The Sri Lanka Men's hockey team made a good start in their World League Hockey Championship first round campaign, beating Myanmar by 7-0 with a commanding performance at Penang in Singapore on Sunday (10).
For Sri Lanka Abeetha Fernando and Sandaruwan Priyankara scored twice each while Lakshan Nanayakkara, Assanka Welagedera and Harendra Dharmaratne scored a goal each.
However on Monday (11) Sri Lanka lost to Hong Kong by 4-1.
Meanwhile the Sri Lanka Women's team suffered a 1-7 defeat at the hands of Singapore in their opening game.
In their opening match they lost to Singapore 7 goals to 1 with skipper Madura Dharmaratne scoring the solitary goal for the Sri Lanka.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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