Cricket

Getting Sri Lanka’s World Cup combination right

Sri Lanka in 2014 have been riding on the unprecedented form of Angelo Mathews and Kumar Sangakkara. Their bowling, even…

10 years ago

Are Sri Lankan Tamil cricketers discriminated against?

Why do so few Sri Lankan Tamils take to cricket professionally? © AFP PHOTO A popular theory put forward by…

10 years ago

5 lesser known facts about Sri Lankan cricket

Sri Lanka is the youngest dominant cricket team in the world at the moment. Having been awarded Test status only…

10 years ago

Top 10 quotes from Chinaman – The legend of Pradeep Mathew

Chinaman - the legend of Pradeep Mathew is a Sri Lankan English fiction written by Shehan Karunatilaka, which won several…

10 years ago

Top 10 quotes on Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara, the veteran Sri Lankan batsman and the hoarder of many cricket records has received many adulations for his…

10 years ago

Sri Lanka’s all-time Cricket World Cup XI

Sri Lanka is the second most consistent team in World Cups, after Australia, since the 1996 edition in the subcontinent.…

10 years ago

10 cricketers who defied struggles to reach the top

The neo-cricket era looks at cricketers through a different perspective. Cricketers have become celebrities who are seen as glamour kings,…

10 years ago

Batsmen who are carbon copies of legendary batsmen

In any sports players come and go. But, now and then there would be players who debut and never retire…

10 years ago

Rating the toughest countries for batsmen in ODIs since 2000

In an era where the contest between bat and ball is actively declining, with the bat ruling the roost in…

10 years ago

The West Indian pull-out and why Sri Lankan Cricket Board needs to be wary of it

Very recently, the West Indies abruptly withdrew from the tour of India with one One Day International (ODI), 1 Twenty20 International…

10 years ago