Dayasiri Jayasekara has a history of making no effort to cover his stupidity. Anger deluged the island nation as the country’s cricket team lost a very close game to Pakistan in the Champions Trophy -2017, which knocked the team out of the tournament. The outrage stemmed not from the eventual eviction from the tournament so much as from the way ...
It might soon become a reality. Or has it already? I can see you scowling at the screen. Probably, you are only a millisecond away from scrolling down to see if it is a prank. “Is it a click bait?”, you wonder. “It could very well be a title concocted by combining two random phrases by a bot to increase ...
The administrators and the management refuse to acknowledge the flaws in the system while they try to pretend that everything is okay in Sri Lanka cricket. I don’t know how you felt about Sri Lanka’s inability to win any of the series against Bangladesh at home this season. But, I, a diehard Sri Lanka cricket fan all my life, was ...
Sri Lanka’s promising young opener Niroshan Dickwella has been suspended for two limited-overs internationals following him showing dissent at an erroneous decision by the umpire. The incident occurred during the second T20I between Sri Lanka and Australia in Geelong. Umpire Simon Fry declared Dickwella out when the southpaw tried to scoop James Faulkner over his head. However, replays showed ...
Malinga last played a T20I in 2016 against the UAE. Veteran fast bowler Lasith Malinga is set to make his comeback to international cricket following his year-long injury layoff as he has been deemed fit to be a part of Sri Lanka’s T20I squad for the tour of Australia. Dinesh Chandimal and Dhananjaya de Silva are the notable omissions from ...
Niroshan Dickwella had dyed his hair during the T20I series. Ⓒ Sameera Peiris, thepapare.com. All members of the Sri Lankan cricket team have been asked to refrain from dying their hair and wearing piercings by a top Sri Lanka Cricket official, according to Ada.lk. Some of the Sri Lankan cricketers are known for their wacky, oddball hairdos with Sri Lanka’s ...
Sri Lanka’s leg-spinning all-rounder Upul Chandana’s service to his country is often underrated. He was a vital cog in Sri Lanka’s ODI setup for a very long time offering excellent support to Muralitharan and providing the finishing touches to Sri Lanka’s innings from the lower order. In the fourth match of the Asia Cup in 2004, against the UAE, Chandana ...
Sri Lanka’s leg-spinning all-rounder Upul Chandana’s service to his country is often underrated. He was a vital cog in Sri Lanka’s ODI setup for a very long time offering excellent support to Muralitharan and providing the finishing touches to Sri Lanka’s innings from the lower order. In the fourth match of the Asia Cup in 2004, against the UAE, Chandana ...
Sri Lanka’s new spinner, Laskshan Sandakan, picked up the wicket of arguably the best active batsman in world cricket with a ripper on the 1st of February, 2017 during the 2nd ODI between Sri Lanka and South Africa. AB de Villiers, who was returning from a long layoff, joined Faf du Plessis after the dismissal of de Kock in the ...
Sri Lanka’s new spinner, Laskshan Sandakan, picked up the wicket of arguably the best active batsman in world cricket with a ripper on the 1st of February, 2017 during the 2nd ODI between Sri Lanka and South Africa. AB de Villiers, who was returning from a long layoff, joined Faf du Plessis after the dismissal of de Kock in the ...
Klinger would be hoping to make his international debut at the age of 36. Australia has named a fresh-looking squad that includes four uncapped players for the three-match T20I series versus Sri Lanka. The team that will be led by Aaron Finch, misses out on some of the big name players like David Warner and Steve Smith. Among the uncapped ...
Young players like Dickwella have been victims of favouritism. Towards the end of 2015, Niroshan Dickwella scores a century in a first-class fixture for Sri Lanka A in New Zealand, becomes the fifth highest run scorer in the AIA Premier T20 tournament and the second highest run-getter in the Super T20 Provincial Tournament, and thus, merits a place in Sri ...
The International Olympic Committee has stripped Usain Bolt of the gold medal he won in the 4x100m relay in the 2008 Olympics following his teammate Nesta Carter’s failure in the drug test. In the re-tests of his samples, Carter was found to have consumed the banned stimulant methylhexaneamine. Instead of promoting the silver medallists to gold, IOC has taken ...
Sri Lanka’s batting struggle in Tests is not reserved only to overseas matches. Batting collapses in overseas Test series are nothing new to Sri Lanka. It has been happening for a very long time. Even though the absence of both Sangakkara and Jayawardene are highlighted as the major reason for Sri Lanka’s parlous batting in overseas Test matches, the team ...
Despite having a number of top order batsmen in the Test lineup, Sri Lanka has struggled to find someone who could be consistent at number three. Sri Lanka has struggled to find a batsman who could make the number three position in the team his own ever since the retirement of Kumar Sangakkara. The team has tried several players as ...
Kusal Perera’s wicketkeeping has received accolades from Ian Healy. Let us get this straight: Kusal Perera was never supposed to be an opening batsman or a number three in tests. He, since his debut, was expected to perform the role of an aggressive wicketkeeper-batsman at number seven along the lines of Australia’s legendary Adam Gilchrist. He has already had Ian ...
LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 11: during day three of the 3rd Investec Test match between England and Sri Lanka at Lord’s Cricket Ground on June 11, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. The runs that the tail makes are always decisive. From forming a rear guard to eke out a draw to frustrating the bowlers after they having done all the ...
Sri Lanka has never been short of raucous batsmen who threatened many a bowler’s careers. From the likes of CI Gunasekara to the likes of Duleep Mendis, Aravinda de Silva and Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan batsmen have always been a thorn in the flesh of international bowlers. Here, we are going to take a look at all those bowlers ...
Mahela Jayawardena playing soccer during a warm up session. While representing a nation in so much as one sport is a cause for profound pride, there have been players whose transcendental corporal virtuosities have helped them quixotically push the limits of mortal human abilities. The double internationals- players who represent their nations in two sports internationally- are, no wonder, a ...
Hashan Tillakaratne could bat, keep wickets and bowl with either of his arms. In cricket, the term all-rounder often refers to a player who can bat and bowl. However, there have been players who have pushed the scope of the definition to include every skill that is manifested in a cricket field, viz., batting, bowling and keeping wickets, becoming true ...
