Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) clarified the delay faced by the national cricket team that travelled to Zimbabwe for the World Cup qualifiers, after several cricketers shared images on social media of them waiting to be checked-in into the hotel in Bulawayo.

Images shared on the verified accounts of Sadeera Samarawickrama and Maheesh Theekshana shows several players seated on the ground as they waited to be checked in.

The images, shared via Instagram Stories, have since been deleted.

“The Sri Lankan team has arrived at the hotel today at noon, and at the time of the entry, another national cricket team, who arrived just before the Sri Lankan team, was in the process of “checking in.’,” a media statement released by SLC read.

“This situation resulted in a delay in some of the Sri Lankan National Team players being “checked in.’”

“However, SLC, after reporting this matter to the hotel management, was able to rectify the issue within a short period of time,” SLC also said in its statement.

A leading Sri Lanka athlete Grashan Dhananjaya has gone missing while representing Sri Lanka at an invitational athletics meet in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dhananjaya is the Sri Lanka record holder in the Triple Jump (men) and national champion in the Long Jump.

Dhananjaya was accompanied in the meet by long jump champion Sarangi de Silva
and National Athletic Coach Y. K. Kularathna.

“This tour was on a private invitation. Sri Lanka Athletics (SLA) is not responsible. He went missing after taking part in the long jump event,” SLA Secretary Saman Kumara Gunawardena said.
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It is reported from political sources that President Ranil Wickremesinghe is going to India next month as his first official visit after assuming the presidency.

The President is expected to visit India between July 20 and 30.

It is also learned that 21 July has been tentatively set for the meeting between Wickremesinghe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Although it is the usual practice of most Sri Lankan presidents to make their first official visit to India after assuming office, Wickremesinghe could not make the visit until India officially extended an invitation to him.

It is also reported that Mr. Wickramasinghe is scheduled to visit France at the end of this month before his visit to India.