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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…

Asia Rugby (AR) hosted a hybrid World Rugby (WR) Match Officials’ Level-2 Course on August 22-23 at the Conference Room of the Uzbekistan Rugby Federation. The Level-2 Course was delivered remotely by WR Trainers Dilroy Fernando from…

 Pakistan eased to a 109-run win over the West Indies on the final day to end their Caribbean tour with a series-levelling win in the two-Test series in Kingston on Tuesday. Set 328, West Indies folded for 219 - losing nine wickets on…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) yesterday announced the selection of a 26-member Under-19 National Training Squad in preparation for the upcoming inbound tours, Under-19 Asia Cup, and the Under-19 World Cup. The Junior National Selectors…

 James Anderson's triple strikes with the new ball had India reeling at 56 for four at lunch on the opening day of the third Test against England at Headingley yesterday. In a scintillating display of swing bowling, after an unchanged…

In a humanitarian gesture, Sri Lanka’s white-ball Captain Dasun Shanaka has decided to donate his Man-of-the-Series prize money of the SLC Invitational T20 League to the Colombo South Teaching Hospital in Kalubowila. “It was brought…

Oarsman Mahesh Jayakody will be Sri Lanka’s first Para Athlete to be seen in action at the 16th Tokyo Games in Japan tomorrow. Jayakody has already created history as the first yachtsman to represent Sri Lanka at the Para Games and he…

Sri Lanka’s white-ball Captain Dasun Shanaka hopes that the national players will carry the same momentum into the limited overs series against South Africa after most of the key players showed excellent form during the SLC…

Michail Antonio became West Ham's outright top scorer in the Premier League in a dominant 4-1 victory for the Hammers over 10-man Leicester City at London Stadium on Monday. Antonio celebrated by lifting a cardboard cut-out of…