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On a red-carpet reception day when the two Sri Lankan players, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene hit out at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) board over retirement issues, the former coach has come out openly for not receiving the “better treatment” when the team first ever won the 50-over World Cup in 1996. […]

It triggered quite a furore in Sri Lankan cricket but the country’s first World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has backed Mahela Jayawrdene and Kumar Sangakkara’s decision to call it quits from Twenty20 Internationals, saying the duo’s timing was correct. […]

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) today issued a media release expressing it’s regrets over the statement made by Cricketer Mahela Jayawardena alleging that the Secretary and CEO of SLC had criticized Jayawardena’s decision to retire from T20 cricket. […]

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara says that the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) had prohibited both Mahela Jayawardena and himself from speaking to the media during the World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh. […]

After India suffered a massive defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka in the ICC World Twenty20 finals  on Sunday evening, Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh’s house in the Manimajra locality of Chandigarh was pelted with stones, according to Amar Ujala. […]

Sri Lanka becomes the World T-20 Champions beating India by 6 wickets scores 130/4 Sri Lanka 134/4. Sangakkara 52 not out. […]

Winning the World Twenty20 title will be a perfect farewell gift for the departing Sri Lankan greats Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, stand-in skipper Lasith Malinga said on Saturday. […]

DHAKA – Sri Lanka face a daunting test of nerves from dominant India in Sunday’s all-Asian World Twenty20 final in Dhaka that is rich with incentives for both teams. If Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Indians win, they will become the first team to hold all three major limited-overs titles, having won the 50-over World Cup in […]

West Indies skipper Darren Sammy, after his side was eliminated in the semi-finals of the World T-20 on Thursday, won the admiration of Sri Lankan fans when he said that God did not want Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene to retire without winning a global event. […]

Sri Lanka 160 for 6 (Thirimanne 44, Mathews 40) beat West Indies 80 for 4 (Bravo 30, Malinga 2-5) by 27 runs (D/L method) West Indies banked on a frenetic finish, but Sri Lanka’s bowlers had choked the chase to suffocation-point before heavy rain, then marble-sized hail, cut the innings short and sent Sri Lanka […]

Sri Lanka’s Udeshika Prabhodhani has jumped five places to become the No 1 bowler for the first-time ever, the latest ICC Women’s Player Rankings for T20I Bowlers show. […]

Rangana Herath sprung from Sri Lanka’s dugout, watched his team-mates collapse, then crafted a Twenty20 spell of astounding quality to slam New Zealand into a wall, claiming five wickets for three runs as Sri Lanka defended 119 and made the semi-finals. He arrived at the bowling crease in the third over, delivered a wicket maiden […]

Mumbai: Hearing the IPL spot-fixing matter today, the Supreme Court has told the Indian cricket board that teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals should not be allowed to participate in the championship. […]

Sri Lanka 40 for 1 beat Netherlands 39 (Mathews 3-16, Mendis 3-12) by 9 wickets Perhaps no team in world cricket puts weaker sides away so emphatically as Sri Lanka. Since becoming full-fledged graduates from the easy-beats category in the mid-90s, they have spared no thought to their former peers, and on Monday they added […]

Pramodya Wickramasinghe appears to have made a mountain out of a mole hill over the announcement made by two former Sri Lankan captains Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardena on their future in T-20 cricket. […]

Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara held their nerve in the death overs with miserly fast bowling as Sri Lanka beat South Africa by five runs in their World Twenty20 opener at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong on Saturday. […]