Sri Lanka Women's team coach, Hemantha Devapriya, tendered his resignation with immediate effect, an SLC release stated on Thursday (June 14).
Jun 142018
Jun 092018
Windies had the chance to enforce the follow-on on Day 3 but they didn’t do that and the reasoning behind that was “to keep Sri Lanka on the field and …
May 252018
The father of Sri Lankan cricket allrounder Dhananjaya de Silva has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen on the eve of the national team’s …
May 232018
Britain’s Foreign Office had destroyed almost 200 files on Sri Lanka dating from the start of the LTTE uprising during which MI5 (Military Intelligence, …
Apr 262018
A British tourist, who was allegedly raped at a luxury hotel in Sri Lanka during a holiday to the island in 2010, had been denied compensation by the UK Court of Appeal today, the Daily Mail reported. According to Daily Mail, the woman was on holiday w…
Apr 132018
“Since 2004, Sri Lanka has been earning a minimum of USD 2.5 million per annum from peacekeeping missions overseas. The troops deployed for such assignments benefit financially and through these undertakings, the country amasses foreign remittances tha…
Apr 042018
Earlier, too, South Africa Tests in Sri Lanka have been either postponed, or commuted to limited-overs matches, most notably in 2013. The reasons, then as now, are commercial: Sri Lanka Cricket loses money on all Test tours not involving India, England…
Mar 312018
A terrorist, who had attempted to set off explosives targeting a group of Sri Lankan Army troops deployed on a peacekeeping mission in Mali, has been arrested by troops. The terrorist who had behaved in a suspicious manner as a convoy heading from Grav…
Mar 302018
Sri Lanka posted their first home win in a T20I against Pakistan, as spinners Shashikala Siriwardene (4 for 9) and Sugandika Kumari (2 for 15) bowled the visitors out for 72 in Colombo. The victory was Sri Lanka’s largest in terms of balls remaining, with 34 of them left unused when Siriwardene hit the …
Mar 232018
A joint delegation of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) visited the United States of America at a time when Sri Lanka was under scrutiny at the UN in Geneva, with appointments secured from the highest levels of authorit…