Sports

Some of the founder members of Upcountry Lions Rugby Club are keen to get back to playing rugby and are hoping to bring a little bit more excitement and enjoyment. Kandy is badly in need of another rugby club. Today, out of…

Javelin thrower Dinesh Priyantha Herath, who won a Bronze Medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics Games, will lead the nine-member Sri Lankan Team for the Tokyo Paralympics Games. He will be Sri Lanka’s flag-bearer at the opening…

Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa yesterday met the Sri Lankan para athletes at the National Sports Council Premises in Torrington, before their departure to participate at the Tokyo Paralympics from next week. After the event, the…

Bangladesh handed Australia their second defeat in-a-row to go 2-0 up in the five-match T20I series with a five-wicket win in the second match on Wednesday. Bangladesh are now on the cusp of making history – their first ever…

Skipper Seekkuge Prasanna produced a fine all-round performance to steer the Northern Warriors to a 24-run victory over the Eastern Warriors in their Army Commander’s League T20 Cricket Tournament match played at Dombagoda yesterday.…

One of the top cricketers to come out of Kandy in recent time is Hasitha Boyagoda, former Trinity College Captain, who won the schools highest award, the Ryde Gold Medal for 2017. The medal is awarded each year to the Best…

Twenty-one-year-old Sachintha Udara Senanayake was an outstanding cricketer of Dharmaraja College, Kandy. He had the honour of Captaining the First Eleven Cricket Team of Dharmaraja during the 2018/2019 Inter-Schools cricket…

Gaja Holdings, one of the prime sports promoting organisations in the country, has come forward to boost five sports - basketball, netball, football, hockey and rugby - by training players based on a proper plan. A minimum of…

 Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) will conduct the National Athletic Championship Stage-2 at the Sugathadasa Stadium on August 9 and 10. The first-stage of the National Championship was held on May 21 to focus mainly on the ‘Road to…

TOKYO, August 5 – USA’s World champion Grant Holloway was made to eat humble pie as Jamaican Hansle Parchment pulled off a surprise gold medal in the Men’s 110m hurdles final of the 2020 Olympic Games track and field competition…