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    Dilshan to take up opening role in Tests

    Dilshan will open batting In all probability Sri Lanka will have a new opening combination come Tuesday when they take on New Zealand in the first Test from August 18-22 at the Galle International Stadium. With injured in form batsman T.M. Dilshan who scored a belligerent 60 ball 68 against...
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    BREAKING NEWS >> Murali sets Test retirement date

    Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan has said he will retire from Test cricket next year. Murali, who is the highest wicket-taker in Tests with 770 wickets in 127 Tests, announced that the two-Test home series against West Indies in November 2010 would be his last. Speaking at the end of...
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    Mathews earns Test call-up

    His Fitness level is not yet 100% to play 5day games it seems. :(
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    Mathews earns Test call-up

    Sa'adi Thawfeeq June 29, 2009 Angelo Mathews, the Sri Lankan allrounder who impressed during the ICC World Twenty20, is among three new players named in a 15-man squad for the first Test against Pakistan. Mathews has been picked ahead of Chaminda Vaas and wicketkeeper-batsman Kaushal Silva and...
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    WorldT20 Finals - Captains Preview (Video)

    Watch : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9n51g_09-fnsl-cpatainstoxvidclip0_sport
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    Sangakkara wants to go one step further than 2007

    Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan captain, has said Pakistan's unpredictability was something his team needs to watch out for during Sunday's final. Pakistan looked hapless in their opening-game defeat to England but bounced back strongly since, upsetting tournament favourites South Africa in...
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    Subdued Jayasuriya has captain's backing

    Alex Brown June 2, 2009 Kumar Sangakkara drew directly from the Good Captaincy handbook by offering unqualified support to a team-mate down on his luck. But, at some level, Sri Lanka must harbour concern for Sanath Jayasuriya, the one-time Howitzer of international limited-overs cricket whose...
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    Kumar Sangakkara interview ahead of ICC World Twenty20

    IPL's about quality cricket, not money - Sangakkara Sa'adi Thawfeeq May 30, 2009 Kumar Sangakkara holds the destiny of his country's cricket in his hands as he takes on his first assignment as captain in an official capacity. He also talks of his experience in the IPL, playing under Mahela...
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    Prabhakaran body recovered?

    Sun, 2009-05-17 18:59 By Asian Tribune Team Colombo, 17 May, (Asiantribune.com): Latest report emerging from the war zone reveals that Prabhakaran’s body has been recovered and it has been flown to an Army camp in Colombo for DNA testing and to confirm it medically. At the time of filing this...
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    Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Tournament >> Udana stars in Wayamba's title win

    Sa'adi Thawfeeq March 5, 2009 Isuru Udana, the 21-year old left-arm fast bowler, was the toast of Wayamba after he bowled them to a five-wicket win over Basnahira South in the final of the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament at the SSC. Udana, generating a lot of pace and movement off the...
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    de Saram added to World Twenty20 squad

    Batsman Indika de Saram has forced his way into the Sri Lanka ICC World Twenty20 squad with some outstanding performances for Ruhuna in the ongoing Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament. de Saram was included by the national selectors along with four other players - Tissara Perera, Gayan...
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    Mendis released from hospital

    March 16, 2009 Ajantha Mendis, the Sri Lankan spinner who was injured among with some of his team-mates in the terrorist attack on their team bus in Lahore earlier this month, has been released from hospital after shrapnel was extracted from his head and back. Tharanga Paranavitana and...
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    De Mel confirms Sangakkara as captain

    Sri Lanka’s selectors have confirmed that Kumar Sangakkara, the long-standing vice-captain to Mahela Jayawardene will take over the role as captain of the national cricket team. Once Mahela Jayawardene announced he will step down from captaincy after the Test series in Pakistan, the obvious...
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    'They're shooting at us!' - A MUST READ ARTICLE (By Sangakkara)

    Shootout in Lahore 'I felt a bullet fizz past my ear' When you have been through what we have experienced, when you have been targeted by terrorists yourself and been so fortunate to escape, it changes your thinking Kumar Sangakkara March 4, 2009 As I dictate this article we are preparing...
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    Lahore attack witness account > A Member of Ten Sports Crew Explains

    Gaven Scovel, a television producer with TV Ten, was at the scene when the attack on Sri Lankan cricketers took place on Tuesday in Lahore. He gave Al Jazeera a detailed witness account of the incident. It was about 8:30 in the morning, we had come to the ground to check the cameras as we...