On This Day Featured Sir Arthur - The Author And First Class Cricketer Born on 'Sherlock Holmes Day' today, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle named the fictional detective after a Nottinghamshire Cricketer and once took the wicket of W.G. Grace!
On This Day Featured Some Were Fast, And There Was 'Summa' Sumanthiran Navaratnam, whose centenary birth anniversary falls today, was once dubbed the 'Bolt of Asia' and a household name in Rugby from Player to President
Members only On This Day Featured Ireland's Forgotten Hero Who Was Born In Ceylon Born on this day in 1907 in Nuwara Eliya, Robert Tisdall left Ceylon long before he won the Gold medal for Ireland in the Men's 400m Hurdles at the 1932 Olympic Games
Stories Featured Aravinda's First Taste of England: Where Dreams Were Forged A 15 year old teenager stepped onto a plane for the very first time, full of excitement, on his way to England with his U19 cricket team. That was Aravinda de Silva's reality in 1981...
Members only Facts Featured Gunasekara - Passing The Baton Then VS Now Senior Police Officer Hemantha Gunasekara, who once held the National Record in the Men's 4x100m, is the proud father of Anudi- the Miss Sri Lanka for the Miss World!
Rugby Ekanayake Nominated For HSBC SVNS Awards 20 year old Australian Rugby 7's player Aden Ekanayake, a rising speed-star of a familiar origin, has been nominated among 3 players for the HSBC SVNS Rookie of the Year Award!
Karunaratne - A Frank And Underrated Opener Dimuth Karunaratne, who recently retired on his 100th Test match and one of the most prolific openers to grace the field in whites for Sri Lanka, turns 37 years today!
On This Day Astonishing Feats Of The Bent Arm Bowler With 1347 international wickets to his name, Muttiah Muralitharan who turns 53 years today is not your everyday tailender when looking at his batting and fielding feats!
Facts 'Awuduru Games' No More At The Olympics! These two sports which are very popular during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year season, were a part and now discontinued from the Olympic Games over a century ago!
Cricket When 'Hope' Finally Became A Reality After sharing sorrows as the losing side in four straight World Cup finals, Sri Lanka became the T20 World Cup winners on this day in 2014 at the Sher-E-Bangla Stadium.
On This Day The CBSL Governor Who Led Sri Lanka Rugby Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, who turns 75 years today, is the 14th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and famously led Sri Lanka in the ASIAD Finals in 1974
On This Day A Life Around Cricket, Hockey and Insurance! Chandra Schaffter, founder of Janashakthi Insurance PLC and the oldest living First Class Cricketer who represented Ceylon in Hockey and Cricket, turns 95 years today.
Members only On This Day The Bizarre Pitch That Bamboozled Bradman! On this day in 1948, Colombo came to a halt as more than 20,000 spectators surrounded the P Sara Oval to watch Sir Don Bradman score the same number of runs as the pitch!
Members only On This Day Tissera - The Tea Taster, Cricketer and Manager 'Deshabandu' Michael Tissera who turns 86 years today, didn't only taste tea but has also led Ceylon in the Pre-Test Era, famously tasting victory on Indian soil in 1965
Members only On This Day From 2nd Fastest Bowler to 2nd In The World Recent World Lead and Former Schoolboy Fast Bowler Rumesh Tharanga who turns 22 years today, is the first Sri Lankan Athlete to break the 85m barrier in Men's Javelin
On This Day The Banker Who Took More Than 500 Wickets Rangana Herath who turns 47 years today, holds the record for the most wickets taken by a Left Arm Test Bowler and the longest span of 19 years for Sri Lanka Cricket!
On This Day "That's it, all the way to the boundary for four!" On this day in 1996, the captain's Late Cut towards Third Man saw Sri Lanka conquer the mighty Australians for their first ever World Cup win, inspiring future generations.
On This Day The Netball Coach Who Ran At The Olympics 'Deshabandu' Thilaka Jindasa who turns 62 years today, is the first sportswoman to be awarded this title when she became Sri Lanka's first female Olympian in 1988
Members only Cricket Origins of 'The Great Intercollegiate Match' Ashley Walker, a First Class Cricketer and Royal College Master, wrote a letter to S.Thomas' College that led to the 'Big Match' and birth of School's Cricket in Ceylon.
On This Day The Ceylon Hurdler Who Had The Last Laugh! Ceylon's First Olympic Medalist Duncan White, who was born today in 1918, had an unusual exchange of words at the starting block before the start of his Olympic Final.
On This Day The Ceylon-Born Author Who Sled For Canada! Philanthropist and Author Sir Christopher Ondaatje who turns 92 years today, is the first Ceylon-Born Winter Olympian and was part of the Canadian Bobsled team in 1964!
On This Day When Sri Lanka Became the 8th Test Nation On this day in 1982, Sri Lanka played their inaugural Test match as the 8th country to receive the Full ICC Membership, against England at the P. Sara Oval Stadium.
Members only On This Day Battle of Helm's Deep Recording at Wellington LOTR Director Peter Jackson had an unusual idea to gather as many people to chant in Black Speech, during the New Zealand vs England 2nd ODI on this day in 2002!
On This Day HSM Pieris, A Master In Chemistry And Cricket! Henry Sri Mevan Peiris who turns 79 years today, is a renowned Polymer Technologist who even represented Sri Lanka as a fast bowler at the Inaugural World Cup in 1975.
On This Day When Love Made Shashikala Bat On! Shashikala Siriwardene who turns 40 years on Valentine's Day, has the longest career of 17 years with Sri Lanka Women's Cricket that was influenced by her pillar of success
