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Mon, 16 Dec 2019 Today's Paper
13 Dec 2019 - 0 - 13
Heavy rain and bad light hit the second day of the historic Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi on Thursday, Pakistan’s first home Test since a deadly attack in 2009. Sri Lanka, resuming at 220-5, had progressed to 225-5 in 7.5 overs when heavy rain in the morning forced the teams to have early lunch. Play was stopped for two hours and 43 minutes but when it resumed only 10 overs were possible with Sri Lanka losing Niroshan Dickwell
13 Dec 2019 - 0 - 8
An all-round performance by Yuri Koththigoda helped Richmond College record an easy first innings win over Piliyandala Central in a second round match of the Under 13 inter-school cricket tournament played at Piliyandala yesterday. In the other matches playe
12 Dec 2019 - 0 - 10
Pakistan’s teenage fast bowler Naseem Shah led the hosts’ recovery against Sri Lanka on a riveting opening day as test cricket returned to the country yesterday for the first time since a militant attack in 2009. Sri Lanka started strongly but Pa
09 Dec 2019 - 0 - 17
Chamara Dharmawardene bagged the gold medal in the Men’s 73kg Lightweight category while Sri Lanka won another two silver and three bronze medals, in Judo at the 13th South Asian Games held at the Army Physical Fitness Centre in Lagankhen, Kathmandu yesterday. Olympian Dharmawardene beat Nepal’s Sanjit Dangol in the Men’s 73kg Lightweight final after countering his opponent, who made an early assault. But Dharmawardene tactfully retaliated to see
09 Dec 2019 - 0 - 13
With an unbeaten record, the Sri Lanka Men’s Under-23 cricket team effortlessly booked a place in the final, but the Women’s side suffered a shocking two-run defeat and had to settle for silver on the eighth day of the 13th South Asian Games in Nepal yesterday. At Pokhara, the experi
09 Dec 2019 - 0 - 10
West Indies opener Lendl Simmons smashed a breezy 67 not out to help secure a series-levelling eight-wicket victory over India in the second Twenty20 International on Sunday. After restricting the hosts to 170-7, the tourists’ big-hitting top order clobbered 12 sixes, compared to India’s five, and chased down the target with nine balls to spare. India lost Rohit Sharma and fellow opener KL Rahul cheaply after West Indies captain Kieron Poll
09 Dec 2019 - 0 - 12
Left-arm pacie Praveen Nimesh took career best bowling figures of 9 for 13, which incidentally is the best bowling returns of the ongoing Under 19 inter-school cricket tournament, laying the foundation for Gurukula MV Kelaniya to outclass St. Servatius College Matara by an innings and 21 runs in the match concluded at Uyanwatte Stadium in Matara yesterday. The second da
06 Dec 2019 - 0 - 66
The Sri Lanka track and field athletes added four Gold Medals to their tally with two more medals coming in from wushu and weightlifting on the fifth day of the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) which continued at the Darashath Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday. Sprinters Aruna Darshana and Dil
05 Dec 2019 - 0 - 46
Long jumper Sarangi Silva won a Gold Medal for Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) which continued in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday. Gold Medallist Sarangi jumped 6.38m to record her personal best en route to win the Women’s long jump, in which Sri Lanka had a double podium finish at the Dasharath Rangasala Stadium.
04 Dec 2019 - 0 - 53
In response to an article published in the Daily Mirror of November 19 2019 titled “SLR in shambles after stubborn President’s support to Japan”, Sri Lanka Rugby President Lasitha Gunaratne has written the following letter: I write this letter to bring to your notice that the published article as mentioned in the subject contained falsified information tarnishing the image and reputation of me as a person, the position of the President Sri L
04 Dec 2019 - 0 - 24
Nilani Ratnayake bagged Sri Lanka’s first athletics Gold Medal while edging-out India’s Chanda by milliseconds in the Women’s 1,500m final on the third day of the 13th South Asian Games (SAG) which continued at the Dasharath Rangashala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday. Ratnayake, the cu
04 Dec 2019 - 0 - 73
With regard to the reply that has been sent by Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) President Lasitha Gunaratne over the article published on Daily Mirror newspaper dated November 18, 2019 titled ‘SLR in shambles after stubborn President’s support to Japan’, the writer would like to make it very clear that no attempt was ever made to tarnish his name. Gunaratne has stated that the first paragraph of the story is ‘completely false’ and that the decision to sup
04 Dec 2019 - 0 - 10
Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly believes pink-ball tests are here to stay and wants the team under Virat Kohli to play at least one such match in every series. India became the last major cricket nation to embrace day-night tests when they hosted neighbours Bangladesh in front of a sellout crowd at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens last month. “I am pretty upbeat about it,” Ganguly told ‘The Week’ magazine. “I feel this is the way forward. Not eve
02 Dec 2019 - 0 - 32
The 13th South Asian Games (SAG) 2019 edition was declared open at the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday, amidst a colourful opening ceremony. The teams representing the se
02 Dec 2019 - 0 - 17
Defending champions, Kandy Sports Club kicked-off the 2019/20 Inter-Club League Rugby Tournament in style when they outplayed Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club by 26 points (four tries and three conversions) to eight points (one try and one penalty) in their opening fixture worked off at the Nittawela Stadium yesterday. At half time Kandy SC led 19-3. The game was played under difficult wet conditions where the ball handling was extremely difficult
02 Dec 2019 - 0 - 13
AFP - Lewis Hamilton delivered sumptuous confirmation of his title-winning supremacy yesterday when he claimed his 84th career victory and 11th in 21 races this year by dominating the season-ending ‘twilight’ Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Starting from a record 88th pole position, the 34-year-old Briton was unchallenged from lights to flag as he cruised to an untroubled triumph 16 seconds ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc of Ferrar
02 Dec 2019 - 0 - 9
Pakistan was battling to stave off defeat in the day-night second Test against Australia yesterday after being forced to follow on, with Tim Paine’s men needing seven wickets to clinch the series 2-0. The visitors, who have lost 13 consecutive Tests in Australia, were in big trouble at 39 for three when rain forced an early end, 248 runs behind with two days left and their top order decimated.
