CR and FC beat Army 26 points to 6 in their ‘A’ division inter club league rugby match at Galle Face on Sunday. While defending league champions Kandy Sport Club defeated Police by massive margin of 70 points to 14 at Nittawela-JNW
May 9, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Sri Lanka beat West Indies in Super 8 round match in T20 World Cup. SL 195/3 Mahela 98 no. WI 138/8 Mendis, Malinga 3 wickets each-JNW
May 8, 2010 at 6:49 am
Sri Lanka secured a dramatic one-run win over Pakistan in a thrilling match at the ICC World Twenty20 women’s match on Thursday in St Kitts. This was the second game of the competition that went right to the wire in what has been a thrilling opening to the tournament, following Australia’s dramatic defeat of England on Wednesday.
Pakistan, who had stunned Sri Lanka last year when it defeated its rivals for the first ever time at the ICC Women’s World Cup, looked well positioned to record another win when it reduced to Sri Lanka to 108 all out in 19.3 overs. Inoka Galagedara top scored for Sri Lanka with 25, but when she fell with the score at 66-1, the Sri Lanka side suffered a dramatic collapse to be 108 all out. The wickets were shared around the Pakistan side although skipper Sana Mir was arguably the pick of the attack with 2-12 from four overs.
Sri Lanka Women 108/10 in 19.3 overs (Galagedara 25); Pakistan Women 107/10 in 20 overs (Maroof 42)
May 7, 2010 at 2:25 pm
In T20 World Cup, Australia, West Indies, South Africa, India, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka & Pakistan progress to Super 8-report-JNW
May 6, 2010 at 9:22 am
Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 14 runs ( D/L method) in a rain affected Twenty 20 world cup match on Monday. Sri Lanka 173 for 7 wickets in 20 overs ( Mahela Jayawardene ( 100); Zimbabwe 29 for one wicket in 5.5 overs-JNW
May 3, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Mahela becomes 1st Sri Lankan batsman to score a century at a T20 World Cup. Sri Lanka 173/7 in 20 overs against Zimbabwe batting first-JNW
May 3, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Sri Lanka women’s defeated South Africa women’s with four wickets in a Women’s World Twenty20 warm-up game played on Monday in West Indies.
South Africa – 93 for 9 wickets; Sri Lanka- 94 for 6 wickets in 18.2 overs ( Suwini de Alwis 31)-JNW
May 3, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Sri Lanka suffered a major blow to their World Twenty20 campaign when veteran off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan was sidelined with a an injury.
Muralitharan, 38, who is also the team’s vice captain, was injured during Friday’s opening match against New Zealand in Guyana, which Sri Lanka lost by two wickets-JNW
May 3, 2010 at 2:27 pm
New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 2 wickets in opening game at ICC T20 World Cup. SL 135/6, Jayawardena 81. NZ 139/8, Ryder 42-report-JNW
May 1, 2010 at 6:21 am
CR and FC beat Police 32-18 and CH and FC defeated Army 26-20 in two “A” division club rugby league matches worked off in Colombo on Friday-JNW
April 30, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Sri Lanka to play New Zealand at 10.30pm today in opener of Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in West Indies; 12 teams compete in four groups-JNW
April 30, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Kingswood, S.Thomas, Royal registered their wins in the Under 20 inter-schools Division 1 A rugby league encounters played in Colombo on Friday after beating Isipathana 22-15, St. Anthony’s Katugastota 15-12 and Wesley College 12-0 respectively-JNW
April 30, 2010 at 6:50 am
A fine unbeaten 61 from Chamara Kapugedera was in vain as Sri Lanka slumped to a five-wicket defeat to South Africa with three balls to spare in a World Twenty20 warm-up on Wednesday (28).
Kapugedera and veteran Sanath Jayasuriya helped Sri Lanka post 137 for 8 before a 61-run partnership between Mark Boucher and Johan Botha allowed South Africa to squeeze home in the final over. Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara opted to bat first after winning the toss at the Kensington Oval but Tillakaratne Dilshan fell first ball to Rory Kleinveldt.
Sri Lanka- 137 for 8; South Africa 141/5 in 19.3 overs. Sri Lanka will be meeting New Zealand in the opening game on April 30th-JNW
April 29, 2010 at 10:40 am
Sri Lanka rugby player Samantha Lakshman who was found guilty on his behavior at the national team’s recent tour in Singapore was banned from the game for two years by Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union disciplinary committee. The ban will be effective from April 12, 2010 to April 12 of 2012-JNW
April 29, 2010 at 8:42 am
The runners-up of the last T20 World Cup Sri Lanka team under captaincy of Kumara Sangakkara left the island on Saturday for the forthcoming T/20 World Cup cricket tournament to be held in the Caribbean from next week.
Sri Lanka Squad: Kumara Sangakkara (Captain), Mahela Jayawardena, Thillakaratne Dilshan, Muttiah Muralidaran, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ajantha Mendis, Suraj Randiv, Dinesh Chandimal, Nuwan Kulasekera, Lasith Malinga, Chanaka Welegedera, Chamara Kapugedera and Chinthaka Jayasinghe-JNW
April 26, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Chennai Super Kings played the smarter cricket and deservingly won the IPL Cup by defeating fancied Mumbai Indians by 22 runs at the packed DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday. Batting first after winning the toss, the Super Kings shrugged off a slow start as “Player of the Match” Suresh Raina (57 not out), dropped twice, led from the front to pile up 168 for five and then turned in some brilliant performance in the field to restrict Mumbai Indians to 146 for nine-JNW
April 26, 2010 at 10:44 am
Doug Bollinger delivered two double strikes for a four-wicket haul and helped the Chennai Super Kings to a brilliant 38-run victory against defending champions Deccan Chargers in the semi-finals on Thursday.
The Aussie fast bowler took two wickets in his third and fourth overs as the Chargers, after restricting the Super Kings to 142 for 7, were all out for 104 in the final over.
The Super Kings next meet Mumbai Indians in the title match on Sunday in what promises to be a grand climax as the Chennai outfit would be keen to make up for the last ball defeat to the Rajasthan Royals in the 2008 final-JNW
April 23, 2010 at 3:02 pm
