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Ibrahim Al Hussein yesterday became the first athlete from the six-member Paralympic Refugee Team to compete at Tokyo 2020. He took part in the second heat of the Men’s 100m breaststroke SB8 held at the famed Tokyo Aquatics…

Ted Dexter, the former England Captain, passed away yesterday, aged 86, in Wolverhampton. Nicknamed 'Lord Ted', Dexter was an aggressive batsman and useful seam bowler who played 62 Tests for England and was Captain from 1961 to…

Ramiz Raja is all set to be the new Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The decision follows a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan, who gave the go-ahead for the change of guard at the PCB. Raja will replace Ehsan…

India set out on the path of a late recovery in the Headingley Test by taking out both the well-set English openers in a slow-moving morning session on Day 2 in Leeds yesterday. By lunch, Dawid Malan overcame a nervy start and in…

Anastasia Pagonis went into the history books not once but twice when she broke her own world record in the Women’s 400m S11 to win United States’ first Gold Medal on day two of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games yesterday. The…

The South Africa Cricket Team led by Temba Bavuma arrived in the island yesterday for a limited overs series against Sri Lanka. The team arrived at the Katunayake Airport at around 2.15 a.m. on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha,…

Sri Lanka’s wheelchair tennis champion Ranjan Dharmasena will compete in his first round match of the Paralympics at the Ariake Tennis Park Courts in Tokyo commencing at 7.30 a.m. (Sri Lanka time) today. He will meet Chile…

 Kandy rugby enthusiasts conducted special prayers for the late Ibrahim Hamid and his son Zulki, who passed away last week due to COVID-19. The late Ibrahim played nearly five seasons of rugby for Zahira College and led the team…

National chess champion Ranindu Liyanage, number three Susal de Silva and Oshini Gunawardena have received wildcard entries for the final stage of the World Youth Chess Championship. Liyanage, playing against the best players in…

Larissa Klaassen jumped up and down with joy together with her pilot Imke Brommer after receiving her Gold Medal for the Women’s B 1,000m time trial of the Tokyo Paralympics at the Izu Velodrome yesterday. This was Klaassen’s…