Sri Lanka

News The panel includes Justice Nimal Dissanayaka, a retired judge of the Sri Lankan Supreme Court SLC has formed a five-member panel to probe the incident in which three Sri Lanka players – Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis – breached the team’s biosecure bubble in Durham on June 27. The trio, who flew

News Several senior players who are not part of the white-ball set-up are now without deals after SLC withdrew offer of annual contracts Sri Lanka’s men’s limited-overs cricketers have signed tour contracts that cover the forthcoming series against India. But Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to withdraw its offer of annual contracts had caused substantial dismay

News He is believed to be unhappy over treatment meted out by SLC during the contracts standoff Angelo Mathews has informed Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) he is considering retirement, after turning down the tour contract for the forthcoming series against India. Mathews, 34, in understood to be disillusioned at the treatment he and fellow senior

News Mickey Arthur reveals mixing with England after Bristol ODI with India series due to start in a week Sri Lanka’s ODI squad face an anxious wait for the results of their PCR tests on returning home, following a Covid-19 outbreak in the England squad after the final match of their tour in Bristol on

News Despite the punishment, the batter has been included in the training squad ahead of the India series Sri Lanka batter Bhanuka Rajapaksa has been fined $5000 for a breach of contract and is essentially on probation for two years, having been handed a one-year ban as a suspended sentence. SLC dealt out these punishments

News Jayasundara had attempted to bribe a minister to influence selection for a Sri Lanka A tour in 2019 The anti-corruption tribunal of the ICC has banned Sanath Jayasundara, a former Sri Lanka Cricket performance analyst, from all cricket for seven years after he was found guilty of breaching the ICC anti-corruption code. In January

Report Eoin Morgan keen to chase amid forecast for rain in Bristol England have won the toss and chosen to bowl first under grey skies in Bristol. The toss was delayed slightly on account of drizzle, and if the forecasts and rain radar are anything to go by, there are likely to be further weather

Preview With tougher tests ahead – Pakistan are up next – England will likely take the opportunity to test out fringe players Big Picture It’s hard to remember a time when Sri Lanka went into a match with so little expected of them (well apart from the previous two games of course). This, even in

News Bavuma, Khawaja and Pooran also part of the drafts ahead of the second season’s kick-off on July 30 Shakib al Hasan, Usman Khawaja, Sherfane Rutherford and Rilee Rossouw are among the leading names to have registered to compete in the Lankan Premier League, Sri Lanka’s premier T20 franchise competition. The LPL is scheduled to

Report Changes on both sides as Eoin Morgan opted to chase once again Toss England chose to bowl vs Sri Lanka England have won the toss and chosen to bowl first in the second ODI against Sri Lanka at the Oval. Jason Roy returns at the top of the home batting order after a hamstring

Preview Jason Roy in line to return on home ground as SL eye first win of tour Big picture In some ways, the shellacking they received at Chester-le-Street was an improvement for Sri Lanka. No one got injured, no one broke curfew (that we know of), and at 80 for 4 in England’s chase, it

Eoin Morgan and Kusal Perera at the toss © Getty Images England have won the toss and chosen to bowl at Chester-le-Street, against a substantially depleted Sri Lanka side featuring three debutants. The suspension of the three cricketers who breached the bio-bubble on Sunday night, plus injuries to Avishka Fernando and Dhananjaya de Silva, and

Big picture When the cry went up in the wake of an abject T20I series: “Something must be done about Sri Lanka’s batting”, this probably wasn’t the solution that anyone had envisaged. An evening spent milling about by a bench in Durham’s Market Square for Kusal Mendis, Niroshan Dickwella and Danushka Gunathilaka has left the

News A video has emerged, showing the two Sri Lanka cricketers out in a public place in England There are serious concerns that two Sri Lanka cricketers have breached the team’s bio-bubble in England, after a video emerged on Twitter showing Kusal Mendis and Niroshan Dickwella out in a public space. Sri Lanka manager Manuja

News He had picked up the injury while fielding in the second T20I, in Cardiff Sri Lanka batsman Avishka Fernando has been ruled out of the ODIs against England with a grade two tear to his quadriceps. Fernando had picked up the injury while fielding in the second T20I, in Cardiff, and had not played

