Category: Sports News

Multi-million-dollar cricket TV deal hots up as Aluthgamage orders to call for tenders Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) President Upali Dharmadasa rejected a media release issued by the Sports Ministry yesterday alleging that Dharmadasa had requested the Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage to renew the SLC TV contract with Ten Sports for another seven years without calling […]

Former captain predicts brighter future for women cricketers Sri Lanka’s World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga hailed the efforts of the country’s women cricketers on Tuesday and went onto say that the women were an example for the men’s team when it came to commitment. In the ongoing ICC Women’s World Cup in Bombay, the […]

MUMBAI: Livid with her bowlers after the humiliating first-round exit from the Women’s World Cup, India captain Mithali Raj said their collective failure in the must-win group match against minnows Sri Lanka was a bolt from the blue for her. […]

Sri Lanka 282 for 5 (Rasangika 84, Siriwardene 59, Kaushalya 56*, Mendis 55) beat India 144 (Malhotra 38, Seneviratna 2-10) by 138 runs Less than a week ago, few Sri Lankans apart from the players’ families and board officials knew the country had a women’s cricket team, according to the captain Shashikala Siriwardene. On February […]

Calcutta: Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell seems to be having a dream run. His efforts so far in the ongoing ODI series against the West Indies have been handy in giving Australia a 2-0 lead. Besides, Maxwell also bagged a million-dollar deal at the IPL-VI auction in Chennai, on Sunday, where franchises opted to put their […]

Sri Lanka, a qualifier in the ICC Women’s World Cup 2013, pulled off a last-ball heist against defending champion England to emerge victor by one wicket at the Brabourne stadium here on Friday. […]

Australia and Sri Lanka are back on speaking terms after Glenn Maxwell visited the tourists’ dressing room where both teams apologised for the fiery confrontation that marred Monday night’s Twenty20 match at the MCG. […]

Sri Lanka beat Australia by three runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method in the second and final Twenty20 cricket international in Melbourne on Monday. Sri Lanka clinched the two-match series 2-0. […]

REUTERS – Sri Lanka beat Australia by five wickets in the first Twenty20 International in Sydney on Saturday to go 1-0 up in the two-match series. […]

With former captain Sanath Jayasuriya set to be named Chairman of the new selection panel to be announced on Monday, there is some concern as to what he will bring into the table. But surely he can’t be worse than what the current lot have done. […]

Sri Lanka defeated Australia by four wickets after bowling out the home side for an embarrassing 74 in the third one-day international at the Gabba on Friday to take a 2-1 series lead. […]

Australia captain Michael Clarke is one of three big names to return to the squad for the third and fourth one-day internationals against Sri Lanka after a disappointing showing by stand-ins on Sunday. […]

The national cricket team’s support staff currently consists of eight individuals and to that long list they may as well add a running between the wickets coach, a discipline where the Sri Lankans have been awful this summer here in Australia. The trend continued in yesterday’s first ODI against Australia as Sri Lanka suffered a […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Dimuth Karunaratne was approaching his maiden test century as Sri Lanka reached 130 for one in their second innings at tea on the third day of the third test against Australia on Saturday. […]

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. […]