Lance Corporal Pradeep Sanjaya of the Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment (4 SLSR), the first-ever Bronze medal winner in Sri Lankaandrsquo;s Paralympics history was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant in the army yesterday.

Home team Sri Lanka will be pressed hard to beat tournament favourites Nepal in a do or die semi-final clash in the SAFF Womenandrsquo;s Football Tournament at Longdon Place today.

Afghanistanandrsquo;s explosive batsman Mohamed Nabi said yesterday that cricket was fast becoming a national obsession and his team will come under close watch during the World T-20 in Sri Lanka.

Mahela Jayawardene and Tillakaratne Dilshan hit half-centuries as hosts Sri Lanka prepared for the World Twenty20 with a nine-wicket win over the West Indies yesterday.

Sri Lanka Cricket’s National Coaching Department recently conducted its first ever Level …

Sri Lanka will roll out the red-carpet in a welcome this afternoon for Paralympic bronze medalist Pradeep Sanjaya on his arrival to the island after his historic feat at the London Paralympics Games.

West Indies cricketers may not be tagged the overwhelming favourites to win the World T-20 in Sri Lanka but they can send a chilling message that even their spare wheels can turn on the screws when it comes to the long road ahead.

Late goals by Hasara Dilrangi and Achala Chithrani guided Sri Lanka to post a 2-1 victory over Bangladesh to qualified for the semi final in the SAFF womenandrsquo;s soccer championship yesterday at Longdon Place.

Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene says he would quit captaincy at the end of the Australian tour but said he would assess the situation before making a call.

The best performers at the Murali Cup now taking place in Jaffna and the Vanni will form a team that will be known as the Unity Team and make a tour of Singapore accompanied by retired Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralideran.

The Sri Lanka womenandrsquo;s hockey team will participate in the inaugural World League Hockey Championships conducted by the International Hockey Federation in Kuantan City Malaysia from September 14 to 16.

Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara is almost at the doorstep of a place in the starting line-up for the World T-20 after recovering from a hand injury he sustained nearly six weeks ago.

Home crowds, familiar or unfamiliar pitches and big names will count for nothing when the World T-20 championship unfurls in Sri Lanka on September 18.

Nadaraja Thangaraja played consistently good golf to retain the Sri Lanka Open Amateur Championship crown when he defeated Mohomad Dulal of Bangladesh 3 and 2 in the 36 hole final played at the Royal Colombo Golf course yesterday.

Defending champions N. Thangaraja continued on his winning way in his rain delayed quarter final clash against countryman Ranga starting quietly and finishing the match 2 andamp; 1 at the 125th Sri Lanka Amateur Open Golf Championship continued at the Ridgeway course yesterday.

With Havelocks winning the League tournament, and thereby earning the right to bring back the league title to the Park Club after 30 years, the league seasonandrsquo;s long whistle was blown over the league for 2012.

Sri Lanka cricketers Mahela Jayawardena and Kumar Sangakkara launched the 2012 Murali Harmony Cup yesterday by opening a newly-built venue in the northern town of Oddusuddan in Mullaitivu.

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.