finalists of the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) next year, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday.

Pakistani fast-bowler Sohail Tanvir became the second Lanka Premier League (LPL) player to test positive for Covid-19.

They are the governing bodies of hockey, handball, basketball, golf, carom, wrestling and ball-badminton.

Sadly, all forms of harassment are present in Sri Lankan sports tomorrow. It is only now that these conversations are entering the mainstream and the sporting community beginning to take serious action.

It is understood that a test Singh took at the airport upon his arrival to Sri Lanka had returned a positive result, and will now be isolated and likely sent to a quarantine centre in Colombo.

West Indian opener Chris Gayle has withdrawn from the Lanka Premier League (LPL), another player to back out of the tournament with a little over week from its commencement.

Zoysa was provisionally suspended by the ICC in November 2018 when he was charged on three counts of breaching the Anti-Corruption Code, after which the player had requested for a hearing before an independent tribunal.

Gibbs, who arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday and was originally scheduled to join the commentary panel tweeted ’’Been an interesting day or two but so grateful to be head coach of Colombo Kings’’ following the developments.

The Lanka Premier League (LPL) could be minus one of its star international attractions with speculation that Chris Gayle would not participate in the tournament.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced a provisional home schedule for 2021 today with a five-match Test series against India set to headline the English summer.

England will visit Pakistan for the first time in 16 years when they play two Twenty20 internationals in October. England has not toured since 2005 following an attack by gunmen on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore in 2009.

The Colombo Kings franchise, meanwhile, has suffered a blow after their coach Kabir Ali tested positive for Covid-19 before he could leave for Sri Lanka.

The Lanka Premier League (LPL) has suffered another withdrawal, with former Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed pulling out of the tournament.

IOC President confident that Olympics will have spectators and All Blacks slip down World Rankings

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has agreed to accommodate a 32-member contingent from Sri Lanka for the forthcoming tour, it is learnt.

Cricket World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga today wrote to Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa highlighting concerns ahead of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) later this month, reiterating the need for transparency in conducting the tournament.

Olympic chief Thomas Bach said Monday he is “very, very confident” that spectators will be able to attend next year’s Tokyo Olympics, as he kicked off a Japan trip to boost momentum for the pandemic-postponed Games.

The International Military Sports Council (IMSC) has decided to stage the third World Military Council (WMC) Beach Volleyball Games from July 16 to 23 next year in Negombo.

Lewis Hamilton strengthened his claim as the greatest ever and LPL franchises making coaching changes

Whatmore was earlier named as coach for the Colombo Kings team.

After a momentous drive from sixth on the grid, the Briton matched Michael Schumacher’s haul of drivers’ crowns with three races of the season remaining.

Lewis was even present at the player draft last month and made the selections for the Dambulla team -- then the Dambulla Hawks.

Fly-half Nicolas Sanchez scored all the Pumas’ points to hand them their maiden victory over the rugby powerhouse in the 30 Tests they have played.

Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) has decided to form a National Pool in January in preparation for international meets in the next two years.

Warwickshire had recently sacked their head coach Jim Troughton after a review into their disappointing season and earlier this month it was reported in the media that Saker, who lived near Birmingham when he was England’s bowling coach and had pre

Kosoglu’s parents, Dr. Wijeyadevendram Ravindran and Shobhana Ravindran, hail from Jaffna and emigrated to the United States soon after the 1980s riots begun in Sri Lanka.

As it stands, the national selectors are not allowed to officially name a squad as their tenure ended a couple of months ago and the SLC is still to get the approval for the new committee from the Sports Ministry which begs the question as to how the