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Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel, has come forward to be the platinum sponsor for one of the country’s largest ever sporting activities – the Carlton Super Sevens Rugby Tournament 2012. Committed to converge world class technology with the widest reach, Mobitel sees this sporting opportunity as a boon for Sri Lanka sports as a whole. The ...
- Etisalat Supports the Carlton Super 7’s kick off (Category: Business)
- Elephant House continues its association with Carlton 7’s (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Insurance empowers Carlton Super Sevens Rugby Tournament 2012 (Category: Business)
- Western Warriors to excell at Carlton Super 7s (Category: Business)
IT seems that the corruption in cricket is spreading to the rest of the sporting bodies in Sri Lanka. The 15th Asian Junior Athletic Championship 2012, which was scheduled to be held in Colombo from 9 to 12 June, has been cancelled by the Asian Athletic Association, the Sri Lanka Athletic Association said on Monday, ...
- AAA cancels Asian Junior Athletic Championship in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka ready to host Asian Junior C’ships (Category: Breaking News)
- SLAA elects officials, Susanthika among Vice Presidents (Category: Breaking News)
- Senior Nationals from today (Category: Sports)
Sri Lanka Cricket says it will stage its own Twenty20 cricket league in August, more than a year after it was postponed due to possible losses due to a pull out of Indian players. The first edition of Sri Lanka Premier League was originally scheduled to be played in July last year. SLC president
- Sri Lanka Cricket will not benefit from being tough - BCCI (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan officials to meet BCCI on Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka T20 league set to be launched in August (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka minister’s request Colombo: (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (AFP) : Pakistan will tour Sri Lanka next month for three Tests, five one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games, Sri Lanka Cricket said on Monday. The Pakistanis will kick off the six-week tour with two Twenty20 matches in the southern port town of Hambantota on June 1 and June 3
- Cricket: Sri Lanka announces Australia itinerary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka name ODI and Twenty20 squad for Australia tour (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket: Pakistan to tour Sri Lanka next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's Australian itinerary (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said he still retains the passion to represent his country and play at the highest level; but reiterated that he sees his current stint as skipper only as a stop-gap arrangement. \\Jayawardene, who replaced Tillakaratne Dilshan as Sri Lanka captain after the tour of South Africa, has had decent success ...
- Slots open for World T20 squad - Jayawardene (Category: Sports)
- Won't captain team: Dilshan (Category: Breaking News)
- Jayawardene to lead Kochi (Category: Breaking News)
- SLPL to promote young talent (Category: Breaking News)
Parliamentary accountability The Parliament, as the country’s foremost representative institution, has the sole authority over national resources and financial allocations and concurrently has a prominent role to play in fiscal responsibility, the budgetary process, economic development and effective transparent economic and financial management, with a view to assuring sustainable growth an...
- Chandra J sends his proposals for 2013 Budget to the President (Category: Business)
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Time for reflection, reality check, risk mitigation and lessons learnt action (Category: Business)
The sports minister in Sri Lanka has vowed to continue bidding for more international sporting events despite the failure to secure 2018 Commonwealth Games in Hambantota. Sri Lanka lost to Australia’s Gold Coast in Saint Kitts last year, after a lengthy bidding process spending Rs. 880 million. But Sports Minister Mahindananada Aluthgamage told BBC Sinhala ...
- Disaster Warning (Category: Business)
- Fresh Season (Category: Business)
- Government land policy is fair- Keheliya (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns as Prime Minister (Category: Breaking News)
Ahead of Friday's AGM, Pan Asia Bank Plc (PABC Bank) Board of Directors yesterday appointed Nimal Perera as the Chairman and Eshana de Silva as the Deputy. Nimal was previously the Deputy Chairman and was elevated as the incumbent senior banker A.G. Weerasinghe is up for retirement. The new appointments are effective from 2 April. ...
- Raises Rs. 150 Mn. (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-SEC DG Channa appointed to Pan Asia Bank board (Category: Business)
- Nimal Perera, new chairman of PABC (Category: Breaking News)
- Heavy movements in financial sector boards (Category: Business)
India will play One Day Internationals at Hambantota, Dambulla, Pallekele and Premadasa Stadium when they arrive here in July to play five ODIS and a Twenty20. Hambantota will host the first two ODIS while Premadasa Stadium in Colombo will host the only T20 International. According to the International Cricket Council’s Future Tours Programme India were ...
- Virat Kohli has got 5 MOM awards in 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan and Sri Lanka set for UAE clashes (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC T20 world Cup tickets for the finals sold out (Category: Breaking News)
- Heavy rain stop match (Category: Breaking News)
Former cricketer and commentator Ranil Abeynaike has passed away yesterday at the age of 57. He had been receiving treatment at a private hospital and died of a heart attack. Abeynaike who is a proud product of S.Thomas’ College, Mt. Lavinia has played first-class cricket for Sri Lanka, List A cricket as well as English ...
- Funeral of Sri Lankan cricket commentator on Thursday (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Abeynaike passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil Abeynaike dies (Category: Breaking News)
- Popular cricket commentator dies (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Extremist Leader (Category: Business)
- Sanga Resigns (Category: Breaking News)
- Basnahira Cricket Dundee launches official team jersey (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
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 ...
- Funds on the way for Sri Lankan players (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankans put on a gutsy show for free (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka aim to rise above money worries (Category: Business)
- $3 m floor price set for T20 league franchises (Category: Business)
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...
