Sri Lanka National Women’s Captain Chamari Atapattu injured her right 4th and 5th fingers while doing a gym session. She has been given a total of 16 stitches on both fingers.
Calcutta: Sri Lanka’s Test and ODI captain Angelo Mathews, who turns out for the Delhi DareDevils in the IPL, took questions from The Telegraph on Wednesday evening.
Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake felt confident that Sri Lanka’s present issues with International Cricket Council (ICC) could easily be resolved through dialogue and reiterated that ICC must understand and accept the real situation in Sri Lanka.
The appointment of an interim body to run Sri Lankan cricket is in tune with laws governing the island nation, the country’s sports minister said on Friday.
Worcestershire have signed Sri Lanka spinner Sachithra Senanayake as a short-term replacement for Saeed Ajmal. Ajmal, 37, may not be available until later in the season after being named in Pakistan’s squad for the tour of Bangladesh starting next week.
Jayasuriya, in a letter to Minister of Sports Navin Dissanayake, cited the impending end of his tenure as the head of the selection committee as the reason for his resignation.
Former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene is set to take over a role with the country’s cricket administration to develop the infrastructure of the local game at the feeder level.
Michael Clarke signed off from one-day internationals with 74 as a dominant Australia won their fifth cricket World Cup after crushing New Zealand by seven wickets at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.
New Zealand are sticking with the same team, and the same fearless approach, for Sunday’s World Cup final against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Dharmasena and England’s Richard Kettleborough will be the on-field umpires for Sunday’s World Cup final between Australia and New Zealand in Melbourne, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.
Australia’s pace bowlers have finished the job Steve Smith started to send the co-host storming into a seventh World Cup final with a 95-run victory over champion India at the SCG.
SYDNEY: Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara said he was confident about the future of the side after he bowed out of ODIs with a World Cup quarter-final defeat by South Africa.
Rampant South Africa were on the verge of the World Cup semi-finals on Wednesday after Sri Lanka collapsed to just 133 all out at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
