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Pakistan rode to the final of the T20 World Cup in typical party gate crashing style by a 7-wicket semi-final routing of high riding opponents New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground today. Bouncing back from the brink of elimination literally helped by the Netherlands upsetting South Africa
- ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 schedule announced (Category: Sports)
- Curtain raiser today between defending champs England and New Zealand (Category: Sports)
Rashid Khan’s reign at the top of the MRF ICC Men’s T20I Bowling Rankings has been short-lived, with the Afghanistan spinner usurped in top spot by Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga. Rashid had pushed Australian Josh Hazlewood out of top spot after his strong start to the ICC Men’s T20 World...The post Sri Lankan spin wizard becomes world’s top-ranked T20I bowler appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Wanindu Hasaranga becomes world s top-ranked T20I bowler (Category: Breaking News)
- Wanindu Hasaranga becomes world’s top-ranked T20I bowler (Category: Breaking News)
- Wanindu Hasaranga becomes world’s top-ranked T20I bowler (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka takes second spot in ODI rankings (Category: Breaking News)
The semi-final run up heightened by a typical fluctuating stop start countdown has brought alive the T20 World Cup, cricket’s most scintillating extravaganza full circle in a head on showdown of the last four in an equal two way split of the European hemisphere versus the sub continent
- ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 schedule announced (Category: Sports)
- Curtain raiser today between defending champs England and New Zealand (Category: Sports)
- Inoka Ranaweera 4/7 bowls Sri Lanka Women into Asia Cup semi-final (Category: Sports)
- FIXTURES RELEASED FOR ICC MEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP QUALIFIER 2023 (Category: Sports)
Media Release06th November 2022 Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to clarify that Danushka Gunathilaka, despite being replaced midway through the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup due to injury, was retained in the squad as a “stand-by player.”The decision was taken by the team management in consultation
- Sri Lanka Cricket hires new lawyers for Dhanushka Gunathilaka (Category: Breaking News)
- SLC says it has not authorized or retained any lawyers in Sri Lanka to represent Danushka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka charged with alleged sexual assault of woman in Sydney (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka lost to England by 4 wickets but not before giving their opponents a scare when they lost 6 wickets in the space of 65 balls at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday. The Lankans got off to a flying start of 67 for 1 off just 7 overs in...The post Ben Stokes 42 n.o. calms England to 4-wicket win and semi finals in face of Sri Lanka’s fight back appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Sri Lanka A lose first unofficial ODI to England Lions by 4.wickets (Category: Sports)
- New Zealand win final T20 to clinch series 2-1 (Category: Sports)
Sri Lanka’s 6-wicket triumph over Afghanistan has lifted Dasun Shanaka’s team from the brink of down of the table to a wafer thin waft of hope to making it from Group 1 to the semi finals of the T20 World Cup. That it has boiled down to great expectations. Bordering...The post Sri Lanka
- ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 schedule announced (Category: Sports)
All-rounder Dhananjaya de Silva raised Sri Lanka’s semi final hopes with a crucial 2 points in the hat and jumping to third place from the bottom of the table in Group 1 of the T20 World Cup when he struck an emphatic 42-ball unbeaten 66 to take Sri Lanka to...The post Dhananjaya de Silva 66 n.o
Marcus Stoinis unleashed an 18 ball unbeaten 59 in a 6 sixes and 4 fours rampaging 7-wicket triumph by Australia over Sri Lanka in their T20 World Cup second Super 12 D/N clash at the Perth Stadium, Perth that lifted the reigning world champions net run rate, but Sri Lanka...The post Marcus Stoinis
Sri Lanka produced a clinical display to snuff out first round tournament shockers Ireland by 9 wickets at Hobart to launch their day-night Super 12 challenge of the T20 World Cup on a high going 2 points up and a fantastic run rate of 2.467. In emphatic body language of...The post Sri Lanka rout
- Sri Lanka retain the same 15-member squad for 2nd Test (Category: Sports)
With much more demanding sterner stuff to deliver than what got them through from stage 1, Sri Lanka enters the fray in the Super 12 countdown of the 2022 T20 World Cup joining the automatically qualified 8 with the former 2014 world champions carrying the hangover of having been ousted...The post
- ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP 2022 PRIZE POT ANNOUNCED (Category: Sports)
Kusal Mendis smote a blistering 44-ball 74 to take Sri Lanka through to a 16-run triumph over the Netherlands in today’s day night at Kardina Park, Geelonlg for an on course second success following the shock defeat in the T20 World Cup opener. But as the Lankans went through the...The post
The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 has approved four player replacements. In the Sri Lanka squad Kasun Rajitha has replaced Dushmantha Chameera who was ruled out due to a torn left calf muscle. Rajitha is currently in Sri Lanka and will be travelling to...The post
- FERNANDO APPROVED AS REPLACEMENT FOR MADUSHANKA IN THE SRI LANKA SQUAD (Category: Sports)
- ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 will be held in India and Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC T20 World Cup 2012 begins Sep 18 in Hambantota (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan Women start proceedings at St kitts on a winning note (Category: Breaking News)
Opening batsman Pathum Nissanka held his nerve stroking a battling 74 off 60 balls to bat his side out of a hat-trick rut as Sri Lanka recovered to crush the UAE by 79 runs in a decisive must win Group A first round day-night fixture on Tuesday to stay on...The post Pathum Nissanka battling 74 checks Meiyappan hat- trick as Sri Lanka crush UAE to stay on course appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Lanka crush India in last league game (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka through to World Cup, crush Zimbabwe by 9 wkts (Category: Sports)
- Anderson stars as England crush Sri Lanka in first ODI (Category: Sports)
