By Dinouk Colombage The Indian Premier League may not be the most popular competition amongst the international viewing public Australia has gone so far as to not even broadcast the tournament. However, amongst the players the IPL continues to offer far more attractive options than their countries. High salaries, maximum of two months of cricket ...

Cricket stadiums handed over to the military Three of Sri Lanka’s international cricket stadiums , including the newly built stadiums in Pallekele and Hambantota, have been handed over to the military indefinitely because Sri Lanka Cricket is unable to afford the maintenance costs. The navy

This is the seventh article in the Daily FT’s fortnightly series titled ‘Business of Sports,’ focusing on the back office of the various sports administered and played in this country. Readers are invited to share their views and express their opinion via email to editor@ft.lk on the features carried in this column so that a ...

By Rohan Wijesinghe Hushed silence…on the fall of the second Lankan wicket – as tub thumping fans, packed to the ruddy rafters, would set aside their flags and rattles…. with the dapper destroyer, rolling down the hallowed SSC stairway, swinging his tree trunk of a willow, with such an imperial swagger in his chunky pads. ...

Skepticism over the defence services’ enlistment of six top tennis players, all Davis Cup representatives, is understandable. Bad memories of a like-intrusion by the services into rugby last season are too recent to forget. Rugby clubs, you will remember, were thrown into convulsions following the indiscriminate pinching of its better players by the Navy and ...

In keeping with President Rajapaksa’s vision: Three stadiums in Jaffna soon