Sri Lanka

Report The loss of Chandimal and de Silva substantially dented Sri Lanka’s likelihood of establishing a first-innings lead Lunch Sri Lanka 189 for 5 (Thirimanne 55, Roach 1-54, Gabriel 1-33) trail West Indies 354 all out (Brathwaite 126, Cornwall 73, Lakmal 4-94) by 165 runs Sri Lanka made further slow progress on a sluggish pitch,

Report Both teams have just one specialist slow bowler: Rahkeem Cornwall for West Indies and Lasith Embuldeniya for Sri Lanka Toss Sri Lanka chose to bowl against West Indies Sri Lanka won the toss and opted to bowl first on a track that captain Dimuth Karunaratne thought might still have a little bit of moisture

News Allrounder also makes second-fastest List A half-century along the way Thisara Perera, the allrounder, became the first Sri Lankan to hit six sixes in an over in any form of professional cricket, on Sunday. En route to his unbeaten 13-ball 52, he also smashed the second-fastest half-century in List A cricket, for Army Sports

News ‘It’s not so much the people, and it’s not so much the players – it’s the infrastructure that we need to review’ Reforming Sri Lanka’s domestic structure is among Tom Moody‘s priorities in his new role as director of cricket, and a fresh plan for first-class structure may be revealed over the next few

News An SLC release said Vaas withdrew his resignation after a meeting Sri Lanka Cricket has said that the matters that led to Chaminda Vaas‘ resignation as the fast bowling consultant last month have been “amicably resolved” after a meeting between the two parties. An SLC release said Vaas withdrew his resignation and agreed to

Report Bonner has gotten past his third Test fifty in his sixth innings, Mayers still new at the crease Lasith Embuldeniya wangled out the wicket of Kraigg Brathwaite, but as he was the only batsman to fall, West Indies were still alive in the match at lunch – a draw still possible, a victory not

Report West Indies began with a promising breakthrough, but failure to follow up on it has Sri Lanka in command Lunch Sri Lanka 359 for 5 (Nissanka 74*, Dickwella 38*) and 169 lead West Indies 271 (Cornwall 61, Lakmal 5-47) by 257 runs A morning session that had started off in nightmarish fashion, with the

Report Vishwa Fernando removed both overnight West Indies batsmen in the same over West Indies 271 (Cornwall 61, Lakmal 5-47) lead Sri Lanka 169 by 102 runs It took just 15 minutes on the third morning for Sri Lanka to remove the final two West Indian wickets, ensuring that there would be no continuation of

Report Honours even after intriguing session but West Indies just 97 behind Lunch West Indies 72 for 2 (Campbell 27*, Embuldeniya 1-9) trail Sri Lanka 169 by 97 runs Sri Lanka’s bowlers were patient and disciplined, but so were West Indies’ batsmen on a sedate but intriguing second morning of the first Test in which

Report West Indies have decided to go with a four-strong seam attack to attempt to make full use of the seaming conditions Toss West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl vs Sri Lanka West Indies’ new permanent captain Kraigg Brathwaite decided to put Sri Lanka in to bat in the first Test at

Kraigg Brathwaite was named West Indies’ new permanent Test captain in place of Jason Holder © AFP/Getty Images Big picture For the first time in 18 months, Test cricket returns to the Caribbean. Even aside from this whole pandemic thing, plenty has happened in the interim. Sri Lanka have switched coaches (as is annual tradition).

News “The West Indies pace attack is a really good one, and they know how to move the Dukes ball” West Indies have a good pace attack, and the pitch looks difficult, but get in and get us more than 275 – so goes Dimuth Karunaratne‘s directive to Sri Lanka’s batsmen ahead of the first

Report The team was all out for 172 in the first innings despite having nine batsmen in the practice-match line-up Sri Lanka XI 172 (Fernando 47, Chandimal 40, Phillip 3-47, Roach 2-41) and 56 for 0 (Karunaratne 27*, Thirimanne 23*) drew with West Indies President’s XI 294 (Hope 68, Mayers 57, Chase 52, de Silva

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Preview West Indies have dominated them in the ODI series, but the final match offers a chance to redeem pride Big picture Sri Lanka’s tours over the past two months have a sense of haunting familiarity to them. Key players are absent due to various unfortunate reasons (on this tour, Lahiru Kumara couldn’t make it

