President Mahinda Rajapaksa was among the thousands of fans who gathered at the R. Premadasa stadium to watch the 1st semi-final game between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, which took place yesterday.
The game saw Sri Lanka overcoming some troubled moments to book their place in the final match of the world cup, which will take [...]
March 30, 2011 5:20 PM | Posted in
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The international cricket commentators, currently in Sri Lanka doing commentaries in the ongoing world cup matches met President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday.
Among them was Tony Greig who is highly popular among local fans.
The meeting took place at the Temple Trees.
March 29, 2011 3:15 PM | Posted in
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Sri Lanka, the 1996 World Cup Champions who will play in its fourth World Cup semi-final tomorrow, has seen most of the runs the team scored in the ongoing World Cup, coming from the top four batsmen.
T.M. Dilshan has so far accumulated 394 runs at 65.66, Tharanga 363 at 72.6, Kumar Sangakkara 363 while Mahela [...]
March 28, 2011 4:02 PM | Posted in
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Kumar Sangakkara expects the impending retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan to lift Sri Lanka when they take on England in a World Cup quarter-final in Colombo on Saturday.
The offspinner will bow out of the international game at the end of the tournament, meaning that every game could be his last as the co-hosts enter the knockout [...]
March 25, 2011 4:55 PM | Posted in
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England are considering throwing one of the most confident, colorful characters in the game straight into the cauldron of a World Cup quarter-final for the most demanding of debuts.
If Jade Dernbach makes his first senior appearance for England against Sri Lanka here on Saturday he will lack for nothing in self-belief and a determination to [...]
March 23, 2011 10:50 AM | Posted in
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Sri Lankan locals have one serious question for the International Cricket Council.
If India is the top ranked team in this tournament and therefore gets to play all its matches at home, then is it not fair that if Sri Lanka qualify instead, they should play the final in Colombo?
That won’t happen, probably because of the [...]
March 22, 2011 12:01 PM | Posted in
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The Chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation Mike Hooper made a visit to Hambantota on Sunday to take a first hand look at the district , which is aiming host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Hooper was here in the country to take part in the unveiling of the “Model” of the Games City which took place [...]
March 21, 2011 1:43 PM | Posted in
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Nearly two years after a deadly attack on the bus, transporting the touring Sri Lanka Cricket team, by Pakistani militants in Lahore, action against the police officers who were assigned to provide security to the team is yet pending, despite the findings of a Pakistani judicial commission investigation.
The Punjab Provincial Assembly recently turned a blind [...]
March 20, 2011 9:36 AM | Posted in
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Sri Lanka is planning to build 20 key sporting venues and related facilities in Hambantota to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games, if the country succeeds in winning its bid to host the event.
According to the plan, the Games City, which the model will be launched on Saturday, will include an athletics stadium, an aquatic centre, [...]
March 18, 2011 1:48 PM | Posted in
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Sri Lanka will take on Scotland and Ireland in a short one-day international tri-series this summer, following their tour of England.
All three matches will take place at the Grange in Edinburgh, with Ireland playing Sri Lanka first on 11 July.
Scotland face Ireland the next day, before playing Sri Lanka on 13 July.
Cricket Scotland’s Roddy Smith [...]
March 14, 2011 6:04 PM | Posted in
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