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Lucas Paqueta sent defending champions Brazil into the Copa America final with a first half winner against Peru at the Nilton Santos Stadium. Neymar beat three defenders on the left before crossing for Paqueta to guide home the…

The Junior Athletic Selection Trials, which was scheduled for July 25 has been put off for July 27 due to unavoidable circumstances. The junior selection trials will be held in Colombo targeting the World Junior Athletic…

The National Cricket Selectors have picked 75 school cricketers in preparation for the 2022 Under-19 ICC Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean. The selected cricketers will commence a residential training camp from July 12 to August…

Three Football Leagues will be reactivated after being sidelined for a period of six years, President, Football Sri Lanka (FSL) Jaswar Umar confirmed to Daily News yesterday. Kandy, Kurunegala and Akkaraipattu Leagues were some…

Former Sri Lanka Cricket Captain Mahela Jayawardena was yesterday, appointed as a Board of Director of Janashakthi Insurance PLC. “We are pleased to welcome Mahela to the Janashakthi Life Board,” Prakash Schaffter, Chairman of…

The world governing body for athletics World Athletics (WA) yesterday, confirmed that Sri Lanka’s Women’s 800m runner Nimali Liyanarachchi has qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games. “Liyanarachchi has qualified as a Universality…

Sanath Jayasundara, a former Performance Analyst at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has been banned from all forms of cricket for seven years after the ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code.…

Seniru Nagasinghe of Lyceum, Nugegoda and Amaya Ranasinghe of Viharamaha Devi BMV, Kiribathgoda won the Boys’ and Girls’ title respectively at the Sri Lanka Online National Rapid Chess Championships, which concluded yesterday.…

Former Sri Lanka batsman Bhanuka Rajapaksa has been fined US $5,000 for a breach of contract and is essentially on probation for two years, having been handed a one-year ban as a suspended sentence. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) dealt…

Thiyagaraja Kalaikumari of Walapane education zone in the Nuwara Eliya district is a multi - talented student who has various achievements in the history of Ragala Tamil Higher National School in education and sports at the school,…