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Athapaththu first Sri Lanka player to top MRF Tyres ICC Women’s ODI player rankings ICC Media Release Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu has become the first player from her country to top the MRF Tyres ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings after starring in a 2-1 series win over New Zealand in the ICC Women’s Championship. […]The post History made as Sri Lanka star claims No.1 batter ran...
Ahead of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) auction, Pakistan's captain and star batter Babar Azam, who was a pre-auction direct signing by the Colombo Strikers franchise, said that he and his team are looking forward to developing the strongest side in the tournament.The post Colombo Strikers will look to form strongest side at LPL auction, Pakistan captain Babar Azam says appeared first on ONLANKA N...
SLC MAJOR CLUBS T20 TOURNEY By Srian Obeyesekere Yasodha Lanka 13-ball 41 in Colt’s 8-wkt.win over Ragama CC, Minod Bhanuka, Anjala Bandara and Yohan Suresh star in CCC’s 5-wkt.win over Kandy Customs Colts CC opening batsman Yasodha Lanka hit a cameo 13-ball 41 powered by 4 sixes and 3 boundaries in his side’s 8-wicket win […]The post Lahiru Madushanka 50 n.o. & 4/17 in Bloomfield’s 8-wk...
By Srian Obeyesekere Twenty nine year old leg spinner Dushan Hemantha of Badureliya SC got the big break debuting for Sri Lanka in the first ODI against Afghanistan at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium today after star leggie Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva was ruled out of the game following a heel impairment he sustained […]The post Dushan Hemantha gets big break after Wanindu...
By Srian Obeyesekere As sure as the rising sun, consistency has been young Nishan Madushka’s signature trade mark success story.To fail in the first shy has meant nothing short of coming good in the next. It has been the centre piece to an extraordinary take off that has set him apart as Sri Lanka’s new […]The post NISHAN MADUSHKA: Consistency has been his success story first ap...
By Srian Obeyesekere On a colourful note of contrasting characteristic significances young colt Nishan Madushka and the old guard skipper Dimuth Karunaratne struck centuries in the very first session as Sri Lanka reached 357 for 1 wicket in closing on Ireland’s 492 on a rain hit third day of the second test match which washed […]The post Sri Lanka 357/1; Nishan Madushka reaches magical Test ...
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 Dimuth Karunaratne led Sri Lanka holds the aces in the historic first ever test match against minnows Ireland in the historic first ever test match between the two countries that gets underway at the Galle International Cricket Stadium tomorrow. But for the 11th full member of the ICC fold Andrew Balbirnie’s little […]The post HISTORIC FIRST TEST: Sri Lanka holds t...
PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT FOR COUNTRY TO WIN ANOTHER WORLD CUP By Srian Obeyesekere Sri Lanka’s T20 World Champions of 2014 relived the moments nine years hence on April 6 in a moving flashback to the landmark achievement, while rallying around the contemporary T20 Team, echoed their expectations for a repeat performance by Sri Lanka touch […]The post Nine years hence, Sri Lanka’s 2014 T20 Wor...
By Srian Obeyesekere In a never as before overseas tours of make or break boiling point on two frontiers of Sri Lanka having to clean sweep New Zealand to making it to the ICC World Test Championship final that evaporated in a 2-nil defeat, to meeting the next hurdle, the most decisive of the two […]The post Sri Lanka front New Zealand in sky high challenge for automatic qualification for Wo...
By Srian Obeyesekere New Zealand defeated Sri Lanka by 2 wickets in the first Test with star batsman Kane Williamson reeling off an unbeaten 121 off 194 balls and Daryl Mitchell 81 off 86 leading the way on the fifth and final day at the Hagley Oval at Christchurch Monday to go one up in […]The post Kane Williamson 121 n.o. and Daryl Mitchell 81 guide New Zealand to 2-wicket win appeared fir...
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...
Ashan Priyanjan struck an unbeaten century and skipper Minod Bhanuka 73 in Dambulla’s 297 for 6 against Colombo after being put into bat on the opening day of the Sri Lanka Cricket National Super League 2023 match at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Priyanjan
Jaffna romped to a handsome 4-wicket win over Kandy inside of three days fronted by Shashrika Dulshan’s 4–wicket haul for 73 in dismissing their opponents for 222 in the second innings which was optimised by Dhananjaya de Silva’s unbeaten 82 off 110 balls inclusive of 10 boundaries reaching the target of 243 for the loss […]The post Shashrika Dilshan 4/73, Dhananjaya de Sil...
tune up with 9-wkt win over Colombo Stars appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
The third edition of the Lanka Premier League 2022 will see Jaffna Kings taking on Kandy Falcons tomorrow in a Play off to deciding the finalist while Colombo Stars will take on Galle Gladiators in the second decider at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium. Of course, Kandy Falcons, led...The post LPL FINALISTS TO BE DECIDED BETWEEN: Jaffna Kings vs Kandy Falcons, Colombo Stars vs Galle ...
