JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) :Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla have been omitted from South Africa’s one-day international (ODI) squad for the remainder of the series against Sri Lanka, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Sunday. All-rounder Kallis, 36, has been rested while Amla, the top-ranked

Former Sri Lankan cricket captain turned politician Arjuna Ranatunga says the current national cricket selection panel should be sacked following Sri Lanka’ s poor performance in the United Arab Emirates and South Africa. Ranatunga also accused the government of interfering with Sri Lankan cricket resulting in some senior players also making political comments instead of ...

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan minister slammed the country’s cricket team on Thursday, blaming poor team spirit for its humiliating 258-run thrashing by South Africa, the island’s worst one-day international defeat. Government spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said he was “horrified” when Sri Lanka were dismissed for 43 runs at Boland Park in Paarl on ...

Jan 09, Colombo: Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Hashan Tillakaratne has complained to the International Cricket Council (ICC) that the election for Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) office bearers held on January 3rd was conducted in violation of the institution's constitution.

sports.ndtv.com: Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has approached the BCCI about the possibility of hosting IPL matches, the new SLC president, Upali Dharmadasa, has said. The idea has been proposed as a way for SLC to raise additional revenue because the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) failed

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Phoenix Ogilvy Sri Lanka scored a major victory by beating leading global advertising agencies and international sports marketing companies to win the pitch for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that Phoenix Ogilvy will be the official marketing and communications agency for the ICC World Twenty20 2012. The tournament will ...

By Manoj Ridimahaliyadda espncricinfo.com: Sidath Wettimuny, the former Sri Lanka batsman, has suggested a radical restructuring of the country’s domestic cricket structure, which involves promoting provinces over clubs. The financial uncertainty surrounding Sri Lankan cricket and the upcoming board elections could, however, overshadow Wettimuny’s proposal. As a member of Sri Lanka Cri...

Former Sri Lanka Cricket captain and DNA MP Arjuna Ranatunga said in Parliament today that the International Cricket Council (ICC) should not directly make any payments to the accounts of Lankan players and asked the Sports Minister to look into how this was done. “The money must be sent

(Srilankamirror) - The International Cricket Council has paid 45 percent of delayed salaries of Sri Lankan cricketers, Xinhua reported quoting a senior official. Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed that the ICC paid $2 million, a part of the due 25 percent of the country's participation fee

Wall Street Journal.com: Not many employers could get away with not paying their most important employees for eight months. But that’s what cricket’s governing body in Sri Lanka has just done. Amazingly, those employees, the international-team players, have carried on working. Sri Lanka

Srilankamirror  - The Treasury has granted Rs. 50 million to cash strapped  Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to help its current financial  crisis. Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has said the money  granted by the Treasury would be used to pay the salaries of  the SLC

By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The Treasury had on Friday (9) approved a grant of Rs. 50 million to bail out the cash strapped Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said the Treasury has given the monies to SLC as a grant to help overcome the current financial crisis

Coca-Cola Cricket Pathway, a unique initiative to discover and nurture grassroots talent from all parts of the country, continued on its journey with the announcement of the second Coca-Cola Pathways Super Camp, to be staged in Colombo. Coca-Cola has collaborated with the Aravinda de Silva Cricket Foundation to organise the Coca-Cola Cricket Pathway initiative and ...

SRI Lanka Cricket has been a hot topic of conversation for most of this year, due to the massive financial mismanagement that has finally caught up to the institution, with even the Government refusing to back it any longer. Lending a ray of hope, Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage

Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage says Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) was now receiving money and that the current financial crisis at the board would be resolved by February next year. He has told parliament that 65 percent of the payments due to the Sri Lankan cricketers would be paid

Lanka Cricket receives $1.8 million from the International Cricket Council for co-hosting the World...

Srilankamirror - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has said it is currently discussing with the international cricket players union to look for a solution to the non-payment of Sri Lanka player salaries. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has told the BBC Sinhala service in October that the players

  Ranatunga’s candidacy as Secretary offers an interesting twist By Faraz Shauketaly The announcement made by Thilanga Sumathipala that he will be a contestant at the forthcoming Sri Lanka Cricket elections has been greeted as welcome news by his loyal followers. Many agree that Sumathipala

The Sri Lankan Cricketers’ Association (SLCA) has contacted the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) seeking assistance over the delay in the cricketers’ salaries for series following the World Cup this year. Sri Lanka have played three series since the end of the World Cup in April and the players are still awaiting payment, including ...

Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister has told the nation’s cricket team to start talking to each other to help end their losing streak, saying a lack of communication was the main problem in the squad. Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage met the players, selectors and administrators on Tuesday to find a solution ahead of next month’s Test ...

Eloquent top order batsman Kumar Sangakkara walked away with the coveted CEAT Peoples Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year at the star-studded 2011 CEAT Sri Lanka Cricket Awards which honoured the country’s top performing international and domestic cricketers. Sangakkara

Chamara Silva, a middle-order batsman, has joined Sri Lanka’s squad in the UAE as back up for Mahela Jayawardene, who has an injured knee. Jayawardene has returned to Sri Lanka and will miss the fifth ODI and the Twenty20 international against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi.  “After Sunday’s game Mahela’s injury got worse, so he has ...

(Srilankamirror) - Chamara Silva, a middle-order batsman, has joined Sri Lanka's squad in the UAE as back up for Tillakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene, who are both injured. While the extent of Dilshan's niggle is not known, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) already announced

By Richard Browne The sad demise of cricket writer Peter Roebuck has been a poignant reminder of the mortality that cricket and cricketers face. The empty stands at Eden Gardens for the recently concluded Test match against the West Indies and Ricky Ponting’s long decline that is closing in on the terminal are further if ...

By Faraz Shauketaly It is rare that Sri Lankan government Ministers keep to their word – and when its Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage announced some months ago that in keeping with the International Cricket Council (ICC) decision to do away with politically appointed administrators elections would be held, many considered that to be yet ...

MANY are the articles penned and opinions aired over Sri Lanka’s bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games bid, but now the only question that needs to be answered is, where to from here? Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told media that the cost for the promotion of Hambantota as the venue was US$ 8 ...

Sri Lanka's interim cricket committee was dissolved by the sports minister on Tuesday ahead of elections ordered by the International Cricket Council.

Cricket stadiums handed over to the military Three of Sri Lanka’s international cricket stadiums , including the newly built stadiums in Pallekele and Hambantota, have been handed over to the military indefinitely because Sri Lanka Cricket is unable to afford the maintenance costs. The navy

The Revival of Underperforming Enterprises and Underutilized Assets Bill that is to be presented to parliament soon has in it economic and political objectives that spell doom for Sri Lankan democracy as well as the economy. It would vest in the Sri Lankan government Hotel Developers (Lanka) PLC which owns the Colombo Hilton that has ...