It was a red letter day in the annals of Sri Lanka’s sports when boxer Manju Wanniarachchi won the country’s first Commonwealth Games boxing gold after 72 years. A new chapter in sports revolution of Sri Lanka under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s inspiring leadership was written in letters of gold with Warriarachchi’s memorable win over Sean McGoldrick of Wales to win the g...

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Star shuttler Dinuka Karunaratne of Hatton National Bank won a triple crown at the recently concluded Mercantile Open Badminton Championships at S Thomas College, Mount Lavinia Indoor Stadium. by claiming the Singles, Doubles and Mixed doubles titles. Nadeesha Gayanthi also from the strong HNB team won the best woman shuttler award while Dinuka was the unanimous choice for the best male shuttlers...

Blue Star Sports Club Kalutara went down fighting 1-0 against Ratnam SC at the City Football complex yesterday in a Dialog Champions League encounter. Ratnam had to give everything they had in store to win this game. For almost 20 minutes the battle went on with both sides failing to score. It was only the penalty that helped Kotahena Club to take the lead 1-0. The lemons were taken with this sco...

Wayamba Elevens are set to take the Champions League T20 by storm with a strong backing from Indian Companies as their sponsors

In both the semi – final matches played at the SLTA yesterday – Harshana Godamanne proved to be a star. In the men’s open semi final against Junior Champion Vimuktha De Alwis, Harshana literally smashed him out of the court with his unbelievably powerful left-handed serves. Harshana beat Vimuktha in three straight sets – 61 60 61. Vimuktha was unable to take the angle of t...

Wayamba may be low on star count, but that doesn’t stop them from dreaming, ahead of the Champions League. Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 champions are confident of not just causing an upset or two but also consitently compete with the the other fancied teams, who have several players with international caps. They exited in the first round of the inaugural League in India last year but the...

Sports Minister C. B. Ratnayake believes that the new National Institute of Sports Science of the Sports Ministry will be a tremendous boost for the promising athletes who thrive for success in the upcoming international meets. The Minister made these observations after having declared open the new National Institute of Sports Science of the Sports Ministry in Torrington Avenue Colombo yesterday....

Nishantha Dharmadasa the first ever three star boxing referee and Judge in Sri Lanka has been selected and invited to officiate at the inaugural Youth Olympic(YO) Games which is now in progress in Singapore. Nishantha Dharmadasa is serving in the Air Force and is a Group Captain and function as the present Commanding Officer of Air Force Colombo. To his credit he has officiated in number of Int...

Equally adept with the mason’s spoon as with a cricket bat; he could mix cement and dent a new ball with equal elan

It was a trilling encounter and thousands of Kalutara Blue Star fans really enjoyed their team’s victory over Don Bosco which is rated as one of the best teams in the league. Both teams played attacking Football and it was LK Isham who scored first for Don Bosco through a rebound of a Corner kick taken by Dulip Dalpadadu.   Don Bosco advance with 1-0 in the 26th minute of th...

New Zealanders endured poor passages of play in the latter stages of either innings, but did enough to seal victory against Sri Lanka Board President's XI in their first match on tour

With 200 days to go before the first ball is bowled in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, the event mascot's name was unveiled in a simple but impressive ceremony

Rohan Wijesinghe pays tribute to the World's greatest spin bowler ever.

Bank of Ceylon in association with Sri Lanka Cricket felicitated the winning teams and presented Bank of Ceylon Trophy

Promising youngster Lahiru Thirimanne slammed a quick century as the three day practice match between Sri Lanka Board Presidents XI and India played at the Colts ground ended in a draw with the two captains agreeing to call off the match after the Sri Lanka Board Presidents XI had made 260 for 6 after opting to bat the second time and facing 61.1 overs. Thirimanne struck 102 in 142 balls with nin...

Mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis provided a glimpse of what he has in store for the Indians during the upcoming three test series by bowling out the touring team almost single handedly on the second day of their three day practice match against the Sri Lanka Board President’s XI which continued at the Colts grounds in Havelock Park yesterday. Mendis who is set to take over the reigns from Mut...

Mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis provided a glimpse of what he has in store for the Indians during the upcoming three test series

The man Muttiah Muralitharan has singled out as the only bowler capable of breaking his record has said it is simply impossible. "No one can touch Muralitharan’s record in Tests," star Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said at a function in Pune, India on Thursday. HE was reacting to Murali’s statement that "only Harbhajan can match" his record in Test cricket. ...

Sri Lanka’s world record bowler Muttiah Muralitharan will retire from Test cricket after his country’s first Test against India later this month, the governing body of the sport said Tuesday. "Muttiah Muralitharan has decided to retire from Test cricket after the first Test in Galle versus India commencing July 18," Sri Lanka Cricket said on its website. Muralitharan, 38, w...

He was either splitting stumps with sheer pace or guiding the city’s chaotic traffick to peace

Significant progress made on Future Tours Programme 2012-20 and context and content for international cricket

In keeping with President Rajapaksa’s vision: Three stadiums in Jaffna soon

Ben Hilfenhaus sealed a Sri Lanka A capitulation to pace by knocking off their remaining five wickets on the fourth day as Australia A emerged triumphant by 107 runs at the Allan Border Field in Brisbane

Sanath Jayasuriya is confident he can help his new Worcestershire team-mates turn around their FP t20 campaign. Speaking on his arrival at New Road, the Sri Lanka star was looking forward to getting into the action in the home game against old rivals Warwickshire. "Unfortunately, the boys have not done well in the last few matches, so we need to do well in this one," he said. "If...

Skipper Kumar Sangakkara, star batsman Mahela Jayawadena,spin king Muttiah Muralidharan, fast bowler Lasith Malinga and all rounder Farveez Maharoof will strengthen the Sri Lankan team with their return

Indian Stars and Sri Lankan Cricketers team up for former child soldiers

This mild mannered Aristocrat displayed fearless brilliance against these star studded sides that toured this country for a work out, each game rather ‘step motherly’ doled out, two years apart

ICC Cricket Committee, chaired by Clive Lloyd, held their annual meeting at Lord's Cricket Ground in London on 20/21 May 2010.

Muttiah Muralitharan could still feature for Sri Lanka in the World Twenty20, according to captain Kumar Sangakkara, after officials said he’d been ruled out with a groin injury. A statement released by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) in Colombo earlier said the star off-spinner had been “advised to rest for two or three weeks” following a groin problem he suffered during the team’...