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Sunday, Augest 12, 2007
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Sri Lanka’s 9/1 in athletics  

Is Sri Lanka heading for yet another world record? Though it was only Sri Lanka’s short distance sprint queen Susanthika Jayasinghe who qualified to take part at the 11th World Athletic Championships in Osaka Japan which is scheduled to begin on August 26 it is reported that a whopping contingent of nine officials have applied for visas to accompany the athlete.

 
SLC scoffs at Sanath’s ICL rumours
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) scoffed off rumours that their champion batsman Sanath Jayasuriya has made a request to release him from their contract for one month in order to play in the controversial Indian Cricket Leagues (ICL) Twenty-20 tournament later this year.
 
Hear the rumble in jungle
Is the Sri Lankan Sports Minister the most misinformed person in the Southern hemisphere? In spite of having a plethora of choices, for the second time in as much as two weeks he has got it all wrong. This time the once dumped and re-elected former Sri Lankan opening batsman and ex-selector Amal Silva has said that he has no time for posts that are bestowed upon him that he sees only once they are reported in the newspapers.
 
Watch out Sri Lanka!
Since the mid nineteen fifties when Sri Lanka – then Ceylon – started playing representative cricket at Under 19 and 20 age levels there has been a lot of interest, because the local sides have always been competitive and given opponents from around the world a run for their money. School cricket in Sri Lanka has had an organized coaching system and sufficient matches to produce quality cricketers.
 

Mesmerizing Murali Mantra
 
Watch out for Renouk
 
DMS supports golf at Royal Colombo
   
Aney is it true? with nam
   
Kicking the rest into submission
   
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CR and FC huff puff and jump
   
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Bayliss aims to keep Sri Lanka on top
   
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Easy win for fancied cueists
   
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Kandy dump hapless OZ
   
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Bloomfield on top
   
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A right royal pull out

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