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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
They should be banished from the first-class game. It winds me up, if you are a spinner, spin the ball,” said Graeme Swann, arguably the second-best off-spinner to have played Test cricket since Murali’s retirement, about the trundlers in the English first-class system. He was right. In fact, “spinner” is often a misnomer in cricket that is liberally used to ...
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 ...
Demolishing all pre-match predictions and against all odds, Sri Lanka romped home against India in the first T20I played at Pune. After suffering a bout of defeats at the hands of New Zealand, Sri Lankan fans could breathe fresh air for the first time since a very long time. Facebook became lit with many witty, funny and spurred-high octane posts ...
