Dayasiri Jayasekara

Sri Lanka sports minister Dayasiri Jayasekara denies hiring local sorcerer to cast spell on Pakistan team

Sri Lanka's sports minister on Wednesday denied ordering the lowly-ranked national team to use witchcraft to score a surprising two-match Test series win against Pakistan earlier this month.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: Visitors' sports minister set to accompany national team for T20I in Lahore

Sri Lanka's Sports Minister said he would join the national cricket team on their first match in Pakistan since gunmen attacked their team bus in Lahore eight years ago.

Arjuna Ranatunga skips brainstorming session organised to probe into Sri Lankan cricket's decline

Former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga skipped a brainstorming session, organised to probe into Sri Lankan cricket's decline, because it wasn't a sports ministry exercise but something done by the current cricket administration itself

India vs Sri Lanka: SLC chief Thilanga Sumathipala rejects call for his resignation from Arjuna Ranatunga

Sumathipala said his administration has laid long term plans to resurrect the country's cricket but it will take 3-4 more years to yield results.

Lasith Malinga handed suspended one-year ban for 'monkey' remarks about Sri Lanka sports minister

Malinga appeared before SLC's special inquiry panel on Tuesday, where he accepted the charges against him and tendered a formal apology.

World T20: Sri Lankan Cricket slams former selection committee of causing 'grievous' injury to team morale

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) today accused former selection committee chief Kapila Wijegoonawardena of hurting the morale of the national team ahead of their ICC World Twenty 20 campaign by making "inaccurate and misleading" statements in the media.