in June this year, despite the acute economic and civil crisis, SLC had said that the five-team tournament would be played at the R. Premadasa International Cricket Stadium, Colombo for the initial matches before the action shifts to the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium in Hambantota.
July 18, 2022The civil unrest has escalated in Sri Lanka in the last one week as protestors barged into the Presidential building demanding the resignation of both the acting president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
July 15, 2022Fighting for series honours may be over, though Dasun Shanaka's side show no interest in slowing down, looking to hand the tourists another blow ahead of the upcoming World Test Championship series.
June 24, 2022India's trip will kick-start their life post the veteran duo of Mithali Raj, who announced her international retirement earlier this month, and pacer Jhulan Goswami, who didn't play in their final league match of the 50-over World Cup against South Africa in New Zealand, which ended in a last-ball loss and brought curtains on their quest to win the trophy.
June 19, 2022After restricting Sri Lanka to a below-par 220/9 in 47.4 overs on Thursday night, Australia looked on course for victory, only for a dramatic series of events leading to the hosts equalising the five-match series 1-1.
June 17, 2022The injured index finger of his bowling arm is still taped, and International Cricket Council (ICC) regulations "prevent him from playing the opening match," according to a report on Tuesday.
June 14, 2022In the end, Aaron Finch led Australia, who won the first two matches, to a comfortable 2-1 series win.
June 12, 2022As they prepare to host Australia in their backyard, Sri Lanka now has an excellent opportunity to repay the favour. The current T20 world champions are ranked fifth in the ICC T20I rankings as the series begins. Sri Lanka is ranked ninth in the world.
June 6, 2022Meanwhile, many of Sri Lanka's top cricketers are also understood to have made donations to the country's health sector privately.
May 26, 2022Jayawardene also spoke about Muttiah Muralitharan stating that the spinning legend was a difficult bowler "to convince to do something he didn't want to".
June 30, 2020At present, the Sri Lankan Cricket (SLC) is working on the theory that the LPL may feature at least five teams and could go on for a little over three weeks, the report further said.
June 20, 2020Although there is still no confirmation on the host nation, the same is expected to be confirmed before the end of the month.
June 12, 2020The clarification from the board came after media reports emerged on the comments made by Sports Minister Dullas Alahapperuma on Tuesday.
June 4, 2020The International Cricket Council's (ICC) Cricket Committee chaired by Anil Kumble had earlier recommended banning the usage of saliva to polish the match ball in the wake of coronavirus pandemic.
June 3, 2020While an in-house fitness training at the hotel will start from 1 June, ground training will resume only on 2 June.
May 31, 2020The 25-year-old broke into the international scene in early 2018 with an ODI hat-trick on debut against Bangladesh, making the fourth player in one-day history to achieve the feat.
May 26, 2020The speedster will spend a couple of weeks in police custody as sentenced by a magistrate.
May 25, 2020