Category: Sports News

Sri Lanka 292 for 7 (Sangakkara 112, Dilshan 68) beat England 202 (Root 55, Woakes 41, Lakmal 4-30, Senanayake 3-33) by 90 runs A masterful century from Kumar Sangakkara helped Sri Lanka wrap up the ODI series against England with a thumping 90-run victory in Pallekele. […]

Suspended offspinner Sachithra Senanayake has been included in Sri Lanka’s provisional 30-man squad for next year’s cricket World Cup. […]

Sri Lankan spinners combined for nine wickets before Kumar Sangakkara hit 86 runs to help the hosts to a tense six-wicket win over England in the fourth one-day international on Sunday. […]

Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee arrived at this a decision on Tuesday (02) to generally safeguard spectator comfort inside spectator areas of the stadium. This does not mean that the papare bands are banned but portable horns and hooters being brought in by spectators will be banned. SLC announced that this rule will be implemented […]

Sri Lanka Cricket says batsman Mahela Jayawardene has pulled out of the third limited-overs international against England for personal reasons. […]

Second one-day international, Colombo (RPS): Sri Lanka 186-2 (34.2 overs) beat England 185 (43 overs) by eight wickets Sri Lanka beat England by eight wickets in a rain-reduced one-day international to take a 2-0 lead in the series. […]

Sri Lanka’s cricket players will observe a two minute silence at the start of their next one-day international against England in Colombo on Saturday as a mark of respect for Australia’s Phillip Hughes. […]

Sri Lanka cricketers Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thisara Perera have been fined and reprimanded for disciplinary breaches during the first one-day international against England, the International Cricket Council said on Thursday. […]

The cricket world has been left shattered by the death of Australian batsman, Phillip Hughes. The 25-year-old suffered devastating head injuries when he was struck while batting at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday. […]

Sri Lanka defeated England by 25 runs in the first one-day international in Colombo on Wednesday to take the lead in the seven-match series. […]

England were frustrated by rain in Colombo as their final warm-up match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. The tourists were due to take on a Sri Lanka A side for the second time in three days ahead of the first one-day international on Wednesday. But persistent rain at the P. Sara Oval meant […]

Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews is now the No 1 all-rounder in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Rankings for One-Day International (ODI) All-rounders. Despite Sri Lanka losing the ODI series to India 0-5, Mathews was one of the success stories and performed brilliantly with the bat. In the last ODI at Ranchi, he smashed 139 […]

Colombo: Sri Lanka sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has defended the decision to send Angelo Mathews and Co. for the unscheduled tour to India. […]

Innings Sri Lanka 242 (Jayawardene 118, Dilshan 53, Yadav 4-53 ) v India A disastrous batting Powerplay that cost Sri Lanka three wickets for 16 runs sucked the oxygen out of an already endangered innings and set the visitors on course for their third mediocre score of the series. On a track expected to feature […]

HYDERABAD: Nearly 1,500 police personnel will be deployed for the upcoming one-day international cricket match between India and Sri Lanka at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal on Sunday. Cyberabad police said 56 cameras would be installed in and around the stadium and a command control room will also be set up to monitor […]

Ahmedabad: Sri Lanka batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan is hopeful of his team’s comeback in the five-ODI series against India despite a crushing 169-run defeat in the first game at Cuttack on Sunday. The Sri Lankans, chasing a mammoth 364 to win, were rattled by fast bowlers Varun Aaron and Umesh Yadav at the start of their […]