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By Callistus Davy
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been further rocked this time from the inside, as a sacked official alleged that his bosses by halting the domestic game are attempting to hoodwink the International Cricket Council (ICC) that a government plot is in the making to destabilize the sport in the country.
Anura Weerasinghe who was the main coordinator of SLC’s National Development...
While pompous officials running Sri Lanka sports continue to indulge in their hollow and superficial gibberish, schoolboys by their on-field stardom are drawing people by the thousands, some of them willing to even pay Rs 10,000 for a ticket just to watch them play:
Sri Lanka is a land of extreme contrasts when it comes to sports where its administrators are politically...
A flurry of cameras clicked like a burst of gun-fire as one of the world’s most iconic cricketers Sachin Tendulkar walked in, not to bat but to signal he needed attention to take his message of child welfare to all regions in Sri Lanka.
As children’s goodwill ambassador of Unicef, Tendulkar was the toast at the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel in Colombo that hosted him and a...
With nearly a decade of highlighting the dangers to players, match officials and spectators, puppets and puppeteers continue to run one of schoolboys’ greatest passions:
The first spark at what can be feared during the 2023 inter school rugby season chillingly flashed across Kandy as the coach of St. Joseph’s College was brutalised after a match against Kingswood College...
Sports Minister Roshan Ranasinghe, who is alien to the job like most of his predecessors, indulged in yet another media act playing his favourite game talking a load of hollow-swallow since he was installed in a Post that has become one of the most degraded portfolios in the country.
On Wednesday his media assistant emailed invitations to sports editors and followed it up...
By Callistus Davy
With the Sri Lanka rugby team shut out from next month’s Asian Games in China and frantic efforts underway for its reinstatement...
“I’ll hold Sri Lanka’s flag high”:
Sri Lanka’s unsung champion of Mount Everest will leave for North America next week to scale the highest peak in the region that...
Their partnership showcases an illustrious and jealously guarded history of 127 years that covers educational excellence, laurels...
Commercial patrons, hardcore domestic players and excited schoolboys have jumped on board to be part of what is being touted as...
A television channel, one of the oldest in the island even before most of the country’s current crop of T20 World Cup cricketers...
He was one of the most feared rugby forwards in the country in the 1980s who smashed past opposing teams and now he is back on...
Call them nobody’s fancied team, a team that nobody wants to buy or sell and still worse a team that never stood a dog’s chance...
Very rarely does a Sri Lankan sportsman or woman tell his or her story from the heart for fear of ending up sacked or victimised...
While the big boys playing senior cricket at Colombo’s elite schools are struggling to get bat to ball to score a total of 200 in...
For two years non-rugby followers breathed a sigh of relief that the Covid 19 pandemic had forced school rugby players and...
The Wesley College rugby squad that will be showcased in the 2022 inter school season comprising Hafiz Thabeeth, Miraj Miskin, ,...
St. Benedict’s College captain Pasan Suwahas (left) and his Wesley College counterpart Sahil Dias shake hands in front of the Rev...
Just when Sri Lanka’s cricketers hit some recognition and passed some kind of a competition test at the T20 World Cup, yet...
Conflicts of interests, cross border politics, profits ahead of players and lethargy have pushed Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) into a...
Packed off to a land he knew nothing about, he returned a fully fledged rugby star who stirred up local crowds, won international...
Arjuna Ranatunga, the former Sri Lanka cricket captain, will until thy kingdom come, have an axe to grind with the sport’s...
Demanding bigger pay is one thing, wanting to hide what they earn is another:Some of Sri Lanka’s senior cricketers have outgrown...
The Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) ground in the posh neighbourhood of Colombo 7 that adjoins the headquarters of Sri Lanka Cricket...
Thisara Perera: :
It was shortly before lunch on the first morning of the third and final cricket Test between Sri Lanka and England at the Rose...
In a dramatic turn of events, what pompous Sri Lanka Cricket officials have failed to do, rugby has succeeded by making an...
Hooliganism, rowdyism, drunken behaviour and vehicular road parades that pose a public nuisance will not be part of their culture...
With no new World Cup to celebrate, Sri Lanka’s ageing cricket champions of 1996 are frowning on both the sport’s administration...
With an impending court verdict that will define the direction of the country’s administration of cricket into the future amid...
Pundits, experts and saviours are continuing to pick Sri Lanka’s riches by way of millions in dollars as the country’s heavily...
At a time when clergymen in Sri Lanka are either sucked into politics or willingly enter it, a Buddhist monk lodged a virtual...
Match fixing, club fixing, fitness fixing, coach fixing, media fixing, tour fixing and buck fixing have led to a complete...
The length to which the administration of Sri Lanka Cricket and its once adored team has broken down could not be explained any...
Sri Lankans could just be saddened to note that their favourite West Indies cricketer Darren Sammy has been anxious to know why...
A much anticipated slug-out between two rival spinners on the infamous pitch at Galle has been aborted after England’s cricketers...
Away from the prying eyes of die-hard followers, the ball was passed in schools rugby as its godfather for almost two decades...
A media launch of the Sri Lanka versus West Indies series on Wednesday almost turned into a fireworks display between a loud-...
Nearly a decade after he abused journalists from the Sinhala mainstream, Lasith Malinga has decided to hang up his spurs and...
Angelo Perera:
In any other cricket playing nation, other than in the land of his birth, Angelo Perera would have had a fair chance to showcase...
When the legendary British Army Dr Major John Davy discovered and branded Nuwara Eliya in 1819 as Little England where the...
Olympic officials are over the moon at the presence of a lost baby who has returned like a cherubic angel to fly her native flag...
Sri Lanka’s cricketers return to the island not just after being routed in India but exposing a bankrupt leadership that never...
Thirteen years ago Mickey Arthur encountered a hell hole in Sri Lanka when his South African cricket team was crushed under the...
Former cricket World Cup champion Roshan Mahanama came down hard on the exploitation of children in sports and called for a...
For four years, cricket’s best known mystery bowler Ajantha Mendis lived a life of secrecy, a virtual recluse until he dropped an...
Shadowy school rugby officials, most of whom have not held a ball, are holding Sri Lanka Rugby to ransom after side-stepping and...
Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunanratne found himself thrown into the deep end ahead of the New Zealand series not knowing what to...
Ousted Sri Lanka cricket coach Chandika Hathurusinha must have been the bravest mentor of men and he had plenty of wisdom and...
Stand-off between amateurs and pros results in Sri Lanka’s eviction from Junior Asian Sevens:Sri Lanka Rugby, the parent body of...
He was high on the hit-list of the now obliterated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during Sri Lanka’s civil war, but that never...
Experts and purists alike will argue that boxing is a blood sport, although either fighter can throw in the towel or the bout can...
Following revelations in the Sunday Observer last week after ex-players and old boys complained of atrocious rugby standards at...
Rugby in Sri Lanka may be far from reaching an exulted or passionate level that cricket has gained, but it has acquired an ugly...
Sri Lankan cricketers who could not find slots in the 15-man squad to the World Cup have been given a pacifying tour of India...
As politicians cashed in to show their importance and nearly everyone had become an expert on security in the aftermath of...
When no one or very few followers would give Sri Lanka’s World Cup cricketers a dog’s chance, an unwanted pile of trash fit only...