Sri Lanka win Spirit of Cricket Award

For the way Sri Lanka play the game, they won the ‘Spirit of Cricket’ Award today, at the annual ICC Awards ceremony held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sri Lanka beat stiff competition from its counter parts New Zealand and Ireland, to grab its first-such medal in the ICC Award history. In other categories, Captain, Mahela [...]

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Jayawardene and Ponting head ICC Award Nominations

Among the nominees for ICC Awards this year, Sri Lankan Captain Mahela Jayawardene and Australian Captain Ricky Ponting head the list. Jayawardene, who won the ICC Captain of the Year Award last year, has been nominated for the award for a second consecutive year, together with Ponting. The other individual categories that the two are [...]

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Sri Lanka Cricket hits back at Bishan Singh Bedi

Media manager hints at possible legal action against the former Indian skipper for his outburst Sri Lanka Cricket officials yesterday hit back former Indian test captain Bishan Singh Bedi over his alleged comment that Sri Lanka’s champion spinner Muttiah Muralitharan is a “monster” setting wrong precedent to youngsters. Sri Lanka Cricket’s media manager Samantha Algama [...]

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Mahela Jayawardene and Tom Moody on ICC’s Cricket Committee

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene and their former coach Tom Moody were named on the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) newly constituted cricket committee on Tuesday.“The new structure is designed to be representative of all interests in the modern game,” an ICC statement said. The previous structure was made up of nominated representatives from each of [...]

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