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National chess champion Ranindu Liyanage, number three Susal de Silva and Oshini Gunawardena have received wildcard entries for the final stage of the World Youth Chess Championship. Liyanage, playing against the best players in…
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 Kandy rugby enthusiasts conducted special prayers for the late Ibrahim Hamid and his son Zulki, who passed away last week due to COVID-19. The late Ibrahim played nearly five seasons of rugby for Zahira College and led the team…
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Sri Lanka’s wheelchair tennis champion Ranjan Dharmasena will compete in his first round match of the Paralympics at the Ariake Tennis Park Courts in Tokyo commencing at 7.30 a.m. (Sri Lanka time) today. He will meet Chile…
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The South Africa Cricket Team led by Temba Bavuma arrived in the island yesterday for a limited overs series against Sri Lanka. The team arrived at the Katunayake Airport at around 2.15 a.m. on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha,…
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Anastasia Pagonis went into the history books not once but twice when she broke her own world record in the Women’s 400m S11 to win United States’ first Gold Medal on day two of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games yesterday. The…
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India set out on the path of a late recovery in the Headingley Test by taking out both the well-set English openers in a slow-moving morning session on Day 2 in Leeds yesterday. By lunch, Dawid Malan overcame a nervy start and in…
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Ramiz Raja is all set to be the new Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). The decision follows a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan, who gave the go-ahead for the change of guard at the PCB. Raja will replace Ehsan…
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Ted Dexter, the former England Captain, passed away yesterday, aged 86, in Wolverhampton. Nicknamed 'Lord Ted', Dexter was an aggressive batsman and useful seam bowler who played 62 Tests for England and was Captain from 1961 to…
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At least 13 people have been killed in two powerful explosions outside Kabul’s international airport, a Taliban official has said, amid a huge and chaotic evacuation effort from Afghanistan. A “complex attack” on Thursday at the…
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209 deaths reported due to COVID-19 within 24-hours, stated the Department of Government Information
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