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Dharshana produces seasonal best, schoolboy stuns Kalinga
103 National Athletics Championship
Aruna Dharshana returned to form with a sub 46 seconds feat, emerging sprinter Kalhara Idupa turned tables on veteran Kalinga Kumarage as the men’s 400 metres produced a thrilling climax on the final day of the 103rd National Athletics Championship at Diyagama on Sunday.
Dharshana, who was nursing an injury following the Asian Athletics Championship delivered a superb performance to clinch the men’s 400 metres title with a seasonal best feat. The Army sprinter clocked 45.91 seconds, the first time he clocked sub 46 seconds this season.
Arguably, the day’s most stunning performance too was witnessed in the men’s 400metres as 19-year-old Kalhara Idupa turned tables on veteran Kumarage to win the silver medal. He had clocked sub 46 seconds at the same venue last month and an impressive performance was on the cards. Kumarage settled for bronze with a time of 46.56 secs.
Nadeesha Ramanayake and Rumesh Tharanaga pose with the best performance awards at the end of the two-day National Athletics
Championship at Diyagama. (Pix by Kamal Wanniarachchi
In the women’s category Madushani Herath won her second title as she cleared 13.16 metres in the triple jump.
The men’s 800 metres witnessed a close finish with Harsha Karunaratne taking the title in 1:49.44 seconds. S.B. Aththanayake was second in 1:44.57 secs.
In the men’s category Rumesh Tharanga’s massive throw of 82.36 metres was adjudged the best performance of the meet.
In the women’s category, Nadeesha Ramanayake’s seasonal best of 52.86 seconds in the 400metres was the best performance.
by Reemus Fernando
The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has named the following squads for the upcoming Tri-Nation ‘A’ Series and the Four-Day Series.
The Tri-Nation One-Day Series, featuring Sri Lanka ‘A’, India ‘A’, and Afghanistan ‘A’, will be played at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket Stadium (RDICS), Dambulla, commencing on 9 June 2026.
The Four-Day Series between Sri Lanka ‘A’ and India ‘A’ will be played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium (GICS), Galle, with the first match scheduled to begin on 25 June 2026.
The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Panel has selected the following squads to play in the West Indies Emerging Tour of Sri Lanka 2026.
The West Indies and Sri Lanka emerging teams will play two four-day games and three one-day games during the bilateral contest.
The tour will begin on the 8th of June with the first four-day game at MRICS, Hambantota, while the second four-day game will start on the 15th of June at the same venue.
One-day games will be played on the 22nd, 24th, and 26th of June.
The first two one-day games will be played at the SSC, and the final at the NCC.
A two-member ICC delegation that visited Dhaka earlier this week will report its findings and observations to the governing body. According to an ICC media release, directors Dr Mohammed Moosajee and Tavengwa Mukuhlani engaged with “a range of stakeholders to review developments linked to the BCB”.
Moosajee and Mukuhlani arrived in Dhaka on June 1, after which they met BCB’s ad-hoc committee members, including president Tamim Iqbal. The pair also met with members of the BCB’s election commission, with the polls scheduled to be held on June 7.
ESPNcricinfo has learned that the delegation also met with BCB directors who had resigned from the previous board. Among the directors who didn’t resign, Asif Akbar and Ahsan Iqbal Chowdhury were in the group that also met the ICC delegation in a separate meeting on June 2.
Afterwards, Aminul Islam, the former Bangladesh captain who was the BCB president until April, claimed that they urged the ICC to not recognise any election conducted by or under the authority of the ad-hoc committee on June 7 or at any other time. Aminul, who still considers himself the BCB president, said that the BCB’s ad-hoc committee should correct their May 31 press release regarding the ICC delegations’ visit to Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s High Court rejected a writ petition that challenged the legality of the election schedule and voter list for the upcoming BCB elections on June 7.
The bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice Md Ashif Hasan passed the rejection order stating that the petition was not presented properly before it. The petition was filed on May 18, a month and a bit after the country’s sports ministry dissolved the BCB’s board of directors on April 7. They appointed an 11-member ad-hoc committee led by Tamim, the former Bangladesh captain, on the same day.
[Cricinfo]
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