South Africa enter only their second test series of the year when they take on Sri Lanka in the first test at Centurion from Thursday. Sri Lanka, on the contrary, will be hoping for their miserable year to come to an end already. Sri Lanka have had a wretched run since reaching the World Cup f

The third and final Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be played from November 3 at 6:00 GMT in Sharjah. Pakistan now lead the series 1-0, so this Test match is expected to be a great encounter between these two sub continental team. In the first test Sri Lanka escaped from a defeat, bu

The second ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia will be played at the Hambantota ground on August 14. Hambantota had hosted a few matches in the World Cup this year and that had been its debut at the international level. Sri Lanka had gone into the ODI series as favourites, but the first match l

The third ODI between England and Sri Lanka will be played at the Lord's in London on Sunday, July 3. The series is tied at one game all, after the English side had won the Test series 1-0 and the one-off T20I was easily won by Sri Lanka. The England-Sri Lanka live match can be seen on Star C

England will take on Sri Lanka in the second Test match of the three-match series at the Lord's in London. This will be the start of the second Test match, of the series which England already leads 1-0 in the series which has seen some strange cricket being played. The first Test match at th

Mumbai Indians will play the Deccan Chargers in the 59th game of the Indian Premier League this season. The two sides are so differently poised that they will be playing for different reasons. Of course, both the sides would want to win the game but the difference is that while the Mumbai Indian

Virender Sehwag is in the form of his life and that was proved yesterday when he smashed a century off almost next to nothing number of balls to win the game for the Delhi Daredevils against the Deccan Chargers. It was an innings of so much brute force that the Chargers were left licking their

The Deccan Chargers will take on the Delhi Daredevils in the 46th game of the Indian Premier League 2011. The two sides are in a similar position and the plain fact of the matter is that they are struggling to make things go their way. The team losing this game could very well be knocked out of the

The Delhi Daredevils will play their fourth game of the Indian Premier League this season when they take on the Deccan Chargers at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. The game will be played on Tuesday and will be the 19th game of the tournament this year. This will also be the fifth match for th

The Deccan Chargers will play the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 11th game of the Indian Premier League to be played at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad. The Chargers will look to ensure that they can overcome the jinx that is being associated with their home ground where the side

Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers will face each other in the sixth match of the IPL 2011 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Both the teams lost their opening matches and would be looking for their first points of the tournament. The Knight Riders playing their home game, will be the favorites

The first semi-final of the ICC CricketWorld Cup 2011 will have the Sri Lankan side take on New Zealand in the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Sri Lanka will be favourites to get to the final given that this is not only their home game but also that they have played much better than most of

Pakistan will play Sri Lanka in the tenth game of the Cricket World Cup at the RPS in Colombo. The game will be played on February 26 and will be the second game for the two sides. In Pakistan's first game, they had crushed the Kenyan side without any issue, winning by 205 runs. The battin

Sri Lanka will kick off their 2011 World Cup campaign when they meet minnows Canada in the southern city of Hambantota on Sunday. See live action from Sri Lanka vs Canada online as it happens by joining action8cricket.com today. As winners of the World Cup the last time it was held in the s

The first day of the World Cup warm-up games saw Sri Lanka, West Indies and Bangladesh cruise to easy wins in their respective games. Sri Lanka crushed Netherlands in a game at SSC in Colombo, West Indies ran home in a reasonably tough game against Kenya while Bangladesh pounded the Canada sid

The Sri Lanka v West Indies Test series kicks off with an opener at Galle on Monday. It has become somewhat obvious that international teams are not giving Test cricket much importance before the World Cup. Teams tend to leave players out for rest and experimenting to shape up their World Cu

Sri Lanka may have beaten India rather convincingly, but Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara has said that the side needed to be more consistent in winning the matches. Sri Lanka beat India by eight wickets and with almost 35 overs to spare, in what was the worst ever defeat for India against an

India will play Sri Lanka in the fifth game of the Micromax Cup tri-series to be played at Dambulla. It is a must-win game for both the sides, as the winner of the game will go through to the final, whereas the team losing the game will need to anxiously look at the result of the last game bet

Never before has a no ball created such a stir. Suraj Randiv no ball to gift India a run, which denied Virendar Sehwag a century, has raised so much noise, especially in India. Virendar Sehwag was stranded on 99, and vented his frustration by hitting the bowler to a meaningless six

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 first match of the ICC World T20 will see the Group B fixture between the New Zealand side and Sri Lanka. The third team in the group is Zimbabwe, who had not participated in the previous edition of the tournament. Looking at the format of the tournament, either team can afford to lose thi

The Kolkata Knight Riders will play the Kings XI Punjab for the second time in the tournament at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. The last time the two sides met was in Mohali, where the Knight Riders had stolen an easy win against the Punjab side thanks to Manoj Tiwary's belligerence. This time a

The Hyderabad Deccan Chargers will play the Kings XI Punjab in the 12th match of the Indian Premier League. The game will be played at the Barbati Stadium in Cuttack and will be the first time such a thing will happen in the history of the Indian Premier League. The Chargers won their one of t

The third match of the third edition of the Indian Premier League will be played between the Kings XI Punjab and the Delhi Daredevils at the PCA Stadium in Mohali. The Kings XI Punjab has seen some turbulent times in the recent period. For starters, there were consistent rumours coming fro

After months of speculation of the change in captaincy in the Kings XI Punjab side, the same has been confirmed. Kumar Sangakkara has been named as the skipper of the Kings XI Punjab team for the third season of the IPL. He takes over from Yuvraj Singh as this was confirmed by Anil Srivatsa,

The first match of the tri-series in Bangladesh will be played between the hosts and the Sri Lankans. India is the third team in the competition and the three teams will be involved in a two round, round-robin tournament. The top two sides at the end of the tournament will play in the finals.

India was soundly beaten in the first T20I of the two match series by Sri Lanka. The end margin of 29 runs may not look thanks to the couple of lusty blows from Ashish Nehra at the end of the innings when all seemed lost for the side, but the fact of the matter is that India was never in hunt

The second and the final T20I between India and Sri Lanka will be played at Mohali. Sri Lanka had won the first T20I by beating India by 29 runs at Nagpur, and the side will now look to drill home the advantage by making it 2-0 at Mohali. India, on the other hand, will look to stall the four m

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