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Sri Lanka Ends Decades-Long Occupation of Tamil Port

Sri Lanka's military said Tuesday it has ended its occupation of a major fishing harbour after 27 years and allowed...

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Sri Lanka Eyes Elephant Menace At Cricket Stadium

Sri Lanka is to deploy game wardens to stop wild elephants straying onto the pitch when the country hosts Zimbabwe for...

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Sri Lanka Deploys Troops To Tackle Dengue Crisis

Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of soldiers to destroy mosquito breeding grounds as the country battles the spread of...

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Sri Lanka Teen Hasaranga Bags Debut Hat-Trick

Teenager Wanidu Hasaranga took a hat-trick on his international debut as Sri Lanka bowled out Zimbabwe for 155 in the...

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Sri Lanka’s Controversial Bowler Malinga Falls Ill

Sri Lanka's controversial fast bowler Lasith Malinga has been diagnosed with a viral influenza and will sit out the...

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Kusal Mendis Puts Sri Lanka In Charge In Zimbabwe ODI

Kusal Mendis blasted 86 off 80 balls as Sri Lanka plundered 316-5 off Zimbabwe's lacklustre attack in the first of five...

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US Embassy Warns Women Against Using Tuk-Tuks In Sri Lanka

The US embassy in Colombo warned Thursday its citizens visiting Sri Lanka to avoid travelling alone in tuk-tuks after a...

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Sri Lanka Eye Redemption Against Zimbabwe

Sri Lanka are looking to pick themselves up as the series against Zimbabwe begins this week in Galle after a string of...

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Shastri To Apply For India Coach Job

Former captain Ravi Shastri will apply to become India's head coach after the national cricket board extended the...

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Nic Pothas Promoted To Sri Lanka Interim Coach

Sri Lanka on Tuesday placed the national cricket team in the charge of fielding coach Nic Pothas before finding a...

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Sri Lanka Name Uncapped Batsman For Zimbabwe ODI Series

Sri Lanka on Tuesday named a 13-member squad, including a 19-year-old uncapped batsman, for the five-match one-day...

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Flat Feet At Root of Sri Lanka Injuries

Sri Lanka's cricketers have been suffering from high levels of injuries because most players are flat footed and...

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Sri Lanka Blames Garbage Pile-Up For Record Dengue Toll

Sri Lanka has suffered a record 200 deaths from dengue fever this year, the health minister said Monday, blaming a...

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Ford Steps Down As Sri Lanka Cricket Coach

Sri Lanka's cricket coach Graham Ford has quit, officials said Saturday, midway through a 45-month contract and just...

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Tens of Thousands Stranded By Sri Lanka Doctors’ Strike

Tens of thousands of patients have been left in the lurch by a doctor-led strike at Sri Lanka's state-run hospitals, a...

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ICC Confirms Plans For World XI Series In Pakistan

Plans for the full resumption of international cricket in Pakistan moved forward Friday when the sport's global...

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Australia the Team To Beat At Women’s World Cup

Reigning champions Australia will be the team to beat when the 11th edition of the Women's World Cup gets under way in...

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New India Coach Should ‘get Along’ With Kohli

India are likely to favour a new coach who can "get along" with Virat Kohli, cricket officials indicated Friday, after...

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Jayawardene Pulls Out of Lancashire Cricket Stint

Sri Lanka great Mahela Jayawardene has withdrawn from his planned spell with Lancashire during English county cricket's...