?Mohan de Silva and Ravin Wickremaratne, two candidate at Sri Lanka Cricket election had their nominations rejected by a Sports Ministry appointed Appeal Committee citing their do not qualify to contest under the existing Sports Law and the regulatio

?Batting all-rounder Wiaan Mulder has been included in South Africa's squad for two Test matches against Sri Lanka, starting in Durban on Wednesday. 

?The national cricket selectors have made sweeping changes to the national squad by sacking its skipper and several other misfiring players for the two-match Test series in South Africa. 

Sri Lankan batsman Angelo Perera has become just the second man ever to score two double-centuries in the same first-class match.

Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of the two-match Test series against South Africa later this month but could return for the limited over leg starting March 3. The Test series starts on February 13 in Durban.

The Sports Ministry is seeking legal advice to sack Sri Lankan cricket Head Coach Chandika Hathurusingha over his team’s poor performance in the last 13 months.

Sri Lankan opener Dimuth Karunaratne was in “no danger” after being stretchered off in a neck brace following a nasty hit from a bouncer by Pat Cummins in the second cricket Test in Canberra on Saturday.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Fast bowler Mitchell Starc picked up his second five-wicket haul in the match to lead Australia to a comprehensive 366-run victory in the second test against Sri Lanka and a 2-0 series win at Manuka Oval on Monday.

Spin bowler Akila Dananjaya will have his bowling action reassess at the Center for Sports Science (CSS) of the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research in Chennai as Sri Lanka look yo fast track his return to the international fold

Sri Lanka A coach and former national cricketer Avishka Gunawaradana will fly tonight (January 30) to Australia to replace batting coach Jon Lewis for the second Test starting on Friday. Jon Lewis is on leave to attend a family matter. Gunawardena

?All-rounder Thisara Perera has called for a change in the limited over captaincy in order to bring in unity and stability in the national side ahead of this year’s cricket World Cup in England.  In a letter  addressed to Sri Lanka Cr

Sri Lanka have called up right-arm fast bowler Chamika Karunaratne to replace the injured Lahiru Kumara for the second Domain Test against Australia in Canberra.  

?Fast bowler Lahiru Kumara has been ruled out for six weeks with a hamstring injury. Accordingly he will miss the second Test against Australia starting next week and the South African series starting next month.

He had just overseen Surrey’s return to the top tier in English county championships when he was invited by his former employer–Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC)–to come on board. It was a tough call for Graham Ford. But the opportunity to

A reshuffle of personnel and a change of opponent brought a much-sought shift in performance for Australia who ended the opening day of their Test campaign against Sri Lanka in a position of rare recent strength.

Rain often disrupts cricket, but in New Zealand it was the sun that forced players off the field on Wednesday during the one-day international against India. 

Sri Lanka umpire Kumar Dharmasena wins David Shepherd Trophy for ICC Umpire of the Year for the second time. Dharmasena was voted as Umpire of the Year by international captains and ICC Match Referees.

Sri Lanka Test opener Dimuth Karunaratne is the only Sri Lankan to feature in the ICC’s Test and ODI teams selected based on their performance last year. Karunatane has been consistently among runs in last year and has scored 743 runs off nin

It’s a Test series many expect Australia to win and just the tonic needed for a lift ahead of the World Cup and Ashes.

Australia have suffered a major blow ahead of their Domain Test series against Sri Lanka, with key fast bowler and vice-captain Josh Hazlewood ruled out with a back injury.

Joe Burns and Matthew Renshaw will link up with Australia's Test squad without a decent score under their belts after both suffered their second cheap dismissals for the Cricket Australia XI in Hobart.   

Sports Minister Harin Fernando on Thursday postponed Sri Lanka Cricket election by another two weeks to February 21. The decision comes as a result of a technical error in the Sinhala to English translation of the gazette which empowers the Sports

Key Sri Lankan batsman Kusal Mendis is in doubt for the upcoming two-Test series against Australia after injuring his hand during day one of a tour match.  

Those signs were most prominent in Test cricket, where the Asian side are without a win in five games. In the first Test against New Zealand a mammoth unbeaten 274-run partnership between Kusal Mendis and Angelo Mathews saved them the Test and show

Veteran wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni steered India to a six-wicket victory over Australia in the second one-day international to level the series in Adelaide on Tuesday. 

  The International Cricket Council on Tuesday named Manu Sawhney its new chief executive officer to replace David Richardson, who will step down after the World Cup in July.

Sri Lanka's top cricketers are allegedly being honey trapped and blackmailed into match-fixing, the Sunday Times reliably learns, amidst unprecedented International Cricket Council intervention to, at the very least, reduce corruption in the spo

Sri Lanka in dramatic win over Aussie Sri Lanka vs Australia Youth test Sri Lanka registered a dramatic three wicket win with two balls to spare in the three day Youth Test between Sri Lanka Under 19 and Australia Under 19 at the SSC grounds yesterda

Indian cricket's governing body has ordered batsman KL Rahul and allrounder Hardik Pandya to return home after their suspensions for controversial comments about women on a TV show.

Sri Lanka Cricket election has been put on hold by the Ministry of Sports until a discrepancy in a gazette notification which empowers the Sports Minister to appoint a three-member Advisory Board to hear polls-related appeals to be sorted out.