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 ...
Although Sri Lanka is relatively a young team in world cricket, several of Sri Lankan cricketers have gone overseas in search of recognition for their cricketing abilities. Despite the fact a fair amount of cricketers have migrated to ply their trade to other countries, only a handful of them have actually managed to play for the national teams of ...
How well do you know this Sri Lankan right-arm fast bowler? Check out the ten facts about him you should know. Think that we are worth reading? Then keep in touch with us by Liking our Facebook page. Slide 1/10 Next #1 A Chilawian Shaminda Eranga hails from the coastal town of Chilaw and is the only player from Chilaw to ...
With a better combination, there is still hope for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s free-fall in world cricket in the recent past has been alarming. The team was expected to lose some matches but never were they expected to surrender without a fight. There is a new off-putting trend about the Sri Lankan players that has become more and more conspicuous ...
Slower balls have written history on their own. The arrival of T20, truth be told, has revolutionized the art of fast bowling. From sticking to a wicket-to-wicket line to adopting the art of swinging and later conjuring the craft of reverse-swing, fast-bowling has cantered a long way. The advent of the shortest format has made fast-bowlers embrace a slew of ...
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 ...
Ever wondered what the past generation of cricketers had to put up with? This is how they were made fun of in 1999 when the Sri Lankan team was undergoing a torrid time. Surprisingly, the position of Sri Lanka in 1999 was not too dissimilar to the position they are finding themselves in right now. This post is just meant ...
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 ...
Rumours about Mathews leading the T20 side in the 2016 WT20 have been put to rest. Sri Lanka Cricket announced today that Lasith Malinga will lead Sri Lanka in T20Is until the end of the WT20 2016 in India. This means that the right-arm fast bowler would also lead Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup tournament which is to be ...
Malinga made his comeback in style. Despite picking up 4 for 26, which helped his team avoid what would have been a mortifying defeat at the hands of the United Arab Emirates, the Sri Lankan captain offered self-depreciating remarks about his own performance. Returning from an injury layoff that kept him out of cricket for close to three months, the veteran fast ...
Kusal Medis has definitely been one of the best finds of the series. The ODI series has been wrapped up with the visitors failing to win any of the four matches that were played. Sri Lanka’s best performance came in the first ODI but since then, their performance saw a constant decline that culminated in the embarrassing defeat in the ...
Courtesy: AFP One bowler picked up a five-wicket haul in his debut Test match in South Africa. The other bowler returned an eleven-wicket match figure in his debut to lead his team to a win against Bangladesh. Impressive as their debuts might be, and though the healthy rivalry between these two southpaws could bring the best out of both, Sri ...
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 ...
Sri Lanka’s left-handed batsman Lahiru Thirimanne has left England after sustaining an injury to his lower back having warmed the benches during the two ODIs against Ireland and three ODIs against England. It has emerged that the poor quality of the benches which Lahiru Thirimanne was asked to sit on was the primary reasons behind Thirimanne’s injury. The southpaw ...
No cricketer in recent history has divided Sri Lankan fans on their opinions. There is no figure in Sri Lanka Cricket who polarize opinions as much as Upul Tharanga does. With the retirement of both Sangakkara and Jayawardene, Tharanga has turned out to be an enigmatic figure, whose inclusion in the team brings no real noteworthy performances from his side, ...
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 ...
Partnerships between Chandimal and Mathews have let games drift away from Sri Lanka. Since Sri Lanka has lost a second successive match defending a total, it is easy to cauterize the bowlers for their inefficacy and roast the captain for his insipid leadership. 305 runs in 42 overs at 7.26 runs per over could be purveyed as a defendable total ...
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 ...
Former Sri Lankan opening batsman Avishka Gunawardene has been appointed as the coach of the Sri Lankan A team while Roy Dias, a veteran test batsman, has been appointed as the coach of the under 19 team according to a media release by Sri Lanka Cricket. Sri Lanka cricket had been head hunting for a coach for their A ...
Alfred Holsinger is the first professional Sri Lankan cricketer. Though Lasith Malinga, who picked up four wickets in four balls, has been immortalized in the annals of cricket, another Sri Lankan bowler who picked up six wickets in six balls continues to be in oblivion. Even though this rare feat was achieved in a club game in England, Holsinger’s accomplishment ...
