Category: Cricket
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5 things Sri Lanka need to try before the World Cup for a change in fortune- The Mahinda Rajapaksha way!
The selectors of Sri Lanka cricket have pulled out all the stops to field a fighting XI for the upcoming world cup down under. The mission-impossible has seen 5 different openers, several lower order sloggers and…
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5 Sri Lankan players to watch out for in 2015 World Cup
Sri Lanka may not enter the World Cup as favourites but if there is a team that does not enjoy the favourites tag going into a world tournament, then it is them for they have…
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Mahela’s Top Ten Test Innings
10. 141 vs New Zealand at Napier, 2005 On a placid track in Napier, after conceding 561 runs in the first innings, Sri Lanka needed to make sure they scored as many runs as possible…
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On-field laurels marred by boardroom politics- Sri Lanka’s year in review
A manic year for Sri Lanka saw them stamping their authority over world cricket with outstanding performances across all formats of the game. The trophy cabinet was accessed more than ever with the Asia Cup,…
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Chandimal deserves better than this
Dinesh Chandimal’s career thus far has resembled a ball thrown up in the air. The ball soars up, cutting through resistance and rising against gravity to reach a remarkable height, and then loses all the…
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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 with Lasith Malinga’s presence, has frequently been toothless. The batting, apart from Sangakkara and Mathews,…
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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 some Tamils in Sri Lanka is that the Sri Lankan cricket team does not represent…
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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 in 1981, Sri Lanka already have a World Cup and a World T20 title under…
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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 awards including the Commonwealth Book Prize in 2012 and Graetiaen award in 2008. It is…
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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 batting and keeping skills. With his eloquence, lucid writing skills, acerbic wits and canny tactics, Sanga has reserved…
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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. They entered the semi-finals once (2003), finals twice (2007 and 2011) and ended up as the…
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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, who bedeck fashion rags, date models and fix matches. Cricketers are often associated with money…
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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 from the minds of their fandom. In cricket too, through out history there have been…
