Seam bowler Nuwan Kulasekara picked up wickets with his first two balls to help Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 37 runs in a low-scoring opening Twenty20 match Friday.
Batting first after winning the toss Sri Lanka made 132 runs. Thisara Perera made (...)
Former captain Ricky Ponting hit an unbeaten 90 as Australia thrashed Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the second One-Day International to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series Sunday.
Ponting hit a six and eight boundaries to help his team chase a (...)
Sri Lanka flooded a new port Sunday, built with Chinese assistance as part of a $6 billion drive to rebuild the island nation's infrastructure after a quarter century of war.
The Hambantota port, built at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion on the (...)
Six months ago, the bustling Sri Lankan fishing town of Hambantota was virtually wiped off the map by the Indian Ocean tsunami, Reuters reported.
Over 2,000 people died -- most of them on a narrow strip of land that separated the ocean from a (...)
Stunned by the devastation
wrought by the Asian tsunami, U.N. Secretary General Kofi
Annan toured a Sri Lankan town Saturday where hundreds of
shoppers at an outdoor weekly market were swept to their
deaths.
Accompanied by the head of the World (...)
