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Sports LNP - School athletes’ prospects at National Athletics Championship
When the track and field sport resumes action this weekend after more than a year on the sidelines due to the Covid 19 pandemic, not only the top national…
Sports LNP - Top athletes to vie for Olympic qualifying standards
More than half a dozen top national athletes will have tough Olympic qualifying marks or achieving better world rankings as their prime targets when they…
Sports LNP - Puttalam Zahira FC wins Soccer Tournament
Puttalam Zahira FC Qatar has become the champions of Ozee Soccer Seven Tournament beating Mawanella Zahira FC. The 2020 Edition of the Ozee Soccer Seven…
Sports LNP - SJB rakes up dubious track record of Indian conglomerate selected by govt. to run ECT
The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) yesterday said that the proposed handing over of the Colombo Port’s East Container Terminal to India’s Adani Group contravened…
Sports LNP - Sports Sri Lanka Badminton brings on Li Ning – Lanka Shuttle Challenge 2020
All year long, most of the national athletes have been training without a goal in sight. As in most sports, Badminton too had its fair share of missed…
Sports LNP - Herschelle Gibbs suspended by Colombo Kings, Rangana Herath appointed new coach
Herschelle Gibbs has been suspended as a coach by Colombo Kings, it is reliably learnt here. The 46-year-old South African opener came to Sri Lanka as a…
Sports LNP - Await ten team IPL in 2021
The BCCI has signalled the likely addition of two new teams to the IPL for the 2021 edition. That, along with the “discussion” on including cricket in the 2028…
Sports LNP - Pandemic forces Sri Lanka Athletics to take unprecedented steps
The current pandemic situation has forced Sri Lanka Athletics to take an unprecedented step in including two track athletes, who are currently serving drug…
Sports LNP - Diego Maradona – Argentina’s flawed football icon
Dazzling, infamous, extraordinary, genius, outrageous. Diego Maradona. A flawed football icon. One of the game’s most gifted players, the Argentine boasted a…
Sports LNP - 2002 world medals that Sugath and Rohan never received
It was a time when Sri Lanka had in possession some of Asia’s best sprinters. Sri Lanka was so strong in the men’s 400 metres from mid 90s to early 2000s, when…
Sports LNP - Left-arm quick from Hungama could be next big thing in cricket
Left-arm quick Dilshan Madushanka has suddenly become the talk in cricket circles after he was drafted into the Sri Lankan squad that will tour South Africa…
Sports LNP - Twenty Sri Lankan cricketers go through PCR tests
Twenty Sri Lankan cricketers and support staff of the national cricket team had gone through PCR tests yesterday. The results of the tests will be known today.…
Sports LNP - Sports Trailblazers clinch Women’s T20 Challenege after Mandhana special
Atapattu (far right) had her first failure of the tournament as her team failed to chase 119 to secure the title The Supernovas led by Harmanpreet Kaur failed…
Sports LNP - Atapattu stars in Supernovas’ two-run win
Chamari Atapattu with a brilliant half-century and Radha Yadav, with her nerves of steel while defending 10 runs in the final over, starred in Supernovas’s…
Sports LNP - Jayasuriya completes suspension, free to get involved in cricket
Former Test captain Sanath Jayasuriya has completed a two year suspension imposed on him by the International Cricket Council and he is free to get involved in…
Sports LNP - Documents handed over to Sports Ministry to probe match fixing
Several documents pertaining to match fixing in a domestic First Class game a couple of seasons back have been handed over to Minister of Sports Namal…
Sports LNP - Dhoni hails Curran as a ‘complete cricketer’ after key IPL win
Dubai, Tuesday: Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday hailed Sam Curran as a "complete cricketer" for Chennai Super Kings after the England all-rounder played a…
Sports LNP - SLC forms Under-19 Women’s Team
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will focus its attention on the grassroots level of Women’s cricket by forming an Under-19 team - a first for the Women’s game in the…
Sports LNP - NISS conducts Level-1 course for boxing coaches
The National Institute of Sports Science (NISS) is conducting a Sports Science Certificate Level-1 Course for boxing coaches on a request made by R. M. Upali…
Sports LNP - Deputy Governors Weerasinghe and Karunaratne retire
Deputy Governors Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe and H.A. Karunaratne have retired from the Central Bank. Senior Deputy Governor Dr. Weerasinghe had taken three-month…
Sports LNP - Colts, SSC stay unbeaten in U-23 Cricket Tourney
Defending champions Colts CC and SSC maintained their unbeaten record in the SLC Under-23 Inter-Club Cricket Tournament after the completion of the penultimate…
Sports LNP - Twenty National athletes to foster with sponsorships
Amores Sellar, Senior Manager-Sales and Marketing, Crysbro (second from left) exchanging the agreement with Maxwell de Silva, Secretary General, NOC SL soon…
Sports LNP - Kandy building collapse: Bodies of parents recovered
The bodies of parents of the infant child, which was trapped under the debris of the building collapsed on the hotel in Buwelikada, Kandy had been recovered,…
Sports LNP - England come back from the dead to level series
Lightning does strike twice. Because, for a second time on this tour, Australia were let down by the oddity of their middle-order flakiness in the face of…