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At the AGM of the Sri Lanka Basketball Federation (SLBF) held last January, the posts of President and the Treasurer that were kept vacant due to technical reasons, were finally filled by Aelian Gunawardena, who was elected uncontested…

Table Tennis High Performance development Programme recipients are seen here with Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa and TTASL President Kanaka Herath at the Sports Ministry.  From left Senura Silva, Krishan Wickramaratne, Chameera…

17 year old, Osanda Heenkenda a Grade Eleven student of St. Sylvester’s College, Kandy is an outstanding cricketer who started playing cricket for the under 13 Team in the year 2014 when he was 10 years old under the coaching of…

With the World Cup triumphs in 1996 and 2014 in the shorter version of the game cricket has undoubtedly become the cynosure of all eyes as a team sport in the country. Even though the National team’s performance is low at the moment,…

Christine Sonali Merrill is a former Sri Lankan athlete who competed in the Women’s 400m hurdles event at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, UK. She was ranked 30th and was eliminated in the first round though she broke her…

Bangladesh stretched themselves but completed a comprehensive 220 -run victory over Zimbabwe in the one-off Test in Harare yesterday. Needing seven wickets on the final day, Bangladesh overcame numerous fielding errors and found…

Ashleigh Barty won her maiden Wimbledon title on Saturday as she beat Karolina Pliskova in a nervy final to become the first Australian Women's champion for 41 years. Barty won the first 14 points to take early charge in a 6-3,…

Two more prefectures - Fukushima and Hokkaido - outside the immediate Tokyo area have decided to bar fans from attending Olympic events because of the rising Coronavirus infections, Tokyo Olympic organisers confirmed yesterday with the…

Shimron Hetmyer and Dwayne Bravo’s partnership helped the West Indies seal a 56-run victory over Australia in the second Twenty20 International in St Lucia on Saturday. Hetmyer scored 61 off 36 balls while Bravo remained unbeaten…

The Sri Lanka Cricket Team will resume their training today after the entire squad tested negative for COVID-19 yesterday. However, the Sri Lankan Team will train without Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Coaching Staff as all of them are…