Afghanistanandrsquo;s women who were suppressed under the brutal Taliban will display their prowess on the football field in Sri Lanka at the second edition of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) womenandrsquo;s championship from September 7 to 16 at the Ceylonese Rugby and Football Club (CR and FC), London Place.

Conflicting reports are beginning to surface after Ruhuna Royals player Shahid Afridi made a sudden exit from the team and did not feature in yesterdayandrsquo;s SLPL match against Uva United at Pallekele.

The Sri Lanka Premier League almost came to the point of breakdown yesterday when one team, Uva Next, refused to take the field after their employer failed to pay them.

Sri Lanka Cricket in association with Carlton Sports Network the premier sports channel has made arrangements to conduct a Workshop / Seminar on Biomechanical Application of techniques in Cricket, to qualified coaches presently involved in active coaching.

Semi-finalists in the menandrsquo;s and womenandrsquo;s singles events have been found at the 97th National Tennis Championship that is now in progress at the SLTA hard courts in Colombo.

Geo-political adversaries India and Pakistan have been offered the Premadasa stadium in Colombo for a tester before the start of the T-20 World Cup next month.

Ruhuna Royals crashed to a 42-run defeat at the hands of un-fancied Kandurata Warriors in their SLPL match at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

Mihilia Methsarani and Saman Thilakaratne emerged womenandrsquo;s and menandrsquo;s Open Champions at the conclusion of the Air Force Open 8th Squash Championship held at the Air Force Squash Complex at Ratmalana on Saturday.

Defending Asian netball champions Sri Lanka has a busy schedule these days with a resident training program and coach Hyacinth Wijesinghe who turned down her position a few years ago back as national coach.

Havelocks, the club of the masses, began early celebrations yesterday after the pompous Navy team was tossed overboard by Upcountry Lions in the biggest upset at Sri Lankaandrsquo;s premier inter-club rugby championship.

The most experienced netball player in the country Gayathri Lankathilake and the worldandrsquo;s tallest netball player Tarjani Sivalingam who are co-captaining the Sri Lanka netball team contend they have a better chance of retaining their title in the Asian Netball championship that starts on August 25 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo.

Wayamba continued their unbeaten run at the SLPL as they beat Basnahira by 67 runs yesterday at Pallkale Staduim for their third successive win.

In front of a packed Havelock Park the home team walked closer to the inter club league title after 31 years with only one more game against Navy as they went past a helpless Kandy outfit who ran out of ideas in the second half.

The glitter, glamour and glitz that lit up and sparkled the night of the Eagles would have served little or no purpose had Air Forceandrsquo;s sportsmen and women not being there to accept their awards at the annual Colours Awards Ceremony held on Friday at the Waters Edge in Battaramulla.

A determined Mithun Perera came up with another amazing performance in the final round with four birdies to earn a well deserved win with a score of 13 under to win the first Standard Chartered Open Pro-golf tournament concluded at the Ridgeways course yesterday.

So it has finally happened! After much deliberation, questions, and sometimes major criticism the show is on the road and it has taken off! I am sure itandrsquo;s everybodyandrsquo;s hope that it will get bigger and better and become an event that will catch the attention and the imagination of the entire world.

Kandurata Warriors recorded their first win in the SLPL beating Uthura Rudras by 32 runs (D/L/ method) at the Pallekele Cricket Stadium yesterday.

Navy Sports Club carried away the Holcim FA Cup championship title for the second time along with Rs 700,000 in prize money after defeating defending championship Army by five goals to four in a tie breaker in their final worked off here at the Jayathilake Stadium, Nawalapitiya last evening.

The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) moves into second gear today at the Pallekele International Cricket stadium when the championship recommences after two rest days with nine matches on the cards.

Two equally balanced teams will fight for the title when defending champions Army confront Navy in the 2012 FA Cup final at the Jayathilaka Stadium in Nawalapitiya, commencing at 3.15 pm.

The Ananda College tennis team emerged overall champions beating St. Peterandrsquo;s College Colombo at the recently concluded All Island Inter School Tennis Tournament held at the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) courts.

Sri Lanka will meet South Africa today in a must-win match to make it to the next round of the Under-19 cricket World Cup in Brisbane.

The Sri Lanka Premier League is being touted as an unprecedented tourism booster that has ensured a sell-out of 7000 rooms in the country accommodating players, support staff, overseas media personnel, production crews, commentators and event partners.

It still remains uncertain who will win the premier inter-club league rugby championship despite just two weeks left.

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The Sri Lanka side has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its 20 runs defeat against India in the fifth and final ODI in Pallekele on Saturday.

The third LG People's Choice Award this year sees two former winners nominated alongside three other international cricketing stars in a bid to win the only award voted for by the public at the annual LG ICC Awards.

London, Sunday- The writing was on the wall for Thilini Jayasinghe and Heshan Unamboowa even before they set foot at the Olympic Village in their anxious bid to compete at the worldandrsquo;s biggest sporting event as their standards were far apart compared to the rest of the competitors.

Armyandrsquo;s rag tag band of ruggerites have come to the threshold of doom fearing they will bow out of the Cup championships of the Sri Lanka inter-club Premier league robbed of victory, bruised by injustice and scarred of mental agony.