2023 LANKA PREMIER LEAGUE FINAL By Srian Obeyesekere The countdown to the finals of the 2023 Lanka Premier League between Dambulla Aura and B Love Kandy does hold out to be a facing off of the clash of the titans given the tournament run up that has galvanized into a momentum build up in the […]The post Dambulla Aura-B Love Kandy face off a fitting clash of the titans first appeared on Sri L...

By Srian Obeyesekere As the fourth edition of the 2023 Lanka Premier League gathered steam moving into the challenging harsher terrain of making it to the finals and the focus interestingly shifted to the backseat coaches of the five teams facing the media yesterday with the guiding lights of the top placed two teams namely […]The post Slow pitches challenge players, you have to believe in y...

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Media Release 10th July 2023: The inaugural edition of the Lanka T10 League will be held from December 12 to 23, 2023. The tournament, which was initially planned to be held in June 2023, was shifted to December, as SLC deemed the ‘December window’ as the most appropriate to conduct the league, as the timing […]The post The inaugural edition of the Lanka T10 will be played in December 2023 f...

EMERGING TEAMS ASIA CUP 2023 HOSTED BY SRI LANKA “We are well balanced side to handling pressure” – Sri Lanka A Captain Rest of the team captains look forward to the mega event By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Vice President and Tournament Director of the mega Asian Cricket Council (ACC

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The Lanka Premier League (LPL) is back and better than ever with its upcoming 4th edition set to take place from 30th July to 20th August, 2023. This year, the matches will be played both in Colombo and Kandy, featuring five teams: Galle Gladiators, Dambulla Aura, Lyca Jaffna Kings, Colombo Strikers and Kandy Falcons – […]The post World-Class Cricketers Set Sights on LPL 2023: Sri Lanka’s T2...

By Srian Obeyesekere Forty three test wickets from six appearances just eight months and four days into the foray of top flight international cricket is the phenomenal achievement by Sri Lankan spinner Prabath Jayasuriya that has set him apart as the joint third best bowler in test cricket history to do so. The left arm […]The post PRABATH JAYASURIYA: What a phenomenal rise to hitting the wo...

At age 23, Nishan Madushka, the discovery from Moratuwa’s Moratu Vidyalaya, whose willow works reached the dizzy run making skyline in spellbinding style has found the deserving reward of being noticed by the national selectors. Madushka being named in the Sri Lanka squad for the upcoming tour of New Zealand has indeed propelled the Ragama […]The post Nishan Madushka’s record run makin...

Media Release 08th November 2022 Sri Lanka Cricket condemns and vehemently denies the truthfulness of a tweet made by a senior sports journalist claiming that Sri Lanka Cricket was instructed to bear the legal costs in relation to the incident of Mr. Danushka Gunathilaka by a VVIP politician

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage

By Srian Obeyesekere The enveloping aura of a new era in the annals of Sri Lankan cricket is the flitting mood all around to a cricket loving nation with the dawn of the Lanka Premier League 2020 today to be staged at the picturesque Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium. That the... The post LPL 2020 SET TO USHER IN NEW ERA | Colombo Kings take on Kandy Tuskers in opening game appeared first on...

By Srian Obeyesekere Thilina Kandamby, a former Sri Lanka cricketer who graduated skippering the Sri Lanka Under-19 XI side on tour of Australia winning the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions, is the Head Coach of the Jaffna Stallions. A sound batsman who emerged from Ananda College who hit five... The post Thilina Kandamby, Head Coach of Jaffna Stallions in charge of a poten...

By Srian Obeyesekere Head Coach of Kandy Tuskers, former Sri Lanka captain Hashan Tillakaratne will be a heady lending weight to guiding the fortunes of the side at the forthcoming historic Lanka Premier League (LPL). Besides his sound experience as one of Sri Lanka’s toughest campaigners with the bat as... The post Hashan Tillekeratne, Head Coach of Kandy Tuskers heady lending weight appeared fir...

By Srian Obeyesekere Pakistani Shahid Afridi, who skippers Galle Gladiators following the pulling out of Lasith Malinga, will indeed infuse to the historic Lanka Premier League (LPL) that sense of foreign clout that is the expectant lending fire power the nature of the local version of the Indian Premier League... The post Galle Gladiators Skipper Shahid Afridi infuses lethal foreign clout to LPL ...

By Srian Obeyesekere Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Anura Tennekoon welcomed the launch of Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) historic Lanka Premier League as the ideal stepping stone to realizing a long felt need of creating a very strong mainstream national cricket team. “I believe that the staging

By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s first Test cricket captain, Bandula Warnapura, while welcoming Sri Lanka Cricket’ staging of the historic Lanka Premier League “which he believed would enable the country’s young latent talent to further evolve their game in making it to the big international stage

Colombo Kings beat Kandy Tuskers in Super Over after thrilling tie By Srian Obeyesekere What a down to the wire anointing smasher the inaugural 2020 Lanka Premier League 20-20 day-night contest  turned out to be with the game ending in thrilling tie of 219 runs each,and Colombo Kings winning by... The post THUNDERING START TO INAUGURAL 2020 LANKA PREMIER LEAGUE appeared first on Sri Lanka Cri...

By Srian Obeyesekere The enveloping aura of a new era in the annals of Sri Lankan cricket is the flitting mood all around to a cricket loving nation with the dawn of the Lanka Premier League 2020 today to be staged at the picturesque Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium. That the... The post LPL 2020 SET TO USHER IN NEW ERA | Colombo Kings take on Kandy Tuskers in opening game appeared first on...