Report The pitch is expected to get better for batting, so Sri Lanka may have their work cut out for them in setting a good total Toss: West Indies chose to bowl vs Sri Lanka West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl in the second ODI against Sri Lanka at North Sound, as

News It seems unlikely at this stage that he can return to the tour at any point Angelo Mathews will leave Sri Lanka’s tour of West Indies immediately for personal reasons. It seems unlikely at this stage, that he can return to the tour at any point. Even if the “family matter” he is returning

Big picture It had been over a year since Sri Lanka played ODIs, and yet the script for Wednesday’s ODI seemed so familiar. For decent stretch of the game, they appeared confident – dominant, even – as Dimuth Karunaratne and Danushka Gunathilaka sailed to half-centuries and put them seemingly on track for a total in

Report West Indies are led by Kieron Pollard in a side that also includes recent T20I captained Jason Holder Toss Sri Lanka opt to bat against West Indies On an overcast morning with some rain in the air, Sri Lanka have won the toss and decided to bat first. In the first of three ODIs,

Big picture Neither West Indies nor Sri Lanka have much of a recent history of being good at this format. A quick look through stats first. Since the start of 2019, West Indies have lost 21 and won only 13 of their ODIs. Sri Lanka, meanwhile, have done slightly better – 10 wins and 14

West Indies 134 for 7 (Simmons 26, Pooran 23, Sandakan 3-29) beat Sri Lanka 131 for 4 (Chandimal 54*, Bandara 44*, Allen 1-13) by three wickets Fabian Allen shone with both bat and ball, affecting the game at the start and finish, as the West Indies secured a hard-fought three-wicket win against Sri Lanka in

Big picture Sri Lanka have broken their barren streak. They’d lost eight T20 internationals in a row – against, Australia, India and West Indies. Finally they seemed like a competent T20 team, and this was largely thanks to their spinners. It may seem like this is obviously the way Sri Lanka were going to win,

News Dilruwan Perera, Kusal Perera and Lakshan Sandakan not part of 17-man squad Pathum Nissanka has earned a maiden call-up for the two Tests against West Indies for which fit-again Dimuth Karunaratne will lead Sri Lanka’s 17-man squad. Dilruwan Perera, Kusal Perera and Lakshan Sandakan were missing from the squad which included allrounder Dhananjaya de

Report Earlier, Danushka Gunathilaka and Pathum Nissanka helped the visitors put up a competitive total Sri Lanka 160 (Gunathilaka 56, Nissanka 37, Bravo 2-25) beat West Indies 117 (McCoy 23, Sandakan 3-10, Hasaranga 3-17) by 43 runs Sri Lanka’s spinners manufactured a convincing 43-run victory over the West Indies in Antigua to keep the three-match

Kieron Pollars hit six sixes in an over in the first T20I © Philip Spooner/CWI Big picture How do you plan for West Indies? Their bowlers are varied and skillful – the first T20 at Coolidge featuring quicks like Dwayne Bravo, Jason Holder and Obed McCoy – who were adept at bowling a variety of

News The West Indies batsman added his name to record books against Akila Dananjaya who had just taken a hat-trick During an extraordinary run chase in the first T20I against Sri Lanka, Kieron Pollard became just the third batsman to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket following Herschelle Gibbs in the 2007

Chris Gayle has shown in the IPL and the PSL that he’s still as destructive as ever © Getty Images Big Picture Cricket is back in the Caribbean. The last time Sri Lanka visited was for a three-match Test series, which ended with both sides sharing the spoils. The last time the West Indies hosted

News The role will have Moody overseeing Sri Lanka’s international programme and domestic tournaments Tom Moody has been appointed Sri Lanka’s director of cricket, a broad new role that will have Moody overseeing Sri Lanka’s international programme and domestic tournaments. The appointment was made on the recommendation of Sri Lanka’s new technical advisory committee headed

News Dasun Shanaka, the appointed captain, is yet to join the team because of a delay in obtaining a US transit visa Angelo Mathews has been named as Sri Lanka’s stand-in captain for the T20I series in the West Indies as Dasun Shanaka, the appointed captain, is yet to join the team because of a

News Sri Lanka’s new T20I captain might be forced to miss at least a part of the series against West Indies A delay in processing his transit visa to the United States of America has meant that Sri Lanka’s new T20I captain Dasun Shanaka was unable to leave for the Caribbean with the remainder of