Upcountry Lions had an easy game when they brushed aside a set of soldiers from the Army without direction by 33 points (2 goals, 2 tries, 3 penalties) to 10 (a goal, a penalty) in their Dialog Clifford Cup quarter-final rugby encounter played at Havelock Park yesterday.

Defending champion England crushed New Zealand by six wickets to send the Kiwis packing in a Super Eights fixture at the Pallekele International Cricket stadium last evening.

What a start for the Super Eight of the T-20 World Cup? It was just the brand of cricket needed to get the imagination and the minds ticking of the fans following the tournament.

Their win had all the ingredients for a perfect script and there was nothing that Sri Lankaandrsquo;s unsung women cricketers did not do to snatch a thriller over the West Indies in a World T-20 match at the Galle International Cricket Stadium on Friday.

Skipper Mahela Jayawardene smashed an unbeaten 65 off 49 balls and shared an unbroken second wicket partnership of 108 with Kumar Sangakkara to register a comfortable nine wicket win over West Indies in their second Super Eight match at the Pallekele International Stadium last night.

Defending champions Kandy SC left out their key back division players in Sri Lanka Sevens captain and fly half Fazil Marija and full back Saliya Kumara for todayandrsquo;s Dialog Clifford Cup knock-out tournament curtain raiser against underdogs CR and FC scheduled to be played at Bogambara.

Dharmaraja College trounced St. Anthonyandrsquo;s College Kandy by 54 points (7 goals and one try) to 10 points (one goal and one penalty) in their Milo Presidentandrsquo;s Trophy quarter final inter school rugby encounter played at the Royal College Sports Complex yesterday. At lemons winners led 33 points to 10.

Sri Lanka won a Super Over shoot-out and lived to stay afloat in the World T-20 as New Zealand did everything except finish the match as the better team on the day in the first Super Eight match here at the Pallekele stadium in Kandy.

The worldandrsquo;s top women cricketers are not just in Sri Lanka to take part in a global showpiece but are here to target and open a new horizon not second to men as they spice up the womenandrsquo;s World T-20 starting today in Galle.

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.