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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka 2008-09
Martin Williamson
February 26, 2009
Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe have agreed to postpone their one-day series next month because of issues raised by the proposed broadcaster, Ten Sports.
Zimbabwe Cricket managing director Ozias Bvute and his Sri Lanka counterpart Duleep...
By Lal Gunesekera
Trevor Bayliss, Sri Lanka’s cricket coach from Australia, too is to give up his duties with the National team after their tour of Pakistan.
The Sunday Leader learns that his contract runs upto August, and that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) were to meet all obligations to Bayliss...
We've got to keep working on our fielding - Bayliss
Sa'adi Thawfeeq
February 14, 2009
Trevor Bayliss, the Sri Lanka coach, has responded to chief selector Asantha de Mel's criticism on the team's poor fielding by saying that while the most of the players are not outstanding fielders, they will...
Ahead of the curve
Jayawardene has been Sri Lanka's finest captain, and his decision to quit when he did has been in keeping with the rest of his leadership
Sa'adi Thawfeeq
February 12, 2009
The world is full of surprises, and Mahela Jayawardene's decision to quit the Sri Lanka captaincy at a...
Cricinfo staff
February 12, 2009
Mahela Jayawardene has said his poor form in recent one-day matches was a factor in his decision to resign as captain of Sri Lanka.
"I was not making runs according to the standards I had set myself," Jayawardene said in Colombo, a day after he announced his...
by Rex Clementine
Sri Lanka completed their third successive ODI series defeat at home, but avoided a first ever 5-0 whitewash when they won the final match of the series at R. Premadasa Stadium yesterday. Captain Mahela Jayawardene speaking to the media admitted that there were many...