Sri Lanka Reaches Final Of Cricket Tri-Series Beating India
Sri Lanka reaches final of Cricket Tri-Series beating India, India-268/9, Sri Lanka-270/4 in 48.2 overs. Sri Lanka to play Zimbabwe in final-JNW
June 5, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Sports Archive
Sanga’s Team Beats Sunil’s Team
Sangakkara’s XI beat Sunil Shetty’s XI by 64 runs in an Indian Film Awards Charity match. Sanga XI 141/4. Sunil XI 78/5-JNW
June 4, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt & Several Top Stars To Arrive Sri Lanka-report
Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta, Bipasha Basu, Anil Kapoor among top Indian stars to arrive for Indian film awards-report-JNW
June 3, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Cricket Board Interim Committee Appointed-Sports Minister
Cricket Board interim committee appointed, Chairman DS De Silva to continue, Secy Nishantha Ranatunga, Treasurer Sujeewa Rajapaksha-Min Sports-JNW
June 2, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Cruise Liner For World Cup Fans-Report
Sri Lanka plans to hire a cruise liner to accommodate cricket World Cup fans and spectators at the newly built stadium in the island’s south, an official said. The six-million dollar stadium in Hambantota, President Mahinda Rajapakse’s hometown, lacks hotels to accommodate thousands of fans expected to watch the games in February-April next year.
The 43-day tournament will be played across 13 venues in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and ends with the final on April 2 at Mumbai’s Wankhede stadium-JNW
June 2, 2010 at 9:59 am
Sri Lanka Beat Zimbabwe By 9 Wickets
Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 9 wickets in rain reduced 26 over match. Zim 118 all out in 24.5 overs. SL 119/1 in 15.2 overs-JNW
June 1, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Sri Lanka Beat New Zealand By Sevens Wickets
Nuwan Kulasekera and Lasith Malinga shared seven wickets as Sri Lanka thumped New Zealand by seven wickets in a Twenty20 cricket international Sunday, leveling the two-match series at 1-1 in Florida on Sunday. Kulasekera took three wickets for four runs from three overs and Malinga four wickets for 12 runs as Sri Lanka dismissed New Zealand for 81 runs in 17.3 overs.
Nathan McCullum top-scored with an unbeaten 36 while captain Daniel Vettori added 27 for New Zealand. Tillakaratne Dilshan made an unbeaten 33 and Thisara Perera 24 as Sri Lanka reached its winning target after having three wickets down in the 16th over.
New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 29 runs on Saturday – the first major cricket international played in the United States. New Zealand – all out for 81 in 17.3 overs; Sri Lanka 86 for 3 wickets in 15.3 overs-JNW
May 24, 2010 at 11:42 am
Sri Lanka Names Squads For Aussie Tour
Sri Lanka selectors have named several present and discarded national caps in the Sri Lanka A team’s one-month tour of Australia from June 10. The selectors picked two different squads for the tour, one to play in the two four-day ‘Tests’ and one 3-day warm-up game against the Australian Institute of Sports (AIS) and the other for the one-day matches.
Test squad: Thilina Kandamby (capt), Dimuth Karunaratne, Tharanga Paranavitana, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal, Kaushal Silva, Jeevan Mendis, Kosala Kulasekara, Nuwan Pradeep, Dinesh Dharshanapriya, Dammika Prasad, Chaminda Vidanapathirana, Sachitra Senanayake, Seekuge Prasanna and Nadeera Nawala.
One-day squad: Chamara Kapugedera (capt), Thilina Kandamby, Dimuth Karunaratne, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal, Jeevan Mendis, Kosala Kulasekara, Nuwan Pradeep, Dinesh Dharshanapriya, Sachitra Senanayake, Seekuge Prasanna, Dilshan Munaweera, Isuru Udana, Farveez Maharoof and Mahela Udawatte-JNW
May 20, 2010 at 10:34 am
Shahrukh Khan To Captain Bollywood Cricket Team In Colombo-report
A cricket team made up of Indian movie stars called “Bollywood Stars” which is captained by Shahrukh Khan will play a charity Twenty20 cricket match against Sri Lanka cricket team captained by Kumar Sangakkara at SSC grounds on June 4. The event will be held along with the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2010, to be held in Colombo on June 3–4.
The festivity would be added by the local and Indian singers who would be performing there and the fans would have an opportunity the rub shoulders with their favourite stars-JNW
May 19, 2010 at 10:29 am
Australia Clinches ICC Women’s T20 World Cup
Australia beats New Zealand by just three runs in a thrilling women’s World Twenty20 final played on Sunday. Victory came just hours after Australia’s men’s team had lost in the corresponding final to arch-rivals England. Scores- AUS 106 for 8 wickets, NZ- 103 for 6 wickets-JNW
May 18, 2010 at 9:54 am
Army, Kandy, Havelock’s Register Wins
Army beat Police (10-08); Kandy beat Air Force (14-6) and Havelocks beat CH and FC (20-5) in their “A” division inter club rugby league matches played over the weekend. While game between CR and FC versus Navy was held at Welisara abandoned due to heavy rain and lightening. The match has called off after 24th minutes of play with Navy leading 5-3 on that time-JNW
May 17, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Australia To Play Finals With England On Sunday
Australia beat Pakistan in 2nd semi final of T20 World Cup. Pak 191/6 Aus 197/7 19.5 ov. Australia to play England in final on Sunday-JNW
May 15, 2010 at 8:15 am
England Qualifies For The Final Beating Sri Lanka
England qualifies for the final beating Sri Lanka by 7 wickets in the semi final of the Twenty20 world cup. SL 128/6 Eng 132/3-JNW
May 14, 2010 at 6:23 am
Sri Lanka Wins Toss & Elects To Bat First
Sri Lanka wins toss and elects to bat first against England in 1st semi final of T20 World Cup-JNW
May 13, 2010 at 8:42 pm
Sri Lanka Qualifies For Semi-Final
Sri Lanka beat India in a thrilling last-ball win at T20 World Cup; India 163/5, SL 167/5.
SL will face England next in Semi Final-JNW
May 12, 2010 at 6:31 am
India Women Beat Sri Lanka & Reach Semis
India women’s beats Sri Lanka women’s to qualify for the semi-finals of the tournament on the last day of fixtures at Warner Park while New Zealand rounded off its group stage of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 with a comfortable victory over Pakistan earlier in the day. Chasing 145 for victory after fifties from Sulakshana Naik and Mithali Raj, Sri Lanka stumbled to 73 for 9 in their 20 overs, with Diana David claiming 4 for 12 with her offspin.
After winning the toss, India were given a solid base by Naik and Poonam Raut, who added 34 for the first wicket before Raut was bowled for 12 by in the seventh over by Udeshika Prabhodhani. That brought Naik and Raj together, and they quickly put India in the ascendancy by adding 86 in 10.3 overs for the second wicket. Naik eventually fell for 59 from 54 balls with three overs remaining, and though Jhulan Goswami was run out for 10 in the final over, Raj kept up the impetus to finish unbeaten on 52 from 39 balls, with five fours.
Indian finally made 144 for 3 in their 20 overs-JNW
May 11, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Australia Beat Sri Lanka
Australia beat Sri Lanka by 81 runs in T20 World Cup game after Sri Lanka took early upperhand. Aus 168/5 in 20 overs Sri Lanka 87 in 16.2 overs-JNW
May 10, 2010 at 6:41 am