Sri Lanka Cricket

49 articles tagged with "Sri Lanka Cricket"

Sep 2, 2026

India get the first Women’s Champions Trophy, and Sri Lanka keep their place by one rating point

The ICC Board confirmed on Wednesday that the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy moves from Sri Lanka to Mumbai and Vadodara, 14 to 28 February 2027....

Aug 30, 2026

Sri Lanka lost the Champions Trophy they were hosting, and the rankings say their place goes with it

The ICC is moving the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy out of Sri Lanka over government control of the board. India is the name being mentioned as t...

Aug 27, 2026

Dinusha batted seven hours for 133 not out, and India settled for a 1-0 series win

Sri Lanka began the last day 16 in front with four wickets standing. They batted through all of it, declared, and the Colombo Test was drawn.

Aug 26, 2026

Sooriyabandara was out with Sri Lanka one run behind, and they lead by 16 going into the final day

Pasindu Sooriyabandara was stumped for 92 with Sri Lanka still a run short of making India bat again. Four wickets stand between India and a 2-0 serie...

Aug 26, 2026

Dinusha has made 100, 84 and 103 against India, and Sri Lanka are following on anyway

Three innings against India, three scores of 80 or more, and a place on a list that already had Sobers and Weekes on it. Sri Lanka’s problem is what h...

Aug 24, 2026

Jurel waited out the rain on 95, and finished 115 not out as India declared on 503

Rain stopped Dhruv Jurel five short of a century in Colombo. He completed it after the break, and India’s first innings closed on 503 for 9 with him n...

Aug 23, 2026

Padikkal has a hundred in each Test of this series, and Pant retired hurt on 3 after a blow to the wrist

India closed the first day in Colombo on 300 for 5. Devdutt Padikkal made 117, his second Test century in successive matches, and Rishabh Pant left th...

Aug 18, 2026

Kohli’s first innings for India was 12 in Dambulla, and it is 18 years old today

On 18 August 2008 a 19-year-old opened India’s batting at Dambulla, made 12, and finished on the wrong side of an eight-wicket defeat. Eighteen years...

Aug 18, 2026

India are in the inaugural Women’s Champions Trophy, and the field was settled by a ranking taken on 6 July

Six teams, 16 matches and no qualifying route: the ICC’s new women’s tournament lands in Sri Lanka next February, and Ellyse Perry has had her first w...

Aug 18, 2026

Pant reached 100 Test sixes faster than anyone has, and India set Sri Lanka 372

Rishabh Pant got to 100 sixes in Tests in his 89th innings, 41 fewer than Adam Gilchrist needed. India were bowled out for 193, and Sri Lanka lost Din...

Aug 15, 2026

India reach 600 Tests with 186 wins and 188 defeats, at a ground that was rubble in 2005

India became the third country after England and Australia to play 600 Tests when they walked out at Galle on Independence Day. It is also Galle’s 50t...

Aug 14, 2026

Gambhir has two ICC trophies and ten defeats in nineteen Tests, and Galle is about the second number

India start in Galle on Saturday with a coach whose white-ball record is close to flawless and whose Test record is not. Both are true. Only one of th...

Aug 14, 2026

India lost the spinner who bats, and the answer at Galle should be a 33-year-old debutant

Washington Sundar’s hamstring has left India a bowler short in the wrong department, and the argument before Saturday’s first Test is not about the ba...

Aug 12, 2026

Sri Lanka pick four quicks for Galle, and Dickwella returns after three years

Sri Lanka’s 16 for the first Test against India carries four specialist fast bowlers, three front-line spinners and a recalled Niroshan Dickwella behi...

Aug 11, 2026

Sri Lanka lose Kusal Mendis for both Tests and Nissanka for Galle, four days before India start

Sri Lanka’s two most established top-order batters will not be in the side that meets India on Saturday. One is out of the series entirely, and the ot...

Aug 9, 2026

India built a fake day-four Galle pitch in Colombo, then let schoolboys bowl on it

India’s coaching staff found a patch of uncurated turf at the NCC in Colombo, measured 22 yards across it and sent schoolboy spinners at their top ord...

Aug 9, 2026

Asalanka’s 3 for 20 flattens Jaffna, and Galle Gallants win their first LPL title

Galle Gallants chased down 124 with 25 balls to spare at the R. Premadasa Stadium to win the Lanka Premier League for the first time, three days after...

Aug 8, 2026

Sri Lanka are giving away the India Tests, and the Lanka Premier League is why

Free entry at Galle and the SSC covers the grass banks, not the stands. For the biggest series on the home calendar, that is a decision worth reading...

Aug 8, 2026

Harper and Asalanka put on 126, and Galle get a fourth go at Jaffna in the LPL final

Galle Gallants chased down 177 with eight balls to spare in Qualifier 2 at the R Premadasa Stadium, knocking Colombo Kaps out of the Lanka Premier Lea...

Aug 7, 2026

Sri Lanka’s second string made 363 at the NCC, and Manav Suthar was India’s best bowler

Eight days before the first Test at Galle, India’s attack spent 90 overs in the field at the Nondescripts and got one wicket out of its seamers.

Aug 7, 2026

Gill was hit twice in Thursday’s session, and KL Rahul led India’s warm-up instead

Shubman Gill took two blows to his right hand at practice in Colombo on Thursday and was held out of day one of India’s only warm-up before the Sri La...

Aug 6, 2026

Kandy lose seven for 42 and Colombo Kaps go through to meet Galle again

Kandy Royals’ season ended in the space of eight overs at the R Premadasa. Colombo Kaps meet Galle Gallants on Friday for the right to face Jaffna in...

Aug 5, 2026

Jaffna beat Galle at the third attempt, and Mishara’s 108 puts them in the LPL final

Jaffna Kings are through to the Lanka Premier League final on 8 August after a 14-run win over Galle Gallants in Qualifier 1. Galle get a second chanc...

Aug 5, 2026

Zaheer Khan buys Jaffna Kings, less than three weeks after their last owner was arrested

Anchor Sports AB, the Stockholm group co-owned by Zaheer Khan and Nagendra Siddoutam, has taken over the Lanka Premier League’s most successful franch...