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The woman Chief Inspector of Sri Lanka Police T. Nelka Shiromala has been selected as a Boxing Judge and a Match Referee for the2020 Tokyo OlympicGames. In 2009 she took up to refereeing and in 2011 became the first Sri Lankan…

England Men’s Test players will be available for the first two rounds of The Hundred before the squad convenes for next month’s series against India. The Hundred, English cricket’s new 100-ball competition, begins today and runs…

Two maiden half-centuries from Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Chahar carried India to a thrilling three-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second One Day International (ODI) played at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday.…

The last of the active veteran heavyweights of sports journalism in Sri Lanka, Elmo Rodrigopulle, passed away yesterday following a brief illness just two days after his 80th birthday Elmo, like the rest of his contemporaries…

TOKYO, July 20 - Sri Lanka’s champion shuttler Niluka Karunaratne, competing in his third successive Olympic Games, will meet Taiwan’s Tzu-Wei Wang in the opening round of the Men’s Singles badminton competition of the 2020 Olympic…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has issued charge sheets to the three players serving a temporary suspension following their misbehaviour during the tour of England last month. Former Deputy Skipper Kusal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella and…

Cricketer, athlete and the present cricket coach of St.Anthony’s college Wattala Hithandura Harshana Tharindu Silva has brought honour and fame to his alma mater De Mazenod College, Kandana. Harshana who hails from Ragama had his…

D.G. Jayandi Bimansa is a rising young chess star and a highly talented student of Bandaragama Central College studying in grade seven and one of the International Rated Chess women players in Sri Lanka and Top youth, girls player in…

Fourteen year old Dinith Seniya Rajugamuwa, a fine up-and-coming cricketer of Dharmaraja College, Kandy who was admitted to the school from Grade One onwards and now he is in the Grade Ten class. Seniya started his cricket career under…

(From left) Chandana Liyanage - Press Attache, Gamini Jayasinghe - Chef De Mission, Maxwell De Silva - Secretary General, Heshan Perera – Head of Marketing, Daraz Sri Lanka, Suresh Subramaniam - President NOCSL, Mrs Susanthika…