Category: Sports News

The inaugural edition of the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) Twenty20 tournament will be played from August 10 to 31, Sri Lanka Cricket announced on Thursday. […]

Lasith Malinga is a unique cricketer in many ways. It is not just his slinging action that is a standout feature; he’s probably the only cricketer in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) who has hardly attended more than a couple of practice sessions and still stands out as the highest wicket-taker of the tournament […]

Pakistan will tour Sri Lanka next month for three Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games, Sri Lanka Cricket said on Monday. […]

Sri Lankan marathon runner Anuradha Cooray has qualified for the 2012 London Olympics after he finished the London Marathon today (April 22) clocking two hours 17 minutes and 50 seconds, President of the Athletic Association of Sri Lanka (AASL), Major General Palitha Fernando said. […]

Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has been chosen as both one of the Five Cricketers of the Year and the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2011 in the 2012 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, it was announced Wednesday. […]

Sri Lanka beat England by 75 runs in the first Test played in Galle. Sri Lanka scored 318 and 214 in their two innings while England scored 193 and 264 in reply. […]

The first Test between Sri Lanka and England is set for a fascinating finish after a dramatic second day’s play where 17 wickets fell, 12 of them to spinners, as England fought back admirably after conceding a first innings lead of 125 runs here at the Galle International Stadium yesterday. […]

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Madurai bench of the Madras high court in India seeking a direction to the Union government to cancel all international cricket matches slated to be played between India and Sri Lanka in future, until all disputes are settled in the ethnic crisis between Tamils and Sinhalese, […]

Starlet Nupur Mehta has added a new twist to the ongoing match-fixing allegations that have lately come her way. She now claims she was seeing Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan around the time of the 2009 T20 World Cup in England. […]

Bangladesh defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets in the last league match in Dhaka on Tuesday to go through to the Asia Cup final. […]

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first in their second Asia Cup match against Pakistan in Mirpur, Bangladesh. Lasith Malinga was brought into the team while Chamara Kapugedera was left out. […]

Sri Lanka suffered a blow on Wednesday when influential all-rounder Angelo Mathews was ruled out for the rest of the Asia Cup due to a calf injury. […]

Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene was proud of his team even though it lost the Commonwealth Bank one-day tri-series to Australia in Adelaide. […]

Australia win the Commonwealth Bank series after beating Sri Lanka by 17 runs following a tense final at Adelaide. Clint McKay took five wickets for 28 runs while Upul Tharanga scored 71 off 122 balls for the Lankans. […]

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP)—Australia was all out for 231 after being sent in to bat by Sri Lanka in the third and deciding tri-series finals match Thursday at Adelaide Oval: […]

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP)—Sri Lanka has won Game 2 by eight wickets to force the best-of-three Tri-series finals into a deciding third match against Australia: […]