Category: Sports News

Sri Lanka cricketer Bhanuka Rajapaksa has reportedly handed over a letter of retirement to the cricket administration.

Former Sri Lanka Cricket captain Mahela Jayawardena has been appointed as the national team’s ‘Consultant Coach’ for the period of one year, starting from January 1, 2022.

Last year, prior to Lanka Premier League, Wanindu Hasaranga was just another up and coming cricketer. Lead up to this year’s event, he’s world’s number one ranked bowler, globetrotting in style.

Sri Lankan spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan has called his former teammate and the ICC’s latest Hall of Fame inductee Mahela Jayawardena one of the game’s “great thinkers”.

Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga has climbed to the No.1 spot on the ICC Men’s T20I bowling rankings, for the first time in his career.

Sri Lankan Cricketer Wanindu Hasaranga took his first T20 International hat-trick against South Africa in Sharjah today (30).

Sri Lankan bowler Lahiru Kumara and Bangladeshi batter Liton Das Kumar were both fined for breaching level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel.

With terrific batting from Charith Asalanka (80*) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa (53), Sri Lanka defeated Bangladesh by 5 wickets in their first Super 12s fixture of T20 World Cup 2021 in Sharjah.

Sri Lanka stormed to the Super Stage with an unbeaten record in the group stages as they overcame Netherlands by an eight-wicket win in their third game at Sharjah.

Former skipper Mahela Jayawardene’s role with the Sri Lankan team as a consultant has worked wonders and everyone from captain, coach to players have praised him immensely.

Sri Lanka booked their place in the Super 12 stage of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 with a massive 70-run win over Ireland.

Spinners Maheesh Theekshana and Wanindu Hasaranga set up a comprehensive seven-wicket win for Sri Lanka against debutants Namibia in round one of the Twenty20 World Cup on Monday.

Sri Lanka’s first Test Captain Bandula Warnapura passed away at the age of 68 while receiving treatment at a private hospital in Colombo.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has rescinded the domestic cricket ban handed to Kusal Mendis, Danushka Gunathilaka and Niroshan Dickwella, subject to the players paying their respective fines.

Sri Lanka have named Lahiru Kumara, Binura Fernando and Akila Dananjaya in their final 15-man squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup 2021.

Sri Lanka are a “work in progress” and they stand a good chance of success at the Twenty20 World Cup if the team can step up their batting to match the solid bowling attack, coach Mickey Arthur said.