02 Dec 2019 - 0 - 8
Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei set a new 10km road world record in Valencia yesterday, closing out his season in style by eclipsing the previous benchmark set by Kenyan Leonard Komon. The current 10,000m world champion, who won the IAAF World Cross Championships earlier this year in Denmark, clocked 26 minutes 38 seconds, improving Komon’s 2010 mark by six seconds, at the Valencia Trinid
29 Nov 2019 - 0 - 18
The Clifford Cup winners and Inter-Club League runners-up Havelock Sports Club would target a winning start as they face Navy Sports Club in the League Tournament curtain-raiser match at Welisar
29 Nov 2019 - 0 - 8
Shashikala Siriwardena shone with an unbeaten knock of 56 to help Dambulla Women record a comfortable seven-wicket win over Colombo Women in their Women’s Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament final played at the SSC Grounds in Maitland Place yesterday. Colombo Women elec
29 Nov 2019 - 0 - 11
AFP - A maiden Test century by Shamarh Brooks and wily spin bowling put the West Indies in firm command of the one-off Test against Afghanistan in Lucknow yesterday. Brooks made 111 as the West Indies managed a lead of 90 after they were 277 all out in the second session of day two. Spinners Rakheem Cornwall and Roston C
29 Nov 2019 - 0 - 7
Gurukula MV, Kelaniya dominated proceedings against St. Anthony’s College Wattala on day one of their Under-19 Inter-Schools Cricket Tournament encounter which began at Wattala yesterday.
28 Nov 2019 - 0 - 21
Sri Lanka’s top eight rugby clubs, Kandy SC, CR and FC, CH and FC, Havelock SC, Police SC, Army SC, Navy SC and Air Force SC, will vie for the coveted Dialog Rugby League 2019/20 commencing on Friday (2
27 Nov 2019 - 0 - 9
Marnus Labuschagne and Bradley-John Watling have achieved career-best positions in the MRF Tyres ICC Test Player Rankings with epic knocks that also won them Player of the Match awards this week. Labuschagne’s score of 185 that helped Australia to victory over Pakistan by an innings and five runs in Brisbane has taken him from 35th to 14th place, while Watling’s 205 in Tauranga not only helped New Zealand beat England by an innings and 65 runs bu
27 Nov 2019 - 0 - 13
The Dialog National Netball Tournament sponsored by Dialog Axiata PLC for the second successive year will be worked off from December 14 and 15 at the Anuradhapura Public Grounds and North Central Province Sports Complex. This is a major tourn
27 Nov 2019 - 0 - 12
Australia batsman Steve Smith says he is determined not to be dismissed again by Pakistan spinner Yasir Shah when the teams meet in the second test at Adelaide starting on Friday. Smith was bowled by Yasir for four runs in the opening test in Brisbane and the leg-spinner celebrated by holding up seven fingers to signal the number of times he had claimed the wicket of the world’s top-ranked t
27 Nov 2019 - 0 - 20
Former Zimbabwe cricketer Grant Flower is likely to arrive in Sri Lanka within a week’s time, it is learnt. He is set to become the batting coach and is expected to start from December 1. However, Flower is unlikely to travel to Pakistan, where two Tests are scheduled to be played in Rawalpindi and Karachi. “Not that he has declined to trav
27 Nov 2019 - 0 - 10
Former world tennis number one Andy Murray said he can finally play without worrying about his hip following career-saving surgery in January, but expects next year’s Australian Open to be the biggest test of his progress.
27 Nov 2019 - 0 - 11
England’s Ben Te’o will feature for the Sunwolves in what will be their final season in Super Rugby, the Japanese team said on Tuesday. Centre Te’o, who agreed a short-term deal with French club Toulon in August, will be joined at the Tokyo-based team by Tonga’s Onehunga Kaufusi and Australia’s Jake Schatz, the Sunwolves said. Te’o, 32, was left out of Eddie Jones’ England squad for the Rugby World Cup in Japan after being excluded from the
25 Nov 2019 - 0 - 19
The Sri Lanka Sevens Rugby Team finished fifth at the Asia Rugby Qualifiers for the Tokyo Olympic Games, worked off in Inchon, South Korea yesterday. South Korea booked their berth along with Japan who will host the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Sri Lanka had ever
14 Dec 2019
