MTV/ MBC, billed as "The Champions Network" officially announced that the London 2012 Olympics will be broadcast in all channels belong to Maharaja group. "The Champions Network" will bring all the action from London, straight to your TV and radio, announced in Colombo. However, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), which holds the exclusive rights for [...]

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Sri Lanka's top forward, E. B. Channa, will lead a new look football team to Palestine in the Al-Nakba invitationalm tournament being staged at Jerusalem. The 11 day tournament will feature nine national teams from Jordan, Iraq, Tunisia, Indonesia, Mauretania, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka and Palestine. Sri Lanka football team Name Club Position E.R Channa [...]

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“It is important for the players and the officials to safeguard the primacy of Test cricket, which I believe is still the No. 1 format that really tests the character and class of any cricketer,” says Kumar Sangakkara in a chat with V.V. Subrahmanyam. Whether on the field or off it, he has class written [...]

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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed its agreement with Somerset Entertainment Ventures (SEV) for the forthcoming Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) T20 cricket tournament scheduled to be held in mid-august in Colombo and Pallekele at a press briefing held at the SLC auditorium yesterday. SLC President Upali Dharmadasa speaking to the media said that the agreement [...]

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Eight more records tumbled on the final day of the 55th Junior National Athletics Championships at the Diyagama Stadium in Homagama yesterday, which saw the tally of records broken in the four day meet to 29. The eight records established were three in the track and five in the field events with six being broken [...]

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Seventeen players have been awarded central contracts by Sri Lanka Cricket for the year 2012-2013, where only five of them have been included in the top category. Mahela Jayawardane, Kumar Sangakkara, T.M. Dilshan, Thilan Samaraweera and Lasith Malinga have been selected in the top category. It's not yet clear whether Lasith Malinga is willing to [...]

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D. S. Senanayake held to a 10 all draw against St. Anthony's Katugasthota, in a Singer League rugby match played on Friday. The group 'A' match of the division I tournament played at CR & FC grounds, Colombo. DSS led at the half time with 5-0 and both teams scored two tries each. Gopinath Dushyanth [...]

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Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga is to play for Middlesex in English county cricket's Twenty20 competition, the club announced Thursday. The 28-year-old, whose unusual 'slingshot' action makes him difficult to face, is one of the world's leading limited overs bowlers and is currently the leading wicket-taker in the Twenty20 Indian Premier League, having taken [...]

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Two Sri Lankans Vonara Goonetlleke (under 7) and Tharushi Nicklesha (under 9) won two gold medals in the 8th World Schools Chess Championship which was held in Romania. Meanwhile there were two silver and our bronze medalists for the Sri Lankan squad. Vonara, a student of Ferguson BMV, Ratnapura, won the under 7 age group [...]

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Lasith Malinga became the leading wicket taker in the IPL with 20 wickets in 8 matches, played up to Tuesday. South Africa speed star, Morne Morkel, too has 20 wickets to his credit in 11 games but Malinga leads the table with lesser number of matches. Malinga already retired from test cricket and refused to [...]

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St. Peters took the lead with 5.50 points per game by the end of the second week of Singer League 2012, inter School rugby season. Petes beat Kingswood College, Kandy by 69-05 before chasing down the arch rivals, St. Josephs and win 36-24 in their second game. royal College, Colombo, too has 11 points in [...]

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Dubai: It's not for nothing that Kumar Sangakkara is often regarded as one of the best ambassadors of contemporary cricket. While he and Mahela Jayawardene have been two of the pillars around which the Sri Lankan batting has revolved over the last decade, the wicketkeeper-batsman's eloquence in holding forth on the game as well as [...]

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Sri Lanka’s Top woman shuttler Thilini Jayasinghe, who competed at the Last Olympic Game in Beijing, has a glimpse of hope in making her way to the London Olympics this year. According to the selections, done by the world governing body for Badminton, she has been included in the stand bye list at third position. [...]

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St. Peters registered an easy 36-24 win over their traditional rivals St. Joseph’s at Bambalapitiya on Friday, May 4 to retain Rev. Fr. Basil Weeratunga memorial shield. Winners scored 36 points through 4 goals, a try and a penalty while Josephians scoring through a goal, try and a penalty. It was a tense match as [...]

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Sri Lanka’s Shuttle star Niluka Karunaratne’ participation at the forth coming London Olympic is confirmed by the Governing Body for the based in Malaysia. According to the ranking of the participants Niluka is placed in the 30th slot out of 38 in the men’s category thereby assuring him to compete in the Men’ Singles. The [...]

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The Postponed Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Athletic Association which was held at the Sports Medicine Unit Auditorium saw many incidents take place before the commencement and the Director General Mrs. Ranjani Jayakody had to request the Minister of Sports to arrive at the venue. When Director General was about to start the [...]

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A strenuous series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan will start off at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium, Sooriyawewa, with two T20 Internationals in the first week of June. The tour will consist of two T/20 internationals and five ODIs followed by three match test series. The three test matches will be played in Galle, Colombo (SSC) and [...]

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Sri Lanka national soccerites on a trip to Malaysia to get more exposure put up a disappointing performance when they were trounced by six goals to nil by a second string Malaysian side in a friendly international played at the Shah Slam Stadium on Saturday. The Malaysians were without the services of several national players [...]

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Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf underwent a fitness test on Tuesday in a bid to revive his international career. Yousuf, 37, was tested by Pakistan's Australian coach Dav Whatmore as national selectors started their preparations for the tour of Sri Lanka starting next month. “Obviously I still have a desire to play for Pakistan. I [...]

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Debutant EPZ Sports Club from Polgahawela and lesser known Young Birds from Nuwara Eliya created major upsets in the Holcim FA Cup 2012 as they knocked-out two former division I clubs from Kandy in the qualifying round matches played over the weekend. The newly formed EPZ Sports Club had the distinction of beating Kandy York [...]

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