Surrey CCC announced the signing of Sri Lankan star and World’s number one test batsman Kumar Sangakkara. Issuing a statement Surrey CCC stated that the club is Happy to confirm that the Number one batsman will be based at the Oval for 2015 and 2016 Domestic Seasons. The London Club also said that 37-year-old Sangakkara will be available for ...
HAMBANTOTA: England recovered superbly from losing three wickets off nine balls to post a comfortable five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international played at Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium on Wednesday. In a rain-truncated match reduced to 35 overs a side, England chasing 236 off 35 overs under the Duckworth/Lewis rule got there with eight balls to spare largely ...
A day of controversy came to an end as the experienced duo of the Sri Lankan batting line up saw the side through to safety on Day 2 of the 3rd Test against India at Delhi last evening. Play was interruped several times as the Sri Lankan fielders suffered with breathing issues due to the bad air in Delhi. Virat ...
Former Sri Lanka off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has called the on officials of the International Cricket Council to make a definitive call on chucking in cricket. A number of bowlers around the world were reported on suspect bowling actions since June, Including Sri Lanka’s Sachithra Senananyake and Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal. The Spin Wizard, who is in ...
Sangakkara set to say goodbye to all formats of the sport The exceptional Sri Lankan wicket-keeper batsman Kumar Sangakkara has unfortunately decided to set foot on the breaks from the longer format of the game following his retirement from the shorter version. Currently ranked one of the best players in the world, Sangakkara is set to retire from all formats ...
The first two four-day Tests of the Sri Lanka Cricket Super Provincial Tournament concluded in ties at Katunayake and Hambantota short while ago. Both were high scoring games but the bowlers had a say at some point in the first and second innings. Galle vs Colombo at Hambantota The boys from the Southern side of the island won the toss ...
Ayana Siriwardena of Isipathana College Colombo will captain the Sri Lankan side in the upcoming U19 Challenge Trophy in India. Three Indian teams will play alongside Sri Lanka in the Indian domestic level. Therefore, this year will be the competition’s first year with an overseas team. The three Indian teams are set to be led by Prithvi Shaw, Himanshu Rana, ...
Kumar Sangakkara scored his third consecutive half-century of the series and the 90th of his ODI career to move to second place in the all time list behind India’s Sachin Tendulkar (96) to guide Sri Lanka to a six wickets win over England in the fourth ODI played on a slow R Premadasa Stadium pitch yesterday. The finish was no ...
The retired Sri Lankan ton magnet, Kumar Sangakkara yet again showed his class and determination by reaching yet another vital hundred which took Surrey close to the LV= County Championship Division Two title against Northamptonshire. Sangakkara’s well constructed 101 of just 140 deliveries included 13 fours and a massive six. At the beginning of Day 3, Sangakkara and co ...
Reporting from Australia & New Zealand SYDNEY: South Africa put up a clinically efficient display on the field to outsmart and outplay Sri Lanka in the first quarter-finals of the 2015 World Cup and earn themselves a place in the semi-finals at the SCG on Wednesday. The Proteas proved to be too good for the Lankans bundling them out ...
Former South African fast bowlers Allan Donald was confident Sri Lanka could go all the way in the ICC Champions Trophy scheduled to be held from the 1st of June 2017 in England and Wales. Donald is currently in Sri Lanka to work with the coaching department for at least a period of two months. He is already working with ...
Reporting from Australia & New Zealand SYDNEY: Sri Lanka’s most experienced campaigner Mahela Jayawardene expressed satisfaction the way the team has been shaping up so far in the World Cup despite starting the tour in New Zealand with a loss. “In New Zealand what you have to realise is that we made a lot of runs. We made 280 or ...
An excellent all-round performance led by Dhananjaya De Silva guided Sri Lanka through to an impressive 8 wicket win in the 1st match of the One-Day International tri-series against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club last evening. Opener Dhananjaya De Silva’s unbeaten 78 gave Sri Lanka the bonus point as well. Batting first on a green track, the home team lost their openers within ...
As Niroshan Dickwella and KL Rahul light up the ongoing Sri Lanka v India series, the tournament that spurred a roaring resurgence in their careers prepares for its sixth edition. Red Bull Campus Cricket had come knocking for both batsmen when their cricketing lives had been at a crossroads. For Rahul, success in the 2013 tournament was a launchpad into ...
In a media release Sri Lanka Cricket announced that Cricketer turned Psychologist Jeremy Snape has been retained by SLC to help the Sri Lankan National Team in the run-up to the forthcoming World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Jeremy Snape will be with the Sri Lankan team for 17 days from 25th November to 11th December 2014. Jeremy will ...
As it has been throughout the series, New Zealand women destroyed the Lankan women securing a dominant eight wicket win to seal the series 5-0 in Christchurch lately. The woes with the bat continued for the Sri Lankans as they were yet again bowled out cheaply for a score below 100. While Erin Bermingham took career-best figures of 4 for 16, the Sri Lankan batting ...
Team Sri Lanka fought until the very end but ridiculous stroke play towards the end of the innings swung the game in favor of Zimbabwe in the 2nd One Day International played at Dhaka last evening. Zimbabwe went on to win the game by 12 runs where as sensible cricket would have taken Sri Lanka to victory. With just over ...
Former Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas has been recalled to join the coaching staff as the country’s new fast bowling consultant after his contract lapsed 15 months ago. However, Sri Lanka Cricket suggested that Vaas’s role will be quite different from what he undertook in the past. Chaminda Vaas will focus on fast bowling talent from across the ...
Reporting from Australia & New Zealand SYDNEY: Injury-hit Sri Lanka were dealt another blow ahead of their World Cup quarter-final against South Africa here on Wednesday at the SCG when their leading spinner Rangana Herath was virtually ruled out of the match with a finger injury. Herath had four stitches inserted into the index finger of his bowling left hand ...
