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Three players, Dinushki Premanath, Sanudula Dahamdi and Sachini Ranasinghe have been named by the National Selection Committee of Chess to participate in the Online Asian Women’s Rapid Chess Championship 2021 to be held on 23rd, 24th…

Former Zahira College, Colombo, CR and FC, Police SC, and SLRFU President’s XV prop forward Ibrahim (Tanker) Hamid died at the age of 77 years due to COVID-19 yesterday. He completed his academic career with Zahira and started…

The SLC Invitational T20 League Cricket Tournament schedule has been revised by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a precautionary measure following the identification of COVID-19 cases in the Team Hotel in Kandy. As a result, the…

The International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday announced that the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2021 will be held in Zimbabwe from November 21 to December 5. The teams that will be seen in action in the fifth edition…

Sri Lanka’s promising athlete Tharushi Karunaratne qualified to run in the Women’s 800m semi-finals following another splendid performance on the second day of the World Junior Athletics Championships, which continued in Nairobi, Kenya…

The nine-member Sri Lankan contingent will leave for Tokyo today to participate in the 16th Paralympics, which will be held from August 24 to September 5 in Japan. The Sri Lankan contingent will include six athletes, one…

A close battle for supremacy can be expected when Air Force SC lock horns with CH and FC in the second leg of the Commander’s Cup Inter-Club League Rugby Tournament Invitation match at Ratmalana today. The kick-off is at 4.45 p.m.…

The Sri Lanka 4X400m mixed relay team had to be content with seventh place at the World Junior Under-20 Athletics Championships, which began in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday. The Sri Lankan Team comprising of Dilshan Bandara, Lakshima…

British number one Johanna Konta was beaten 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 by Karolina Muchova in the first-round of the Cincinnati Open on Tuesday. Konta, 30, won the first set in an assured start before rain interrupted the second set in…

Liam Livingstone's devastating hitting powered Birmingham Phoenix straight into the Men's Hundred final with a crushing eight-wicket win over Northern Superchargers at Headingley on Tuesday. At one stage Livingstone seemed to be…