Lankan team in true Olympics spirit -Rear Admiral Fernando
Sri Lanka contingent for the 2012 Olympic Games
will leave for London on Tuesday morning, hoping make their presence
felt - at least with a few new Sri Lanka records. The main aim of
Lankan Olympians is to better their personal best.
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India win by 21 runs
India defeated Sri Lanka by 21 runs in the
opening one-day international in Hambantota on Saturday to gain a
1-0 lead in the five-match series. Virat Kohli scored 106 as India
posted 314-6 before restricting Sri Lanka to 293-9 in the day-night
match. Kumar Sangakkara top-scored for Sri Lanka with 133.
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SLC Inter-club Under-23 Cricket:
CCC beat BRC by six wickets
CCC beat BRC by six wickets before the tea break
on the second day in the SLC Under-23 three-day cricket encounter
played at BRC grounds yesterday. Right arm leg spinner Sachithra
Perera excelled for CCC with a match bag of nine wickets for 35
runs. Perera took six for 20 in the first innings,
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French sprinter hoping to be the Olympics master
OLYMPIC GAMES: PARIS, July 21 (AFP) - Frenchman
Christophe Lemaitre is hoping he can gatecrash the expected Jamaican
and American hold over the sprints at the Olympics - so long as he
doesn’t go to sleep in the blocks!
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Close battle for top berths in both contests
OBSERVER-MOBITEL AWARDS: The run for the first
two places (All Island) between Thurstanites Ashan Wanigaratne
(74,805) and Sajeeva Salgado (74,549) is intensifying with
Wanigaratne in front with a majority of 256 votes and in the
Outstation contest too,
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