Category: Sports News

Tillakaratne Dilshan has been appointed Sri Lanka’s captain for all three formats during the upcoming tour of England in May following Kumar Sangakkara’s resignation from the post after the World Cup. Sri Lanka Cricket have not yet named a vice-captain to fill the role vacated by Mahela Jayawardene because “the prospective candidates are nursing injuries, […]

KOCHI: Senior Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardene on Sunday said that his country’s cricket board and the BCCI are likely to meet on Monday for a “dialogue” over the return of the players taking part in the IPL midway in the Twenty20 league for a tour of England. […]

Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage warned that Sri Lankan cricketers who do not return from Indian Premier League (IPL) 2011 tournament before the 5th of May would be replaced. Cricketers from Sri Lanka taking part in the IPL have been asked to come to Colombo by the 5th of May by minister Aluthgamage. […]

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Saturday appointed a new selection committee that will be headed by former skipper Duleep Mendis. Former Test players Brendon Kuruppu, Don Anurasiri and Ranjith Madurasinghe form the rest of the committee, sports ministry officials said here on Saturday. […]

Sri Lanka’s outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss on Thursday said the country needed a strong and stable cricket administration to allow players to focus only on the game and not be distracted by politics. […]

Former Australia batsman Stuart Law has been promoted to interim head coach of Sri Lanka. Law had been assistant to the outgoing Trevor Bayliss since November 2009 and will take the reins for next month’s tour of England. […]

Sri Lanka cricket selectors will appoint a new captain to the team shortly as it has to tours England in may. Sri Lanka Cricket Secretary Nishantha Ranathunga said that the Selectors will met shortly to select a suitable successor as the team is scheduled to tour England in May. […]

Sri Lanka’s great spin bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan, says he has “never touched” a computer and “hates” the thought of it. Murali was speaking to the BBC at a reception given in honour of the national team by President Mahinda Rajapaksa two days after they lost the ICC Cricket World Cup final to India. […]

Kumar Sangakkara has quit as captain of Sri Lanka’s one-day and Twenty20 sides, three days after the defeat by India in the World Cup final. The 33-year-old has offered to continue as Test skipper on an interim basis to aid transition to a new captain. […]

HYDERABAD: Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara will lead Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League starting on April 8, according to Gayathri Reddy, owner of Chargers. […]

While hailing the Sri Lankan national cricket team, President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that 20 million people of Sri Lanka took a step back to allow 1.2 billion Indian people to enjoy some happiness, for the second time since 1983. […]

Fast bowler Lasith Malinga said on Sunday that his World Cup career is over. “I hope to be of service to my team as long as I can, but I won’t be able to play in the next World Cup in 2015. I have been carrying injuries for the past few weeks and with little […]

Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara said that he was sorry to have disappointed the nation by missing on the World Cup but assured that the Lankan cricketers will win the World Cup the next time around. […]

India 277 for 4 (Gambhir 97, Dhoni 91*) beat Sri Lanka 274 for 6 (Jayawardene 103*, Sangakkara 48) by six wickets Twenty-eight years on from the match that transformed the history of world cricket, India recaptured the crown that Kapil Dev and his men first lifted at Lord’s in 1983, and this time they did […]

Cricket lovers, ranging from senior bureaucrats to local ‘tuk-tuk’ drivers, are not amused over former Sri Lankan cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga’s off-the-cuff remark that he does not advise the cricket team any longer because President Mahinda Rajapaksa has taken up that job. Sri Lanka takes on India in the final of the 10th edition of […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa called on all Sri Lankans to rally around the Sri Lankan team to win the Cricket World Cup – 2011 as a tribute to spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan who will retire from ODIs after the final at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai tomorrow. […]