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Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga has recovered from a knee injury and will lead the defending champions at next month’s World Twenty20 in India, the country’s cricket board said on Thursday.

As the 3rd T20 International cricket match between India and Sri Lanka is all set to be played, the issue of fake tickets has been bothering the Indian city police.

Sri Lankan paceman Thisara Perera became the fourth cricketer to claim a hat-trick in Twenty20 internationals in the second match of the three-game series against India on Friday.

PUNE: An inexperienced Sri Lanka side shocked favourites India to win the first of three Twenty20 Internationals by five wickets at Pune on Tuesday and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

India are resting batting mainstay Virat Kohli for the three 20-over matches against Sri Lanka this month with an eye on the Twenty20 World Cup on home soil.

London: Graham Ford has agreed to return to Sri Lanka for a second spell as coach, his English county championship employer Surrey announced on Thursday.

The absence of impulsive opener Kusal Perera from the Sri Lankan batting line-up had an adverse effect on Sri Lanka’s overall performance in the five-match One-Day International series which they lost 1-3 to New Zealand.

Sri Lanka’s glitzy cricketer Kusal Perera faces a bleak future after his B urine sample also turned out to be positive when it was tested in Doha last week.

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (Dec. 11) telephoned the cricketer Kusal Janith Perera who has been alleged for using of prohibited substance.

Sri Lanka wicketkeeper-batsman Kusal Perera has been sent home from their tour of New Zealand after failing a drugs test, local media, citing a Sri Lanka Cricket statement, said on Tuesday.

All Blacks great Jonah Lomu, who revolutionised wing play to become rugby union’s first global superstar, died on Wednesday in Auckland at the age of 40.

Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 30 runs within the first Twenty20 International on Monday to go 1-0 up within the two-match collection and prolong the guests’ dropping streak.

Opener Kusal Perera fell for 99 but his free-flowing knock powered Sri Lanka to a comfortable eight-wicket win in a rain-hit second one-day international against West Indies on Wednesday as the hosts sealed the series with a match to spare.

New Zealand cemented their status as the greatest team in rugby history when they overwhelmed Australia 34-17 at Twickenham on Saturday to become world champions for a record third time, and the first nation to retain the Webb Ellis Cup.

Former Sri Lanka batting great Kumar Sangakkara has become the latest cricketer to enroll for the draft of the inaugural edition of the Twenty20 Pakistan Super League (PSL), which is scheduled to be held next year in Dubai and Sharjah.

Branding Sri Lanka’s fielding standards as the worst in Asia, interim coach Jerome Jayaratne said on Saturday that poor fitness levels is the chief reason for the team’s problems.