News Tournament’s director says two other franchises have been lined up to replace them this season Two franchisees have pulled out of the second edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), but the tournament’s director says two other franchises have been lined up to replace them. Owners of the Colombo Kings and the Dambulla Viiking

Preview Onus on visitors’ batting to find an extra gear after flat displays in first two T20Is Big picture Three days on from the World Test Championship final, the Ageas Bowl (as it is once again allowed to be known) plays host to a final of a rather less epochal variety. The final T20I between

News Sri Lanka’s head coach said he wants the batsmen to be more proactive against a world-class England attack Mickey Arthur has urged his Sri Lanka side to stay patient after they slipped to a second defeat in as many nights in Cardiff, leaving them on a run of 11 defeats in their last 12

News Redfern appointed as fourth umpire for opening T20I between England and Sri Lanka in Cardiff Sue Redfern will become the first woman to officiate in an England men’s home international match after being appointed as fourth umpire for Wednesday’s first T20I against Sri Lanka in Cardiff. Alex Wharf had been due to fill the

News “If we keep playing with the same attitude, day by day, the results will eventually come” “Fearless” was once again the buzzword for Kusal Perera on the eve of the first T20I against England, as the Sri Lanka captain once more leaned on the mantra that he had put forth for his side upon

News “We can’t be top-heavy and have no one who can bat in the middle and finish for us,” he says Higher strike rates, better rotation, and more intensity after the field spreads. As Sri Lanka attempt to defibrillate their flatlining limited-overs game, the middle overs are the area that coach Mickey Arthur wants his

Dhananjaya Lakshan was among the breakout stars of the inaugural LPL © AFP Left-arm spinner Praveen Jayawickrama, and allrounders Dhananjaya Lakshan, Charith Asalanka, and Ishan Jayaratne are the surprise entrants to Sri Lanka men’s 24-member squad for the limited-overs tour of England. Although Sri Lanka have again insisted on picking young players, omitting Angelo Mathews,

News SLC commits to making evaluation marks available to each player upon UK return Sri Lanka’s men’s cricketers have agreed to tour England uncontracted, after Sri Lanka Cricket committed to revealing specifics about the player evaluations that form the basis of the board’s new proposed contract scheme. The cricketers have long contended that the methodology

News Thirty-eight Sri Lanka players have signed a statement refusing to sign the tour contracts offered by SLC Sri Lanka’s tour of England has been cast into serious jeopardy after the players expected to be selected refused to sign the tour contracts offered by Sri Lanka Cricket. This is as part of the men’s cricketers’

News He will join former team-mates Dilshan and Tharanga at the Eastern Cricket Association competition A Melbourne club team will have the services of former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya as coach next season after he signed a one-year deal with Mulgrave in the city’s east. That will mark Jayasuriya’s return to the game after

News SLC also confirmed that it is looking at arranging “one or two” tours for women in the next few months Former Sri Lanka captain and batter Hashan Tillakaratne has been appointed the new head coach of the Sri Lanka women’s team, SLC confirmed on Wednesday. He took up the role officially on June 1

News The new payment system has created a bit of a divide between players and the board The Sri Lanka men’s players’ rejection of their central contracts is “very unfair”, essentially because the board is offering more for winning series against top-ranked opposition. This is according to Aravinda de Silva, one of the architects of

News Batting coach Grant Flower reckons SL’s inexperience has played a role in their first series loss against Bangladesh The lack of experience in the top order may have played a role in Sri Lanka’s poor batting performances in Bangladesh. And the door’s not closed on the seniors who were left out of this series.

Preview The visitors are currently 12th on the ODI Super League table with no wins in four games Big Picture Senior players. Who needs ’em? Bangladesh would argue they do. Although Sri Lanka had their batting line-up stuttering at 99 for 4 in the first ODI on Sunday, Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah called upon their

Big Picture Sri Lanka will be desperately looking for ODI Super League points – they sit in the negative currently – while Bangladesh will be keen to bolster their own tally as the teams seek improvement in the ODI series starting Sunday in Dhaka. Both sides have played very few ODIs since the 2019 World