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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Media Assistant Chanaka Silva passed away at the age of 40 following a sudden illness on Thursday. The former schoolboy of Dharmapala MV, Kalutara was a livewire in the Media Unit of SLC, playing a key…

The Sports Ministry is planning to handover some of their sports complex owned by the Sports Development Department to the National Sports Associations (NSA) to conduct their regular sports activities. Accordingly, the Matara…

Canadian teenager Leylah Fernandez shocked another high-ranked opponent on Thursday in second seed Aryna Sabalenka to reach the US Open final - where she will face 18-year-old Briton Emma Raducanu. Unseeded Fernandez, who turned…

Lock forward Brodie Retallick would Captain New Zealand for the first time in the absence of Ardie Savea when the All Blacks play Argentina in the Rugby Championship on Australia's Gold Coast on Sunday. Loose forward Savea…

The fifth and final Test in Manchester has been postponed indefinitely in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak within the India squad. In a statement released on Friday, the BCCI said it was in talks with the ECB over conducting the match…

South Africa won the first T20i by 28 runs against Sri Lanka.

Quade Cooper will play his first Test for Australia in more than four years on Sunday against South Africa in the Rugby Championship.The 33-year-old, whose last international start was against Argentina in October 2016, will start at…

United States (US) batsman Jaskaran Malhotra has become the ninth man to hit six sixes in an over in top-level cricket. The 31-year-old hit the runs off Papua New Guinea pace bowler Gaudi Toka in a One Day International in Oman…

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton was fastest in first practice for the Italian Grand Prix ahead of title rival Max Verstappen of Red Bull in Monza yesterday. Hamilton, running medium tyres, was 0.452 seconds ahead of Verstappen on the…

England's fifth Test against India at Emirates Old Trafford was cancelled after some of the tourists' backroom staff tested positive for COVID-19. India said they were unable to field a team because they fear further cases…