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Laura Wolvaardt’s third century since taking over the captaincy, and sixth overall, led South Africa to the highest successful chase in a women’s ODI in Kimberley and an unassailable 1-0 lead in the three-match series against Sri Lanka. In the process, Wolvaardt became South Africa’s leading run-scorer in ODI cricket, in her 94th game. Crucially, […]

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Nepal batsman Dipendra Singh Airee became just the third man to hit six sixes in one over in an international T20 match when he achieved the feat against Qatar in Al Amerat on Saturday. He joins India’s Yuvraj Singh, who made his runs off England’s Stuart Broad in Durban in the 2007 World Cup, and West Indian […]

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Sunrisers Hyderabad have signed 22-year-old Sri Lanka legspinner Vijayakanth Viyaskanth as a replacement for the injured Wanindu Hasaranga at his reserve price of INR 50 lakh. Hasaranga was officially ruled out of IPL 2024 on Saturday owing to chronic pain in his heel that initially delayed his arrival for the tournament. Viyaskanth first rose to […]

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Sri Lanka Women’s team captain Chamari Athapaththu has cleared the air about her future in international cricket. Chamari Athapaththu has her focus entirely on the upcoming ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers, after which she will decide her future in international cricket. Athapaththu stirred

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Sunrisers Hyderabad legspinner Wanidu Hasaranga has been ruled out of IPL 2024 because of chronic heel pain in his left foot. Hasaranga had not yet joined the Sunrisers squad and ESPNcricinfo has learned that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) informed BCCI of his unavailability for the season. There’s been no confirmation on a replacement for Hasaranga […]

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Sri Lanka’s women’s side created history in East London on Wednesday as they registered their first series triumph over South Africa in any format. The series victory was confirmed when Sri Lanka claimed a narrow four-wicket win over South Africa in the third and final match of their series in what was their highest successful […]

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Australia are eyeing a third spinner apart from Adam Zampa and Glenn Maxwell in the squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. Despite missing out from the central contracts announced on Thursday, spinner Ashton Agar is firmly in the mix for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World

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Less than a day after Sri Lanka announced that Wanidu Hasaranga would be coming out of Test retirement to join the team for a two-match series in Bangladesh, he ended up with a sanction from the ICC that meant he would not be able to take part in the series. Hasaranga was punished for breaching […]

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Sri Lanka leg spinner Wanindu Hasaranga has come out of Test retirement and has been named in the 17-man squad for the two-match series in Bangladesh. Hasaranga had announced his Test retirement in August 2023 in a bid to prolong his white-ball career. Less than a year from the T20 World Cup

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Sri Lanka leg spinner Wanindu Hasaranga has come out of Test retirement and has been named in the 17-man squad for the two-match series in Bangladesh. Hasaranga had announced his Test retirement in August 2023 in a bid to prolong his white-ball career. Less than a year from the T20 World Cup

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Cricket South Africa have announced a 15-member squad for the upcoming home T20Is against Sri Lanka, featuring a star player from last year’s ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup. Karabo Meso has earned her maiden international call-up in South Africa’s squad for the three-match T20I series against Sri

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The ICC Board has approved the qualification process for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026. The event, which will be held in India and Sri Lanka, will see 12 automatic qualifiers. These will include the joint hosts along with the top eight teams from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024

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The 10th edition of the ICC Men s T20 World Cup will be co-hosted by Sri Lanka and India in 2026.

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Bangladesh will tour the USA for a three-match T20I series in May, ahead of the T20 World Cup. The two sides have never played a T20I against each other before and will use the series to prepare for the flagship tournament co-hosted by the USA and the West Indies. USA will also play Canada

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Former Sri Lanka captain Lahiru Thirimanne has been hospitalised after the car he was travelling in was involved in a serious head-on collision near the north-central city of Anuradhapura, on Thursday morning. The exact nature of Thirimanne’s injury is not understood yet, but he is presently in stable condition at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital. At […]

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Bangladesh captain Najimul Hossain Shanto and Sri Lanka coach Chris Silverwood both played down any narrative of personal scores being settled by the two sides over the next month. While Sri Lanka-Bangladesh clashes in the past have occasionally boiled over, both camps, at least for now, expect little more than a competitive series played in […]

