Sports

Three Sri Lankan badminton umpires will officiate at the Tokyo Paralympics Games from August 27 to September 5. Lakpriya Edirisinghe has been appointed as Chief Umpire while Samantha Nawaratne and Chandana Nilantha have been…

Kosala Sandeepa Amaratunga won the third rapid cup chess competition convincingly scoring a grand slam of 8 points out of 8 games in their third Super Fighters Online Rapid Cup Chess Championship. H A Menula Weheragoda finished with…

Left hand middle order bat, left arm leg spinner, cricket captain, coach and administrator Sanjeewa Ruwakantha Mendis has brought honour and immense fame for his Alma Mater St. Anthony’s College Wattala and the motherland He was born…

The Sri Lanka Squash Federation (SLSF) and the Sri Lanka Rowing Association (SLRA) received financial assistance from the Ministry of Sports during a ceremony held in Colombo recently. The SLRA received a sum of Rs 42,143,249.00…

Twenty one year old Srimali Samarakoon is an outstanding woman weightlifter holding the present Sri Lanka Weightlifting Record total of 140 Kgs. in 48 Kg. weight class and she is an old girl of Habarana Central College who did her…

Two promising chess players, Yonal Sumanathilake (Royal International School, Kegalle) and Ranpalee Attanayake (Furguson High School Ratnapura) have scored 4 points out of 4 possible games to reach the top of the Sabaragamuwa (Open)…

West Indies have started their ICC World Test Championship (WTC) campaign in serious style, beating Pakistan by just one wicket in Jamaica on Sunday. A Test match that swung constantly across the four days came to a fittingly…

Kumudu Priyanka will create history as Sri Lanka’s only female athlete for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, which will be held in the Japanese city from August 24 to September 5. In addition, the 33-year-old athlete is only the second…

Opener Josh Rymell hit his first century for Essex as they defeated Yorkshire by 129 runs at Chelmsford to advance to the One-Day Cup semi-finals on Saturday. The 20-year-old made 121 off 130 balls after the early loss of…

It took 35 balls for Cheteshwar Pujara to get off the mark. When he eventually did, defending the ball on the off side and sprinting across to the other end, his single was met with a loud cheer from the English fans at Lord's.…