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This summer’s tri-series will be played amid a backdrop of a pay dispute which sees Sri Lanka’s players owed as much as $US 5million ($4.71 million) due to a cash crisis within the country’s governing body. […]

Newly appointed Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene stated that he would remain as captain for a year at maximum and that he decided to take up the job because previous captain Tillekaratne Dilshan resigned and there was no young contender for the job in the horizon. Speaking to journalists at the SLC headquarters yesterday, he […]

Graham Ford: New Sri Lankan cricket coach COLOMBO (Reuters) – All-rounder Farveez Maharoof and left-arm paceman Chanaka Welegedara have been recalled to the Sri Lanka one-day side for the tour of Australia next month, returning to the side for the first time since June 2010. […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan has resigned from the captaincy and former skipper Mahela Jayawardene has been reappointed to the role, the island nation’s sports minister said on Monday. […]

Cricket captain Tillakaratne Dilshan has resigned as captain of the national team, Sri Lanka cricket announced today, paving way for Mahela Jayawardene to take over the role. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka beat South Africa by two wickets with one ball remaining in the fifth and final one-day international at the Wanderers on Sunday. […]

Sri Lanka 304 for 5 (Dilshan 87, Perera 69*, Chandimal 59) beat South Africa 299 for 7 (de Villiers 96, Smith 68) by five wickets It took Sri Lanka three consecutive defeats to get their batsmen firing in unison. Tillakaratne Dilshan finally played with freedom to give the chase momentum, Dinesh Chandimal anchored it in […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP)—Former test bowler Ashantha de Mel was reappointed as Sri Lanka’s chief selector on Thursday, 19 months after he was sacked amid accusations of inefficiency, favoritism and political bias. […]

It’s a job that he said he didn’t want three years ago and last year after the ICC Cricket World Cup in April he stepped down from the team’s vice-captaincy too, but Mahela Jayawardene said yesterday that he would ‘think about it’ if the post of captaincy was offered to him on the national cricket […]

Sanath Jayasuriya was bought at US $ 110,000 by Khulna Royal Bengal while Muttiah Muralitharan was bought by Chittagong Kings at the auction. Lasith malinga has also been bought at this auction which is currently taking place in Bangladesh. […]

File Photo: AP Bloemfontein is the venue where Sri Lanka’s campaign in the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2003 started and captain Sanath Jayasuriya set the tone for the tournament with a swashbuckling hundred and the Sri Lankans will be hoping for a similar performance by their current captain Tillakaratne Dilshan or one of the […]

South Africa 301 for 8 (Amla 112, Kallis 72, de Villiers 52, Malinga 5-54) beat Sri Lanka 43 (Morkel 4-10) by 258 runs South Africa’s season of outlandish results produced another jaw-dropper as Sri Lanka subsided to 43 all out, their lowest total in one-dayers. The shorter format was widely expected to make the one-day […]

South Africa 580 for 4 decl. (Kallis 224, de Villiers 160*, Petersen 109) and 2 for 0 beat Sri Lanka 239 (Dilshan 78, Philander 3-46, Steyn 3-56) and 342 (Samaraweera 115*, Kallis 3-35) by 10 wickets South Africa won their first home series since 2008, a period in which they had been denied on five […]

Upali Dgarmadasa has been appointed as the new Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket uncontested. Dharmadasa is the first elected chairman of the bodyin seven years, […]

Sri Lanka beat South Africa in the second Test match played in Durban by 208 runs after setting a second innings target of 450. South Africa were all out in the second innings for 241 runs with Rangana Herath picking up five wickets for 79 runs. […]

Tea Sri Lanka 338 and 207 for 5 (Sangakkara 101*, Chandimal 23*) lead South Africa 168 by 377 runs Kumar Sangakkara made his first important contribution of the series, while Thilan Samaraweera and Dinesh Chandimal made their second each of the match to steer Sri Lanka’s lead towards match-winning proportions. Sangakkara’s first century in South […]