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Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara has claimed the top spot of the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen
England's Under-19 cricketers were taught a lesson in big-hitting in the first Twenty20 against Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street
Paul Best will captain England Under-19 in their two Twenty20 engagements against Sri Lanka Under-19 on August 2 and 3
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), guardians of cricket’s laws, and the ICC, the game’s apex body, are gunning for day-night Tests, but Muttiah Muralitharan doesn’t approve of the idea. "I don’t think it will work. Some people will have an undue advantage because of conditions while some will have a disadvantage," Murali, told the Hindustan Times. "Tes...
Significant progress made on Future Tours Programme 2012-20 and context and content for international cricket
Matthew Wade blasted 80 off 50 balls to set up Australia A's 27-run victory over Sri Lanka A in the one-off Twenty20 in Townsville
New South Wales will look to the West Indies and New Zealand for an overseas player after Sri Lanka blocked Tillakaratne Dilshan from playing in the 2010-11 Big Bash. Dilshan, the explosive opener, signed with the Blues in March but his country wants him to avoid any unnecessary setbacks before next year’s World Cup. The move is a blow to the Blues and a spokesman said they had already ...
Sri Lanka Cricket is planning to revamp its domestic Twenty20 tournament by allowing foreign players to participate, Aravinda de Silva, the board's newly-appointed chief selector has said
This series was supposed to be an opportunity to showcase Zimbabwe cricket to the world. Is it in good health? Is the talent there? Is the desire there? The Twenty20 World Cup provided a few answers. Even though they didn’t win a game in the tourney, they sparkled in the warm-ups by defeating
Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lanka’s former captain and newly-appointed chairman of selectors, has singled out winning the World Cup in 2011 as his "primary responsibility" in his latest role. de Silva, who scored an unbeaten century to take Sri Lanka to their only World Cup win, in 1996 against Australia in Lahore, said the national team had to win some major tournaments in its preparat...
After the carnival of the World Twenty20 in the Caribbean, a one-day tri-series in Zimbabwe may not seem like the sort of fare to whet the appetite, but India and Sri Lanka's trip to the Southern African nation is an important sounding board for all three
Sri Lankan allrounder Sanath Jayasuriya has signed with Worcestershire as their overseas player for five Twenty20 matches this summer. He will replace allrounder Steve Smith, who was called-up to Australia’s limited-overs squads for the forthcoming tour of England. "Sanath will bring
Sri Lankan allrounder Sanath Jayasuriya has signed with Worcestershire as their overseas player for five Twenty20 matches this summer
It wasn’t quite the home-run derby that the Americans had been led to expect, but Daniel Vettori and Kumar Sangakkara hope cricket’s Florida experiment will continue. The two-match Twenty20 series in Lauderhill over the weekend was drawn 1-1 but the result was of little consequence
ICC Cricket Committee, chaired by Clive Lloyd, held their annual meeting at Lord's Cricket Ground in London on 20/21 May 2010.
, avoided the ignominy of the lowest total in Twenty20 internationals, 81 was never going to test Sri Lan...
Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand captain, is determined to win the second Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka in Lauderhill so that his team can "finish a long season on a high note"
Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain, has asked for teams to be given equal opportunity in Test cricket, saying the dwindling number of five-day matches Sri Lanka were playing was limiting their ambitions. Sangakkara welcomed the idea of a world Test championship and said teams should be given the chance of playing a minimum number of Tests in a year. "It’s great to have a Test cham...
It is tempting to look at these matches - two Twenty20 internationals between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, being played in the USA - as precisely the reason why tournaments like IPL prosper
Chaminda Vaas, the Sri Lankan seam bowler, has signed a contract with Northamptonshire and will turn out for the club until the end of the Friends Provident Twenty20 campaign
Three senior team discards - allrounder Farveez Maharoof, fast bowler Isuru Udana and opening batsman Mahela Udawatte - have won a place in the Sri Lanka A team’s one-month tour of Australia from June 10. All three players have been picked for the one-day squad which will play three matches against Australia A. Maharoof has been out of the senior national team since playing an ODI against In...
A relaxed and refreshed Sri Lanka are looking forward to the new experience of playing in the United States this weekend, according to the batsman Mahela Jayawardene. It’s a week since they lost their World Twenty20 semi-final to the eventual champions England, and while the time off wasn
New Zealand's Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka in Florida - the first international series between two full ICC members to take place in the USA - has been reduced from three matches to two following the cancellation of the opening match in Lauderhill on
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said the team had no-one else to blame but themselves after a seven-wicket ICC World Twenty20 semi-final loss to England on Thursday. Last year’s losing finalists were all but out of the game after being restricted to 128 for six, having lost
Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara could unleash versatile, young spinner Ajantha Mendis on an England team that has had little experience of playing the talented bowler. The two teams meet in the semi-final of the Twenty20 World Cup on Thursday on a slow surface that could be well suited to spin
Sri Lanka qualified for the World Twenty20 semi-finals after their five-wicket last ball win over India and Australia’s six-wicket victory against the West Indies combined to send them into the last four here on Tuesday. Chamara Kapugedera’s six off the final ball saw Sri Lanka
Kumar Sangakkara must be a relieved man. Despite their high net run-rate going into the game, Sri Lanka had some running to do to ensure their semi-final spot. And unlike West Indies and Australia, they had to contend with the Indian batting line-up on a wicket that favoured their style of play. As if on cue, India’s top order led by Suresh Raina forgot their travails against the short...
Sri Lanka left it late to secure a place in the World Twenty20 semi-finals but now they are in the knockout stage their varied bowling attack could hold the key to success