Sri Lanka Cricket Team

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.