Sri Lanka was shocked by Namibia by. 55 runs in today’s D/N curtain raiser of the T20 World Cup in Australia’s Kardina Park Geelong. Sri Lanka was bowled out for 108 in 19 overs in reply to Namibia’s tall score of 163 for 7 off 20 with the less fancied...The post Sri Lanka
- Supun Waduge (56) rallies Sri Lanka to victory over Namibia in U19 World Cup (Category: Sports)
- ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP 2022 PRIZE POT ANNOUNCED (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka A trounce South Africa A by 160 runs with a day to spare (Category: Sports)
ICC Media Release The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 has approved Binura Fernando as a replacement for left arm fast bowler Dilshan Madushanka in the Sri Lanka squad. Fernando who has played nine T20Is, was named as a replacement after Madushanka was ruled
- SRI LANKA ALLOWED MURALI REPLACEMENT | Sporting Life - Cricket News | County Championship, ICC Wor (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA ALLOWED MURALI REPLACEMENT | Sporting Life - Cricket News | County Championship, ICC Wor (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA ALLOWED MURALI REPLACEMENT | Sporting Life - Cricket News | County Championship, ICC Wor (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA ALLOWED MURALI REPLACEMENT | Sporting Life - Cricket News | County Championship, ICC Wor (Category: Breaking News)
PREVIEW: The T20 World Cup 2022 in Australian terrain will be the challenging frontier Sri Lanka’s exuberant young cricketers led by Dasun Shanaka will necessarily have to go past the might of world cricket in the fast and furious paced short version showpiece of the game that unfolds
- Sri Lanka Squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lankan Squad of 30 for the T20 World Cup (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Men’s U19 Cricket World Cup 2024 (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 (Category: Sports)
Opening batsman Kusal Mendis blazed a 29-ball 54 and Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva 37 off 14 in sounding Sri Lanka’s T20 World Cup campaign defeating Zimbabwe by 33 runs in the first of two warm ups at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds yesterday. Sri Lanka, taking first lease, ran up 188...The post
- New Zealand win final T20 to clinch series 2-1 (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka demolish Zimbabwe by 9-wkts. to take series 2-1 (Category: Sports)
As expectations ran high as the country’s cricketers, fresh from their Asia Cup winning exploits, packed their bags Australia bound during the weekend for world cricket’s fascinating most fast moving showpiece – the abbreviated T20 World Cup, skipper Dasun Shanaka
Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 match schedule released appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- ICC names all-woman panel of match officials for 2023 Women’s T20 World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
- SL Women kick off campaign with warm-up match against Ireland tomorrow (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 (Category: Sports)
Sri Lanka’s dominant T20 Asia Cup hurrah has raised great cxpectations to making the big fling at this October’s T20 World Cup in Australia. As an upbeat Skipper Dasun Shanaka and his exuberant young charges packed their bags Friday Australia bound and the gathering at Sri Lanka Cricket
- SLC management preview Sri Lanka’s World Cup preparations (Category: Sports)
- Three Sri Lankan female match officials in the Women’s Asia Cup (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Cricket congratulates Aravinda de Silva (Category: Sports)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed today that the team that earns glory at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 on 13 November in Melbourne, will take home a cheque of $1.6 million. The total prize pot of $5.6m will see the runners-up assured of $800,000 and the losing...The post ICC
- FERNANDO APPROVED AS REPLACEMENT FOR MADUSHANKA IN THE SRI LANKA SQUAD (Category: Sports)
- Kumar Dharmasena picked as on-field umpire for WC opener (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 will be held in India and Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- FOUR PLAYER REPLACEMENTS AT THE ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP (Category: Sports)
Media Release 16th September, 2022 The Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Committee selected the following squad to take part in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022. The Honorable Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Roshan Ranasinghe, gave his approval for the squad. The tournament
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Men’s U19 Cricket World Cup 2024 (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka squad for ICC Men s T20 World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 (Category: Sports)
- FERNANDO APPROVED AS REPLACEMENT FOR MADUSHANKA IN THE SRI LANKA SQUAD (Category: Sports)
A four-team invitational domestic T20 tournament will replace the postponed Lanka Premier League (LPL) as part of Sri Lankaâs preparation for the upcoming Asia Cup and T20 World Cup 2022.
- Watch Free! T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs India Live Streaming Online - Twenty 20 World Cup Schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- Watch Free! T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs India Live Streaming Online - Twenty 20 World Cup Schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- Watch Free! T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs India Live Streaming Online - Twenty 20 World Cup Schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- Free Live Stream! Watch T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs Australia Live Streaming Online - Super 8 Twent (Category: Breaking News)
By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...
By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...
By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...
By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...
By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...
By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...
When Colombo takes on Dambulla in the first match of the Lanka Premier League on the 26th November at the MRICS, Hambantota, the ground located in the Deep South of Sri Lanka, bordering an International port and an airport, and few kilometers away from the Indian Ocean, the tournament will... The post Lanka Premier League – The New Kid on the Block appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
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