India will face Sri Lanka in the second Test match of the three-game series at Colombo from Monday. Sri Lanka leads the series 1-0 after winning the first game rather easily by ten wickets. Muthiah Muralitharan and Lasith Malinga were the two heroes of the game for the Sri Lankans as they ran th

Indian batsman Rahul Dravid has said that the side is confident enough to face up to the challenge that the "mystery spinner" Ajantha Mendis will put up to the Indian side for the tour of Sri Lanka that will start from next month. Mendis was the wrecker in chief of the Indian side

The third game of the tri-series will played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe at Bulawayo. Sri Lanka has played on game against India so far and lost that rather convincingly, whereas Zimbabwe had beaten India in the first game of the tournament. This means that if Sri Lanka win this game, there

The first semi-final of the ICC World T20 will be played between England and Sri Lanka at the Gros Islet in St. Lucia between England and Sri Lanka. England had entered the semi-final by the virtue of winning all their games in the Super Eight stage, whereas Sri Lanka sneaked through to the se

Australia will take on the Sri Lanka in the eighth game of the Super Eight stage of the ICC World T20 that will be played at Barbados. The two sides had earlier won the first game that they had played and that means that the winner of this game will almost be certain to go through to the semi-fi

The seventh match of the ICC World T20 this year will have the Sri Lankans play the Zimbabwean side at providence Stadium in Guyana. The Zimbabweans are not a side who can be taken lightly given that they had won both their warm-up matches thanks to the unleashing of their spinners and by beat

The second ODI between India and Sri Lanka will be held at Nagpur on Friday. India had just about scraped through the first game by a wafer thin margin of three runs after having piled up 414 batting first. And with Nagpur having had shown its penchant for some big runs, it may not be too diff

The second test match between India and Sri Lanka will be played at the Green Park in Kanpur. The first game at Ahmedabad ended in a draw as the two teams failed to make any inroads on a pitch that was anything but bowling-friendly. India will understand that the pitch could hold the key to th

India will face Sri Lanka in the first test match of the three test match series at Ahmedabad. The game will begin on the 16th of November. The Indians will go into the series having just lost a seven match ODI series to Australia after they had gone into the series as favourites. This means

The Sri Lankan cricket captain, Kumar Sangakkara, realises that their record in test matches in India is as poor as it could get and hence would like to change that in the forthcoming series that his team plays against hosts India. In the last 27 years, the Lankans have played 14 test matches

Victoria will play Wayamba in the last game of their group at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Tuesday. Victoria has already won their first game against Delhi, whereas The Wayamba Elevens Tobago were badly beaten by the Delhi Daredevils in their first game. A win for Victorian Bushrangers in this game

Delhi Daredevils will play the Wayamba Elevens in their second game of the tournament at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground. Delhi has already lost to Victoria in the first match and a loss here would dump them out of the tournament. On the other hand, Wayamaba is playing their first game in the tour

The fourth game of the tournament will have the English and the Sri Lankans fight it out at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. Sri Lanka will go into the game having played one match so far and won that game against South Africa, whereas it will be the first game for the English, who have only jus

India will face Sri Lanka in the finals of the tri-nation Compaq Cup at the RPS in Colombo, after the hosts had beaten the visitors in a dress-rehearsal to the finals. In that last league game, Sri Lanka thrashed India by a whopping margin of 139 runs, and would have seriously dented the India

The next version of the Asia Cup will be played next year in the month of June. This was announced by the Asian Cricket Council, and it has been said that the tournament will be contested by four teams only. These four sides are India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The venue for the to

The task of beating Sri Lanka in their own den was always going to be stiff, but the task of equalling the series has become double difficult for the New Zealand side because of the illness of half their side; who are suffering from various forms of a stomach bug. And with the scoreline readin

Muttiah Muralitharan" hspace="5" align="left" border="0" src="/images/news/muttiah_muralitharan.jpg" />Finally, the Pakistani team notch up a win on the tour! After losing the test series 2-0, and going down 0-3 in the five-match ODI series, Pakistan pulled one across a reasonably depleted Sri L

Another game, another loss! That is what Pakistan must be thinking on this tour of Sri Lanka, where they have six matches - three ODIs and three test matches - and have yet to win a game, while losing five matches! So when the action shifts to Colombo for the day-night games between the two co

Sri Lanka and Pakistan will begin their five-match ODI series from Thursday and the hosts will look to continue with their winning form. Pakistan, on the other hand, will look to salvage some pride from the games, after having lost the test series rather comfortably to the Lankans.

Sri Lanka will look to make a clean sweep of the three-test match series against Pakistan when the duo meets at the SSC stadium in Colombo on Monday. Sri Lanka have already won the series 2-0, their first ever win against Pakistan at home, but will look to drill home the advantage of playing a

The ICC announced the World T20 XI squad at the completion of the tournament, but none of the Indian players could make it to the final eleven. This was announced by the ICC at Lord's on Monday, along with the team for the women's World T20 XI as well. The captain of the men's team is the win

The two remaining Asian teams, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will face each other in the finals of the second edition of the ICC World T20 at Lord's on Sunday. This was after Pakistan shocked South Africa in the first semi-finals at Trent Bridge and Sri Lanka routed West Indies in the second game at

The second semi-finals of the ICC World T20 will see Sri Lanka take on West Indies at Oval in London. Sri Lanka and West Indies belonged to the same group in the first round, and won three and two games respectively in the Super Eight stage to get to the semi-finals. Sri Lanka had beaten Wes

New Zealand will face Sri Lanka in a do-or-die Super Eights game at Trent Bridge in Nottingham to decide who goes through to the semi-finals from the Group F. A lot will depend on the result of the Ireland-Pakistan game on Monday as well, but assuming that Pakistan will be able to overcome the

The first game of Super Eights on Friday will see two Asian teams, Sri Lanka and Pakistan fight it out against each other to try and draw first blood in their bid to get to the semi-finals. The match will be played at Lord's in London. Sri Lanka has entered into this round with a clean record,

West Indies play Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge in a game whose result will have no bearing on how the tournament progresses from here. Both West Indies and Sri Lanka have already qualified for the Super Eights and Australia, the third team in the group has already been knocked out of the competiti

The second game of the double header in Trent Bridge will see the Australians take on Sri Lanka in a group C encounter. This game assumes must-win proportions for the Aussies, after their heavy loss to West Indies in the first match. Unfortunately, given that the margin of loss was quite empha

India will be hoping to make the most of a fine performance in the second One Dayer when they come up against Sri Lanka in the third One Dayer of the ongoing five match Sri Lanka India cricket One Day series this coming Sunday 24th August 2008. The series is intriguingly poised at 1-1 and wi

After an exciting and enthralling three match test series, India and Sri Lanka get ready to lock horns in the upcoming five match India Sri Lanka one day series. India have played Sri Lanka quite a bit over the past six months and this show-off will go a long way in determining the rising fo

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir hit impressive half-centuries to give India a solid start as the visitors reach 151 without loss at lunch on the opening day of the second cricket Test here today.Sehwag was unbeaten on 91 while Gambhir was batting at 50 after India, aiming to square the seri