An impressive match haul of 4 for 6 in two overs by stand-in skipper Dhananjaya de Silva paved the way for Dambulla Aura to record a comfortable 20-run win over B-Love Kandy in their Lanka Premier League T20 encounter played at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Monday.
The winningest franchise in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) find themselves in a position they have not been in before, after a seven-wicket defeat to the Galle Titans left the defending champions Jaffna Kings waiting till the final day of the group stage to find out if they would progress to the play-offs.
While the Galle Titans continue to freefall, Dambulla Aura pressed on for a third consecutive victory in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) to take over top spot in the points table, for the time being at least, with a seven-wicket win over Galle on Friday.
Dambulla Aura inflicted the third defeat of defending and three times champions Jaffna Kings with a nine runs win in the 11th match of the Lanka Premier League played under floodlights at the Pallekele International Stadium on Monday.
Pakistan cricket team will be travelling to India later this year to compete in the ICC World Cup later this year after the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave them permission to play in the showpiece tournament.
It’s still early days in this season’s Lanka Premier League but B-Love Kandy may already be sweating about their chances in the tournament after a second successive defeat exposed their brittle batting, in a 83-run loss to the Galle Titans at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday.
It may only have been the opening game of the tournament, but the defending champions Jaffna Kings made their case as the team to beat in this year’s Lanka’s Premier League tournament with a 20-run win over the Colombo Strikers on Sunday.
With Sri Lanka’s fielding proving a major concern following their four-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the first Test that ended on Thursday, team management have drafted in an additional fielding coach to work with the team ahead of the second Test.
Sri Lanka’s Maheesh Theekshana and Pathum Nissanka made big gains in the ICC’s ODI player rankings, after making significant contributions to their team’s unbeaten run at the Cricket World Cup Qualifier which concluded on Sunday.
An unbeaten 80 from captain Chamari Athapaththu and 49 not out from Harshitha Samarawickrama set Sri Lanka Women up for a dominant 10-wicket win over New Zealand Women in the third and final T20I played in Colombo.
Fast bowler Lahiru Kumara, who walked off the field with an injury during Sri Lanka’s Super Six win over the Netherlands on Friday, has been ruled out for the rest of the Cricket World Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe.
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