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A cricket match in Sri Lanka that survived World Wars halted by COVID-19
The Hindu
The annual Royal vs St. Thomas’s encounter, originally scheduled for next month, has been indefinitely put off after four players tested positive for Covid-19
A new coronavirus wave hitting Sri Lanka has halted a cricket match between two of the country’s top schools that has been played for 141 years, continuing even through world wars. The annual Royal vs St. Thomas’s encounter, originally scheduled for next month, has been indefinitely put off after four players tested positive for Covid-19, a school organiser said. The latest edition of Sri Lanka’s longest-running sporting event was to have been played over three days without spectators.More Related News