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The Commercial hub of the island, Colombo has recently drawn a great deal of positive attention from Standard Chartered. The bank’s regional teams, impressed with Sri Lanka’s recent economic progress and development in business, have recognised the city as an ideal venue to host global conferences. In the next few months the local branch office ...
- Standard Chartered Wins FT/IFC Sustainable Global Bank of the Year Award (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered kicks off ‘Go Forward’ with Liverpool Football Club (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered sponsors Colombo Art Biennale (Category: Business)
- StanChart eyes $ 3 b Singapore revenue in three years (Category: Business)
Reuters: Trisha Chetty spent a productive day on either side of the stumps as South Africa kicked off their women’s Twenty20 World Cup campaign with a comfortable six-wicket victory over hosts Sri Lanka in a Group B match on Wednesday. South Africa captain Mignon du Preez put Sri Lanka in after winning the toss and ...
- Captain Smith praises South Africa bowling display (Category: Business)
- Dilshan refusing to quit (Category: Business)
- Invitation side will test Sri Lanka: Barnes (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s World cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga slammed the 7 over a side match played between Sri Lanka and South Africa in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup. Ranatunga says this type of cricket played between two international cricket sides is not good for the game of cricket
- Ranatunga commends ICC for not giving a window for IPL in its FTP (Category: Breaking News)
- Murali back in Gloucestershire (Category: Breaking News)
- More than 300 cricketers are forced to stay at home doing nothing because of the IPL – Arjuna (Category: Breaking News)
- Malinga says, he is developing a new delivery (Category: Breaking News)
Trekurious, Sri Lanka’s premium experiential travel portal introduces new offering to travellers to Sri Lanka with the launch of celebrity cricket experiences, tailored for those who love the gentleman’s game and the personalities who play it. Trekurious brings to discerning fans a wide array of experiences to choose from, including a dinner hosted by Sri ...
- Sri Lanka's delights within easy reach (Category: Breaking News)
- More countries to learn from Lanka s military (Category: Breaking News)
- Branding beyond borders (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka, Kuwait to forge stronger relations, signs agreement to protect worker rights (Category: Breaking News)
T20 isnandrsquo;t cricket according to purists but about entertainment pure and simple.andnbsp; Given this, kicking off the T20 World Cup here at the Sooriyawewa International Cricket stadium sits across a thick jungle wasnandrsquo;t ideal, even though the cricket facility is magnificent
- Opening Play (Category: Business)
- UPDATE-1-Cricket-Sri Lanka's Jayasuriya to retire this month (Category: Breaking News)
- Hit Wicket (Category: Business)
- Test cap in sight (Category: Australia, Queensland)
Dashing opener Dilshan Munaweera is likely to make his international debut this evening when Sri Lanka hosts Zimbabwe in the opening fixture of the T20 World Cup at the Suriyawewa International cricket stadium in Hambantota this evening.
Sri Lanka proud hosts of popular and shorter form of most entertaining tournament played in Asia for the first time; 20-teams, 20-day cricket fiesta ICC World T20 kicks off tomorrow Mega boost for tourism as 500 players and officials alone to take up 9,000 room-nights; hundreds of overseas fans, global sponsor officials and media to ...
- ESPN STAR Sports bags multi-year broadcasting rights for Sri Lanka Premier League (Category: Business)
- ICC launches World Twenty 20 Sri Lanka 2012 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to host World T20 2012 (Category: Sports)
- ICC announces WT20 warm-up schedule (Category: Business)
The Zimbabwe team arrived on Tuesday to participate at the ICC T20 World Cup tournament to be played in Sri Lanka from next week. Here the team on their arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport The Bangladesh team arrived yesterday to participate at the ICC T20 World Cup tournament
- Seylan commemorates Vesak with Bakthi Gee (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Lodge Habarana conducts medical camp (Category: Business)
- The Sri Lanka Cricket team with their new performance enhancing attire…. (Category: Business)
- Ready to take on Sri Lanka - Mohsin (Category: Breaking News)
By Devin Jayasundera In the run up to the ICC world Twenty20 the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Foundation of Goodness (spearheaded by Muttiah Muralidaran and Kushil Gunasekera) partnered in launching the ‘Murali Harmony Cup’ in order to promote Social harmony and unity among the country’s youth. The event is supported by the Mahela ...