Rajitha 5/22 Star of the night as Dambulla crash by 9 wkts. appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
When it looked like Colombo Stars was sunk by the Galle Gladiators with 40 off 18 balls for victory following the fall of Skipper Angelo Mathews for 7, Ravi Bopara, the former England all-rounder, who had watched from the other end con 7, performed the incredible thundering his way to...The post Ravi Bopara 31 off 12 lifts Colombo Stars to dramatic 2- wicket win over Galle Gladiators appeared firs...
In a battle of wits in similar situations from the dumps that pitted Galle Gladiators fifth wicket pair of Thanuka Dabare 70 and Nuwanidu Fernando 56 and Kandy Falcons seventh wicket pair of Ashen Bandara unbeaten 41 and Chamika Karunaratne 32 in an ultimate combat for supremacy, the Gladiators won...The post Thanuka Dabare storms from the unknown to Player of the Match heroic 70 to lift Galle Gla...
Lahiru Udara struck an unbeaten timely Player of the Match 45 off 35 balls as Galle Gladiators defeated Colombo Stars by 25 runs in the seventh match of the Lanka Premier League 2022 at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium on Sunday. The outcome was never in doubt after Colombo Stars...The post Lahiru Udara 45 n.o. Player of the Match as Galle Gladiators take the shine off Colombo Stars ap...
Wicket-keeper batsman Niroshan Dickwella stood strong staving a 3 for 26 collapse in three overs to leading Colombo Stars to a close 9-run win Dambulla Aura by a characteristically belligerent Player of the Match 41-ball 62 decked with 8 boundaries in the fifth game of the Sri Lanka Cricket Lanka
King cricket, as the adage goes, could not have got any better for Sri Lanka, a country smitten by the cricket bug running well over a century of years when the second edition of Sri Lanka Cricket’s Lanka Premier League (LPL) as several international cricketers lined up along with local
The chips down trailing Afghanistan by a smarting 1-nil defeat, it will be wake up reality time for hosts Sri Lanka heading into a literally do or die showdown against the high riding Afghanis in today’s second day-night ODI at the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium at 2.30 pm. The by...The post Now or Never wake up call for Lankans to stop high riding Afghanistan appeared first on Sri...
EXCLUSIVE: The extraordinary run avalanche to the magical 1000 in the very first six innings on the trot that sets out young blood in the realms of the unique has indeed found Ragama CC’s Nishan Madushka just Player of the Series reward of the concluded Sri Lanka Cricket Major League
EXCLUSIVE: CCC’s Player of the Final, Chamindu Wijesinghe says that India’s Hardik Pandya is one batsman who has influenced his batting very much. In an exclusive interview with Sri Lanka Cricket website, the 22-year old medium fast bowling batting all-rounder who swung the final
EXCLUSIVE: The champion CCC Skipper Ashan Priyanjan was over the moon over his club winning the Sri Lanka Cricket Major League Tournament for a record third consecutive year. And he had every reason to be in the champagne mood having skippered CCC in all three championship triumphs. In an exclusive
The semi-final run up heightened by a typical fluctuating stop start countdown has brought alive the T20 World Cup, cricket’s most scintillating extravaganza full circle in a head on showdown of the last four in an equal two way split of the European hemisphere versus the sub continent. The course...The post Stop start semi-final countdown in a climax to $ 1.6m prize money and World Cup appe...
Sri Lankan World Cup cricket star Danushka Gunathilaka has been charged following the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Sydney’s east. The Australian media reported that the cricketer has been arrested at the team hotel. He has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met in Australia. Gunathilaka is to be produced in […]
Vivian Richards Joins Lanka Premier League as Brand Ambassador appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
PREVIEW: The T20 World Cup 2022 in Australian terrain will be the challenging frontier Sri Lanka’s exuberant young cricketers led by Dasun Shanaka will necessarily have to go past the might of world cricket in the fast and furious paced short version showpiece of the game that unfolds on Sunday...The post Fired up Sri Lanka brace for T20 World Cup standoff with curtain raiser vs Namibia on S...