A former Hong Kong youth cricketer hopes to become the first person to run the length of Sri Lanka over the Christmas period, in a bid to raise funds for children with cancer. Rahul Sharma, 24, will test his endurance by starting from the town of Point Pedro in the country’s north on Christmas Eve and reaching Dondra Head in the south by December 30, a distance of 574km (356.7 miles). “Having done three marathons this year, my goal was that I wanted to do something big and a bit out of the box,”...