Sports

The Sports Ministry yesterday granted a sum of Rs. 350,000 to the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) for the construction of a Sports Complex in Bandaragama. Sports Ministry Director-General (DG) Amal Edirisooriya…

A depleted and inexperienced England thrashed Pakistan by nine wickets for a stunning win in the first One-Day International (ODI) in Cardiff on Thursday. After a Covid outbreak forced the hosts to name an entirely new squad,…

Former Sri Lanka Skipper Mahela Jayawardene is set to join the Sri Lanka Under-19 Cricket Team as a Consultant from October. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Technical Committee Chairman Aravinda de Silva yesterday confirmed that…

Sixteen year old Volleyball player and athlete Herath Mudiyanselage Chathuri Poornima Abeyratne has brought honour and fame for her school Tissapura Vidyalaya Ampara. She was born on 22nd April 2005 and she was admitted to Tissapura…

LOVI will dress the Sri Lankan Olympic athletes and the delegates for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23. “Like many kids, I loved watching the Olympic Games on TV and dreamt of somehow representing Sri Lanka…

The first Clifford Cup winners from Up-Country in 1953 were Dimbula Athletic and Cricket Club also known as Radella Club,It is a sporting club founded in 1856, and they are the oldest sporting club in the country outside Colombo, which…

Twelve year old R.M. Senul Ratnayake, a student of Dharmaraja College, Kandy is a talented Table Tennis player who started playing table tennis at the age of eight years in the year 2017. He was interested in playing table tennis…

Sri Lanka will have another new captain when they take on India in a three-match One Day International (ODI) series commencing on July 13 at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. All-rounder Dasun Shanaka is set to take over the…

Chaminda Punchihewa and Ruwan Alahakoon were elected President and Secretary respectively at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Sri Lanka Taekwondo Federation held at River Reach Hotel in Waikkal last week. All positions…

Former Sri Lanka Olympian and Asian Championship Medallist Damayanthi Darsha, was appointed to the Women’s Affairs Committee of Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA). The Executive Committee of SLA appointed the heads of 11 sub-committees,…