EXCLUSIVE: The extraordinary run avalanche to the magical 1000 in the very first six innings on the trot that sets out young blood in the realms of the unique has indeed found Ragama CC’s Nishan Madushka just Player of the Series reward of the concluded Sri Lanka Cricket Major League...The post Sheer grit and commitment pays off – Player of the Series Nishan Madushka appeared first on ...

Their win had all the ingredients for a perfect script and there was nothing that Sri Lankaandrsquo;s unsung women cricketers did not do to snatch a thriller over the West Indies in a World T-20 match at the Galle International Cricket Stadium on Friday.

Skipper Mahela Jayawardene smashed an unbeaten 65 off 49 balls and shared an unbroken second wicket partnership of 108 with Kumar Sangakkara to register a comfortable nine wicket win over West Indies in their second Super Eight match at the Pallekele International Stadium last night.

Defending champions Kandy SC left out their key back division players in Sri Lanka Sevens captain and fly half Fazil Marija and full back Saliya Kumara for todayandrsquo;s Dialog Clifford Cup knock-out tournament curtain raiser against underdogs CR and FC scheduled to be played at Bogambara.

Sri Lanka won a Super Over shoot-out and lived to stay afloat in the World T-20 as New Zealand did everything except finish the match as the better team on the day in the first Super Eight match here at the Pallekele stadium in Kandy.

The worldandrsquo;s top women cricketers are not just in Sri Lanka to take part in a global showpiece but are here to target and open a new horizon not second to men as they spice up the womenandrsquo;s World T-20 starting today in Galle.

The ICC Womenandrsquo;s World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 kicks offandnbsp; today in Galle, with host Sri Lanka taking on South Africa in the opening match at Galle International Cricket Stadium.

Sri Lankan cricketers Angelo Mathews and Ajantha Mendis have been ruled out of danger and are most likely to train with the team at a practice session at the Pallekele Interanational Stadium today ahead of their World T-20 Super Eight match against New Zealand on Thursday.

The Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) is still holding discussions to finalize the enlisting of foreign referees to officiate at the Dialog Clifford Cup knock-out rugby tournament to kick off on September 28 at the Bogambara Stadium, Kandy and Havelock Park in Colombo.

The Sri Lanka Sevens rugby team captained by Fazil Marija hit back strongly to win all three matches on day two of the Shanghai Sevens yesterday and with it the Plate trophy.

Sri Lanka kicked off the HSBC Asian Sevens Series second leg in Shanghai- China yesterday where they were defeated in both their group encounters.

Sri Lanka perished in a flash before a reload was possible as South Africa made a precise killing in a terrible World T-20 mismatch here at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Hambantota yesterday after rain decided the contest be played in seven overs a side.

The ICC piloted a partnership with the educational non-profit Room to Read during the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 and the success of this initiative convinced both parties to extend the relationship through to 2015. Room to Read works to One of the early fruits of this partnership, has been the development of local language cricket books to promote literacy, the first of which features local sta...

The Rotherham Circuit Meet held in Katukurunda and touted as the most looked forward to tarmac motor racing event, was given its due glamour when Sri Lanka's foremost motor racing team EZY Racing took 10 podium positions including five wins last Sunday.

Rising from the ruins of war to challenge the worldandrsquo;s cricketing establishment, Afghanistanandrsquo;s rag-tag team hopes to inspire the conflict-ravaged nation with a strong showing at the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.

T20 isnandrsquo;t cricket according to purists but about entertainment pure and simple.andnbsp; Given this, kicking off the T20 World Cup here at the Sooriyawewa International Cricket stadium sits across a thick jungle wasnandrsquo;t ideal, even though the cricket facility is magnificent and inviting.

COLOMBO, (AFP) - Sri Lanka is banking on cricket to repair the damage to its blood-stained image after the brutal end to a 37-year ethnic war as it stages the biggest tournament in the nation's post-independence history.

Dashing opener Dilshan Munaweera is likely to make his international debut this evening when Sri Lanka hosts Zimbabwe in the opening fixture of the T20 World Cup at the Suriyawewa International cricket stadium in Hambantota this evening.

Sri Lanka's foremost motor racing team EZY Racing, completed yet another historical moment in Sri Lankan motor racing when they concluded the first ever EZY Racing Kart Fighters in partnership with Speedrome, a pro karting challenge designed to attract newer and younger drivers to motor racing.

Sri Lankan officials who accompanied the countryandrsquo;s Paralympians at the London Games are reported to have indulged in daily all-night partying and even forced some of the athletes to join them in the frolics.

The International Rugby Board (IRB) has asked the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) to conduct an investigation into two players who cut a doping test ahead of last monthandrsquo;s Borneo Sevens.

It was so close but yet so far for the Sri Lankan youth rugby team. This was the tale yesterday evening at the Havelock Park where the Division II under 19 encounter which not only saw Taipei winning the final but also booked their berth in the division one for next year.