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Sri Lankan National Chess Champion Ranindu Liyanage created history by participating in the FIDE Chess World Cup which is now progress in Sochi, Russia . Being the first Sri Lankan chess player to play in the most prestigious chess…

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…

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)…

Sixteen year old Volleyball player and athlete Herath Mudiyanselage Chathuri Poornima Abeyratne has brought honour and fame for her school Tissapura Vidyalaya Ampara. She was born on 22nd April 2005 and she was admitted to Tissapura…

LOVI will dress the Sri Lankan Olympic athletes and the delegates for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on July 23. “Like many kids, I loved watching the Olympic Games on TV and dreamt of somehow representing Sri Lanka…

The first Clifford Cup winners from Up-Country in 1953 were Dimbula Athletic and Cricket Club also known as Radella Club,It is a sporting club founded in 1856, and they are the oldest sporting club in the country outside Colombo, which…