- Murali cup: taking cricket to the masses (Category: Business)
- Appalachian State graduate spends summer helping others in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic gold in 2028, Kushil’s dream (Category: Breaking News)
www.pakpassion.net: The inaugural edition of the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL) T20 tournament got underway on 11 August and, as expected, has provided many international players with the ideal preparation just a month before the Twenty20 World Cup. This is an opportunity which many Pakistani players have taken advantage of as is evident with the ...
- Brian Lara, MCC Chief lift SLPL to the world (Category: Business)
- SLPL has given us edge ahead of World T20: Malinga (Category: Business)
- SLC Secy. Nishantha on success of maiden Mahindra SLPL (Category: Business)
- YouTube to broadcast Sri Lanka Premier League globally (Category: Business)
The upcoming World Twenty20 tournament which will take place in Sri Lanka will be aired in the United States via ESPN3. International Cricket Council says Cricket fans in the United States will have a chance to watch the T20 world cup without any additional cost. ICC says, its Chief Executive
- More than 100,000 tickets for World Twenty20 sold (Category: Breaking News)
- World praise for Murali (Category: Breaking News)
- Fans invited to welcome cricketing heroes (Category: Breaking News)
- Stumpy joins ICC World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
The International Cricket Council yesterday announced that tickets for the finals of the ICC World T20- 2012 to be held in Sri Lanka, have all been sold out. Meanwhile, the third phase of tickets opened up for sales to the public on the 1st of August 2012. The fast sellers of the ICC world T20 ...
- Sale of T20 World Cup tickets begins (Category: Breaking News)
- Britisher arrested for theft of T20 tickets (Category: Breaking News)
- T20 world cup tickets to go on sale (Category: Breaking News)
- Sidelined (Category: Business)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday announced that tickets for the finals of the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012, have all been sold out. The womens and mens finals will be played at the R. Premadasa Stadium on October 07.
REUTERS: Kevin Pietersen was left out of England’s provisional, 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup announced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Wednesday. England"s Kevin Pietersen looks on during a training session before the third cricket test match against the West Indies at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham – REUTERS The ...
- Kevin Pietersen misses World T20 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pietersen woes continue with golden duck (Category: Business)
- Pietersen apologises to the ECB (Category: Breaking News)
- Pietersen out of England’s World T20 squad (Category: Business)
More than 100,000 tickets have been sold for the ICC World Twenty20 Cup in Sri Lanka, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said in a statement here Thursday. .
New Delhi, June 8 (IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) Friday unveiled Sri Lanka's star pacer Lasith Malinga as the official ambassador for the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012.
Islamabad, May 31(ANI): Sri Lanka will take on Pakistan on Friday in a two-match Twenty20 International series in Hambantota, and both the sub-continental teams would be eyeing to win the series to improve their rankings in the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Twenty20 ranking table.
India will play One Day Internationals at Hambantota, Dambulla, Pallekele and Premadasa Stadium when they arrive here in July to play five ODIS and a Twenty20. Hambantota will host the first two ODIS while Premadasa Stadium in Colombo will host the only T20 International. According to the International Cricket Council’s Future Tours Programme India were ...
