Ahead of the T20 World Cup to be held from September 18 to October 7 in Sri Lanka, ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit is taking stern actions to hunt bookies and probe the role of honey traps used in the game. .

India will play One Day Internationals at Hambantota, Dambulla, Pallekele and Premadasa Stadium when they arrive here in July to play five ODIS and a Twenty20. Hambantota will host the first two ODIS while Premadasa Stadium in Colombo will host the only T20 International. According to the International Cricket Council’s Future Tours Programme India were ...

The issue of tickets for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup cricket tournament to be held in Sri Lanka, commenced this morning. The matches will be played in Colombo, Kandy and Hambantota and tickets are being sold for the matches to be played at these venues. Our correspondents said long queues

Starlet Nupur Mehta has added a new twist to the ongoing match-fixing allegations that have lately come her way. She now claims she was seeing Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan around the time of the 2009 T20 World cup in England. Nupur’s new revelation comes in the wake

  Tickets for this year’s ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka go on sale to the public from Saturday. The official ticket launch takes place on Saturday, with President Mahinda Rajapaksa purchasing the first ticket of the tournament, which will run from September 18 to October 7 in Colombo, Hambantota and Pallekele. There will be ...

The ICC World Twenty20 2012 ticket launch will take place at the Galle Face Green on March 24 with President Mahinda Rajapaksa purchasing the very first ticket of the tournament.

Sri Lanka after putting up a historic performance at the just concluded CB Tri-Nation series in Australia, once again failed to go the extra mile to bring the cup home, as they lost the final game, which was winnable. This is despite the Lankans beating the Australians 4 times during the series and three of them ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe Sri Lanka is expected to get $ 40 million (over Rs. 4.4 billion) for hosting the T20 World Cup later this year  for which Cabinet approval was given  this week. In terms of the agreement already reached with the International Cricket Council (ICC), the T20 World

Sri Lanka will host the ICC T20 world cup during the months of September and October this year, with the participation of 12 countries. Already, the Sri Lankan cricketing authorities and the International Cricket Council have signed an agreement towards this. Government says, the ICC will provide

Melbourne (AFP): Uncapped George Bailey was on Monday named skipper of a revamped Australian squad for next month’s Twenty20 internationals against India as selectors looked towards September’s T20 world cup. Bailey replaces Cameron White, who has been dropped from the 14-man squad

Phoenix Ogilvy Sri Lanka scored a major victory by beating leading global advertising agencies and international sports marketing companies to win the pitch for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that Phoenix Ogilvy will be the official marketing and communications agency for the ICC World Twenty20 2012. The tournament will ...

Feb 24, Colombo: Sri Lanka's cricket authority, Sri Lanka Cricket has appointed former Josephian coach Harsha De Silva to take the reins of the national Women's squad.

Hosts Sri Lanka, South Africa and Zimbabwe have been placed in the same preliminary group (Group C) for next year’s World Twenty20 tournament here, the sport’s governing body said on Wednesday.

Video: ICC T20 World Cup 2012 begins Sep 18 in Hambantota

By Sachin David The International Cricket Council officially launched the Marquee event of the shortest format of cricket the World Twenty20 tournament that is to be played on Sri Lankan soil in the year 2012. The tournament will be played from 18 September 2012 to 7 October 2012. The event will see the best Men’s ...

The ICC T20 World Cup 2012 will be held in Sri Lanka from September 18 to October 7. Twelve teams will be participating in the World Cup while Sri Lanka will compete in Group C.

Sri Lanka made light work of a misfiring England side to cruise to a comprehensive nine wicket victory over the defending t20 World Cup champions in a once sided game at the County Ground in Bristol.Faced with a run chase of only 137, the Sri Lankan’s cruised to victory thanks to Mahela Jayawardene

Sri Lanka made light work of a misfiring England side to cruise to a comprehensive nine wicket victory over the defending t20 World Cup champions in a once sided game...

England's forgotten T20 World Cup hero credits Graham Thorpe for rebuilding his technique - and career.

Ms.Eshani Kaushalya was adjudicated as the Player of the team by the ICC, for her excellent performance during the Championship

Ms. Eshani Kaushalya Women Cricketer in ICC T20 World Cup 2009 was adjudicated as the Player of the team by the ICC, for her excellent performance during the Championship and was presented with the ICC Cap.

Sri Lankan ace bowler Lasith Malinga has said that the decision to retire from test cricket was taken before the 2011 World Cup. He had to take this decision due to his physical condition and injuries. However, Malinga said he hoped to play in the shorter forms of the games until the next World Cup ...

Vinod Kambli still shudders when you remind him of that fateful evening at Eden Gardens more than a decade ago, when he walked off the field in tears. “That’s a moment I’ll never forget,” he says, “I still have nightmares thinking about that semifinal loss to Sri Lanka.” Here is Kambli’s assessment of World Cup ...

in London while the team was participating in the T20 World Cup last year.

Sri Lanka Cricket announced that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved the hosting of Twenty 20 World Cup...

Sri Lanka Cricket’s bid to host the T20 World Cup in 2012 was approved by the International Cricket Council at the recently concluded ICC meeting in Singapore. ICC has shown faith in Sri Lanka Cricket, hence it is thankful to the governing body for giving it the opportunity, a statement from Sri

Sri Lanka Cricket’s bid to host the T20 World cup in 2012 was approved by the International Cricket Council at the recently concluded ICC meeting in Singapore.

The ICC approves an application by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to host the Twenty20 World Cup in 2012.

To say that the new Sport Minister’s thoughts, Monday, on the Sri Lanka Cricket Board was a breath of fresh air would be an understatement. Rather, Minister C. B. Ratnayake’s remark that cricket is “the third most corrupt institution behind education and the police” was more a tornado, which, while devastating surely the game’s administrators, ...

Sri Lanka made it to the Semi Finals of the T20 World Cup only to succumb.I believe that our moment was when we beat India, but, I suspect England watching that game did their home work well. The England team seemed the most balanced of those reaching the super eights. This is not to take away [...]