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Dinka Peiris was elected as the President of the Sri Lanka Society of Rugby Football Referees (SLSRFR) at their Annual General Meeting (AGM). Peiris said that his priority is to develop match officials with the assistance of the…

Mangala Samarakoon is a former Sri Lankan sport shooter and an Olympian who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England and at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Mudiyanselage Mangala Samarakoon was born…

Off the back of a history-making half-century from Chris Gayle, the West Indies claimed the third T20I against Australia to wrap up the series in Gross Islet on Monday. Sent out to bowl first, West Indies held Australia to a…

IOC President Thomas Bach appeared in public yesterday for the first time since arriving in Tokyo last week with the pandemic-postponed Olympics opening in just 10 days. His first stop was the Headquarters of the Organising…

Former India batsman and member of the 1983 World Cup-winning side Yashpal Sharma passed away yesterday. The 66-year-old is reported to have suffered a cardiac arrest. He represented his nation in 37 Tests and 42 One Day…

Former Police and Sri Lanka scrum half K. D. D. Sunil Dharmasiri Perera who was domiciled in the US, has passed away. An old boy of St. Aloysius’ College, Ratnapura and Mahabodhi Vidyalaya, Colombo 10, Perera who retired as a…

Sri Lanka’s Ranindu Liyanage lost his opening match to Russian Grandmaster Oparin Grigoriy in the FIDE Chess World Cup 2021, which is now in progress in Sochi, Russia. Liyanage played 90 moves in a marathon game fighting to get a…

Sri Lanka Under-19 Head Coach Dhammika Sudarshana was yesterday appointed as the Batting Coach of the Sri Lanka Men’s National Cricket Team for the India series. The Secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Mohan de Silva said…

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will conduct a disciplinary inquiry against Batting Coach Grant Flower on completion of his quarantine period. The inquiry has been set up to inquire into breaching of the bio-bubble during the England…

Former Sri Lankan cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan believes that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) should appoint former cricketer Roshan Mahanama as the Head Coach of the Men’s National Cricket Team. “He is the only man I can think of who…