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Afghanistan Head Coach Jonathan Trott conceded that Sri Lanka outplayed his team in all three departments in the recently concluded bilateral series between the countries. While Sri Lanka won the one-off Test match, they swept Afghanistan 3-0 in the ODIs before taking an unassailable 2-0 in the T-20 series. On Wednesday, Afghanistan managed to record […]

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South Africa’s women beat Australia for the first time ever, claiming a six-wicket win in the second T20I in Canberra. Quality bowling on Sunday helped them hold the hosts to a below-par total of 142 for 6, a total they tracked down with six balls to spare thanks to captain Laura Wolvaardt’s  unbeaten half-century. Australia […]

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By Srian Obeyesekere Chamari Athapaththu, Sri Lanka Women’s captain of both formats of instant cricket, has been bestowed with the rare honour of being named captain of the year 2023 by the International Cricket Council of both the World ODI and T20 women’s cricket teams respectively. This singular recognition has roundly earned Sri Lanka fame […]The post Rare honour for Chamari Athapaththu ...

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For the second year in a row, Nat Sciver-Brunt has been named as the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year. The player remained in prime form throughout the year, with some of her most remarkable knocks coming in 2023’s Women’s Ashes against Australia. Sciver-Brunt overcame challenge from Sri Lanka’s Chamari Athapaththu, and the Australia pair […]

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Bolt Gear, one of the leading Activewear Brands, announces the opening of its first-ever store at One Galle Face Mall, marking a significant milestone in the Brand’s expansion strategy. The Store showcases the latest in Premium Lifestyle and Sports-focused Activewear for Men, Women, and Children. Founded in 2012 by Shafraz Mansoor, Bolt Gear has emerged […]

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Sri Lanka T20 Captain Wanindu Hasaranga vented his disapproval of social media comments about Sri Lanka cricketers when he declined to field questions by certain sections of the media during yesterday’s confab by Sri Lanka Cricket to recognise its main sponsor Nippon Paints of the tour of Zimbabwe as well as other sponsor partners. “I […]The post “I don’t like to reply to social media commen...

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By Srian Obeyesekere While making special mention of the unifying value solidarity binding Sri Lanka cricketers and the country’s22 million cricket fan base without which the game would not prosper, Sri Lanka ODI Captain, Kusal Mendis said yesterday that he was confident that the country would evolve on the ODI front as well as T20 […]The post KUSAL MENDIS SAYS OUR FANS OUR UNIFYING FORCE ‘M...

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by Rex Clementine   Former captain Angelo Mathews made a grand return to Sri Lanka’s T-20 side scripting a nail-biting three wicket win over Zimbabwe in a last ball thriller at RPS on Sunday night. Playing his fist T-20 International in almost three years, Mathews opened bowling and then chasing a target of 144, dug […]

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Sri Lanka pulled off a thrilling three-wicket win over Zimbabwe in a last ball thriller in the first Twenty20 international in Colombo on Sunday. Requiring six runs off the last two balls, tail-ender Dushmantha Chameera smashed a boundary off the penultimate ball. Then he pushed the last ball to square leg, scampering for two runs […]

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Angelo Mathews is in line to play his first T20I in nearly three years after being named in Sri Lanka’s T20I squad for the series against Zimbabwe. Also in the squad are batters Kusal Perera and Dhananjaya de Silva  who are not in the squad for the ongoing ODIs, as well as spinner Akila Dananjaya,  […]

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Sri Lanka’s new cricket selectors have picked Kusal Mendis and Wanindu Hasaranga as the captains of the men’s ODI and T20I teams respectively for the home series against Zimbabwe in January. The Sri Lanka cricket board said that the Sri Lanka Cricket Selection Committee had picked the preliminary squads focusing on the Zimbabwe Tour of […]

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Impressive debuts from two young players at opposite ends of the experience spectrum led India to an impressive first-innings total on the opening day of their Test against England. Satheesh Shubha representing her country for the first time, and Jeminah Rodrigues,  playing her maiden Test after 113 white-ball appearances for India, both scored half-centuries on […]

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In a media release issued today (29) Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has announced its Men’s future tours program for 2024. Sri Lanka will commence their 2024 international calendar with a white-ball home series against Zimbabwe in January, which will consist of three ODIs and as many T20Is. This will be closely followed by the arrival […]

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