- Ex-AG backs IMF bailout conditions (Category: Breaking News)
- DEW disappointed over disruption of COPE; AG acting in terms of Standing Orders (Category: Breaking News)
- AG, COPE take exception to ‘executive interference’ (Category: Breaking News)
- X-Press Pearl controversy: Prof. Peiris zeroes in on AG (Category: Breaking News)
,” Sri Lanka Cricket president Upali Dharmadasa said ...
- Geoff Marsh appointed as coach (Category: Business)
- Marsh, Mohsin comfortable with ODI rule changes (Category: Business)
- Marsh sends letter of demand to SLC (Category: Business)
- Ranatunga slams sacking of Marsh (Category: Business)
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...
- Arjuna calls for selectors to be sacked (Category: Breaking News)
- Marsh sends letter of demand to SLC (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket chief defends Marsh sacking (Category: Business)
- Selectors must resign: Ranatunga (Category: Business)
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
- Sri Lanka axes Marsh (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka 'appoint Ford as coach' (Category: Breaking News)
- Graham Ford new coach (Category: Breaking News)
- Ford named Sri Lanka coach (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka’s cash crisis threatens to overshadow tri-series tour (Category: Business)
- Chaminda Vaas Benefit T20 Cricket Cup – 2011, now official (Category: Business)
- Weary Brett Lee quits international cricket (Category: Business)
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
- Top SA batsmen rested (Category: Breaking News)
- Amla to lead South Africa against Australia (Category: Business)
- South Africa vs Sri Lanka Scoreboard (Category: Breaking News)
- South Africa beat India with two balls to spare (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Dilshan tenders resignation as captain-SLC (Category: Breaking News)
- Tillakaratne Dilshan steps down as captain of Sri Lanka cricket team (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket: Sri Lanka axe coach after just three months (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Pummelled By Proteas (Category: Breaking News)
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
- SLC eager to host IPL matches (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka eager to host IPL matches - Dharmadasa (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket Chief Upali holds puja to banish ‘evil spirits’ (Category: Business)
- SLC hires former ICC Chief Lorgat as Special Adviser (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Phoenix Ogilvy wins ‘Best of Asia’ Gold at Goafest (Category: Business)
- T20 World Cup ticket sales exceed 100,000 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to host T20 World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Wettimuny proposes revamp of Sri Lankan cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- Lorgat for independent review of SLC governance (Category: Business)
- Durban win can’t erase Sri Lanka’s scars (Category: Business)
- SLC suspends all board-run domestic tournaments (Category: Breaking News)
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
- Sri Lanka’s cash crisis threatens to overshadow tri-series tour (Category: Business)
- Chaminda Vaas Benefit T20 Cricket Cup – 2011, now official (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket hopes T20 league will be “spectacular” (Category: Business)
- $3 m floor price set for T20 league franchises (Category: Business)
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 ...
- Coca-Cola and McDonalds launch London Olympics 2012 memorabilia (Category: Business)
- Winners from Coke promotion get all-expense paid trip in Switzerland (Category: Business)
- Coca-Cola sharpens the skill of teaching English in Jaffna (Category: Business)
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
- SLC faces financial crisis after World Cup - report (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket seeks cash help (Category: Breaking News)
- No financial crisis in Sri Lanka Cricket - Sports Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC in better control of financial situation - Lorgat (Category: Sports)
The Sri Lankan Cricketers’ Association (SLCA) has contacted the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) seeking assistance over the delay in the cricketers’ salaries for series following the World Cup this year. Sri Lanka have played three series since the end of the World Cup in April and the players are still awaiting payment, including ...
- Take a holistic approach (Category: Business)
- ICC should not make direct payments to players, Arjuna.R. (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC in discussion to solve SL cricketers’ salary issue (Category: Breaking News)
- Funds on the way for Sri Lankan players (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister has told the nation’s cricket team to start talking to each other to help end their losing streak, saying a lack of communication was the main problem in the squad. Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage met the players, selectors and administrators on Tuesday to find a solution ahead of next month’s Test ...
- Extremist Leader (Category: Business)
- Sanga Resigns (Category: Breaking News)
- Basnahira Cricket Dundee launches official team jersey (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
Eloquent top order batsman Kumar Sangakkara walked away with the coveted CEAT Peoples Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year at the star-studded 2011 CEAT Sri Lanka Cricket Awards which honoured the country’s top performing international and domestic cricketers. Sangakkara
- Dilshan and Sangakkara pick up Ceat Cricket awards (Category: Breaking News)
- Sangakkara bags a magic triple at CEAT Sri Lanka Cricket Awards (Category: Business)
- CEAT awards on offer for Lankan cricketers (Category: Breaking News)
- Sangakkara receives three CEAT Awards (Category: Breaking News)
Chamara Silva, a middle-order batsman, has joined Sri Lanka’s squad in the UAE as back up for Mahela Jayawardene, who has an injured knee. Jayawardene has returned to Sri Lanka and will miss the fifth ODI and the Twenty20 international against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. “After Sunday’s game Mahela’s injury got worse, so he has ...
- Sri Lanka Cricket crave for more matches against India (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka’s Jayasuriya sets sights on parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka Begins Fast to Protest Treatment (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Infotel 2011’ in December (Category: Business)
MANY are the articles penned and opinions aired over Sri Lanka’s bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games bid, but now the only question that needs to be answered is, where to from here? Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told media that the cost for the promotion of Hambantota as the venue was US$ 8 ...
- Commonwealth Games bid money being audited (Category: Breaking News)
- Bid Achieved Global Platform for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth Games bid investment not in vain (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka bids to host the games (Category: Breaking News)
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