The Bank of Ceylon has agreed to release Rs. 600 million to Sri Lanka Cricket to pay longstanding dues to national players. The move follows discussions Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage had with the Chairman and Board officials of the Bank of Ceylon along with the officials of the Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s cricketing fortunes seem to be changing of late. The team’s better performance has raised hopes among many fans, while the Sports Ministry’s decision to finally pay the cricketers through a Rs. 600 million loan from the Bank of Ceylon will raise moral still higher. The financial fallout that resulted from the co-hosting of ...

What does independence mean to Sri Lanka? After 64 years, one would think that the value of freedom would have waned, but that is not the case. Yet the direction of this independence and what it means to people is undergoing a change and therein lies the challenge for the decades ahead. It is true ...

Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard hosted the touring Sri Lanka cricket team at her residence ahead of the team’s practice match against the Prime Ministers XI which takes place on February 3 at the Manuka Oval. Sri Lanka are in Australia for the Commonwealth Bank Tri Series

AAP: New Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene is adamant his unpaid squad can put their money woes and off-field dramas behind them to turn around what’s been a bleak patch of Test and one-day results. Since finishing runner-up to India at last year’s World Cup, Sri Lanka’s form has slumped, falling to series losses to ...

Sydney Morning Herald: This summer’s tri-series will be played amid a backdrop of a pay dispute which sees Sri Lanka’s players owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country’s governing body. As Mahela Jayawardene’s team battle the world’s top two ODI sides on the field during this ...

Member of Parliament Eran Wickramaratne speaking on the ‘Financial Impact of the Findings of the COPE Report’ at a seminar on ‘Good Governance’ organised by Women for Good Governance (WGG) on Monday at the OPA Auditorium stated that the loss from inefficiency and waste far exceeds the losses on corruption in Government institutions. He called on ...

Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) under its outreach programme ‘Sambhashana’ discussed ‘COPE Exposure and Beyond’ at the OPA Auditorium recently. On the panel were Rajiva Wijesinha, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC and Professor A.D.V. de S. Indraratna. The moderator was Lakshman Gunasekera. Below is the presentation by Professor Indraratna: This is not the first time tha...

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COLOMBO: Legendary Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Thursday slammed his country’s sacking of Australian coach Geoff Marsh as “disgraceful” and “unprofessional”. Marsh was this week replaced by South African Graham Ford. Former cricket captain Tillakaratne Dilshan (L) shakes hands with newly appointed national cricket team captain Mahela Jayawardene afte...

Charith Senanayake new manager for Aussie tour COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lanka have sacked coach Geoff Marsh and appointed South African Graham Ford on a two-year contract, a Sri Lanka cricket official said on Thursday. “Ford has signed a two-year contract and his first assignment

Environmental Resources Investment PLC, (ERI)   the official sponsor of the daily breakfast show of Your Radio – 88.3, recently held two promotions for their regular listeners which had many calling and a number of winners chosen.   First promotion was held during the Carlton Sevens Rugby Tournament where the callers were offered valuable gifts courtesy ...

Veteran fast bowler Asantha De Mel has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Cricket Selection Committee. Others in the new team appointed by Sri Lanka Cricket are former wicket keeper Amal Silva, spinner Don Arunasiri and Hemantha Wickramarathne. Some of the new appointees had served previous

Colombo, (AFP): The Sri Lankan government has ordered a probe into the national cricket team’s “crisis situation” after they fell to another defeat in their one-day series in South Africa, an official said on Wednesday. Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage asked the country’s cricket governing body to investigate and recommend remedial action to end the side’s ...

The newly elected president of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has once again has predicted that at least five years will be needed to resolve its financial crisis. Upali Dharmadasa, who was elected uncontested on 03 January, said the SLC will get a considerable amount of income from future tours

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) :Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla have been omitted from South Africa’s one-day international (ODI) squad for the remainder of the series against Sri Lanka, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Sunday. All-rounder Kallis, 36, has been rested while Amla, the top-ranked

The ceremonial induction of Sujeewa Rajapakse as the 21st President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) will be held today at 6 p.m. at the Oak Room of the Cinnamon Grand. Rajapakse will take over the mantle of CA Sri Lanka from Sujeewa Mudalige at the ceremony at which ...

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan minister slammed the country’s cricket team on Thursday, blaming poor team spirit for its humiliating 258-run thrashing by South Africa, the island’s worst one-day international defeat. Government spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said he was “horrified” when Sri Lanka were dismissed for 43 runs at Boland Park in Paarl on ...

CHENNAI, India (AFP): The Indian Premier League released its 2012 tournament schedule on Friday, confirming that no matches will be played in Sri Lanka despite a request from the island’s cricket authorities. Upali Dharmadasa, the new president of Sri Lanka Cricket, said earlier this week

NDTV.com: The newly elected chief of the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), Upali Dharmadasa, on Thursday declared that ‘evil spirits’, which had plagued the governing body have been driven out through a special ‘puja’. Addressing the reporters here after assuming the office

sports.ndtv.com: Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has approached the BCCI about the possibility of hosting IPL matches, the new SLC president, Upali Dharmadasa, has said. The idea has been proposed as a way for SLC to raise additional revenue because the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) failed

Favourite and highly connected Upali Dharmadasa yesterday became the Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket after winning the first-ever election to its Board in seven years. He won the race uncontested, a development which also favoured Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga who contested independently. Dharmadasa

Phoenix Ogilvy Sri Lanka scored a major victory by beating leading global advertising agencies and international sports marketing companies to win the pitch for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that Phoenix Ogilvy will be the official marketing and communications agency for the ICC World Twenty20 2012. The tournament will ...

By Manoj Ridimahaliyadda espncricinfo.com: Sidath Wettimuny, the former Sri Lanka batsman, has suggested a radical restructuring of the country’s domestic cricket structure, which involves promoting provinces over clubs. The financial uncertainty surrounding Sri Lankan cricket and the upcoming board elections could, however, overshadow Wettimuny’s proposal. As a member of Sri Lanka Cri...

Uncapped fast bowler Kanishka Alvitigala and seamer Dhammika Prasad have flown out to South Africa to join Sri Lanka’s struggling Test team, officials said Tuesday. Sri Lanka, who were crushed in the first Test by an innings and 81 runs, had requested replacements after pace bowler Nuwan Pradeep was injured during a warm-up game in ...

Candidates vying for the president post of Sri Lanka’s cricket governing authority, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have handed over their nominations, Sports Ministry sources said. Upali Dharmadasa, who headed the interim committee most recently until it was dissolved by the Sports Minister

Sri Lanka’s fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep has been ruled out of the ongoing tour of South Africa after tearing his right hamstring, Sri Lanka Cricket said on Monday. Pradeep, 25, suffered the injury while bowling during the warm-up game against the South Africa Invitation XI in Benoni on Saturday

Wall Street Journal.com: Not many employers could get away with not paying their most important employees for eight months. But that’s what cricket’s governing body in Sri Lanka has just done. Amazingly, those employees, the international-team players, have carried on working. Sri Lanka

Coca-Cola Cricket Pathway, a unique initiative to discover and nurture grassroots talent from all parts of the country, continued on its journey with the announcement of the second Coca-Cola Pathways Super Camp, to be staged in Colombo. Coca-Cola has collaborated with the Aravinda de Silva Cricket Foundation to organise the Coca-Cola Cricket Pathway initiative and ...

SRI Lanka Cricket has been a hot topic of conversation for most of this year, due to the massive financial mismanagement that has finally caught up to the institution, with even the Government refusing to back it any longer. Lending a ray of hope, Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage