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SRI LANKA QUALIFY FOR THE FINAL 🏑 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka have officially booked their place in the Final of the Men’s Asian Games Qualifier 2026 after a determined and hard-fought victory over Indonesia in the Semi-Final. #QualifiedForTheFinal #SriLanka #MensAsianGames2026 #SemiFinal

The list of overseas athletes announced so far for the SEIKO Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo 👇 MEN: • Noah Lyles 🇺🇸 100m • Jerome Blake 🇨🇦 100m • Jordan Anthony 🇺🇸 200m • Courtney Lindsey 🇺🇸 200m • Adrian Kerr 🇯🇲 200m • Muzala Samukonga 🇿🇲 400m • Vernon Norwood 🇺🇸 400m • Rai Benjamin 🇺🇸 400m • Reece Holder 🇦🇺 400m • Jude Thomas 🇦🇺 1500m • Freddie Crittenden 🇺🇸 110mH • Eric Edwards 🇺🇸 100mH • Marco Fassinotti 🇮🇹 HJ • Yual Reath 🇦🇺 HJ • Elijah Kosiba 🇺🇸 HJ • Lester Lescay 🇪🇸 LJ • Christopher Mitrevski 🇦🇺 LJ • Nikaoli Williams 🇯🇲 LJ • Rumesh Tharanga 🇱🇰 JT • Douw Smit 🇿🇦 JT • Marc Minichello 🇺🇸 JT • Martin Konečný 🇨🇿 JT WOMEN: • Gabby Scott 🇵🇷 400m • Sophie O’Sullivan 🇮🇪 1500m • Gracie Morris 🇺🇸 1500m • Alia Armstrong 🇺🇸 100mH • Elena Taloş 🇷🇴 TJ • Neja Filipič 🇸🇮 TJ • Mariia Siney 🇺🇦 TJ • Flor Ruiz 🇨🇴 JT • Elina Tzengko 🇬🇷 JT • Juleisy Angulo 🇪🇨 JT 📆 17 May

Sanath Jayasuriya and Muthiah Muralidaran played 90 Tests and 307 ODIs together, but never once shared a batting partnership 🤯 More trivia in this week's #AskSteven: srkl.in/6013B7GVeb

Men's 4x400m Qualifiers - Gaborone 2026 World Relays 🇧🇼 Botswana 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇬🇧 Great Britain & N.I. 🇯🇲 Jamaica 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France 🇰🇪 Kenya 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇦🇺 Australia 🇯🇵 Japan 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe 🇨🇳 China 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇮🇳 India 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇱 Poland 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇸🇳 Senegal 🇩🇪 Germany 🇳🇬 Nigeria 🇹🇭 Thailand

There was a time when Sri Lankan cricket felt like watching the same tragedy on repeat. Different stages, different villains, same ending. Sangakkara & Jayawardene had seen Gilchrist demolish them in Bridgetown, 2007. Had seen Afridi pull miracles in London, 2009. Had seen Gambhir & Dhoni chip away in Mumbai, 2011 until nothing remained. Had seen Samuels stand & destroy in their own backyard in 2012. Each time they shook hands & smiled for cameras. Each time they returned to hotel rooms & stared at ceilings until morning came. Then came the ultimatum from the board, right before 2014 T20 World Cup. Sign away your rights or stay home. Let someone else wear your colours in Bangladesh. They packed their bags without guarantees. Played for a country that could not promise to pay them. In Dhaka, they dropped Kohli when he was on 11 in 16 balls. They missed a run-out chance of Rohit Sharma too. On any other night, this would be the story of failure. But they had learned something bitter & true. Wickets make pretty pictures. Dot balls buy you time. So they kept the field in. Kept the pressure breathing down Indian necks. Wide yorker after wide yorker. 19 runs in the last 4 overs. Kohli ran himself out off the final ball, desperate for a second that existed only in his head. India ended on 130 which should have been 160. The crowd in Dhaka knew what this was. 20 million watching across the island knew. Last dance for the two who had given their adult lives to this game. No going back. No second thoughts. When Perera hit the winning six, Jayawardene was not at the wicket. Raina had taken him, Ashwin had held the catch at mid-wicket. But he was there in the dugout. Waiting. Sangakkara was there at the non-strike end. Then the stumps were not the only things uprooted. They lifted Sangakkara first. Then Jayawardene. Two men who had lost so often that losing had become part of their skin, finally holding something that cannot be bought, cannot be signed away on board papers, cannot be counted in rupees or dollars or anything except the weight of finally, finally, finally.

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Stop arguing over the obvious and take a clear moral stance. Politics come after. Human lives matter. No matter if it’s a Minab schoolgirl being killed, a monarchist, or a Mojahed being hanged for their opinions, a Pakistani driver being hit by shrapnel in Dubai, a Palestinian boy being abused and killed, or an Israeli girl losing her father. Life is a privilege. It makes no difference if you live under bombardment of civilian infrastructure necessary for dignified living anywhere. We need to be thankful for life and protect it.

Netherlands international Tim Pringle 🇳🇱 has been picked for the 🇳🇿 New Zealand A tour of Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 starting today. Tim has represented the Netherlands 26 times but was surprisingly left out of their 2026 T20 World Cup squad. #AssociateCricket #CricketEverywhere

4 Sri Lankans went under 46s in 400m in 2026, that has never happened in a calendar year before Kalhara Idupa 45.50 Kalinga Kumarage 45.72 Aruna Darshana 45.79 Omel Shashintha 45.79 Hopefully, the National Record for 4*400m will be bettered in a major championship #SLAthletics

Trinity run riot at Sugathadasa Stadium, crossing the 50-point mark with 10 stunning tries to outclass their Bradby rivals Royal and lift the Dialog Schools Rugby Knockout crown 🏆 Pure class. Total dominance. Coverage Powered By Prima KottuMee #SchoolsRugby

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 3 – 2 🇧🇩 Bangladesh A superb result for the Sri Lanka hockey team as they defeat Bangladesh and qualify for the semis of the Men’s Asian Games Qualifier 2026. With this victory, Sri Lanka have officially qualified for the Men’s Hockey event at the 2026 Asian Games 🔥 The top 6 teams secure qualification, and by reaching the semi-finals, Sri Lanka have already locked in a top 4 finish. A huge achievement for Sri Lanka Hockey. 🇱🇰👏

30 years ago today, if you were lucky enough to be watching, you saw something that shouldn't have been possible. People were still drunk on the 1996 World Cup. Still carrying the glow of that win in Lahore, the one that made a tiny island believe it could own the cricket world. Two weeks of celebration before Sanath Jayasuriya walked out to bat in Singapore & decided that mere mortals needed new numbers to chase. He reached his fifty in 32 balls. Fast, sure, but we'd seen fast before. Then he reached a hundred in 48 balls. Before that afternoon, no one, who'd swung a heavy bat in anger; had reached three figures in less than 60 balls in ODIs. Sanath did it in 48. And he wasn't done. At one point; he was batting at 134 from 58 balls. 84 runs scored in 26 balls. Even in 2026, with all our T20 finishing schools & shrinking boundary ropes, that sequence still sounds like fiction in ODIs. 11 sixes, First time anyone had cleared the rope 10 times in a one-day innings. The ground in Singapore wasn't big enough to hold what he was doing. The game itself wasn't big enough. You'd think that would be enough for one lifetime. One week, even. But Sanath was playing a different sport than the rest of the world. Just one game later, he made a fifty in 17 balls. The fastest ever. 3 weeks after a World Cup victory, he held the records for fastest fifty & fastest hundred in the same breath. We didn't know it then, but we were watching the future arrive early. The openers who came after; Sehwag, Gilchrist, the whole thundering herd, they were all running down a path that Sanath hacked through the jungle that day in Singapore.

Why do we pretend as if this knock does not exist,when she barely had anyone to even stick around with her,let alone contributing something?!

Asian Junior Trials 2026 - 400m Finals Omel Shashintha - 45.79 Sadev Rajakaruna - 46.39 Thisen Ranvidu - 46.83 I M Bogoda - 47.45 I Edirisinghe - 47.52 Omel missed the Junior National Record by 0.01s (Aruna Darshana 45.78s - 2018) #SLAthletics

FT | Chinese Taipei 1️⃣-3️⃣ Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka sign off with a dominant display to close out their Group D campaign! #ACQ2027 | #TPEvSRI

Sri Lanka complete the double over Chinese Taipei and wrap up their AFC Asia Cup Qualifiers campaign on a high note!

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@casa_rugby @qaisaldhalai @asiarugby What is the motivation behind forming CASA Rugby? Are there any specific CASA competitions or regional trophies scheduled for member nations?

The CASA Alliance proudly unites Iran, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan under one shared vision. From the steppes of Central Asia to the shores of South Asia ! Two regions , One Vision!

A lion would never drive under the influence, but a Tiger Wood.

Massive Congratulations to Tanzania 🇹🇿 and Ghana 🇬🇭 on advancing to Africa Qualifier. #CzarsportzNews 2028 ICC Men's #T20WorldCup Africa Qualifier. 1) Namibia 🇳🇦 2) Tanzania 🇹🇿 3) Ghana 🇬🇭 4) Sub-regional Qualifier A 5) Sub-regional Qualifier A 6) Sub-regional Qualifier C 7) Sub-regional Qualifier C