Sri Lanka

News Left-hand batsman will be relocating to the USA with his family Top-order batsman Shehan Jayasuriya has called time on his Sri Lanka career, according to a release from the SLC. The 29-year-old left-hand batsman has taken this decision after choosing to relocate to the USA with his family. Jayasuriya represented Sri Lanka 30 times

News Dananjaya, who was banned for a year in 2019, was cleared by a panel that viewed footage of his new action Akila Dananjaya has been cleared to bowl in international cricket after an ICC “expert panel” concluded that the flex in his elbow is now within the permitted limit, following remedial work on his

Jonny Bairstow believes he can be “a huge contributor” to England’s Test team over the next few years, claiming his game has never been better. Bairstow hasn’t played Test cricket for more than a year and hasn’t scored a Test century for more than two years. But, despite having played only two first-class games in

Report Sri Lanka lose last six wickets for 35 runs before openers wrap up comfortable win South Africa 302 (Elgar 127, van der Dussen 67, V Fernando 5-101) and 67 for 0 (Markram 36*) beat Sri Lanka 157 (Perera 60, Nortje 6-56) and 211 (Karunaratne 103, Ngidi 4-44) Any momentum Sri Lanka had gained on

News Seamer suggests 200-run target could be tricky for home side after first-innings collapse Vishwa Fernando has warned that Sri Lanka’s attack is ready to tear in again and give South Africa “a good challenge”, if their remaining batsmen can muster a fourt-innings target worthy of the name. Vishwa claimed his maiden Test five-for as

News Lack of preparation time and warm-up matches is ‘not ideal’, Anderson suggests James Anderson believes Sri Lanka may have a “slight advantage” going into their Test series against England later this month. With Sri Lanka playing a two-Test series in South Africa and England’s red-ball specialists having not played since August, Anderson accepts his

News Sri Lanka’s captain also said he wasn’t confident with his own batting during the first Test Dimuth Karunaratne‘s seam attack has been decimated by injury. But he’s confident (or at least he’s hoping) that despite his bowlers’ inexperience, their hunger to earn a more stable place in the team will translate to good results

News After innings win, hosts want to assert themselves even further No-one wants to say it outright but the second Test between South Africa and Sri Lanka is shaping up to be a mismatch even before the first ball is bowled. The spate of injuries to the Sri Lankan squad could see them go into

Temba Bavuma has acknowledged that walking after he played and missed on 71 in the Boxing Day Test “wasn’t the cleverest of things,” and hopes to complete “unfinished business,” in the second Test against Sri Lanka, which starts on Sunday. Bavuma, who has one Test hundred to his name, scored five years ago, was well

News Lahiru Kumara forced off the field as tourists’ injury problems continue in Centurion Sri Lanka’s coach, Mickey Arthur, is set to raise the issue of injury substitutions with the ICC after seeing two more of his players go down on day three of the first Test against South Africa in Centurion. Sri Lanka had

News South Africa coach concerned about workloads with Rabada having not played a Test since January Kagiso Rabada is not an automatic pick for the Wanderers Test despite his status as leader of the attack and the match being on his home ground. Rabada was added to South Africa’s squad after four weeks on the

News Hosts have won more competitive Test matches against more competitive teams South Africa have won more competitive Test matches against more competitive teams than this Sri Lankan one – albeit that their fight was dimmed through injury and not fault of their own – but they will still savour this victory like it was

News Country moved into level three restrictions but international sport still allowed to take place The ongoing series between South Africa and Sri Lanka will continue despite the country moving to a stricter level of lockdown. In the face of an increasing number of Covid-19 infections, the South African government has moved the country from

News Sri Lanka head coach on his side’s injury crisis and the difficulty of conditioning players for Test cricket Despite having made their highest ever total in South Africa, Sri Lanka have had an abysmal three days in Centurion, with Dhananjaya de Silva and Kasun Rajitha ruled out of the Test, and Lahiru Kumara also

Faf du Plessis acknowledged that he has had more impressive performances than his 199 against Sri Lanka on Monday but hoped this innings will serve as a reminder that his international career is far from over. “In match situations, I’ve made a lot better hundreds – when attacks are at their hottest, when conditions are

Report Temba Bavuma left to rue strange dismissal after walking on 71 South Africa 435 for 5 (du Plessis 112*, Bavuma 71) lead Sri Lanka 396 by 39 runs Faf du Plessis strode to a tenth Test century, Temba Bavuma brought up a fifty, and South Africa charged past Sri Lanka’s first-innings score, tightening their

News He suffered the injury while batting on 79 on the opening day of the two-Test series One day after retiring hurt on 79 in the opening day of the Test series against South Africa, Dhananjaya de Silva has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour with a “grade 2 tear” on his

News Allrounder gets through 16.5 overs on second day in absence of Kasun Rajitha and Dhananjaya de Silva Dasun Shanaka batted well with the tail to complete his first Test fifty on the second morning of the Centurion Test, and yet, his more significant contribution so far may have been with the ball. Shanaka is

Dean Elgar faces Kasun Rajitha on the second day at Centurion © AFP via Getty Images South Africa 45 for 0 (Markram 27*, Elgar 15*) trail Sri Lanka 396 (Chandimal 85, de Silva 79, Sipamla 4-76) by 351 runs Sri Lanka added 56 to their overnight score, thanks largely to powerful hitting from Dasun Shanaka,

News Allrounder left the field after soft-tissue injury and could miss two-three weeks Dhananjaya de Silva is a doubt for the rest of Sri Lanka’s Test series in South Africa after retiring hurt on 79 on the first day of the Centurion Test. De Silva came in with Sri Lanka in trouble at 54 for

News Seamer backs bowlers to improve after chastening opening day against Sri Lanka Wiaan Mulder, playing in his second Test 22 months after his debut, has assessed South Africa’s bowling performance as “a little bit shaky” and concluded that he doesn’t “think the guys are happy” with their efforts on day one of the Boxing

Lutho Sipamla is making his Test debut for South Africa © Gallo Images/Getty Images Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to bat first against South Africa Wanindu Hasaranga, the legspinning allrounder, will debut for Sri Lanka, as the visitors chose to bat first at Centurion. Lutho Sipamla, the 22-year-old fast bowler, also makes his

Big picture At face value, do Sri Lanka really have a chance? Let’s look at the facts against them: They’ve not played international cricket since March. Most squad members have spent three weeks playing T20 cricket, and are now expected to make the substantial switch into Test mode. They’ve had no warm-up match due to

News Captain acknowledges pressure of switching formats and conditions for his squad, and of no cricket for himself Rare is the Sri Lankan captain that arrives on foreign soil with greater trust in his seam-bowling stocks than his batsmen. But two days out from the Boxing Day Test, that is the situation Dimuth Karunaratne felt