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Sri Lanka completed a comfortable 209 runs win with a day to go despite a resilient second innings fight back by the Pakistanis to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series which would be best remembered for the atrocious umpiring as well as Kumar Sangakkaraandrsquo;s unbeaten 199 at the Galle International Stadium yesterday.andnbsp;
After seven sessions of complete dominance, first with the bat and then with some excellent seam and spin attack aided by the horrors of umpiring decisions, Sri Lanka refused to go for the kill, as they puzzlingly decided to bat a second time despite a commanding 372 first innings lead on day three of the first Test here at the Galle International stadium on Sunday.
Former captains TM Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara hit centuries, while skipper Mahela Jayawardane cashed in with an unfinished half century to help Sri Lanka reach a formidable 300 for 2 after electing to bat on day one of the first Test against Pakistan at the Galle International Stadium yesterday.
Sri Lanka will look to arrest their dismal Test record during the last three years when they taken on inconsistent Pakistan in the first of the three match Test series starting today at the propitious Galle International Cricket Stadium.
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been suspended from this week's Galle Test after his side was found guilty of a serious over-rate offence during the fifth and last ODI against Sri Lanka at R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Monday.
All-rounder Angelo Mathews struck an unbeaten 80 off 76 balls to lead Sri Lanka to a thrilling two wickets win over Pakistan with two balls to spare in the fifth and the final One-Day International played at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo on Monday.
Pakistan were strongly placed at 166-2 in the 38th over before they collapsed to 199 all out chasing a 244-run target in the day-night contest, with man-of-the-match Perera finishing with 4-42.
ICC Media Release More than 350 school children from Kandy district formed a …
Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thisara Perera starred as Sri Lanka levelled the one-day international series against Pakistan with a comfortable 76-run victory in the second ODI in Pallekele.
Pakistan won their first of the five One-Day Internationals against Sri Lanka by six wickets here at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has chosen Sri Lanka's star Lasith Malinga, as the official Event Ambassador for the ICC World Twenty 20 Sri Lanka 2012.
Both Sri Lanka and Pakistan will be aiming for improvements in their rankings on the Reliance ICC ODI Championship table when they go head to head in a five-match series which starts in Pallekele on Thursday.
A. Ratnayake Central College, Walala can be called as the birth place of many athletes who are dominating at school and national level for years in the Sri Lanka athletic arena but out of those only few athletes went beyond national level to win at International level.
Pakistan were bowled out for 95 after restricting Sri Lanka to 132-7, with pacemen Nuwan Kulasekera, Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga and debutant off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake each taking two wickets.
The Asian Athletics Association yesterday said that it would revoke a decision to cancel next monthandrsquo;s Asian Athletics Championships in Colombo if Sri Lankan officials responded to a letter from the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
The 400m hurdles is the event in which Sri Lanka won her first ever medal in an Olympic Games. This was achieved by Duncan White 64 years ago at the London Olympics in 1948. After White it was Harijan Rathnayake who shone in the same event at many international arenas for Sri Lanka.
India will kick off their five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka in late July in unfamiliar territory as the first two matches of their short tour is scheduled to take place at the Hambantota International Cricket Stadium. andnbsp;
Sri Lankaandrsquo;s newest cricket venue the Pallekele International Stadium that was commissioned for the 2011 World Cup played host to a crime scene when spectators at a big match between two schools clashed violently after one team refused to accept the result.
Sri Lankaandrsquo;s women cricketers suffered yet another defeat when they lost the third T-20 International to the West Indies women at the Queenandrsquo;s Park Oval on Sunday
Sri Lanka will host Pakistan for a Test match at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium for the first time during a major Test, ODI and T-20 cricket series starting next month
Graeme Swann claimed a match haul of 10 wickets as England roared to a series-levelling win over Sri Lanka in the second and final Test on Saturday to retain their number one ranking.
Left-arm spinner Rangana Herath claimed a match haul of 12 wickets as Sri Lanka condemned top-ranked England to their fourth consecutive Test defeat on Thursday in the series opener.
India were on Tuesday night knocked out of the Asia Cup cricket tournament after minnows Bangladesh continued their giant-killing act by upsetting Sri Lanka by five wickets in the last league match here.
Sangakkara has jumped five places to fourth position after finishing as the fourth leading run-getter with 420 runs, Dilshan has moved up four places to 10th place after ending as the leading scorer with 513 runs, while Chandimal has broken into the top 20 for the first time and lies in 18th spot after scoring 419 runs, success that saw him rise 18 places.
Clint McKay took five wickets as Australia's bowlers suffocated Sri Lanka's normally free-scoring batsmen to wrap up the one-day international Tri-series with a 16-run victory in the third and deciding final at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday.
Tilakaratne Dilshan and Mahela Jayawardene shared an opening partnership of 179 as Sri Lanka hammered Australia by eight wickets on Tuesday to take the one- day international Tri-series final to a third and deciding match.
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene been fined 10 per cent of his match fee after pleading guilty to a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct during his side's One-day International against Australia in Adelaide on Tuesday.
Australia beat a gallant Sri Lanka by 15 runs in the first tri-series one-day international final at the Gabba on Sunday.
Sri Lanka beat Australia by nine runs despite Dan Christian's hat-trick in a dramatic one-day international on Friday to book their place in the final of the Tri-series against the hosts and send India home.
Virat Kohli smashed an unbeaten 133 as India chased down a mammoth 321-run target in under 37 overs against Sri Lanka in Hobart on Tuesday to stay alive in the one-day international Tri-series.