Category: Sports News

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s pace attack scythed through Sri Lanka’s top order to leave the hosts reeling at 79-3, but master batsman Kumar Sangakkara celebrated his 10,000th test run shortly before lunch on the opening day of the second test in Melbourne on Wednesday. […]

Vice Captain of the Sri Lanka cricket team Angelo Mathews said that he is ready to take over as skipper once Mahela Jayawardene steps aside at the end of the current series, the AAP reported today. […]

Pix by AP Australia beat Sri Lanka by 137 runs in the first test match played in Hobart, Australia. […]

Dubai: Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas, who has been hailed among the finest left-arm pacers to have come out of his country, wants young cricketers to focus on cricket and not money. […]

HOBART (Reuters) – Mahela Jayawardene will step down as captain of the Sri Lanka test and one-day teams after the current tour of Australia and has backed Angelo Mathews to replace him. […]

Haroon Lorgat, the former ICC Chief Executive, has recommended less government interference in team selection, in addition to 23 other recommendations to Sri Lanka Cricket, in his review of the sport in the country. Lorgat was appointed short-term special advisor to the SLC in July, and was tasked with performing a wide-ranging review of governance, […]

PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan, playing in his 250th one-day international, made light of a back injury to lead Sri Lanka to a seven-wicket victory over New Zealand under the Duckworth-Lewis method in another rain-hit match on Tuesday. […]

Left-arm paceman Harsha Rajapaksha of Rahula College, Matara has taken all ten wickets in an innings, in a spell of ten overs, to restrict Devapathiraja College, Ratgama to a paltry 23 runs on day one of their Under-19 cricket encounter at Uyanwatta Stadium, Matara yesterday. Rajapaksha has given away just eight runs in his 9.3 […]

(Reuters) – Anyone involved in spot-fixing should be banned for life, former Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan told Reuters on Saturday, days after six umpires were provisionally suspended for allegedly agreeing to fix matches. India TV showed footage on Monday of what the news channel said was officials from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka negotiating […]

Sydney, Oct 11 (ANI): Australian vice captain Watson is not comfortable with the suggestion that he is the world’s No.1 Twenty20 player, and still rates West Indian Chris Gayle as the best T20 cricketer. […]

(Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) has provisionally suspended six umpires who allegedly agreed to spot-fix matches during a recent sting operation conducted by an Indian television channel. […]

‘Chokers’ is a term that is commonly associated with South African cricket given the way they have messed things up in several big cricket events. But what Sri Lanka have done better than South Africa is to reach the finals of four big tournaments and stumble on all four occasions. Hence, they are the new […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jaywardhana The Times of India in a lead story revealed  that several umpires,three from Sri Lanka, were allegedly involved in match fixing. The three involved in Sri Lanka were named as Gamini Dissanayaka, Maurice Winston,and Sagara Gallage. […]

Mahela Jayawardene has resigned as Sri Lanka’s Twenty20 captain, soon after his team lost the final of the World Twenty20 against West Indies in Colombo. He said he will remain captain of the ODI and Test teams until at least the end of Sri Lanka’s tour of Australia in January, and remains available for Twenty20 […]

Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene and his West Indies counterpart Darren Sammy pose with the ICC Twenty20 Cricket World Cup trophy in Colombo on Saturday. Photo: K.R. Deepak The sea within touching distance, plantations in the hinterland, tropical weather and people with a sunny disposition are features common to both Sri Lanka and the West […]

West Indies 205 for 4 (Gayle 75*, Pollard 38) beat Australia 131 (Bailey 63, Rampaul 3-16) by 74 runs So lopsided was West Indies’ obliteration of Australia in the second semi-final of the World Twenty20, the victors had near enough to 13 overs to bask in their looming progress to the final against Sri Lanka. […]