Sports

The last of the active veteran heavyweights of sports journalism in Sri Lanka, Elmo Rodrigopulle, passed away yesterday following a brief illness just two days after his 80th birthday Elmo, like the rest of his contemporaries…

TOKYO, July 20 - Sri Lanka’s champion shuttler Niluka Karunaratne, competing in his third successive Olympic Games, will meet Taiwan’s Tzu-Wei Wang in the opening round of the Men’s Singles badminton competition of the 2020 Olympic…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has issued charge sheets to the three players serving a temporary suspension following their misbehaviour during the tour of England last month. Former Deputy Skipper Kusal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella and…

Sanija Galkotuwa of Dharmaraja College and Rajinikanth Rithikasamy of Singing Fish Chess club emerged Champions of the Sri Lanka Online Rapid National (Novices Division) Chess Championship yesterday. Sanija with four more players…

20 year old, Uthpala Herath, an old girl of Mahamaya Girls School, Kandy is an outstanding Chess player, who started schooling from Grade One onwards and got through the G.C.E.(A/L) in the year 2020. She started the game of Chess in…

Cricketer athlete and cricket coach Agostinnga Dona Janakanthi Mala has brought honour and immense glory to Piliyandala Primary School, Dharmaraja Maha Vidyalaya Mampe Piliyandala and her motherland. Her first school was…

TOKYO, July 19 - National record holder in Women’s 50m and 100m butterfly Aniqah Gaffoor joined the Sri Lankan contingent in the Athletes’ Village today. On arrival, she was subject to a PCR test which indicated negative.…

England's spinners squeezed Pakistan to claim an emphatic 45-run victory in the second Twenty20 and level the series at 1-1 in Headingley on Sunday. Although Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone all sparkled with the bat,…

Sprinter Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps may have retired but there are several athletes who are heading to the Olympics with the potential to make history. The second-fastest woman in history behind the late Florence…

Wicket-keeper batsman Ishan Kishan scored the second fastest half-century on One Day International (ODI) debut in the first ODI against Sri Lanka at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. The left-hander reached the…