Sri Lankan javelin athlete Rumesh Tharanga has climbed to world No. 3 in the latest updated rankings, marking a historic milestone for Sri Lankan athletics.
Tharanga, who now holds 1,324 ranking points, has also emerged as Asia’s top-ranked javelin thrower, overtaking India’s Neeraj Chopra.
His latest ranking represents the highest-ever position achieved by a Sri Lankan male athlete in world athletics standings. (NewsWire)
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Looks increasingly like he was the one who flagged the missing 2.5M and if that's the case, it exposes the brutal truth in this country that people who come forward are not protected, they are exposed, suspended, and dragged through the mud.
This is why we need legally mandated whistle blower protection in this country.
I am not buying the circus of instant conclusions being pushed by the opposition and a few reckless voices including so called journalists trying to weaponise this before facts are even established.
If he was a decent public servant whose name and honour were being shredded in real time… that alone can break a person.
Either way, I will wait for the facts but the system has already failed him.
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Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 - Padanama Publication has allegedly suffered a data breach resulting in a client database containing extensive personally identifiable information being listed for sale online. https://t.co/Bk6ahpnuCS
Eshan Malinga comes from Ratnapura, where people dig for gems deep in the earth & somehow that feels appropriate. He grew up in a province where cricket infrastructure is something you read about in magazines, not something you actually touch & still he made the ball move at 141 kph before he was old enough to vote.
The Ranmini Battle of 2019 was his first explosion. 11 wickets in the match & a nickname that stuck: the Opanayake Express.
But velocity has a price. That same year, pushing through a national speed trial, he wrecked his back. Kind of injury that usually ends stories early. He disappeared into rehabilitation, swimming pools, invisible hours that nobody applauds.
He emerged in 2022 with debuts across all three formats for Ragama & by early 2025 was in New Zealand wearing Sri Lanka colours. Sunrisers Hyderabad paid 4 times his base price at the IPL auction.
2025 season brought 13 wickets in 7 games. Then in 2026, something shifted. With Mohammed Shami gone & Pat Cummins injured, Malinga became the unexpected leader of a young bowling unit. He has taken 12 wickets so far, but more crucially, he has taken them when it matters.
Against Delhi, he claimed 4 for 32. Against Chennai, 3 for 29 in a tight chase. Against Rajasthan, 2 for 31 & against KKR, 2 for 14.
SRH sit third on the points table right now despite losing every single toss, despite bowling second in every match, despite having no senior bowler to lean on. Malinga is the reason that young attack has held together.
The shoulder injury in early 2026 ruled him out of the T20 World Cup, cruel timing for an express bowler whose body keeps asking questions. But he has already shown he knows how to rebuild.
From Ratnapura to leading an IPL attack is not a journey you complete by accident. It requires the same patience his neighbors use when digging for sapphires, knowing the value is there if you simply refuse to stop looking.
Twin strikes from #SRH's man-in-form 🧡
Nitish Rana and David Miller fall to Eshan Malinga on 🔙 to 🔙 deliveries! ☝️☝️
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One of these things is not like the other…
The other day @PratapRanade brought home 3 RF circuits. Ok “10GHz band pass-filters” he says, to be precise. The first two are human-made, the third is what they’re calling “an alien geometry” 👾
Look how funky it is.
That’s the world’s first-ever AI-made RF circuit achieved by the electromagnetism foundation model @arenaphysica.
No human would have created it this way. It’s odd, it looks random, but it really works & it might be the future guts inside every satellite, radar, microwave etc one day.