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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…

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…