Sports

The Sports Ministry made a donation of Rs. 47 million to the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) to develop the overall performance of Sri Lankan para athletes in the country. Sports Ministry Director General (DG) Amal…

The woman Chief Inspector of Sri Lanka Police T. Nelka Shiromala has been selected as a Boxing Judge and a Match Referee for the2020 Tokyo OlympicGames. In 2009 she took up to refereeing and in 2011 became the first Sri Lankan…

England Men’s Test players will be available for the first two rounds of The Hundred before the squad convenes for next month’s series against India. The Hundred, English cricket’s new 100-ball competition, begins today and runs…

Two maiden half-centuries from Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Chahar carried India to a thrilling three-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second One Day International (ODI) played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday.…

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…

(From left) Chandana Liyanage - Press Attache, Gamini Jayasinghe - Chef De Mission, Maxwell De Silva - Secretary General, Heshan Perera – Head of Marketing, Daraz Sri Lanka, Suresh Subramaniam - President NOCSL, Mrs Susanthika…

Tashiya Piyadasa, daughter of former Sri Lanka national table tennis champion Thilina Piyadasa, stole the limelight by winning the Girls’ Under-11 Singles title at the US National Championships held in Las Vegas recently. “Winning the…

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.…