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When you go to a cricket match in Pallekele, it’s as much about the game as it is about the atmosphereBy Anand Vasu in Pallekele The greatest challenge you’re likely to face when going to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium is the winding road that snakes around the lake in central Kandy. If you get ...
Rain-hit game goes host’s way as West Indies fails to chase down 48 runs in eight overs (strap) In what was seen as the first major upset of the tournament, an inspired Sri Lanka overcame West Indies challenge by five runs, courtesy the Duckworth/Lewis method, to register its first win of the ICC Women’s World ...
Simon Taufel’s retirement as an active umpire at the end of the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 will mean that the most decorated member of the ICC’s Elite Panel of Umpires will not be around to oversee big games anymore. Taufel has been among the few officials who have been regarded
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters): West Indies have not tasted much international success in the last decade but captain Darren Sammy believes he has succeeded in creating the kind of dressing room atmosphere that can help them end the title drought in Sri Lanka. The erstwhile giants of the game, who won the first two 50-over ...
‘SLT Intelligent Solutions’ connects the T20 to the world Sri Lanka Telecom, the nation’s number one integrated communications service provider and the leading backbone infrastructure services provider, is proud to empower the ICC World Twenty20 Championship 2012
Reuters: Sri Lanka beat New Zealand via Super Over in the first Super Eight stage match of the Twenty20 World Cup at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Thursday. Opting to bat first, New Zealand posted 174 for seven wickets after Rob Nicol (58) and Martin Guptil (38) had provided
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
If Sri Lanka’s biggest headache was the fitness of its lead spinner, and subsequently which slow bowlers it should put on the park, their opponents, New Zealand, is left thinking about how to play spin. After England’s implosion against the Indian pair of Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla, it’s clear that spin could play a ...
It started with the Barmy Army, and now travelling fans have become a staple with international cricket, especially during ICC-run tournaments The Barmy Army, with its England flags, ridiculous costumes and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for lager, is a common sight at cricket matches around the world. In recent years, a Bharat Army, styled along ...
The World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka has been hit by suspicions that bottled water supplied to players by the International Cricket Council is behind a gastro illness that affected at least three teams at the event. The ICC declined to comment last night but it’s believed the brand of bottled
Weather and ground conditions hog attention ahead of ICC Women’s World Twenty20 kick-off today Even as the men’s competition is nearing the Super Eights stage, eight teams are preparing to battle it out in the third edition of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in Galle, starting
A look at the history of cricket’s support for UNAIDS and UNICEF over the past decade The sight of leading cricketers wearing red ribbons on their shirts at ICC events has become a familiar one in recent years, but have you ever wondered why the players do this? South Asia, Africa and Caribbean, three geographical ...
India must have believed Christmas had come early, as England gifted wickets away on a platter to subside to a 90-run drubbing in the Group A clash between the two teams in the ICC World Twenty20 2012 at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday night. Chasing India’s 170 for 4, England
World Twenty20 hosts Sri Lanka are to beef up security after angry fans clashed with baton wielding police in Hambantota where the home side lost a match to South Africa, officials said Sunday. Local residents in the southern port town stormed the ground after they were told that tickets
The ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012 started off yesterday at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium Hambantota, with the first match played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Photojournalist Shantha Rathnayake captured these moments prior to the match as crowds gathered at the stadium to enjoy
Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) joined hands with ICC Development (International) Limited to become the official Tourism Partner of ICC World Twentey20 which has just started off in Sri Lanka for the period of 18 September to 10 October. The official agreement was signed by the representatives of two organisations – Sri Lanka Tourism ...
There was a time when cricket was a game only Commonwealth nations derived pleasure from. Those days are long gone. Scour through its recent history, and you’ll find pages dedicated to the likes of Ireland and Afghanistan. It doesn’t stop there. Scotland, The Netherlands, Hong Kong and the United States were among the ten nations ...
South Africa batsman Richard Levi has won the ICC Twenty20 International Performance of the Year in recognition of his 51-ball 117 not out against New Zealand. This is the fifth year the award has been given to recognise the most impressive performance by a player in Twenty20 Internationals
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 ...
Indian cricket star Virat Kohli was yesterday seen championing the cause of education for children. Virat Kohli has been named the star in a children’s book that has been published by Room to Read, a global non-profit organisation that promotes literacy and gender equality in education across Asian and African countries together with the International ...
For cricket fans, the past week has been a particularly good time to fly to Sri Lanka with Emirates, the award-winning Dubai-based international airline: seven passengers on flights to Colombo have won exclusive collector’s items in the form of bats autographed by teams that competed in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup. Presented as part ...
; news conference ahead of the World Twenty20 cricket series in Colombo on ...
ESPNCricinfo: Mohammad Ashraful has pointed to Bangladesh’s intensive preparation across three continents as their biggest asset as they head into the ICC World Twenty20. They have played a quarter of all their Twenty20 internationals this year, as well as two competitions where they played
Reuters: Pak-istan captain Mohammad Hafeez expects Shahid Afridi to recover from injury in time to play a decisive role in his country’s attempt to win another ICC World Twenty20. Afridi is hoping to overcome a thumb injury before the tournament, which runs from Sept. 18 to Oct. 7 in Sri
Trinidadexpress.com: UNABLE to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide an exclusive window for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have decided to do it on their own. As their leading players are likely to be engaged in next year’s sixth IPL season of ...
Reuters: Yuvraj Singh was denied a fairytale comeback from serious illness as New Zealand beat India by one run in a see-saw Twenty20 International to win the two-match series on Tuesday. Brendon McCullum’s 55-ball 91 lifted New Zealand to a total of 167 for five and India finished on 166 for four to give the ...
Reuters: West Indies are banking on off-spinner Sunil Narine playing an important role in the World Twenty20 on the dusty pitches of Sri Lanka this month. West Indies last got their hands on ICC silverware when they won the Champions Trophy in 2004. “We have the best spinner right now in T20
Reuters: Pakistan went from the sublime to the disastrous against Australia on Monday, recording their lowest Twenty20 international total and suffering their heaviest defeat in the shortest form of the game. Mohammed Hafeez’s side were bowled out for just 74, giving Australia a crushing 94
Times of India, MUMBAI: Tillakaratne Dilshan redefined the art of batting in Twenty20 cricket with dazzling stroke play in the 2009 World T20 in England. His innovative and attacking shots rattled bowlers and often left them confused against the patented scoop shot over the ‘keeper’
Reuters: Saeed Ajmal will receive a special award from the Pakistan Cricket Board after the spin bowler was left off the shortlist for the International Cricket Council’s Player of the Year, chairman Zaka Ashraf said on Monday. The omission of the top-ranked one-day international bowler from the shortlist has caused anger in Pakistan and the ...