Sri Lanka Football Federation of Sri Lanka has suspended five national football players in connection with match fixing during the South Association Football Federation tournament last year.
Players who have been suspended are ; Kasun Jayasuriya, E. B. Channa, Sadhish Kumar, Asanka Viraj and Maduska Pieris-JNW
April 22, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Mumbai Indians beats Royal Challengers by 35 runs and romped into the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Mumbai Wednesday. Electing to bat, Mumbai Indians recovered from a bad start to post 184 for five in 20 overs. Their in-form skipper Sachin Tendulkar was out early, but Ambati Rayudu (40), Saurabh Tiwary (52) and Kieron Pollard (33 not out of 13 balls) ensured that they set a tough target for Bangalore.
RCB’s chase stuttered from the start and they finished at 149 for nine in 20 overs. Pollard also performed with the ball, taking three wickets for 17 runs. Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga took two wickets each-JNW
April 22, 2010 at 8:21 am
Kumara Sangakkara completed 1000 Indian Premier League runs during the match between Mohali and Chennai at Dharamsala on April 18. He reached the milestone when he was on 24 during the course of his knock of 33. At the end of the game his aggregate stood at 1009.
Sangakkara became the ninth batsman to aggregate 1000 IPL runs. Others are – SK Raina (1316), AC Gilchrist (1201). RG Sharma (1168), SR Tendulkar (1113), JH Kallis (1097), ML Hayden (1082) and YK Pathan (1011).
Sangakkara’s 1009 runs have come from 37 matches, 34 innings of which two were not outs. His highest score is 94. He has an average of 31.53 runs per innings. He has scored eight half centuries and two zeroes. He has scored 117 boundary four and 18 boundary sixes-JNW
April 20, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Sri Lanka beats Singapore 23-16 in the Asian five nation division one final played in Singapore on Saturday evening. Now Sri Lanka is qualified for the top division of the five nation rugby tournament from next year-report-JNW
April 18, 2010 at 1:43 am
An explosion near a Bangalore cricket stadium injures 11 people. No harm to any Sri Lankan or other players participating in IPL-wire report-JNW
April 17, 2010 at 5:43 pm
Sri Lanka entered the final of the Asian Five Nation Rugby tournament, defeating Chinese Taipei 37-7 in the semi finals in Singapore on Wednesday. Sri Lanka will meet Singapore in the finals on April 18-reporter-JNW
April 15, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Banned former Pakistan captain Younis Khan may replace Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara as Lancashire’s overseas player during the next county season.
With Sri Lanka having a packed schedule in the coming months, Sangakkara is unlikely to arrive at Old Trafford until August, which has prompted the Lancashire team management to look for other options-report-JNW
April 11, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Sri Lanka rugby team under the captaincy of Pradeep Liyanage leaves for Singapore Saturday to play Asian Five Nations division one rugby championship which is scheduled to kick off from April 14 to 17. Sri Lanka will open the tournament playing against Chinese Taipei-report-JNW
April 11, 2010 at 6:16 am
Hampshire have selected Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Rangana Herath for the first part of the county season.
The 32-year-old, who will fill in for fellow Sri Lankan Ajantha Mendis, spent last season at Surrey and has played in 21 Test matches, taking 70 wickets. Team manager Giles White told the club website: “His availability is good and his record is excellent-JNW
April 6, 2010 at 8:30 am
Unbeaten 110 runs off 59 balls from Mahela Jayawardena helps Kings X1 Punjab to registered an eight wickets victory over Kalkota Knight Riders in an IPL T20 match-JNW
April 4, 2010 at 8:17 pm
The Delhi DareDevils’s decision to send two of their injured players — Gautam Gambhir and Ashish Nehra — to Sri Lanka for treatment is costing the team management more than Indian Rs 40 lakh (App. SL Rs. 10 million).
Gambhir suffered a hamstring injury in the match against the Mumbai Indians while Nehra had a rib injury before the start of the IPL. Both have been sent to Sri Lanka to consult an ayurvedic doctor, who is believed to have a huge reputation-Report
April 4, 2010 at 11:24 am
15-member squad named for ICC T20 World Cup in West Indies starting April 30. S Jayasuriya, debutant Dinesh Chandimal included-report-JNW
March 31, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Sri Lanka have called up uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal in their 15-man squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup while veteran Sanath Jayasujriya has found a place in the 15-man tour party. The highly-rated 20-year-old Chandimal was included in the squad named by selectors on Wednesday after scoring 320 runs at an average of 53.33 in Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 league.
The tournament will be held in the West Indies from April 30 to Sri Lanka squad: Kumar Sangakkara (Captain), Muttiah Muralitharan, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Angelo Mathews, Thisera Perera, Suraj Randiv, Dinesh Chandimal, Nuwan Kulasekera, Lasith Malinga, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Chamara Kapugedera, Ajantha Mendis, Chanaka Welegedera.
March 31, 2010 at 10:52 am
In Indian IPL T20 cricket, Royal Challengers Bangalore, led by Kumble, leads in points. Murali & Vaas top two wicket takers overall-JNW
March 24, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Sri Lankan boxer Manju Wanniarachchi who qualified to the final of the Bantamweight Under 56kgs at the 5th Commonwealth Boxing Championship in India have won the silver medal after he was defeated by England boxer. Wanniarachchi was the most successful boxer of the five Sri Lankan pugilists that took part at this championship.
Only P.D. Suresh managed to earn a bronze medal which he claimed in the Flyweight under 52kgs category-JNW
March 18, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Tillakaratne Dilshan , the explosive Sri Lankan batsman, has signed with New South Wales for next summer’s Twenty20 domestic competition. New South Wales won the Champions League Twenty20 last year- Report- JNW
March 15, 2010 at 6:00 am
Army and Ports Authority emerged National Volleyball Champions when the finals were played at the Sugathadasa Stadium on Saturday. Ports Authority took the women’s crown when they defeated Casual Line SC while Army won the men’s title beating Air Force in the final-JNW
March 14, 2010 at 4:52 pm
