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Stoinis stars as Australia down Sri Lanka

Marcus Stoinis has smashed an unbeaten 59 off 18 balls to carry Australia to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup clash in Perth.

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Star Aussie pace trio ready to hit back

Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood will be aiming to regain their mojo in Tuesday night's T20 World Cup clash with Sri Lanka in Perth.

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Australia set to keep faith in same XI

Allrounder Mitch Marsh has full faith Australia can regain their mojo and make a major impact at the T20 World Cup despite their first-up flop against NZ.

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Massey grad's Booker novel: really good

A preview of the NZ-bound writer's novel

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Ireland bat first in Sri Lanka T20 clash

Ireland will bat first against Sri Lanka in their Twenty20 World Cup clash at Bellerive Oval in Hobart after winning the toss.

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T20 World Cup: Teams, format, prize money and India vs Pakistan

The tournament is divided into two parts: qualification round and the Super 12s that are followed by semis and final.

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T20 World Cup 2022 team-by-team guide, how to watch, when is it

The Super 12 phase of the 2022 Men's T20 Cricket World Cup gets underway on Saturday. Here's your team-by-team guide to the tournament — and when Australia is in action.

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T20 World Cup 2022: Semi-final fixtures, Super 12 final tables and results as England set for India showdown

The semi-finals of the T20 World Cup are in the diary as the 2022 competition nears its climax.

Evening Standard

Sri Lankan lawmakers vote to trim presidential powers

Sri Lankan lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that trims the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters who are seeking political reforms and solutions to the country’s economic crisis

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka passes constitutional amendment to trim presidential powers

Sri Lanka's parliament on Friday passed a constitutional amendment to trim presidential powers, beef up anti- corruption safeguards and build a way out of the worst financial crisis in decades.

Reuters

Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it

The Guardian - UK

England face T20 World Cup clash with Chris Silverwood’s Sri Lanka

The Lions beat the Netherlands by 16 runs to qualify for the Super 12

The Independent UK

Sri Lankan lawmakers debate bill to trim presidential powers

Sri Lankan lawmakers have begun debating a proposed constitutional amendment that would trim the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters who are seeking political reforms and solutions to the country’s dire economic crisis

The Independent UK

‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

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Daily Dose Ep 1177: Umar Khalid denied bail, SC to hear plea on Bilkis Bano remissions

Jude Weston brings you the news from New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.

Radio France Internationale

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins coveted Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka, who was named as the winner of the Booker prize with his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is the second Sri Lankan writer to win the prize for novels written in English.

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan

UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed country

Evening Standard

Booker prize: Who is Shehan Karunatilaka and what is the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida about?

The journalist exposes the brutality of the Sri Lanka civil war, but with lightness and wit

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Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

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Massey grad wins Booker

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Award - and might soon be returning to live in NZ, where he studied at Massey University and Whanganui Collegiate.

The Independent UK

Booker Prize winner: Attack on Salman Rushdie caused me to self-censor

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won the prize just over two months after Sir Salman was stabbed in New York.

The Independent UK

Novel by Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize

Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.”

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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize

The prestigious award was given to The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which the judges hailed as "a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war."

The Guardian - UK

Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker winner is narrated by a dead man - but it’s a novel full of life

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, about a photographer during Sri Lanka’s civil war, has tremendous comic energy

The Independent UK

Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is compelling about conflict – but not a simple read

Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka has won this year’s £50,000 prize for a metaphysical thriller about the horrors of civil war. It’s easy to see why the judges liked it, writes Martin Chilton, but a shame to see Claire Keegan miss out for her moving novella

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