Category: Sports News

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. […]

Fast Bowler Chaminda Vaas says that following the World Cup final, he will retire from One Day International Cricket. breakingVaas made this statement to Sportsfirst, before boarding a flight to Mumbai, where he may represent Sri Lanka in the World Cup final against India. […]

Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup hero Chaminda Vaas wanted to hang up his boots after playing the World Cup at home. He waited two years for the big moment, since he played his last match in 2008. But he could not fulfil his dream despite his good form in domestic and county cricket. However, he […]

SriLankan Airlines will add more flights to India for cricket fans planning to fly to India for the Cricket World Cup final match on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne said. […]

India 260 for 9 (Tendulkar 85, Riaz 5-46) beat Pakistan 231 (Misbah 56) by 29 runs India’s dream of a World Cup triumph at home is one step closer after their bowlers suffocated Pakistan’s batsmen to set up a 29-run victory in the semi-final in Mohali. Saturday’s decider will now be a battle of the […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angele (Pix by Reuters) New Zealand captain Daniel Vittori will quit Cricket twenty20 and captain of the national team after the defeat of his team at Colombo’s R. Premadasa cricket gtounds, the New Zealand Herald reported. “Vettori, … confirmed after the match that he’ll step down as […]

Sri Lanka 220 for 5 (Dilshan 73, Sangakkara 54) beat New Zealand 217 (Styris 57, Mendis 3-35) by five wickets Sri Lanka overcame a serious bout of the jitters to book their place in Saturday’s World Cup final in Mumbai, as New Zealand bowed out in the last four for the sixth time in ten […]

For the second match in succession, Sri Lanka are sweating over the fitness of Muttiah Muralitharan who is nursing a leg injury ahead of the semi-final against New Zealand tomorrow. “Murali and everyone around him is trying to get him as fit as possible and fit enough to play,” Kumar Sangakkara said. […]

SYDNEY: Ricky Ponting, the most successful captain in 134 years of Test cricket, resigned as the Australian Test and one-day skipper on Tuesday but will continue as a batsman with the team. […]

Security arrangements have been strengthened by the Police with the assistance of the Special Task Force and the three Forces for today’s World Cup semi-finals between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the R Premadasa Cricket Stadium, Colombo, said Inspector General of Police Mahinda Balasuriya. […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP)—As his cricketing career winds down, Sri Lanka’s superstar Muttiah Muralitharan, the man who can spin a cricket ball like magic, is turning his sights on dragging war-shattered youngsters out of poverty and nurturing the country’s next generation of athletes. Who else but Murali, as he’s known to the whole country, could […]