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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wants to form a consortium of sorts with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to jointly host two World Cups. It also intends to stage two Twenty20 World Cups together with…

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…

Sri Lanka Cricket announces that the India Sri Lanka series which was to start on July 13, will now be held from July 18 till July 29. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) in consultation with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)…

World number one Ashleigh Barty will play Czech eighth seed Karolina Pliskova in today's Wimbledon final. Australian Barty beat former champion Angelique Kerber 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) before Pliskova came from a set down to defeat Aryna…

Zimbabwe added 95 runs in a fast-scoring morning session on Day 3 of the one-off Test, bringing the deficit down to 259 runs in response to Bangladesh's 468 on a flattening pitch in Harare yesterday. A lot of momentum that the…

The Sports Ministry yesterday granted a sum of Rs. 350,000 to the Table Tennis Association of Sri Lanka (TTASL) for the construction of a Sports Complex in Bandaragama. Sports Ministry Director-General (DG) Amal Edirisooriya…