Media Release 4th December 2023 The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Committee selected the following 15-member squad to take part in the U19 Asia Cup, which will be played in Dubai. The squad was approved by the Honorable Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Harin Fernando. The team captained by Sineth Jayawardena will depart for the […]The post Sri Lanka squad for ACC Men’s U19 Asia Cup appear...

09th November 2023 PRESS RELEASE The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) would like to issue a statement clarifying recent assertions made by the Minister of Sports in Parliament regarding the transfer of USD 2 million from its accounts. SLC categorically denies any attempt to transfer funds from its accounts to third party accounts and wishes to […]The post SLC Clarifies Misinformation Regarding Fund T...

2023 LANKA PREMIER LEAGUE FINAL By Srian Obeyesekere The countdown to the finals of the 2023 Lanka Premier League between Dambulla Aura and B Love Kandy does hold out to be a facing off of the clash of the titans given the tournament run up that has galvanized into a momentum build up in the […]The post Dambulla Aura-B Love Kandy face off a fitting clash of the titans first appeared on Sri L...

By Srian Obeyesekere As the fourth edition of the 2023 Lanka Premier League gathered steam moving into the challenging harsher terrain of making it to the finals and the focus interestingly shifted to the backseat coaches of the five teams facing the media yesterday with the guiding lights of the top placed two teams namely […]The post Slow pitches challenge players, you have to believe in y...

By Srian Obeyesekere Pakistan swept to a 4-wicket win over Sri Lanka inside of an hour on the fifth and final day of the first test to go 1-up in the 2-Test series at the Galle International Stadium. Overnight opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq remained unbeaten on 50 off 84 hitting 4 boundaries and a six. For […]The post Pakistan sweep to 4-wicket win to go 1-up first appeared on Sri Lanka Cricket...

Media Release 10th July 2023: The inaugural edition of the Lanka T10 League will be held from December 12 to 23, 2023. The tournament, which was initially planned to be held in June 2023, was shifted to December, as SLC deemed the ‘December window’ as the most appropriate to conduct the league, as the timing […]The post The inaugural edition of the Lanka T10 will be played in December 2023 f...

By Srian Obeyesekere King Cricket cannot have it any better in Sri Lanka! Fresh on the heels of the Shammi Silva administration padding up for a new 2-year term by the overwhelming popular demand of the country’s cricket clubs, the game came alive yesterday in what was the first major assignment by Sri Lanka  Cricket’s […]The post All Spruced up for Showpiece LPL Fourth Edition E...

The Lanka Premier League (LPL) is back and better than ever with its upcoming 4th edition set to take place from 30th July to 20th August, 2023. This year, the matches will be played both in Colombo and Kandy, featuring five teams: Galle Gladiators, Dambulla Aura, Lyca Jaffna Kings, Colombo Strikers and Kandy Falcons – […]The post World-Class Cricketers Set Sights on LPL 2023: Sri Lanka’s T2...

By Srian Obeyesekere Forty three test wickets from six appearances just eight months and four days into the foray of top flight international cricket is the phenomenal achievement by Sri Lankan spinner Prabath Jayasuriya that has set him apart as the joint third best bowler in test cricket history to do so. The left arm […]The post PRABATH JAYASURIYA: What a phenomenal rise to hitting the wo...

Chairman, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Suresh Subramaniam today stressed the importance of providing more overseas training and international exposure to the Sri Lankan athletes to win medals at the upcoming major events.

Chairman, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Suresh Subramaniam today stressed the importance of providing more overseas training and international exposure to the Sri Lankan athletes to win medals at the upcoming major events.

Chairman, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Suresh Subramaniam today stressed the importance of providing more overseas training and international exposure to the Sri Lankan athletes to win medals at the upcoming major events.

Chairman, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Suresh Subramaniam today stressed the importance of providing more overseas training and international exposure to the Sri Lankan athletes to win medals at the upcoming major events.

Chairman, National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka (NOCSL) Suresh Subramaniam today stressed the importance of providing more overseas training and international exposure to the Sri Lankan athletes to win medals at the upcoming major events.

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging of the LPL... The post LPL will usher in new chapter in SL cricket to building very strong national team ...

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging of the LPL... The post LPL will usher in new chapter in SL cricket to building very strong national team ...

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging of the LPL... The post LPL will usher in new chapter in SL cricket to building very strong national team ...

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...

By Srian Obeyesekere The enveloping aura of a new era in the annals of Sri Lankan cricket is the flitting mood all around to a cricket loving nation with the dawn of the Lanka Premier League 2020 today to be staged at the picturesque Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium. That the... The post LPL 2020 SET TO USHER IN NEW ERA | Colombo Kings take on Kandy Tuskers in opening game appeared first on...

By Srian Obeyesekere Pakistani Shahid Afridi, who skippers Galle Gladiators following the pulling out of Lasith Malinga, will indeed infuse to the historic Lanka Premier League (LPL) that sense of foreign clout that is the expectant lending fire power the nature of the local version of the Indian Premier League... The post Galle Gladiators Skipper Shahid Afridi infuses lethal foreign clout to LPL ...

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging of the LPL... The post LPL will usher in new chapter in SL cricket to building very strong national team ...

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage, said, “The LPL will... The post LPL will up local cricket and mental wellbeing of COVID hit nation –...