Legendary left-arm fast bowler Wasim Akram has been sought out by Sri Lanka Cricket to mentor the Sri Lankan team ahead of the team’s tour of South Africa. The Pakistani fast bowler will conduct a full day coaching clinic in Colombo on Thursday, the 1st of December. This initiative is supposed to be the first of a spree of ...
Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva both had a profound impact in Sri Lankan wins. Sri Lanka is the youngest Test playing nation to win a World Cup. Ever since debuting in ODIs in the 1975 World Cup, Sri Lanka has played 782 matches, winning 368 of them and losing 374. Throughout their existence in ODI cricket, Sri Lanka has ...
Sri Lanka’s fast bowler Suranga Lakmal has been fined 50% of his match fee for his reprehensible behavior against Zimbabwe during the 4th match of the Tri-nation series in Bulawayo. According to ICC’s media release: Sri Lanka’s Suranga Lakmal has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct ...
The legendary Sri Lankan batsman, Mahela Jayawardena, has been appointed as the head coach of the Indian Premier League franchise, Mumbai Indians. The team based in Mumbai broke the news on Twitter today tweeting “We welcome one of the most elegant & graceful batsmen of the modern era, Mahela Jayawardena, as the new head coach of Mumbai Indians”. Australia’s ...
Sri Lanka was crowned WT20 champions in 2014. In a way, it could be argued that Sri Lanka played a key role in the genesis of T20s which eventually lead to cricket becoming more glamorized and commercialized than ever before while the approach to the game, the technics involved, attitudes and strategies took a paradigm shift, both making certain sections ...
Ben Navaratne stands up to the stumps as Sathy Coomaraswamy bowls Don Bradman. (1948) Sri Lanka has never been bereft of good wicket-keepers. The current supply of wicket-keeping batsmen is such that the team could field a batting line-up full of wicket-keepers. Perhaps, the current pedigree of world-class wicket-keepers in Sri Lanka should owe their genesis to one adroit stumper ...
Prasanna’s batting and bowling averages, if transposed, would make him a great all-rounder. “Dhananjaya de Silva, Shehan Jayasuriya, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedera, Milinda Siriwardane and Jeffery Vandersay were given chances because they had single handedly won their clubs matches at the domestic level. To win a match single-handedly one should be wise to the art of winning matches. Only those ...
Prasanna’s batting and bowling averages, if transposed, would make him a great all-rounder. “Dhananjaya de Silva, Shehan Jayasuriya, Dasun Shanaka, Chamara Kapugedera, Milinda Siriwardane and Jeffery Vandersay were given chances because they had single handedly won their clubs matches at the domestic level. To win a match single-handedly one should be wise to the art of winning matches. Only those ...
Sri Lanka’s legendary batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has announced that he would be calling it a day after the third ODI against Australia in Dambulla. Dilshan made his debut as a middle order batsman in 1999 in tests against Zimbabwe and later made his ODI debut in the same year. A middling batsman for most part of his career, Dilshan’s ...
Sri Lanka’s legendary batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has announced that he would be calling it a day after the third ODI against Australia in Dambulla. Dilshan made his debut as a middle order batsman in 1999 in tests against Zimbabwe and later made his ODI debut in the same year. A middling batsman for most part of his career, Dilshan’s ...
Is Chandimal impeding Sri Lanka’s scoring rate? Dinesh Chandimal has scored five half-centuries in his last six matches. One more fifty and the Sri Lankan vice-captain could have become the first Sri Lankan to score six successive fifties in ODI cricket. However, how effective are his half centuries, especially considering the fact that none of his five fifties has brought ...
Is Chandimal impeding Sri Lanka’s scoring rate? Dinesh Chandimal has scored five half-centuries in his last six matches. One more fifty and the Sri Lankan vice-captain could have become the first Sri Lankan to score six successive fifties in ODI cricket. However, how effective are his half centuries, especially considering the fact that none of his five fifties has brought ...
A very good evening to the members of the Australian cricket team, who would have wished that the LTTE was still around, so that they could have withdrawn from the series citing security reasons, to the members of the Sri Lankan team, whom our honorable minister of sports would have accused of partying without responsibility had the series been ...
A very good evening to the members of the Australian cricket team, who would have wished that the LTTE was still around, so that they could have withdrawn from the series citing security reasons, to the members of the Sri Lankan team, whom our honorable minister of sports would have accused of partying without responsibility had the series been ...
Two-time world cup winning captain, Ricky Ponting, has picked up the legendary batsman Kumar Sangakkara as the captain of his all-time cricketing XI. Several international players have already propounded their all-time XIs as part of Lord’s ground’s online series and the veteran southpaw has already seen him be a part of many of his contemporaries’ all-time XI. The Australian ...
Two-time world cup winning captain, Ricky Ponting, has picked up the legendary batsman Kumar Sangakkara as the captain of his all-time cricketing XI. Several international players have already propounded their all-time XIs as part of Lord’s ground’s online series and the veteran southpaw has already seen him be a part of many of his contemporaries’ all-time XI. The Australian ...
Australia’s captain, Steve Smith, marching from the pitch to the dressing room. A furious Mahinda Rajapakse claimed today that the Australian batsmen had copied his concept of Padayatra as the Australian batsmen decided to protest Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to file a complaint against their erstwhile bowling consultant, Muttiah Muralitharan, for allegedly verbally abusing the Sri Lankan team manager. The ...
Australia’s captain, Steve Smith, marching from the pitch to the dressing room. A furious Mahinda Rajapakse claimed today that the Australian batsmen had copied his concept of Padayatra as the Australian batsmen decided to protest Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to file a complaint against their erstwhile bowling consultant, Muttiah Muralitharan, for allegedly verbally abusing the Sri Lankan team manager. The ...
Fast bowler, Nuwan Pradeep, has become the latest to join the elite catalogue of injured bowlers when he strained his hamstring during a training session on Monday. The list already consists of the names of Dhammika Prasad, Suranga Lakmal, Dushmantha Chameera and Jeffrey Vandersay. Shaminda Eranga was recently banned for illegal bowling action. The Sri Lankan side was forced ...
