The Sri Lanka Reporter is a monthly newspaper and community oriented digital publication published by Canadian Sri Lanka Newspapers Inc. in Toronto, Canada.
After winning the World Cup final over Australia in 1996, Sri Lanka has twice been runner-up in the biggest ODI event. It also won the World Twenty20 title in 2014, five years after being runner-up, but hasn’t qualified for the semifinals of any major tournament in the last six years...
If we are able to seize the moment then the future of Sri Lanka’s cricket remains very bright. I pray we do because cricket has such an important role to play in our island’s future. Cricket played a crucial role during the dark days of Sri Lanka’s civil war, a period of enormou...
By Leonard Ratnayake in Birmingham Sri Lanka finishes behind Bangladesh in Subdivision 1 of the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics competition. Bangladesh scored 100.600 across all six rotations, while Sri Lanka scored 91.850. Nevertheless, Sri Lanka lead[…] ...
Jan 9 (Island) Mervyn de Silva has been described asthe greatest journalist that SL ever produced(Radhika Coomaraswamy, 2001).Furthermore,… [Mervyn’s] literary critical writing…and his affirmative humanism that grew from it enriched the world of journalism in Sri Lanka as no one else has...
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CHATTOGRAM, Bangladesh (AP) — Sri Lanka kept its nose ahead in the second and final cricket test against Bangladesh by posting a massive 531 on Day 2 Sunday, thanks to six batters getting past half-century marks. In response, Bangladesh reached 55-1 at stumps, still trailing by 476 ...
“Sri Lanka may have gone down (in the rankings), but as a cricketing nation we have an identity, we have dignity, we should not be sending our best to play an Indian B team.” Ranatunga, who led Sri Lanka to its 1996 World Cup triumph, said the game’s administration had deteriora...
Action taken after SLC's anti-corruption unit flags the spectators for excessive mobile phone usage during Sri Lanka-India women's game Chamari Atapattu trumps Mithali Raj as Sri Lanka win last-over thriller They broke a sequence of ten successive ODI losses against India, winning with one ball...
Sri Lanka’s population is estimated at approximately 20 million people with an annual population growth of 0.79% and occupies the 53rd position on the world population charts. For 1,000 people, the birth rate is 15.63 and the death rate is 6.49. The Western part of Sri Lanka, especially ...