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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One of the two persons on a motorcycle has been injured and hospitalised when police opened fire while he tried to hurl a foreign-made hand grenade at a mobile patrol when checking at Karapitiya, Galle.

The other man was arrested later and 105 rounds of T-56 ammunition was recovered from his possession, Sri Lanka Police said.