The showcase or the spectacle of the shortest form of the game the T-20 World Cup is just around the corner. The entire country reeling after a surfeit of cricket both international and domestic will naturally brace itself for the biggest event ever undertaken by SLC.

Sri Lanka yesterday picked a squad of 23 members minus five hardcore players from which the team for the Under-19 Rugby Asiad will be selected.

Twelve budding football players from various parts of the country had their dream come true when they were selected to form a special group picked from thousands of hopefuls to train at the Manchester United Schools Academy in England.

Sri Lankan golfer Tyronne Weerakkody secured a place to represent his country with the East Asian Team at the World Finals to be held in Stuttgart, Germany from September 13 to 18.

Singer will once more prop up the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) when they sponsor the Under 19 Junior Rugby Asiad Division II championship which will be worked off at Havelock Park from September 12 to 15 with four teams participating.

Cricket pitches in Sri Lanka have taken on a new look which could offer all teams a fair contest at the forthcoming World T-20 which starts on September 18.

The 7 provinces of Sri Lanka were granted Rs. 1 million each for the development of cricket in their respective areas.

Cricket World Cup fever will take a revolutionary turn in the country when the once killing fields of the north will stage what would be the International Cricket Councilandrsquo;s (ICC) first ever documented event where bats will replace guns at a forerunner to the World T-20 which is scheduled to begin in the south of Sri Lanka in two weeks time.

In competitive tests conducted by the Chinese International Wushu Federation recently for the selection of Internal Wushu Judges, M.M. Chanaka Sajith, Vijith Priyantha Edirisingha and Leshan Dayarathna who represented Sri Lanka, were fortunate enough to get through the tests and were promoted to the position of Internal Judges.

Little known Afghanistan will be making their first appearance at the 125th Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship that will begin today at the Ridgeways course.

The first edition of the inaugural Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL) came to an end in a rain curtained final at Colombo on August 31, with Uva Next taking the title after overcoming Nagenahira Nagas by 19 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Leading golfers from India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and for the first time Afghanistan, will contest the 125th Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship, the worldandrsquo;s second oldest after the British Open, at the Ridgeways course in Colombo from September 4 to 9.

Trailing 7-12 in the first half Sri Lanka bounced back in the second half to retain the Bowl championship beating host Malaysia 19 (one goal and two tries) to 12 (one goal and one try) in the final as reigning champions Japan defended the Cup title for another term in the Asian Ranking Borneo Rugby Sevens tournament which concluded here yesterday at the Likas Stadium in Kota Kinablu, Malaysia.

Sri Lankaandrsquo;s most promising young squash player Mihiliya Methsarani produced another exciting performance to win the gold medal at the fourth Indian Junior Squash Championship held in Chennai recently.

A last ditch try in the dying seconds of the game by Chinese Taipei closed the door for Sri Lanka in the Cup quarter final here at the Asian Ranking Borneo Rugby Sevens worked off at the Likas Stadium, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia yesterday.

Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has ruled out an election of office-bearers to Sri Lanka as he gave the green light to the current administration for a four-year term for what he called the success of the Sri Lanka Premier League which concluded on Friday.

Sri Lanka is sending a seven-member team to compete in the Paralympic Games in London. They are determined to win the first ever Paralympic medal for the country, but say their effort is being hampered by a lack of official support.

Malaysia threatened to spoil what has been Sri Lankaandrsquo;s party so far with an excellent performance but the host held their nerve to claim a close 67 to 58 points win in the first semi-final of the eighth Asian Netball Championship at the Sugathadasa stadium last morning.

CCC School of Cricket under-13 A team registered an emphatic victory by 337 runs over Kangaroo Cricket Academy, Colombo in a MCA Invitation Junior Cricket tournament match played at Sri Jayewardenepura MV ground recently.

Fast bowlers Isuru Udana and Dilhara Fernando have questioned their omissions from the Sri Lanka squad for the T-20 World Cup by emerging as the second and third best bowlers in the on-going SLPL.

Club cricket in Sri Lanka has come to a make or break situation with the dawn of the internationally flavoured SLPL, administrators and coaches contend.

Sri Lanka will most probably meet Malaysia in the semi finals of the Asian Netball Championship tomorrow at the Sugathadasa Stadium Colombo.

Sri Lankaandrsquo;s march to the semifinals of the Asian Netball championship was made in style as they beat newcomer Japan (110-8) in their last group stage match yesterday at the Sugathadasa Stadium.

Former Youth World Cup cricketer Kithruwan Vithanage is one of the players in the Sri Lanka Premier League who believes he has graduated onto a more competitive level after interacting with international players most notably Pakistani bowlers Sohail Tanvir and Saeed Ajmal while playing for the Kandurata Warriors.

Sri Lanka made history in style by recording the highest score of 127 to beat Nepal (3) in their third encounter of Asian Netball Championship worked off at the Sugathadasa Stadium yesterday.

Defending Bowl champions Sri Lanka is grouped with China and Chinese Taipei for the Asian Ranking Borneo Rugby Sevens which gets underway in Sabah, Malaysia on September 1 and 2.

A new digital scoring machine was declared insufficient with Sri Lanka scoring heavily at yesterdayandrsquo;s Asia Cup netball championship against Nepal as it was unable to display the scores beyond 100.

Sri Lanka recorded the highest score of the tournament to post a second consecutive win beating India (85-29) at the Asian Netball Championship worked off at the Sugathadasa indoor Stadium yesterday.

With no opposition and smooth sailing in the first two matches, Sri Lanka is facing a big problem of not being able to test its real strength ahead of the semi finals and final at the Asian Netball Championships.

Pakistan Twenty20 skipper Mohammad Hafeez feels playing in the Sri Lanka Premier League has given his teammates a fair idea of the conditions before the upcoming T20 World Cup, getting started next month.