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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...
- ICC T20 World Cup 2014 | Earning the right to roar (Category: Sports)
- Dr. Jayantha Dharmadasa reminiscing the iconic 2014 T20 World Cup glory (Category: Sports)
- LIVE – Sri Lanka vs Japan | Match 4 – ACC Men’s U19 Asia Cup 2023 (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Squad for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 (Category: Sports)
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...
- Sri Lanka set up dream finale for Muralitharan (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand facing mighty challenge in semifinals (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka v New Zealand - scoreboard (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Video: HIRU THANIWELA EP 400 (Category: Video)
- Williamson steers New Zealand to thrilling last-ball win (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: CoL has increased by 400 percent - Maithri (Category: Video)
- 400 Shops In Colombo To Be Sealed (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- NISHAN MADUSHKA: Consistency has been his success story (Category: Sports)
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 was on 100 off 167 balls crossing the […]The post Ashan Priyanjan n.o. 100, Minod Bhanuka 73 sta...
- Minod Bhanuka n.o. 108 Dambulla 279/6 lead Colombo by 363 (Category: Sports)
- Roshen Silva struck a composed unbeaten 47 to rescue Colombo (Category: Sports)
- Dambulla beat Jaffna by 5 wkts. Sanoj Darshika solid 60 n.o. (Category: Sports)
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...
- Janith Liyanage 129 in Jaffna’s 245 vs Kandy 2nd Innings 172/6 (Category: Sports)
- All 12 Major League Tournament matches hampered by rain (Category: Sports)
Jaffna Kings tune up with 9-wkt. win over Colombo Stars (1st PARA) Jaffna Kings powered to a 9-wicket thrashing of the star studded Colombo Stars whose frontline Sri Lanka stars failed to live up to expectations as the side made a disappointing 128 for 9 off 20 overs. The day...The post The Kings tune up with 9-wkt win over Colombo Stars appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Rahamanullah and Avishka power Jaffna Kings to an 8 wicket win (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka in cakewalk 9-wkt. Routing of Afghanistan to take series 2-1 (Category: Sports)
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 ...
- Janith Liyanage 129 in Jaffna’s 245 vs Kandy 2nd Innings 172/6 (Category: Sports)
- Do What You Like Vs Like What You (Have To) Do! (Category: Breaking News)
Pace bowler Kasun Rajitha wrought havoc with a spellbinding 5 for 22 in bundling out Dambulla Aura for 89 runs as Colombo Stars swept to a 9-wicket win and the second in successive days with 51 balls to spare in Tuesday’s night encounter of the Lanka Premier League 2022 at...The post Kasun 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...
- Galle Gladiators defeat Colombo Stars by 25 runs (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Thanuka, Nuwanidu half tons help Galle Gladiators to a 12 run win (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Dambulla Aura win, but fail to qualify (Category: Sports)
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...The post Niroshan Dickwella Steals the Show with 41-ball 62 in Colombo Stars 9-run win over Dambulla...
- Colombo Stars defeat Dambulla Aura by 9 runs at Sooriyawewa (Category: Breaking News)
- Kasun Rajitha 5/22 Star of the night as Dambulla crash by 9 wkts. (Category: Sports)
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 post LPL 2022 unfolds in riot of colour appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- LPL 4th Edition Opens Player Registration for Overseas Players! (Category: Sports)
- The LPL overseas player registration period was extended following requests (Category: Sports)
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...
- Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in now or never firepower world cup showdown (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka take on unbeaten India in herculean task of making the last four (Category: Sports)
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...The post Sheer grit and commitment pays off – Player of the Series Nishan Madushka appeared first on ...
- Indiscriminate batting by Sri Lanka in innings and 222-run defeat (Category: Sports)
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 against Tamil Union his side’s way...The post India’s Hardik Pandya has influenced my batting, ...
- Mumbai Indians’ Skipper Hardik Pandya Credits Matheesha Pathirana for Chennai Super Kings’ Victory (Category: Breaking News)
- Rohit ton in vain after Pathirana four-fer (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardik Pandya draws strong criticism for pushing Lasith Malinga (Category: Breaking News)
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 post OVER THE MOON CCC CAPTAIN ASHAN PRIYANJAN SAYS: “Playing as a family our success st...
- Minod Bhanuka n.o. 108 Dambulla 279/6 lead Colombo by 363 (Category: Sports)
- CCC win title for record third consecutive year (Category: Sports)
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...
- ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 schedule announced (Category: Sports)
- Curtain raiser today between defending champs England and New Zealand (Category: Sports)
- Inoka Ranaweera 4/7 bowls Sri Lanka Women into Asia Cup semi-final (Category: Sports)
- FIXTURES RELEASED FOR ICC MEN’S CRICKET WORLD CUP QUALIFIER 2023 (Category: Sports)
The Lanka Premier League set to begin from 6th December. One of the most revered figures in the world of cricket, Sir Vivian Richards has joined the Lanka Premier League (LPL) 2022 as a brand ambassador. It provides a huge boost to the third edition of the tournament which will...The post Sir Vivian Richards Joins Lanka Premier League as Brand Ambassador appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Sir Vivian Richards joins Lanka Premier League as brand ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
- LPL signs Sanath Jayasuriya and Wasim Akram as brand ambassadors (Category: Breaking News)
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...
- Sri Lanka Squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lankan Squad of 30 for the T20 World Cup (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Men’s U19 Cricket World Cup 2024 (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka Squad for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 (Category: Sports)
Opening batsman Kusal Mendis blazed a 29-ball 54 and Wanindu Hasaranga de Silva 37 off 14 in sounding Sri Lanka’s T20 World Cup campaign defeating Zimbabwe by 33 runs in the first of two warm ups at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds yesterday. Sri Lanka, taking first lease, ran up 188...The post Kusal Mendis 54, Hasaranga n.o. 37 star in Sri Lanka’s 33-run warm up win over Zimbabwe appeare...
- New Zealand win final T20 to clinch series 2-1 (Category: Sports)
- Sri Lanka demolish Zimbabwe by 9-wkts. to take series 2-1 (Category: Sports)
By Srian Obeyesekere The enveloping aura of a new era in the annals of Sri Lankan cricket is the flitting mood all around to a cricket loving nation with the dawn of the Lanka Premier League 2020 today to be staged at the picturesque Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium. That the... The post LPL 2020 SET TO USHER IN NEW ERA | Colombo Kings take on Kandy Tuskers in opening game appeared first on...
Media Release The opening ceremony will use augmented and virtual reality technologies Sri Lankan Culture and heritage to be in display Colombo Kings and Kandy Tuskers to play the opening game The Lanka Premier League 2020, which will become Sri Lanka’s topmost T20 league of international flavor will kick off... The post LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony appeared fir...
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
By Srian Obeyesekere Herschelle Gibbs, the former South African star batsman, who made a name as a wonder batsman for his spellbinding stroke play of out of this world classy shots, is one of the renowned former cricketers packing the clout to the coaching staff of the historic Lanka Premier... The post Herschelle Gibbs, Coach guiding Colombo Kings appeared first on Sri Lanka Cricket.
- Herschelle Gibbs, Coach guiding Colombo Kings (Category: Sports)
- Herschelle Gibbs, Coach guiding Colombo Kings (Category: Sports)
- Herschelle Gibbs, Coach guiding Colombo Kings (Category: Sports)
- Herschelle Gibbs, Coach guiding Colombo Kings (Category: Sports)
By Srian Obeyesekere Dinesh Chandimal proved to be the King under lights in an unbeaten 51-ball 68 of measured aggression in Colombo Kings rising from the dumps of successive defeats to stopping the unbeaten giant killing run of the Jaffna Stallions by a long distance of 6 wickets in the... The post Dinesh Chandimal (n.o. 68 off 51) is King under lights in bringing down Jaffna Stallions appe...
By Srian Obeyesekere Basking in the reputation of giant pinch hitting finisher, Thisara Perera, the literal giant in size rose to gigantic heights wielding his willow like an acrobat in a rousing captain’s role in transforming the Jaffna Stallions in a 44-ball 97-run stellar act from a pathetic power play... The post Thisara Perera’s Giant sized 44-ball 97 reincarnates Jaffna Stallions to downsizi...
By Srian Obeyesekere The hard hitting former England batsman, Owais Shah will bring a wealth of experience in mentoring the Dambulla Vikings as its Head Coach in the staging of the historic Lanka Premier League by Sri Lanka Cricket that unfolds on November 26 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium... The post Ex-England batsman Owais Shah packs loads of experience as Head Coach of Dambull...
By Srian Obeyesekere The enveloping aura of a new era in the annals of Sri Lankan cricket is the flitting mood all around to a cricket loving nation with the dawn of the Lanka Premier League 2020 today to be staged at the picturesque Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium. That the... The post LPL 2020 SET TO USHER IN NEW ERA | Colombo Kings take on Kandy Tuskers in opening game appeared first on...
Media Release The opening ceremony will use augmented and virtual reality technologies Sri Lankan Culture and heritage to be in display Colombo Kings and Kandy Tuskers to play the opening game The Lanka Premier League 2020, which will become Sri Lanka’s topmost T20 league of international flavor will kick off... The post LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony appeared fir...
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
- LPL 2020 to commence with a spectacular virtual opening ceremony (Category: Sports)
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