Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka reached the 800-wicket mark with his last delivery in Test cricket on Thursday.
Cricket great Muttiah Muralitharan said on Wednesday he was retiring from Tests because he had nothing left to strive for.
Sri Lanka on Thursday ruled out giving visas to members of a United Nations panel looking into possible war crimes.
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/ 5 February 2010
Sri Lankan police and troops began a crackdown on Friday against thousands of military deserters.
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/ 1 February 2010
Sri Lanka’s president on Monday sacked a dozen senior military officers whom the Defence Ministry said were a "direct threat to national security".
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/ 27 January 2010
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse won a bruising re-election battle on Wednesday that left his main rival in apparent fear of assassination.
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/ 25 January 2010
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse vowed on Monday to ensure the first post-war nationwide election goes off peacefully.
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/ 15 December 2009
Sri Lanka’s recovery from a decades-long civil war has been marred by graft, violence and a culture of lawlessness, a corruption watchdog said.
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/ 7 December 2009
Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara has called for the umpires’ review system to be made mandatory after India beat his side 2-0 in the Test series.
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/ 2 December 2009
Tillakaratne Dilshan said on Wednesday he would still be batting in the third Test against India if the referral system had been used in the series.
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/ 1 December 2009
India do not feel under any pressure to become cricket’s top-ranked Test side when the final match against Sri Lanka starts on Wednesday.
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/ 27 November 2009
India thumped Sri Lanka by an innings and 144 runs on the fourth day of the second cricket Test in Kanpur on Friday.
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/ 27 November 2009
Sri Lanka will hold early presidential elections on January 26, officials said on Friday.
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/ 25 November 2009
Rahul Dravid struck his 28th century as India tightened their grip on the second Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday.
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/ 9 November 2009
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara is determined to set the record straight in the three-Test series against India starting next week.
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/ 26 October 2009
Sri Lanka’s president will appoint a committee to probe a US report of possible war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers.
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/ 23 October 2009
The office of the UN human rights chief renewed its call on Friday for a probe into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan troops and Tamil rebels
Britain on Tuesday expressed disappointment with Sri Lanka’s handling of war-displaced civilians.
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/ 7 September 2009
India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand hope to put in impressive performances in a tri-series this week to boost confidence ahead of the Champions Trophy.
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/ 1 September 2009
Sri Lanka faced a barrage of condemnation on Tuesday for the jailing of a journalist whose sentencing drew criticism from the United States.
Sri Lanka’s successful manhunt for the new head of the Tamil Tigers began with the phone of the dead man he succeeded, Vellupillai Prabhakaran.
Sri Lanka must put in practice its latest pledge not to use heavy weapons as it fights the Tamil Tiger rebels, the UN said on Monday.
Sri Lanka on Monday said heavy combat was over in a last pocket of territory held by the LTTE and it was shifting its focus to rescuing civilians.
A Sri Lankan court on Friday released a Tamil editor who had been detained over alleged links to Tiger air attacks in the capital, an official said.
Tamil Tigers encircled in a strip of land by Sri Lankan troops are putting up stiff resistance despite calls for their surrender, the military said.
The Sri Lankan army on Tuesday seized more territory from the Tamil Tigers as the rebels ignored a deadline to surrender, the Defence Ministry said.
A Tamil Tiger who was among among thousands of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka’s war zone into army-controlled areas set off a blast that killed 17.
Sri Lankan security forces resumed their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the island on Wednesday following a brief ceasefire.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers said on Tuesday they were ready to negotiate a ceasefire and restart peace talks to halt decades of ethnic bloodshed.
At least 128 civilians have died and more than 700 have been injured in three days of shelling in the last remaining pocket of Tamil Tiger resistance.
Heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan army of a designated safe area has left 129 civilians dead and 282 wounded, a pro-rebel website said on Thursday.
The myth that the Tigers were unbeatable has been shattered with a victory over the separatists inevitable, Sri Lanka’s president was quoted as saying