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Sri Lanka cricket star held on drug charge

Sri Lankan police have detained international cricketer Shehan Madushanka on a charge of possessing heroin, officials sa...

May 26, 2020 1 min read

What now for 2020 cricket in Coronavirus? Four key questions

The coronavirus may have struck shortly before the English cricket season was due to start but it threatens to have majo...

May 25, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka Cricket offers help to Cricket Clubs

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has provided relief to the affected segments of Sri Lanka’s Cricketing community with the ‘G...

April 27, 2020 1 min read

Trump stumbles over names of Indian cricket greats

US President Donald Trump gave a special mention to cricket greats Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli during a visit to I...

February 25, 2020 1 min read
Sri Lankans express anger, frustration over president's tweet after cricket win 

Sri Lankans are still waiting in long queues for days to buy fuel and cooking gas amid power cuts as the crisis deepens.

England set up Croatia World Cup semi as Russia crash out

England reached their first World Cup semi-final since 1990 on Saturday, comfortably beating Sweden to set up a last-fou...

July 8, 2018 4 min read

Croatia explodes with joy as team reaches World Cup semis

Tens of thousands of Croatians poured onto the streets to celebrate victory in the "match of a generation" against World...

July 8, 2018 3 min read

England end penalty pain to beat Colombia in World Cup shootout

England held their nerve against Colombia to win their first ever penalty shootout in a World Cup and reach the quarter-...

July 4, 2018 4 min read

Belgium strike back to beat Japan in World Cup epic

Belgium produced one of the great World Cup comebacks on Monday to beat Japan 3-2 and set up an attractive-looking quart...

July 3, 2018 4 min read

Messi and Ronaldo depart World Cup as new star Mbappe shines

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi saw their World Cup dreams snuffed out on Saturday as French teenager Kylian Mbappe f...

July 1, 2018 4 min read

Shock Germany win 'shook South Korea upside down'

South Korean fans rejoiced Thursday and called for national service exemptions after their team went out of the World Cu...

June 28, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka captain Chandimal loses ball-tampering appeal

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal on Friday lost his appeal over a ball-tampering charge and will miss his team's third...

June 23, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka captain Chandimal banned for ball tampering

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal will miss his side’s third Test against the West Indies after being found guil...

June 20, 2018 2 min read

Chandimal denies 'sweet in pocket' ball tampering as Sri Lanka pile on runs

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal denied tampering with the ball by using a sweet in his pocket before his team raced i...

June 18, 2018 3 min read

Chandimal denies ball tampering with sweet, rescues Sri Lanka with bat

Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal denied tampering with the ball by using a sweet in his pocket before helping to rescu...

June 18, 2018 3 min read
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Sri Lanka players protest after umpires query ball

Sri Lanka's cricket team refused to play after coming to the field on third day of the second Test match against West In...

June 16, 2018 1 min read

International rider in adventure cycle race dies in Sri Lanka

A contestant in an off-road biking event in Sri Lanka in which over dozen countries participated has died while fording ...

June 13, 2018 1 min read

Bairstow says England can cope with No.1 tag as new-look Australia await

Jonny Bairstow has insisted England can cope with the pressure of being the world's top-ranked one-day international sid...

June 12, 2018 3 min read

Sri Lanka plays down pitch-fixing allegations, agree to probe

Sri Lanka Cricket Monday played down the allegations that its staff had tampered with the pitch to alter the outcome of ...

May 28, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka at centre of new cricket match-fixing probe

The International Cricket Council has begun investigating allegations that two Sri Lankans agreed to tamper with the pit...

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May 26, 2018 6 min read

Sri Lanka grants hefty pay rises for cricket players

Sri Lanka's cricket board on Tuesday increased wages for national players by more than a third after making record profi...

May 22, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka Cricket makes Rs2.1bn profit in 2017, pays down debt

Sri Lanka Cricket, said it had made a 2.12 billion rupee surplus in 2017, up from a 64 million rupees last year, with re...

May 16, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka cricket gets kick from football software

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka has turned to Spain's Barcelona Football Club for a much needed kick to revive the island's cric...

March 12, 2018 3 min read

Perera leads Sri Lanka to big T20 win against India

Colombo, Sri Lanka | AFP - Kusal Perera hit a blazing half-century to power Sri Lanka to a five-wicket win over India i...

March 7, 2018 2 min read

Dananjaya claims five wickets as Sri Lanka thrash Bangladesh

Off-spinner Akila Dananjaya claimed five wickets in an innings on debut as Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 215 runs in the ...

February 10, 2018 3 min read