Cricket South Africa have announced a 15-member squad for the upcoming home T20Is against Sri Lanka, featuring a star player from last year’s ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup. Karabo Meso has earned her maiden international call-up in South Africa’s squad for the three-match T20I series against Sri

The ICC Board has approved the qualification process for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026. The event, which will be held in India and Sri Lanka, will see 12 automatic qualifiers. These will include the joint hosts along with the top eight teams from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024

The 10th edition of the ICC Men s T20 World Cup will be co-hosted by Sri Lanka and India in 2026.

Bangladesh will tour the USA for a three-match T20I series in May, ahead of the T20 World Cup. The two sides have never played a T20I against each other before and will use the series to prepare for the flagship tournament co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies. USA will also play Canada

Former Sri Lanka captain Lahiru Thirimanne has been hospitalised after the car he was travelling in was involved in a serious head-on collision near the north-central city of Anuradhapura, on Thursday morning. The exact nature of Thirimanne’s injury is not understood yet, but he is presently in stable condition at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital. At […]

Bangladesh captain Najimul Hossain Shanto and Sri Lanka coach Chris Silverwood both played down any narrative of personal scores being settled by the two sides over the next month. While Sri Lanka-Bangladesh clashes in the past have occasionally boiled over, both camps, at least for now, expect little more than a competitive series played in […]

Afghanistan Head Coach Jonathan Trott conceded that Sri Lanka outplayed his team in all three departments in the recently concluded bilateral series between the countries. While Sri Lanka won the one-off Test match, they swept Afghanistan 3-0 in the ODIs before taking an unassailable 2-0 in the T-20 series. On Wednesday, Afghanistan managed to record […]

South Africa’s women beat Australia for the first time ever, claiming a six-wicket win in the second T20I in Canberra. Quality bowling on Sunday helped them hold the hosts to a below-par total of 142 for 6, a total they tracked down with six balls to spare thanks to captain Laura Wolvaardt’s  unbeaten half-century. Australia […]

For the second year in a row, Nat Sciver-Brunt has been named as the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year. The player remained in prime form throughout the year, with some of her most remarkable knocks coming in 2023’s Women’s Ashes against Australia. Sciver-Brunt overcame challenge from Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, and the Australia pair […]

by Rex Clementine   Former captain Angelo Mathews made a grand return to Sri Lanka’s T-20 side scripting a nail-biting three wicket win over Zimbabwe in a last ball thriller at RPS on Sunday night. Playing his fist T-20 International in almost three years, Mathews opened bowling and then chasing a target of 144, dug […]

Angelo Mathews is in line to play his first T20I in nearly three years after being named in Sri Lanka’s T20I squad for the series against Zimbabwe. Also in the squad are batters Kusal Perera and Dhananjaya de Silva  who are not in the squad for the ongoing ODIs, as well as spinner Akila Dananjaya,  […]

The final game of England’s tour ended much like the first: with Shai Hope clinching victory for West Indies with a match-winning six. His unbeaten, run-a-ball 43 was the highest score of a tense low-scorer in Tarouba, and his clean strike over cover off Chris Woakes sealed the series decider with four balls remaining. Something […]

In a media release issued today (29) Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced its Men’s future tours program for 2024. Sri Lanka will commence their 2024 international calendar with a white-ball home series against Zimbabwe in January, which will consist of three ODIs and as many T20Is. This will be closely followed by the arrival […]

Josh Inglis smashed his maiden T20I century, but Suryakumar Yadav responded masterfully in his captaincy debut to lift India past Australia in a tense series opener. Just four days after being part of Australia’s World Cup title, Inglis tore apart a new-look India attack in batting friendly conditions in Visakhapatnam with 110 off 50 balls. […]

President of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Shammi Silva has admitted to taking several persons, including family members, to watch the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia.

Sri Lanka Cricket secretary Mohan de Silva resigned from his board position on Saturday (03 November 2023). His resignation comes after both widespread criticism of the board following Sri Lanka’s crashing out of the Men’s ODI World Cup, as well as a release from the nation’s sports minister asking SLC’s executive committee to resign or […]

It’s official – Sri Lanka will be without Dushmantha Chameera and Wanidu Hasaranga at the ODI World Cup. Dasun Shanaka,  whose role as captain had been under much speculation over the past few weeks, will lead the side in India through October and November. The rest of the 15-member squad has formed up as expected, […]

Sachithra Senanayake, the former Sri Lanka offspinner, has been granted bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s court, the police media division has confirmed. Senanayake had been arrested on September 6 on charges related to match-fixing. Bail was granted on two sureties of LKR 5,000,000 each, while the previously court-imposed travel ban is still in effect. […]