Category: Sports News

Lasith Malinga picked up his third career One Day International hat-trick against Australia a short while ago in the fifth ODI being played at the R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Mitchell Johnson, John Hastings and Xavier Doherty fell victim to Malinga in the 46th over. […]

Sri Lanka has axed young batsman Dinesh Chandimal and spin bowler Rangana Herath from their squad to play Australia. All-rounder Thisara Perera has also been dropped as the hosts try to prevent defeat in the final two games of the one-day international series. […]

Upul Tharanga’s fourth one-day international century this year and a five-wicket haul from Lasith Malinga kept the series alive as Sri Lanka compiled a comfortable 78-run victory in Hambantota. After two substandard batting performances in the opening matches, Sri Lanka finally found their rhythm and their 286 was too tall a target for Australia, who […]

Sri Lanka 157 for 9 (Jayawardene 86, Hastings 3-14, Lee 3-39) beat Australia 149 for 9 (Watson 57, Mendis 6-16) by eight runs Ajantha Mendis turned tricks beyond the grasp of six Australian batsmen as Sri Lanka completed an eight-run victory for a 2-0 sweep of the Twenty20 series at Pallekele. […]

Tillakaratne Dilshan hit a maiden century off just 57 balls and Dilruwan Perera took three wickets to lead Sri Lanka to a 35-run win against Australia in the first Twenty20 match on Saturday. Dilshan hit five sixes and 12 boundaries for an unbeaten 104 as Sri Lanka ended on 198-3 in 20 overs. […]

Lasith Malinga, the Sri Lanka fast bowler, has not been picked for the national team’s two-match Twenty20 series against Australia, starting August 6 in Pallekele, due to an injury. Malinga was named in the list of 20 probables for the home series, but was left out of the Twenty20s to get back to fitness for […]

Sri Lanka’s former captain Kumar Sangakkara has been nominated for International Cricket Council’s second annual LG People’s Choice Award for his outstanding performances in the past year. […]

Sri Lanka have announced their one-day and T20 squad for Australia’s tour next month, but not their skipper. Tillakaratne Dilshan, who was named captain for the recent tour of England, was included in the 20-man squad scheduled to play five ODIs and two Twenty20 games against Australia. […]

A division bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Malik Muhammad Ishaq  the alleged mastermind of the Sri Lankan cricket team attack which occurred on March 3, 2009. The bench comprising Justice MA Shahid Siddiqui and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa ordered the release of the accused on furnishing two bail […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s sports minister has ordered a probe into former captain Kumar Sangakkara’s comments about the island nation’s cricket administrators and political meddling during his speech to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) members at Lord’s on Monday. […]

SRI Lanka star Kumar Sangakkara has welcomed the ICC directive requiring all national boards to be elected without political interference. His call came just days after Sri Lanka’s sports minister said he had forced the national cricket board committee to step down following allegations of financial mismanagement. […]

DINESH Chandimal’s unbeaten 105 helped Sri Lanka to a six-wicket victory in the third one-day international against England at Lord’s on Sunday, giving the tourists a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Sri Lanka, chasing 247, finished on 4-249. […]

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will push ahead with its inaugural Twenty20 tournament with Australian and Pakistani players, despite a no-show by the 12 Indian stars, the island’s sports minister said today. […]

June 20, 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Acting Chairman, SLC, Eshana De Silva (L) and a visibly distraught Nishantha Ranatunga at the media briefing. (Pic by Sujatha Jayaratne) Sajeewa Rajapakse, Treasurer, Sri Lanka Cricket who has been an employee of SLC for the last six years, stated that this is the first time that SLC has […]

The spectre of Lalit Modi continues to haunt the Indian cricket board. According to top sources, BCCI has refused to let Indian cricketers play in the upcoming Sri Lankan Premier League because it suspects that the former IPL czar is behind the new T20 league. […]

Tillakaratne Dilshan has become the seventh cricketer from Sri Lanka to feature in Lord’s Honour’s Board, courtesy to his big century in the drawn second Test against England. […]