SINCE the August tri-series, with India and New Zealand, much of the cricket Sangakkara’s men had indulged in was confined to the nets. The solitary engagement in the run-up months to the World Cup, the six-week tour by the West Indies in November/December, you’ll recall, was ravaged by the monsoon: none of the three Tests ...

The President has inaugurated the modernized Kettarama International Cricket Stadium. The Sri Lanka Cricket Institute carried out the modernization work amounting to one billion rupees. A number of encounters in the World Cup series will be held at the Kettarama Stadium. Earlier the stadium

Video: FM Derana official radio broadcaster for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

Former Sri Lanka Cricket and Asian Cricket Council President, Former ICC Director and Parliamentarian Thilanga Sumathipala in a letter to the International Cricket Council president Sharad Pawar has requested that the ICC reconsider the Eden Gardens Stadium as a world cup venue

The rescheduling of the one-day international series against the West Indies from December to late January has resulted in a loss of US$125,000 to Sri Lanka Cricket

Sri Lanka Cricket wishes to announce that the matches in the forthcoming …

Jan 26, Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket has decided to shift the venues for next week's three-match One Day International series against the West Indies to Colombo as previous venues are to be handed over to International Cricket Council in preparation for the World Cup 2011, an official has said.

The Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium which has been built for the staging of ICC 2011 World Cup Games has earned praise of the International Cricket Council. The ICC has inspected the Sooriyawewa Cricket Stadium. Its main constructions have been completed and a group led by World Cup Director Prof. Ratnam Shetty inspected the work ...

West Indies cricket team will visit Sri Lanka later this month for three one-day international matches to make up for a washed out five-match series last year, cricket authorities said Sunday. Sri Lanka Cricket said in a statement that the newly built Suriyawewa stadium in the southern Hambantota

By Rohan Wijesinghe Hushed silence…on the fall of the second Lankan wicket – as tub thumping fans, packed to the ruddy rafters, would set aside their flags and rattles…. with the dapper destroyer, rolling down the hallowed SSC stairway, swinging his tree trunk of a willow, with such an imperial swagger in his chunky pads. ...

By Gavin Van Hoff (islandcricket.lk/blogs/gavin) It has been a hectic month so far and from the looks of things, it’s going to be a long December for our friends over at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). We’re only half way into the final month of 2010, 65 days from the ICC Cricket World Cup

19 year old Bhanuka learnt the rudiments of the game at his …

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) in consultation with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has decided to postpone the five match One Day International series between the two teams and which was scheduled to commence in Hambanthota yesterday. The tourists, who played three rain-hit drawn Tests in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has finally decided to postpone the One Day International series against the West Indies SLC announced today.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) in consultation with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has decided to postpone the five match One Day International series between the two teams and which was scheduled to commence in Hambanthota yesterday.

A controversial security officer employed by Sri Lanka Cricket is reported to have created a scene at the Sooriyawewa International Cricket Stadium yesterday when he slapped one of his subordinates over an issue he had with a service provider at the venue. The officer, known as a showman character

Sri Lanka Cricket has decided to go ahead with the Sri Lanka-West Indies One Day International series as scheduled. The first match will be played tomorrow (Thursday) at Hambantota, says the SLC Secretary. ....

West-Indies – Sri Lanka One Day International series has been postponed due to the prevailing weather condition. The series will be rescheduled to be held before the 2011 ICC World Cup, Sri Lanka Cricket said a short while.

Sri Lanka Cricket will see the dawn of a new era when the first ever one day international between the touring West Indies and Sri Lanka begins at the historic Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium in Sooriyawewa, Hambanthota on Thursday. This day night encounter will see the beginning of a new chapter in Sri

Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket D.Somachandra de Silva, ICC Tournament Director Suraj Dandeniya and all those concerned in seeing to the completion of the stadiums ear marked to conduct 2011 World Cup matches will now be heaving sighs of relief. That is because the Test matches between West Indies

The first Test Match in the new Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy begins. The official opening of the new stadium took place under the patronage of Central Province Chief Minister Sarath Ekanayake. Work on the new stadium was launched by a foreign firm in the year 2002. However the construction was completed with the ...

When the umpires call ‘play’ in the final Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, signifying the baptism of the Pallekelle International Cricket Stadium, a special cheer should be reserved for the man who made it all possible - D Somachandra de Silva, Chairman, Sri Lanka Cricket

SLC is aiming at assistance towards Schools to develop cricket throughout the …

After coming out second best in the First Test at the Galle International Stadium Sri Lanka will be looking to raise their drooping spirits and produce a better effort when they front up to the West Indies in the Second Test starting at the R Premadasa Stadium, today. Sri Lanka cricket suffered

After coming out second best in the First Test at the Galle International Stadium Sri Lanka will be looking to raise their drooping spirits and produce a better effort when they front up to the West Indies in the Second Test starting at the R Premadasa Stadium, today. Sri Lanka cricket suffered

Sri Lanka’s cricket and rugby teams for the 16th Asian Games are due to arrive in this Southern Chinese city tomorrow (18) afternoon. Sri Lanka cricket team, led by national Test and ODI player Jehan Mubarak and Sri Lanka rugby team, captained by Radhika Hettiarachchi, are due to check

This column may have been sounding like a broken record when we continued over a long period to advocate the Umpire Decision Referral System which was the brainchild of Sri Lanka Attorney-at-Law and cricket enthusiast Senaka Weeratne. From the shaows of an elusive past it has, at long last given birth. It will finally see the light of day. The Test series between Sri Lanka and West Ind...

Sri Lanka Cricket has organized special events on the 18th of November …

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The opening of ticket reservations in Sri Lanka for the ICC Cricket …