- Virat Kohli has got 5 MOM awards in 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan and Sri Lanka set for UAE clashes (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC T20 world Cup tickets for the finals sold out (Category: Breaking News)
- Heavy rain stop match (Category: Breaking News)
Starlet Nupur Mehta has added a new twist to the ongoing match-fixing allegations that have lately come her way. She now claims she was seeing Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan around the time of the 2009 T20 World cup in England. Nupur’s new revelation comes in the wake
- Sports Minister prepared to accord security to Hashan Tilakaratne (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-New Zealand captain Cairns sues Modi for libel (Category: Business)
- Australia board hits back at ‘outlandish’ fixing claims (Category: Business)
By Uditha Jayasinghe Sri Lanka is expected to get $ 40 million (over Rs. 4.4 billion) for hosting the T20 World Cup later this year for which Cabinet approval was given this week. In terms of the agreement already reached with the International Cricket Council (ICC), the T20 World
- Ajantha Mendis back, Zimbabwe bowl in opener (Category: Sports)
- Watch Free! T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs India Live Streaming Online - Twenty 20 World Cup Schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- Watch Free! T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs India Live Streaming Online - Twenty 20 World Cup Schedule (Category: Breaking News)
- Watch Free! T20 World Cup Sri Lanka Vs India Live Streaming Online - Twenty 20 World Cup Schedule (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka will host the ICC T20 world cup during the months of September and October this year, with the participation of 12 countries. Already, the Sri Lankan cricketing authorities and the International Cricket Council have signed an agreement towards this. Government says, the ICC will provide
- ‘Room to Read’ Children watches a T20 warm up game (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranjan Madugalle scores a half a century in T20’s (Category: Breaking News)
- India, the favorites to win the T20 world cup in Sri Lanka – Yuvraj (Category: Breaking News)
- India beats Sri Lanka in a T20 warm up (Category: Breaking News)
Melbourne (AFP): Uncapped George Bailey was on Monday named skipper of a revamped Australian squad for next month’s Twenty20 internationals against India as selectors looked towards September’s T20 world cup. Bailey replaces Cameron White, who has been dropped from the 14-man squad
- Experienced Australian squad for T20 (Category: Business)
- T20Squad (Category: Business)
- SL Cricket announces Australian Team arrivals (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka name skipperless squad (Category: Breaking News)
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 ...
- Phoenix Ogilvy wins ‘Best of Asia’ Gold at Goafest (Category: Business)
- T20 World Cup ticket sales exceed 100,000 (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to host T20 World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
By Sachin David The International Cricket Council officially launched the Marquee event of the shortest format of cricket the World Twenty20 tournament that is to be played on Sri Lankan soil in the year 2012. The tournament will be played from 18 September 2012 to 7 October 2012. The event will see the best Men’s ...
- SLT empowers ICC World Twenty20 2012 in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Lovely cricket! (Category: Business)
- ‘Murali Harmony Cup’ to promote social reconciliation through cricket (Category: Business)
- Dialog Axiata powers ‘Youth 19 Schools Cricket’ (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka Cricket announced that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved the hosting of Twenty 20 World Cup...
Sri Lanka Cricket’s bid to host the T20 World Cup in 2012 was approved by the International Cricket Council at the recently concluded ICC meeting in Singapore. ICC has shown faith in Sri Lanka Cricket, hence it is thankful to the governing body for giving it the opportunity, a statement from Sri
- Sri Lanka cricket team to tour US and Zimbabwe (Category: Breaking News)
- No move to ban Malinga: SLC (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan Women start proceedings at St kitts on a winning note (Category: Breaking News)
- Row with India over SLPL (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka Cricket’s bid to host the T20 World cup in 2012 was approved by the International Cricket Council at the recently concluded ICC meeting in Singapore.
To say that the new Sport Minister’s thoughts, Monday, on the Sri Lanka Cricket Board was a breath of fresh air would be an understatement. Rather, Minister C. B. Ratnayake’s remark that cricket is “the third most corrupt institution behind education and the police” was more a tornado, which, while devastating surely the game’s administrators, ...
- New selection committee announced (Category: Breaking News)
- FLASH: Cricket selectors sacked, new panel named (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal approves new cricket selection committee headed by Asantha De Mel (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal approves new cricket selection committee headed by Asantha De Mel (Category: Breaking News)
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