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Reuters – By Simon Evans India were humiliatingly knocked out of the Twenty20 World Cup on Tuesday when a last-ball six from Sri Lanka’s Chamara Kapugedera condemned them to their third straight defeat in the Super Eight stage. Sri Lanka, who have two victories in Group F, won by five wickets and go through to […]

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP)—Cameron White smashed an unbeaten 85 off 49 balls before Australia’s bowlers destroyed Sri Lanka’s batting line-up to set up an 81-run victory in a Super Eights match at the World Twenty20 at Kensington Oval on Sunday. […]

Sri Lanka beat West Indies by 57 runs in their World Twenty20 Super Eight Group F match at the Kensington Oval on Friday. Sri Lanka 195-3 off 20 overs (M. Jayawardene 98 not out, K. Sangakkara 68) v West Indies 138-8 off 20 overs […]

PROVIDENCE, Guyana (AP)—Mahela Jayawardene cracked a brilliant 100 off 63 balls Monday and Sri Lanka just beat the rain to defeat Zimbabwe by 14 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis system at the World Twenty20 tournament. The 32-year-old Jayawardene slammed 10 fours and four sixes to dominate Sri Lanka’s innings of 173-7 off 20 overs. […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) – Sri Lanka have called up uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal in their 15-man squad for next month’s Twenty20 World Cup. The highly-rated 20-year-old was included in the squad named by selectors on Wednesday after scoring 320 runs at an average of 53.33 in Sri Lanka’s domestic T20 league. The squad also […]

Source: AP Sri Lanka beat India by four wickets in the final of the one-day international tri-series on Wednesday at Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium: […]