This year there are a number of teams good enough to ensure a fierce battle for the title
Play is routinely suspended due to poor weather, low visibility, lightning or rain, but a stoppage as a result of pollution is almost unheard of.
The team has proved it has a core of great players, despite the loss of Smith and Kallis.
Tucking into shellfish requires skill and they hold many surprises, not unlike the Sri Lankan team.
Despite losing the third Test in Cape Town on Friday, and the series, Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan was still smiling.
Players and athletes have become professional; so should the leaders of their governing bodies.
Younis Khan said his team will continue to keep things simple as they look to double their series lead in the second one-day match against Sri Lanka.
India and Pakistan head into an epic World Cup showdown on Wednesday that will showcase the bitter rivalry and common bonds between the neighbours.
A sell-out 35 000 crowd in Colombo was left disappointed after heavy rain robbed them of a potentially thrilling match on Saturday.
Pacemen are expected to determine the outcome of Saturday’s World Cup Group A match featuring Australia and Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Ajantha Mendis spun out New Zealand as Sri Lanka roared into the World Twenty20 semifinals with an emphatic 48-run win on Tuesday.
Skipper Kumar Sangakkara hit 35 to anchor Sri Lanka to 158-5 against New Zealand in a must-win Super Eights match of the World Twenty20 on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister says he can’t rule out the chance that Tamil Tigers were involved in the attack on his country’s cricket team in Lahore.
Pakistan police on Wednesday arrested suspects in the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, but said they had made no progress in tracking the gunmen.
Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket squad were wounded when gunmen attacked their bus as it drove on Tuesday to a stadium in Lahore.
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/ 21 February 2009
Malinda Warnapura and Kumar Sangakkara recorded opening session half-centuries as Sri Lanka made a confident start to the first Test against Pakistan.
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/ 21 January 2009
Spinners Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis took six wickets to help Sri Lanka to a 129-run victory over Pakistan in an ODI on Wednesday.
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/ 12 January 2009
Nuwan Kulasekara and Ajantha Medis took three wickets each as Zimbabwe was dismissed for just 80 runs to hand Sri Lanka a 130-run victory.
Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by 465 runs in the second Test on Tuesday, recording the fifth-highest run margin to sweep the series 2-0.
Sri Lanka lost two quick wickets before reaching 95-2 in their second innings at lunch on the third day of the second Test against Bangladesh.
Paceman Mashrafe Mortaza struck twice before Shakib Al Hasan removed Mahela Jayawardene to leave Sri Lanka wobbling at 65-3 at lunch on Saturday.
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/ 31 December 2008
Bangladesh put on one of their best batting performances before suffering a 107-run defeat in the opening Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday.
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/ 31 December 2008
Bangladesh remained on course for an unlikely victory in the first Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday, despite the loss of Mohammad Ashraful.
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/ 30 December 2008
Skipper Mohammad Ashraful hit an unbeaten half-century as Bangladesh batted defiantly in pursuit of a massive victory target against Sri Lanka.
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/ 27 December 2008
Shakib Al Hasan completed his fourth five-wicket haul in five matches to help Bangladesh dismiss Sri Lanka for 293 runs on Saturday.
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/ 26 December 2008
Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan claimed three wickets as Bangladesh left Sri Lanka stuttering at 172 for six before bad light stopped play.
India clinched their first-ever one-day international series in Sri Lanka by winning the fourth match by 46 runs on Wednesday to take a 3-1 lead.
Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas on Wednesday became the fourth bowler to grab 400 wickets in one-day internationals.
India levelled the five-match one-day series with Sri Lanka with a tense, three-wicket victory in a low-scoring second ODI on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka cruised to a comfortable eight-wicket victory over India in the first one-day international on Monday.
Opener Virender Sehwag scored a magnificent undefeated 201 as India were bowled out for 329 on the stroke of lunch on the second day.