Sports

West Indies batsman Evin Lewis blasted 79 runs off 34 balls as the Twenty20 World champions defeated Australia by 16 runs in the fifth game in St. Lucia on Saturday to win the series 4-1. Chasing 200 to win, Australia made a…

Shakib Al Hasan’s unbeaten 96 helped Bangladesh recover from precarious positions, twice, to eke out a narrow three-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a last-over thriller at Harare as the visitors clinched the ODI series 2-0 with a game to…

When the Olympic Games come to Asia, most countries in the continent make high medal hopes. Filipino hopes are high that the Tokyo Olympics will break new ground for Pinoy athletes. Top of the list of potential podium-toppers…

Former Sri Lankan all-rounder Farveez Maharoof has been invited as an expert commentator for the upcoming series between Australia and Bangladesh, beginning next month. Australia are scheduled to play five T20Is against…

India produced a powerful batting display to outplay Sri Lanka by seven wickets in the first One Day International (ODI) at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday. After restricting the home side to 262 for nine in 50 overs,…

The dream of every athlete is to represent the country at the Olympics. Nimali Liyanarachchi from Sooriyawewa, Hambantota eventually fulfilled her dream when she received a Universality place to compete at the Tokyo Games. “Until…

Fourteen year old, Sachithra Bandara Herath is a Grade Ten student of Dharmaraja College,Kandy who started schooling from the Grade One class onwards and started his cricket career in the year 2013 at the Junior Cricket Academy of the…

Jaswar Umar, the newly elected President of Football Sri Lanka (FSL), is making arrangements to felicitate the 1995 champion Sri Lanka squad which annexed the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Gold Cup under the captaincy of…

Outstanding cricketer and coach Ishan Sanjaya Devapura who hails from Ratmalana was born on 2nd June 1979 and he was admitted to LalithAthulathmudali Vidyalaya in 1985. He participated in the school Inter House Sports Meets and…

The Tokyo Olympics has registered its first COVID-19 case in the Olympic Village six days before the Games open, the organisers have said. Tokyo 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed on Saturday that a visitor from abroad who is…