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Australia will be looking to local legend and one-time bogeyman Muttiah Muralitharan to inspire them to success on his home patch as the world’s number one Test team begin a three-match series in Sri Lanka this week.

Muttiah Muralidharan is not sure whether Sri Lanka have enough firepower to topple the Australians in the upcoming series.

England’s Liam Plunkett smashed the last ball of the match for six to earn his team a dramatic tie with Sri Lanka in the first one-day international in Nottingham on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said his side will have to be at their best to beat England in the five-match one-day international series which starts on Tuesday.

For someone who has spent six agonising months on the sidelines battling doping allegations, Sri Lankan Kusal Perera cannot think of a better place for his return than the hallowed turf of Lord’s in the third and final test against England on Thursday.

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said the “weather can be a factor but it can’t be an excuse” as his side look to draw level in their Test series against England.

England fast bowler James Anderson took five wickets to inspire the hosts to a crushing victory over Sri Lanka by an innings and 88 runs in the first test in Leeds on Saturday.

After much anticipation the final results of Greatest ODI Player of All Time (GOAT) are out and to much surprise the winner is Kumar Sangakkara.

Sri Lanka’s captain, Angelo Mathews, is enjoying the pressure and the challenge of bringing through young players during a Test series against England.

Sri Lanka wicketkeeper Kusal Perera has been declared free to return to cricket after the International Cricket Council lifted his provisional suspension for an anti-doping violation.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has labelled plans to introduce a points system for the upcoming home series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan as a “nonsense”.

England have attempted a minor shake-up of the largely conventional world of test cricket by offering to use a points-based system to determine the winner of their home series against Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka spinner Rangana Herath has retired from 50-over and Twenty20 internationals in order to carry on playing test matches, the country’s cricket board said on Sunday.

The suspense over Lasith Malinga’s availability for the Indian Premier League’s ninth edition continued as the pace spearhead remained the only player to have not joined the Mumbai Indians preparatory camp ahead of its tournament opener on Saturday.

West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite smashed a remarkable four successive sixes in the last over as they beat England by four wickets to win their second World Twenty20 title on Sunday.

Hayley Matthews and Stafanie Taylor both struck half-centuries as West Indies beat three-times defending champions Australia by eight wickets to win the women’s World Twenty20 title at Eden Gardens on Sunday.