Sri Lanka Cricket

63 articles tagged with "Sri Lanka Cricket"

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...

Aug 5, 2026

Jaffna topped the LPL table without beating Galle, and now they meet in Qualifier 1

The Lanka Premier League playoffs open with a double-header at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Wednesday: Galle Gallants against Jaffna Kings at 12.30pm I...

Aug 3, 2026

Sudharsan is batting again in Bengaluru, and India’s Colombo warm-up loses a day

India fly to Colombo on 4 August with their No. 3 still waiting on a fitness clearance, and with one day less of warm-up cricket than they had planned...

Jul 31, 2026

India’s record in Sri Lanka says one thing, the last 20 months say another

India have not lost a Test series in Sri Lanka since 2008 and have won their last five Tests on the island. After two home whitewashes and a nine-year...

Jul 30, 2026

Colombo Kaps lose three wickets for one run and still chase down 175

Rubin Hermann’s 48 from 26 balls did the early damage at Pallekele, and Colombo Kaps survived a three-wicket collapse in the space of five balls to be...

Jul 29, 2026

Udara’s maiden T20 hundred sinks the LPL leaders as Kandy chase 209

Lahiru Udara had never made a hundred in T20 cricket before Wednesday. He reached this one off 54 balls, finished unbeaten on 132, and Kandy Royals ra...

Jul 28, 2026

Jadeja returns and Saransh Jain earns a first call-up in India’s Sri Lanka Test squad

India’s 15 for the two Tests in Sri Lanka has Ravindra Jadeja back from a tennis elbow and a maiden call-up for 33-year-old off-spinner Saransh Jain,...

Jul 27, 2026

Jaffna’s 93-run win and Galle’s 220 leave Kandy and Dambulla propping up the LPL

Two matches at Rangiri Dambulla on Sunday, two heavy defeats for the home side and Kandy Royals, and a Lanka Premier League table that still has Galle...

Jul 26, 2026

How the LPL’s most successful franchise ended up being run by the league

An arrest on opening day, black tape over the sponsor logos and a terminated franchise agreement have left the four-time champions Jaffna Kings under...

Jul 25, 2026

India get a bye into the Asian Games cricket quarter-finals as the Japan draw lands

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have been seeded straight into the men’s quarter-finals in Aichi, while India’s women begin their title defe...

Jul 20, 2026

India’s road back to the World Test Championship final runs through Sri Lanka

India begin their World Test Championship run-in with two Tests in Sri Lanka next month, and fifth place in the table means Galle and Colombo already...