Pakistan qualified to the Super Eights stage of the World T-20 with an eight-wicket win over a spirited Bangladesh team in the last of the qualifying round matches at the Pallekele International Cricket stadium yesterday.

The ICC Womenandrsquo;s World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 kicks offandnbsp; today in Galle, with host Sri Lanka taking on South Africa in the opening match at Galle International Cricket Stadium.

One of the countryandrsquo;s most promising schoolboy swimmers Matthew Abeysinghe who won five events at the conclusion of Sundayandrsquo;s Junior National Aquatic championships, was deprived of a sixth win when he was disqualified by meet organizers.

Royal Collegeandrsquo;s Under-17 cricketers were humiliated by an obscure team called Veluwana MV from Dematagoda in the final of the Division 11 inter school championship at Thurstan ground in Colombo yesterday.

Sri Lankan cricketers Angelo Mathews and Ajantha Mendis have been ruled out of danger and are most likely to train with the team at a practice session at the Pallekele Interanational Stadium today ahead of their World T-20 Super Eight match against New Zealand on Thursday.

The Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) is still holding discussions to finalize the enlisting of foreign referees to officiate at the Dialog Clifford Cup knock-out rugby tournament to kick off on September 28 at the Bogambara Stadium, Kandy and Havelock Park in Colombo.

The SriLankan Airlines Golf Classic, the signature corporate sports event of the national carrier, will return to its calendar of events this year.

There were no shots fired, no grenades exploding, no tanks ripping through the country-side and no choppers landing to evacuate the dying or wounded.

Kimiko Raheem of Asian International School and Kanitha Munasinghe of Royal College emerged best male and female swimmers at the National and Junior National swimming championship concluded at the Sugathadasa swimming pool yesterday.

The Sri Lanka Sevens rugby team captained by Fazil Marija hit back strongly to win all three matches on day two of the Shanghai Sevens yesterday and with it the Plate trophy.

COLOMBO (Reuters)andnbsp;- Indian spinners Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla ripped through the England batting to lead their side to a crushing 90-run win in a one-sided Twenty20 World Cup Group A match on Sunday.

Sri Lanka kicked off the HSBC Asian Sevens Series second leg in Shanghai- China yesterday where they were defeated in both their group encounters.

Little Kimiko Raheem continued with the record breaking performance at the National and Junior National Aquatic Championship where she shattered a South Asian record this time at the Sugathadasa swimming pool yesterday.

The much looked forward to T 20 World Cup hasnandrsquo;t sprung any major surprises so far with the script which was more or less finalised before the event starting to take its course.

Sri Lanka perished in a flash before a reload was possible as South Africa made a precise killing in a terrible World T-20 mismatch here at the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Hambantota yesterday after rain decided the contest be played in seven overs a side.

Jacques Kallis recorded the best Twenty20 figures for his country to inspire South Africa to a convincing 10-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a Group C match at Hambantota on Thursday.

The National and Junior National Aquatic Championship 2012 got underway yesterday at the Sugathadasa swimming pool in Colombo where C. Sheik of Trinity College and Lakshini Rajasinghe of SOU Club won the 50 metres breaststroke under-14 boys and girlsandnbsp; respectively.

Mohammad Nabi was born a refugee in the Afghani province of Logar, where a foreign journalist once remarked that 'the most common sight except for ruins are graves'.

SLC National Coaching Department in association with CSN Television Network recently launched its first ever television series with regard to Cricket Educational Coaching programs. This would benefit cricketers of all Schools/Clubs and Academies in Districts & Provinces to understand the game better & also the Coaching Fraternity throughout the Country.

The ICC piloted a partnership with the educational non-profit Room to Read during the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011 and the success of this initiative convinced both parties to extend the relationship through to 2015. Room to Read works to One of the early fruits of this partnership, has been the development of local language cricket books to promote literacy, the first of which features local sta...

Ajantha Mendis stunned the Zimbabweans with his finger-flicked leg breaks recording an all-time record of 6 for 8 in T-20 cricket after Jeevan Mendis and Kumar Sangakkara put enough runs on the board to wrap up a comfortable 82-run win in their T20 World Cup opening fixture at the Mahinda Rajapaksa international stadium in Hambantota yesterday.

The Rotherham Circuit Meet held in Katukurunda and touted as the most looked forward to tarmac motor racing event, was given its due glamour when Sri Lanka's foremost motor racing team EZY Racing took 10 podium positions including five wins last Sunday.

Rising from the ruins of war to challenge the worldandrsquo;s cricketing establishment, Afghanistanandrsquo;s rag-tag team hopes to inspire the conflict-ravaged nation with a strong showing at the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.

Uncertainty has engulfed the inter-school knockout rugby championships over the composition of teams, dates and venue for the event.

T20 isnandrsquo;t cricket according to purists but about entertainment pure and simple.andnbsp; Given this, kicking off the T20 World Cup here at the Sooriyawewa International Cricket stadium sits across a thick jungle wasnandrsquo;t ideal, even though the cricket facility is magnificent and inviting.

COLOMBO, (AFP) - Sri Lanka is banking on cricket to repair the damage to its blood-stained image after the brutal end to a 37-year ethnic war as it stages the biggest tournament in the nation's post-independence history.

Dashing opener Dilshan Munaweera is likely to make his international debut this evening when Sri Lanka hosts Zimbabwe in the opening fixture of the T20 World Cup at the Suriyawewa International cricket stadium in Hambantota this evening.

Royal College and Visakha Vidyalaya emerged as Champions at the swimming meet of the all island School Games 2012 concluded at the Sugathadasa pool yesterday.

Sri Lanka's foremost motor racing team EZY Racing, completed yet another historical moment in Sri Lankan motor racing when they concluded the first ever EZY Racing Kart Fighters in partnership with Speedrome, a pro karting challenge designed to attract newer and younger drivers to motor racing.

Sri Lankan officials who accompanied the countryandrsquo;s Paralympians at the London Games are reported to have indulged in daily all-night partying and even forced some of the athletes to join them in the frolics.