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Zimbabwe's tour of Ireland, which was scheduled to start on August 6, has been rescheduled, Cricket Ireland announced on Thursday. The visitors were to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and five T20Is in Belfast and Northern…

A counter-attacking 75 not out from David Miller saved South Africa from batting chaos in Stormont, with the tourists eventually winning the second T20I by 42 runs to claim the series over Ireland on Thursday. Miller entered with…

Striker Richarlison scored a first half hat-trick as Brazil launched their Olympic Gold Medal campaign with a 4-2 win over Germany in a key Men’s tournament match on Thursday. In a repeat of the 2016 Olympic Gold-Medal match in…

Twelve new COVID-19 cases were detected by last night, bringing the total number of Coronavirus cases related to the Tokyo Games personnel to 87. There have been eight positive cases directly among the competitors. Six British…

Three Sri Lankan competitors will be seen in action at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics today (24). They are Niluka Karunaratne in badminton Men’s Singles first round, Tehani Egodawela in shooting Women’s 10m air rifle, and Aniqah Gaffoor…

After a year’s delay, the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics finally got underway at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan yesterday. The expectation and anticipation was greater than ever as billions of people around the…

TOKYO, July 23 – Japan beat all challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic as the XXX11nd modern summer Olympic Games finally got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo today. But for the…

Eighteen year old volleyball player and athlete Garumuni Devage Sithum Umesh Dilshan who hails from Nattandiya was born on 31st January 2003 and he was admitted to Dhamissara National School in 2009 to the grade one when…

The Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka(TTASL) will commence training for junior (under 19 and Under 15) and Senior ranked players in the provinces of Ambalangoda, Colombo, Kandy and Jaffna from July 24 th onwards. The training…

Tamara Padmini Wickremasinghe, who was attached to the Pushpadana Balika Girls School,Kandy as a Physical Training Instructor was a top class Athlete who was an old girl of Alawwa Central College and from her younger days she was…