September 1st, 2016 | by
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Balls have been raising puffs of dust, edges have sometimes failed to carry to the keeper, and only once in eight innings has 250 been surpassed, but although these are alien conditions, Australia have clinched the ODI series the...
August 29th, 2016 | by
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Tillakaratne Dilshan cast aspersions on the conduct of former and present team-mates -particularly Angelo Mathews – soon after his final ODI, against Australia on Sunday. Prompted to speak on the challenges faced in his...
August 28th, 2016 | by
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George Bailey delivered a glowing appraisal of David Warner’s leadership following Australia’s two-wicket win in Dambulla, in which Bailey had led the chase. It was Warner’s first international in charge, and...
August 23rd, 2016 | by
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With Mitchell Starc now extending his impressive form from the Tests into the ODIs, Sri Lanka have settled on a batting plan: see Starc out safely. Starc was already miserly during the first ODI. He did not concede a boundary in...
June 7th, 2016 | by
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Two days before a Dunedin Test match in December, news broke that a doping test had found a banned substance in Kusal Perera’s body. In the grueling months that followed, Perera put himself through more tests –...
March 28th, 2016 | by
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South Africa 122 for 2 (Amla 56, Lakmal 1-28) beat Sri Lanka 120 (Dilshan 36, Abbott 2-14) by eight wickets Defending champions Sri Lanka exited the World T20 with defeat in their final appearance. Instead, it was South Africa...
March 21st, 2016 | by
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Samuel Badree sticks out in this West Indies team. He has a neat little side parting. He does not have rippling muscles. He celebrates a wicket almost out of courtesy. And all of his wickets tonight in Bangalore came as a result...
Dilshan’s 83 sees off gutsy Afghanistan
March 17th, 2016 | by
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Sri Lanka 155 for 4 (Dilshan 83*, Mathews 21*) beat Afghanistan 153 for 7 (Stanikzai 62, Shenwari 31, Thisara 3-33) by six...
March 10th, 2016 | by
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New Zealand 226 for 4 (Munro 67, Anderson 60*, Shanaka 2-48) beat Sri Lanka 152 for 7 (Thirimanne 41, Kapugedera 38, Milne 3-26) by 74 runs Already he had hit the second-fastest fifty in Twenty20 against them. That was in January...
Mathews hopes to rise to unexpected challenge
March 10th, 2016 | by
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Angelo Mathews has admitted he was not mentally prepared to take over as Twenty20 captain after Lasith Malinga resigned because of fitness problems. Mathews said he could not refuse the leadership once Sri Lanka Cricket offered...
IPL player auction – New faces and where they cou... February 17th, 2017
Kohli unveiled as Wisden cover star February 3rd, 2017