Courtesy: Getty Images One of the most well-known unknown cricket facts widely shared on the Internet is that Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne. It goes without saying that Sanath’s trailblazing exploits with the bat upstaged his bowling prowess during his time. Even though his prowess with the ball is widely acknowledged now, his bowling career still ...
Courtesy: AFP/Getty Images Kusal Mendis once again finds himself in a territory he has been all too familiar with throughout his career. His recent performance has breached the tolerance point and there is a fresh social media campaign to oust him from the national team. Why does he get so much hate? Has the Kusal Mendis experiment gone a bit ...
During the press conference following the conclusion of the first day of the second Test against Ireland at Galle, Piyal Wijetunga, the national spin bowling coach of Sri Lanka had no qualms throwing his 11-Test-old protégé Ramesh Mendis under the bus for his poor show in the first innings. What was even more concerning was his passing reference to ...
Sri Lanka have made Pathum Nissanka a white-ball specialist based on his red-ball numbers. Courtesy: RANDY BROOKS/AFP/Getty Images Even though it went largely unnoticed, Pathum Nissanka’s omission from the playing XI during the Test series against Pakistan last year was a bolt from the blue. This year, the selectors went one step further and dropped him altogether from the Test ...
Courtesy: Outlook India The ODI leg of Sri Lanka’s tour of India produced expected outcomes both on the field and off it. Sri Lanka were expected to lose the ODI series to India in India—to one of the favorites to win the World Cup in a country Sri Lanka have historically fared worse. At the same time, the demands to ...
Courtesy: AFP In Sri Lanka, no one is sent home permanently. It doesn’t take too long for a messiah to become a pariah, and then a messiah once again. All it takes is a clever manipulation of optics. In this perennially nostalgic part of the world, the past can be easily made to seem better than the present. This holds ...
Courtesy: Sri Lanka Cricket The third edition of the Lanka Premier League concluded recently with Jaffna scoring a hat-trick of championships by beating Colombo in the final. Even though this season was a damp squib as the mainstays of Sri Lanka’s T20I team failed to impress mostly, it did unearth a few talents and allowed a few national players to ...
If Jaffna has won the champions trophy twice in a row in the LPL, then Kandy has the infamy of winning the wooden spoon twice in a row. Will their fate be any better this time around or are they going to once again find themselves at the bottom of the table? Let’s find out. Like what we have ...
The two times champions Jaffna will enter this tournament hoping to make it three in a row and in this article, we shall see if they have got the team to do it. As we did with the previous analysis, we will analyze Jaffna’s squad by looking at their powerplay, middle-over, and death-over batting, while with the ball, will ...
The bridesmaids of the league so far, Galle will be dearly hoping that they avoid another final defeat. But before that, do they have a team that can take them to the final this time as well? Let’s find out in this article. As was the case with the previous squad analysis, we will be taking Galle’s squad under ...
Despite consistently fielding one of the strongest teams on paper, Dambulla has struggled to reach the finals thus far, and once again they will enter the tournament as one of the favorites. What makes them favorites and what should their team look like? We shall see this in this article. As we have done with the previous squad analysis, ...
Colombo could reach only as far as the knockouts in both editions of the LPL, and they will be looking to do at least one better this time around. In this article, we will be taking a look at their squad, its strengths, and weaknesses, and if they have got what it takes to go all the way in ...
Courtesy: Getty Images I was expecting Sri Lanka to win the World Cup and come back home with the trophy after they won the Asia Cup. But they came back home bringing shame to the entire country. The country that was in world news for inflation and economic crisis was all of a sudden in the headlines for the wrong ...
Courtesy: Getty Images I was expecting Sri Lanka to win the World Cup and come back home with the trophy after they won the Asia Cup. But they came back home bringing shame to the entire country. The country that was in world news for inflation and economic crisis was all of a sudden in the headlines for the wrong ...
Sri Lanka’s performance was along expected lines. Courtesy: Getty Images Sri Lanka’s 2022 T20 World Cup campaign came to an expected end when Australia beat Afghanistan at Brisbane. Save for the unexpected capitulation to Namibia, Sri Lanka’s campaign was largely along expected lines. Now that the sun has set on Sri Lanka’s campaign, let’s look at their performance, the positives ...
Credits: @OffcialSLC Sri Lanka punched above their weight to win the recent Asia Cup, and this has got everyone excited, right from the apostates no more to cricket agnostics. Hopes are flying high following the unexpected win, and fans and pundits alike now seem to be indulging in grandiose delusions about winning the World Cup next month. How good was ...
Dunith Wellalage made his international debut in the first ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia. Courtesy: Twitter (@OfficialSLC) “Wella…Wella…Wella…”, chanted the Sri Lankan crowd that had thronged the stadium when Dunith Wellalage came back to bowl his second spell in the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia. In a way, it was heartening to see how a teenage prodigy ...
Courtesy: AP Photo Surely, you must be kidding, right? How can you not pick someone who has scored 562 runs in 19 innings at an average of 29.57 in T20Is? Someone who has scored two fifties in his last two series? Someone, to top everything off, is now among the top ten T20I batters in the world? Definitely, this must ...
Courtesy: Reuters Ladies and gentlemen, Suranga Lakmal has announced his retirement. Sans much fanfare. Sans any media blitz. In a way, it is unfair on a bowler who has carried the entire weight of a fast-bowling attack on his own shoulders—shoulders for which the weight is ostensibly a few kilograms too many—for years. But, at the same time, this is ...
Lahiru Kumara has copped a lot of criticism for his failure at the death. Courtesy: Alex Davidson/Getty Images Of late, Lahiru Kumara has become a caricature in the consciousness of the Sri Lankan fandom, having failed to defend 15 and 16 runs off final overs in the T20 World Cup and the LPL respectively. His successive failures have made him ...
