Seven new meet records were established at the Lanka Lions Athletic Championship concluded on Sunday at Mahinda Rajapaksha Staduim, Diyagama. W.V. Rathnakumari and Milantha Dissanayake won the most outstanding women and menandrsquo;s trophies respectively.

The extent to which politics has played a part in the ruination of Sri Lanka cricket on the field could not have come into prominence the way it unfolded yesterday as the venue of Pallekele was caught up in a watery mess while another international ground just 60 kilometres away at Dambulla stood dry without a match for two years.

Swashbuckling Thisara Perera continued his flamboyant show against Pakistan this time at his maiden Test on home soil as he obliged Sri Lanka with four vital wickets on an inviting pitch on the first day of the third and final cricket Test here at the Pallekele stadium yesterday.

In-form Sri Lanka batsman Tillekeratne Dilshan yesterday quit the third and deciding cricket Test against Pakistan to spend time with his sick child making way for Dinesh Chandimal to partner Tharanga Paranavithana.

Despite the interest and the euphoria of Test Cricket Sri Lanka is gearing herself up to the latest cricketing extravaganza which is the SLPL or better known as the Sri Lanka Premier League. As we are aware the SLPL should have happened last year though due to the BCCI pulling the rug under the feet of the SLC it had to be deferred.

Sri Lanka Cricket is pleased to announce the players drafted for the …

On a day of lackluster performance, Sri Lankaandrsquo;s top-notch athletes failed to live up to expectation where only a single achievement of note was recorded in 15 final on day one of the second leg National Athletic League at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday.

Sri Lanka will host its first ever professional golf tournament with about 120 professional golfers from India and Sri Lanka to participate.

Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene said that the place of Tharanga Paranavitana in the Test side is being challenged after the left handed opener struggled to find his from during the Pakistan series.

Fearing a chronic exposure of a lopsided domestic T-20 championship and expected bickering among team owners, Sri Lanka Cricket yesterday conducted behind closed doors what they called a andldquo;player draftandrdquo; to make up teams that will take part in the Sri Lanka Premier League or SLPL.

Sri Lanka A crashed to a humiliating innings defeat against South Africa A in their first of two unofficial Tests on Monday.

The coaching fraternity of Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) has gone haywire with a spate of resignations.

The rain that swamped across Colombo and most parts of the island during the last 48 hours put paid to any hopes of a result in the second cricket Test between host Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the SSC ground yesterday.

7 Icon players appointed to each Provincial team

Sri Lanka were at the receiving end of brilliant batting and the fury of Mother Nature as Pakistanandnbsp; piled up runs with ease on a rain curtailed second dayandrsquo;s play of the second cricket Test here at the SSC ground yesterday.

Sri Lanka will press hard for an inaccessible 2-0 lead when they take on Pakistan in the second of the three match Test series starting today at the SSC ground.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday that more than 100,000 tickets for the ICC World Twenty-20 to be staged between September 18 and October 7 in Sri Lanka have been sold with the majority grabbed by locals.

Matches featuring Sri Lanka, semi-finals and final in big demand

Sri Lanka completed a comfortable 209 runs win with a day to go despite a resilient second innings fight back by the Pakistanis to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series which would be best remembered for the atrocious umpiring as well as Kumar Sangakkaraandrsquo;s unbeaten 199 at the Galle International Stadium yesterday.andnbsp;

Kumar Sangakkara and Alastair Cook have made impressive gains in the latest Reliance ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen which were released on Sunday after the completion of Sri Lanka-Pakistan and England-West Indies series, and the Ireland-Australia ODI that was washed out on Saturday in Belfast.

Pakistan coach Dave Whatmore yesterday called for the mandatory use of the Decision Review System (DRS) with or without the hotspot technology in order to avoid bizarre on-field umpire decisions but refrained from commenting on the controversial umpiring in the match.

After seven sessions of complete dominance, first with the bat and then with some excellent seam and spin attack aided by the horrors of umpiring decisions, Sri Lanka refused to go for the kill, as they puzzlingly decided to bat a second time despite a commanding 372 first innings lead on day three of the first Test here at the Galle International stadium on Sunday.

A bubbly Sri Lankan in Britain, a crusader for under-privileged children and homes for the aged, has been picked to carry the Olympic torch on July 17, ten days before the London Games commence.

Did Sri Lanka win the ODI series against Pakistan or did the visitors lose it? Judging by the manner the two games ended I will not be surprised to find Pakistan supporters carrying the latter view. Though personally I would want to think that Sri Lanka won two remarkable victories virtually coming from behind when everything was against him.

Kumar Sangakkara was stranded a run short of claiming his ninth double century, his third against Pakistan after Saeed Ajmal curtailed Sri Lankaandrsquo;s run feast on a deteriorating Galle pitch on Saturday.

Former captains TM Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara hit centuries, while skipper Mahela Jayawardane cashed in with an unfinished half century to help Sri Lanka reach a formidable 300 for 2 after electing to bat on day one of the first Test against Pakistan at the Galle International Stadium yesterday.

Former secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, S. Skandakumar, a gentleman par excellence, delivered a masterpiece straight from his heart that captivated his audience at the Sri Lanka-UK Society Birthday Banquet for Her Majesty the Queen at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo on June 17.

Sri Lanka will look to arrest their dismal Test record during the last three years when they taken on inconsistent Pakistan in the first of the three match Test series starting today at the propitious Galle International Cricket Stadium.

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been banned from the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle that starts on Friday as punishment for his team's slow over-rate in the final match of the one-day series.

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been suspended from this week's Galle Test after his side was found guilty of a serious over-rate offence during the fifth and last ODI against Sri Lanka at R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Monday.