Sri Lanka 233 all out in 46.1 ovs. New Zealand won the game one of #CWC15 by 98 runs. Sri Lanka’s dreadful form in the lead-up to the World Cup has continued into the tournament casting doubts on their ability to win the title Down Under. Sri Lanka’s opening game ended in a massive 98 run defeat to Co-hosts New Zealand ...
What a romantic ending to a long-standing partnership. England’s last man out James Tredwell was stumped Sangakkara bowled Jayawardene. You couldn’t ask for a better script than that to mark the final one-day appearances at home of two of Sri Lanka’s cricketing legends Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara. That dismissal signaled an 87-run win for Sri Lanka in the ...
Sri Lanka Crikcet Selectors have called in Lahiru Thirimanne and Dinesh Chandimal into the squad for the 3rd and 4th One Day Internationals against India. At a Selection Meeting held the following players have been selected for the 4th and 5th ODIs for the Sri Lanka tour of India. 1.Lahiru Thirimanne2.Dinesh Chandimal3.Ajantha Mendis4.Shaminda Eranga The above players will replace ...
A new equipment for the game of Cricket has been invented in the hills of Sri Lanka by Physiotherapist Lasantha Bandara Herath and Head Cricket Coach of Trinity College, Kandy Sampath Perera. Daily Sports speaking to Lasantha Bandara Learned that this equipment is different from cricket gears we have seen in the past.This device belongs to the field of ...
Reporting from Australia & New Zealand MELBOURNE: Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews admitted that his team has not played their best cricket yet and the game against Afghanistan was more or less a wake-up call for them. Sri Lanka was given a tough time by the Afghans before they managed to pull off a four-wicket win to earn their first ...
The Sri Lankan icon Kumar Sangakkara has lately decided to join the Hobart Hurricanes for the Fifth edition of the KFC Twenty 20 Big Bash League. This announcement has uplifted the Hurricanes to a great extent. Continuing his breathtaking form from the recent World Cup, Sangakkara’s ability with the bat and his leadership skills are believed to be admired by ...
BCCI Since the inception of Test cricket, in 1877, the game has witnessed over 2100 Test matches. Thousands and thousands of men have taken stance at the crease with a bat. Only 11 of them have managed to score runs in access of 10,000. The stresses of batting in Tests – technical, physical, mental and emotional – are enormous. ...
Playing in only his 3rd International Test, Roshen Silva won both player of the match and player of the series awards by taking Sri Lanka to a comfortable 1-0 series win over Bangladesh at Mirpur over the weekend. Sri Lanka beat hosts Bangladesh by 215 runs, dismissing them for 110 and 123 in the first and second innings after settling ...
Former Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara failed to get to his sixth consecutive first class century falling sixteen runs short in the Specsavers County Division One Championship match against Essex earlier this week. Sangakkara made a double century in the first innings but was dismissed for 84 in the second. However, the four day match in County Ground, Chelmsford ended in a ...
A heroic batting performance from captain Angelo Mathews saw Sri Lanka through to their first win in the 2nd Twenty20 match against South Africa at Johannesburg last evening. The three wicket win also helped Sri Lanka level the three match series. South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first on an uncertain wicket at Johannesburg. The Sri Lankan bowlers took ...
With the 11th edition of the Indian Premier League in full force, we decided to come up with our own IPL all-time XI. Our selections may vary from yours, so feel free to get back to us with your own IPL all-time XI. Chris Gayle First to make it to the side, Chris Gayle is the most explosive batsman in ...
Sri Lanka dominated three out of the first four days but failed to get the better of Bangladesh as the Chittagong wicket played in favor of the batsman even on the final day of the 1st Test. At the end of Day 4, the visitors were hot favorites having dismissed three key Bangladesh players for just over 70. Monimul Haque’s ...
It looks like we’re headed to another 3-day test match. The South African batsmen have once again failed to deliver. The Lankan spin trio in the form of Dilruwan, Akila and Herath took down the entire batting lineup. Coming back from the Galle test nightmare, one would have hoped for a better fightback from the Proteas. Unfortunately, that was not ...
Bangladesh in the form of their lives, especially in conditions at home are clear favorites to beat Sri Lanka but writing Sri Lanka off is never an option as they have the potential to beat any opponent in the world. However, Sri Lanka will play without in form batsman Kusal Janith Perera and skipper Angelo Mathews. KJP suffered a side ...
After a very long injury lay-off, Angelo Mathews is all set to return to domestic cricket and he will play in the final match of the ongoing Super Provincial Four-day Test series starting 21st of April 2018. Mathews was left out of the first two Tests and his provincial side Kandy was led by wicket-keeper batsman Niroshan Dickwella. All four ...
Remember AB de Villiers’ off season remark a couple of months back? The former Proteas captain made a comment on how playing against Sri Lanka is like “off season” for teams like South Africa. He said this during an interview joined by Virat Kohli and Yuzvendra Chahal while representing RCB. Although it’s likely AB could have meant this nothing more than a ...
Under coach Chandika Hathurusingha, Sri Lanka recovered after consecutive defeats to complete a hat trick of wins and take the tri series beating the hosts quite comprehensively at the Shere Bangla International Stadium over the weekend. Sri Lanka won the final by 79 runs, restricting Bangladesh to just 142 in 41 overs. Senior batsman Upul Tharanga was adjudged player of ...
After the Test defeat, Sri Lanka came back strong with an impressive 7 wicket win over India in the 1st one day international at Dharamsala to go one-up in the three-match series. If not for MS Dhoni’s late resurgence, the so-called strongest batting line up would have been dismissed for less than 50. Dhoni made 65 in just 87 with ...
An extraordinary bowling performance from the Sri Lankan women’s team helped them through to a much needed 8 wicket win against Nepal in the 6th match of the Asian Cricket Council Women’s Twenty20 Asia Cup at Bangkok yesterday. Inoka Ranaweera was announced player of the match for her outstanding spell with the ball. Batting first, Nepal started steady but lost wickets at ...
At the end of the first set of IPL games, the reigning champions, Mumbai Indians are well and truly in trouble at the bottom of the table with just 4 points out of the 8 games played. Whereas the underdogs, Sunrises Hyderabad are on top with just two defeats in 8 games. Except for Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, ...
