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		<title>Report Card: ICC Champions Trophy 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary Naylor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pakistan (Grade D) What can one say? The cricket-mad public of Pakistan waited so long for a return to hosting an ICC tournament, then see the main attraction quit for Dubai and then their own team bundled out after a couple of heavy defeats and a heavy downpour. With just eight teams in the Champions [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Australia thrashed by Sri Lanka in final match before Champions Trophy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Australia are thrashed by 174 runs by Sri Lanka in their final one-day international before their Champions Trophy opener against England.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Australia dominates day one as Sri Lanka crumbles to 229-9 in Galle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jehan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Australia was firmly in control against Sri Lanka in the second test after reducing the host to 229-9 by stumps on day one Thursday.  Half-centuries from Dinesh Chandimal and Kusal Mendis kept Sri Lanka in the game, but their hopes of a big first-innings total after winning the toss did not materialize.  Australia bowled with discipline, sticking to its plans and backing it up with excellent fielding despite extreme heat and humidity.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dimuth Karunaratne: Sri Lanka opener to retire after 100th Test in Galle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jehan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 03:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne will retire from Test cricket after this week's second Test - and his 100th - against Australia in Galle.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sri Lanka vs Australia: Tourists complete huge win on day four</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dias]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Australia take 15 wickets on day four of the first Test in Galle to send Sri Lanka to defeat by an innings and 242 runs.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Steve Smith to lead Australia in three-match Test tour of Sri Lanka</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jagath Perera]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pat Cummins will miss the tour of Sri Lanka for the birth of his second child, with Steve Smith leading the side in his absence.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sri Lanka beats New Zealand by 140 runs in the 3rd ODI but New Zealand wins the series 2-1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jagath Perera]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Asith Fernando and Maheesh Theekshana have shared six wickets as Sri Lanka bowled out New Zealand for 150 in 29.4 overs to win the third one-day international by 140 runs.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pathum 2.0: How a red-ball batter reinvented his white-ball batting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thivi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nissanka used his pulls, slogs and sweeps heavily between fine-leg and mid-wicket, while using his drives and cuts between covers and long-off to increase his rate of scoring. Additionally, he also used reverse sweeps against spin to expand his range. Not only did he play these attacking shots more frequently, but he also improved his strike rate with these shots, implying that he could be generating more power behind these shots now.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Perera slams Sri Lanka’s fastest T20 century</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neil Weerasekara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NELSON, New Zealand (AP): Kusal Perera scored Sri Lanka’s fastest Twenty20 international century – from 44 balls – yesterday to spur his team to a consolation win over New Zealand by seven runs in the final match of the three-match series. Perera’s...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Clean up Sri Lanka, ex-cricket champs come in from the cold</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neil Weerasekara]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just hours after the New Year fireworks stopped and the smoke cleared, an elite cast of Sri Lankans that also included high-ranking clergymen came together on one platform as part of the enough-is-enough campaign to rid the country of corruption in sport and the Society at large, lock stock and barrel.]]></description>
		
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