Mathews earns Test call-up

Veteran fast bowler Chaminda Vaas may most likely have to rethink his future with the Sri Lanka team after he was dropped from the Sri Lanka squad to take on Pakistan in the first Test in Galle starting on Saturday. Vaas, who has been one of the most hardworking servants of Sri Lanka cricket with [...]

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Grand welcome awaits Sri Lankan team

Sri Lanka new skipper Kumar Sangakkara and his team will receive a grand welcome at Colombo’s Bandarnaike International Airport irrespective of ICC World Twenty20 final result. This was revealed by Charith Senanayake, the Head of Marketing and Media, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). “It has been decided to accord them the red carpet welcome for their [...]

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Sangakkara rises above loss

-Alex Brown Kumar Sangakkara’s tenure as Sri Lanka captain is just seven Twenty20 matches old, but has already contained a lifetime’s worth of heartache and drama. Since arriving in England three weeks ago, Sangakkara has taken it upon himself to serve as the team’s unofficial Lahore spokesperson, sparing team-mates the angst-ridden task of regaling the [...]

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Dilshan- Player of the Series, as SL finishes as World Twenty20 Runners-Up

After a good game of cricket, yesterday Sri Lanka finished as the Runners-up in the 2009 World Twenty20 tournament held in England. Incidentally, their rival was Pakistan, whom they played with last March, in Lahore, until a group of gunmen opened fire at the tour bus carrying the Sri Lankan team. Three months after that [...]

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