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Kumar Sangakkara passes 12,000 Test runs

Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara has become the fastest player to reach 12,000 runs in Test cricket – and only the fifth to reach the landmark. The 37-year-old achieved the feat in his 224th Test innings, during his side’s second Test in New Zealand. […]





Sangakkara record as Sri Lanka crush England again

T.M. Dilshan vs England Kumar Sangakkara, playing his final one-day international on home soil, set a record for the most runs in a calendar year as Sri Lanka thumped England by 87 runs in the last match of the series in Colombo on Tuesday. […]



Jayawardene all set for final ODI at home

Making it obvious that he will quit after the 2015 World Cup, former Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene on Monday, revealed that the seventh and final ODI against England here on Tuesday will be his last at home. “Going for my last practice session with the boys at home going to have some fun,” the […]



Sangakkara hundred secures series

Sri Lanka 292 for 7 (Sangakkara 112, Dilshan 68) beat England 202 (Root 55, Woakes 41, Lakmal 4-30, Senanayake 3-33) by 90 runs A masterful century from Kumar Sangakkara helped Sri Lanka wrap up the ODI series against England with a thumping 90-run victory in Pallekele. […]





SLC bans ‘Portable Horns’ and “Hooters” inside stadium

Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee arrived at this a decision on Tuesday (02) to generally safeguard spectator comfort inside spectator areas of the stadium. This does not mean that the papare bands are banned but portable horns and hooters being brought in by spectators will be banned. SLC announced that this rule will be implemented […]