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IPL 2022 to start on March 27; 1st option India, 2nd South Africa

MUMBAI: The 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), beginning on March 27 and likely to go on for 60-plus days, will be held in India or South Africa. The final call hasn’t been taken yet, but the UAE and Sri Lanka can be safely ruled out, reports K…

The Times of India

IPL will start in last week of March, owners want matches in India: Jay Shah

NEW DELHI: The BCCI is set to conduct the 2022 IPL from last week of March to end of May and efforts would be made to host the lucrative event in India as per the wishes of team owners, Board secretary Jay Shah said on Saturday.

The Times of India

IPL 2022: Owners prefer Mumbai, Pune with UAE, SA as back-up options; March 27, April 2 are two tentative start dates

NEW DELHI: The BCCI is mulling two start dates for the 2022 Indian Premier League with some preferring a March 27 kickoff and few other influential people wanting the mega event to begin on April 2, which conforms to the Lodha Committee ruling.

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ICC U-19 World Cup: Sri Lanka and South Africa secure Super League quarterfinal spots

BASSETERRE (St Kitts): Sri Lanka sealed their qualification for the last eight stage with a dramatic three-wicket victory over West Indies while South Africa defeated Ireland by 153-runs to also book their place in the quarterfinals of the ICC U-19 World Cup.

The Times of India

Australia still alive at U-19 World Cup

Australia have advanced to the Under-19 Cricket World Cup quarter-finals, courtesy of Sri Lanka's win over tournament hosts West Indies.

AAP

Vandersay sends Zimbabwe crashing to 70; Sri Lanka clinch ODIs 2-1

Pathum Nissanka and Charith Asalanka take Sri Lanka to 254-9

The Hindu

What to see, eat and do on Sri Lanka’s south coast

Daisy Hoppen feasts her way around the best beach shacks and brunch spots along the country’s lesser trodden coastline

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Sri Lanka settles sovereign bond payment as reserves dwindle

Sri Lanka has paid $500 million due on sovereign bonds from its badly depleted foreign reserves despite calls by experts to defer it and use the sum to import essential food and medicine

The Independent UK

Sri Lankan Naval ship rams and sinks T.N. fishing boat

Seven fishermen from Rameswaram were rescued by another boat

The Hindu

Australia T20 matches with Sri Lanka moved

Adelaide, Brisbane and the Gold Coast will not host T20 matches between Australia and Sri Lanka with the series instead to be played at three venues.

AAP

Stoinis ready to bowl again for Australia

Marcus Stoinis has declared he will be fit to return to bowling for Australia's Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka in February.

AAP

Sri Lanka’s dilemma: Pay off debt or pay for milk, meds and gas

Dwindling foreign currency reserves as tourism, the main source of dollars, stays curbed has left it with few choices.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka’s Tamil MPs seek PM Modi intervention on political solution

Ensure Colombo addresses island’s long-pending Tamil question, they say

The Hindu

Sri Lanka's leader vows rights reforms as debt crisis looms

Sri Lanka’s leader has promised human rights reforms and “justice” for missing persons from the country’s civil war, after years of resisting calls for such measures

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Reuters

Sri Lanka looking to attract forex through new policies

Sri Lanka will introduce new laws to attract investments over the next three years while policies to develop exports, tourism and remittances will be fast-tracked in a bid to rebuild foreign exchange reserves, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Tuesday.

The Hindu

U-19 WC | Sri Lanka defeats Australia; Pak scores easy win over Zimbabwe

West Indies beat Scotland in a Group D match in Basseterre

AAP

Australia's U-19 WC hopes hit after loss

Australia need results to go their way on the final day of matches in their group to reach the U19 Cricket World Cup quarter-finals after losing to Sri Lanka.

Reuters

Explainer-Sri Lanka on the edge as debt burden mounts

Hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Lanka is facing its most serious financial crisis in years, raising doubts about its ability to pay its creditors.

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Mind of a rapist

The largest international study on rape, carried out by the United Nations for two years involving 10,000 men from Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka, was published in 2013. The study found that rape is not a rarity: one in four men interviewed had raped someone…

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