Category: Sports News

Former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardena became the first Sri Lankan to score 10,000 test runs. he achieved this feat a short while ago during the second test match  currently underway in Kingsmead. Sri Lanka are currently 36/2. […]

Pakistan’s cricket board on Sunday said it has invited former World Cup winning Sri Lanka coach Dav Whatmore to finalise his appointment as head coach of the national team, an official said. […]

For the national cricket team this year has been a tough one, but for star batsman Kumar Sangakkara it’s been the opposite. Apart from leading the team to the finals of this year’s World Cup, Sangakkara has scored over 1,000 runs in ODI cricket and is getting close to the benchmark in Tests. This year, […]

Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan says his batsmen are working extremely hard to come out of the batting slump and need to take more responsibility to produce results in Test cricket. Sri Lanka were crushed by South Africa by an innings and 81 runs at Centurion on Saturday as they lost the Test inside three […]

It is indeed tragic that Sri Lanka Cricket has got into the financial imbroglio that it is faced today. It has caught global attention by it, even prompting the South African Test and ODI team players, to say that they wished their Lankan opponents were paid their earnings prior to the start of the tour! […]

Harsha de Silva struck twice in one over as bowlers of the MPs team restricted the Ministers to 106/7 and succeeded in winning the inaugural Speakers Challenge Trophy at the Sports Ministry Ground in Torrington today (11). […]

Former Sri Lanka skipper turned politician, Sanath Jayasuriya, has switched to Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) cricket team during the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Premier Cricket Tournament which is in progress. […]

India opener Virender Sehwag has hit the record one-day international score after smashing 219 from 149 balls against West Indies in Indore. His team-mate Sachin Tendulkar, rested from this series, previously held the record after hitting an unbeaten 200 against South Africa in 2010. […]

ABU DHABI — Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in a thrilling finish to the only Twenty20 international played at Abu Dhabi stadium here on Friday. […]

Skipper Misbah-ul Haq and Umar Akmal hit half centuries to help Pakistan upstage Sri Lanka by three wickets in the fifth and final day-night international at Abu Dhabi Stadium on Wednesday. […]

SHARJAH — Tillakaratne Dilshan said on Monday he would like to continue as Sri Lanka captain for another tour before deciding about his future after losing his third one-day series in a row. […]

Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by 26 runs in the fourth one day international to win the ODI series played in the UAE. Shahid Afridi scored 75 runs and picked up 5 wickets for 25 as Pakistan defended a total of 200 in Sharjah. […]

The maintenance of the Pallekele, Kettarama and Sooriyawewa cricket grounds have been handed over to the Tri-Forces from November 1, the Sports Ministry said today. […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Cricket Council has officially warned Sri Lanka over preparing a poor pitch for a test match against Australia during last month’s series. […]

The sports minister in Sri Lanka says no action was taken against Kumar Sangakkara for his controversial 2011 Cowdrey Lecture that criticised corruption in cricket administration. The minister has ordered the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to submit a report after the widely hailed lecture delivered in London earlier this year. […]

Angelo Mathews crawled to his maiden Test century but Sri Lanka wasted valuable time on the fourth morning in Colombo, where they added only 45 runs to their overnight score. The hosts batted tediously for more than an hour and a half before the final wicket fell with the score at 473, giving them a […]