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 play Sri Lanka in the first ODI of the series at the Oval on June 28. This series follows the T20I that was played at Bristol and won by the Sri Lankan side, interestingly, rather easily at that. There is an obvious change to the squad for the English side. They go into the gam

The Sri Lankan opening batman, Upul Tharanga has been banned by the ICC for three months for his transgression involving drug-intake. Tharanga failed his drug test during the World Cup, something that was revealed at the end of the tournament. The ICC has said that while Tharanga had made

In the one-off T20I that will be played at Bristol, England will play Sri Lanka on June 25. The English side won the Test series 1-0, and will be looking to ensure that they can make it to a win in this one-off T20I as well. The interesting news is that the absence of Tillakaratne Dilshan has

Given the decision by the BCCI to not send the Indian cricketers to participate in the Sri Lanka Premier League, it has been said that the Sri Lankan sports ministry has asked its board chairman and the secretary to meet the Indian board over the issue. Accordingly, the Sri Lankan board chairm

Things between the Indian cricket board and their Sri Lankan counterparts have not looked too good in recent times and there is another simmering issue that could lead to a big issue. The BCCI has said that the Indian cricketers will not play in the Sri Lanka Premier League that will be hosted

The third and the final Test match of the series between England and Sri Lanka will be played at the Rose Bowl at Hampshire. The game will start off from June 16 and will see the two sides fight it out for the top glory. The English side won the first Test match with a freak win over the Sri

The Sri Lankan selectors have sprung nothing short of a surprise by naming the all-rounder Sanath Jayasuriya in their 16-man side that will play in the one-off T20I and a five-match ODI series against the English side. This means that Jayasuriya will play his first ODI since having played in D

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

The first Test match between England and Sri Lanka will be played at Cardiff in Wales from May 26. This is the first game of the long summer in England, which will see the two sides play three test matches, one T20I and five ODIs, and which will be followed by the series against India that wil

Shahid Afridi has said that he made some mistakes in the semi-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 that cost him the game to the Indians at Mohali. India beat Pakistan easily and went on to win the World Cup by beating Sri Lanka in the final of the tournament. Afridi said that he should hav

Michael Clarke has been christened the captain of the Australian side for the tour of Bangladesh after Ricky Ponting decided to step down from the position. Clarke will take over the role of the leader of both, the ODIs and the Test matches. On this particular tour of Bangladesh, Australia

Sri Lanka will play England in the fourth quarter-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. The game will be played on March 26 and will be featured in the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Sri Lanka has had an up and down kind of a tournament and still managed to finish second in the group.

In what will be one of the more important games of the last week of the league stages of the ICC Cricket World Cup in Group A, Sri Lanka will play New Zealand. The game will be played at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Things are interestingly poised in the points table despite both havin

Sri Lanka will take on Zimbabwe at the Pallekele Stadium in Pallekele near Kandy. Sri Lanka have played four games so far, won two against Kenya and Canada, lost to Pakitan while their game against Australia was abandoned. This means that they will now need to win against Zimbabwe to ensure th

Group B is the more exciting of the two groups so far. They have been able to create some magic through some close, exciting games and that has meant that there are many teams there which can still make it to the quarter-finals. On the other hand, in Group A, it is already known which teams wi

Australia will play Sri Lanka in the 20th game of the Cricket World Cup on March 5. The match will be played at the R Premadasa in Colombo. Australia have played in a couple of games in the tournament so far and have had an excellent start to the World Cup. They were easy winners in both t

Sri Lanka will play Kenya in the 14th game of the Cricket World Cup tournament. The game will be played on March 1 and will see the game being played at the R Premadasa in Colombo. At the outset, it looks like this is one of the more one-sided encounters in the tournament. after all, Kenya

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

Finally the two teams Sri Lanka and West Indies have had a game they were craving for. It not free from rain incident though. With only three overs per innings lost, in the given circumstances was happily taken by both teams. Sri Lanka predictably eased themselves to a victory at Colombo. The

The first of the three games at Colombo SSC was affected by the rain. No result was possible. The series may be heading for a similar fate as the Test series between the two teams in November, due to which the current series was postponed until January. But it seems that the postponement may

After a rain barred drawn Test series, it was decided by management to postpone the three match one day series in January. The postponed series will take place from January 31 to February 6. All the matches will be played at SSC Colombo which is not a venue for the World Cup matches. Non

After a painstaking, rain-drenched Test series that ended 0-0, Sri Lanka and West Indies will now lock horns in the five match ODI series that starts from Thursday. With the World Cup scheduled to take place in the sub-continent early next year, the series is of prime importance for both the t

The series has been rain hit and people have been deprived from a lot of potentially good quality cricket. The series so far has been disappointing in terms of results but home fans would be happy because Sri Lanka have did dictate the Last outing at Colombo (RPS). In fact in the first Test,

This World Cup as you know will be jointly co hosted by Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. The good news for these teams is that they will play all their knockout games at their respective home grounds, regardless of where they stand in their groups at the end of the preliminary stage of the tou

The first Test match at Galle was surprisingly dominated by the touring West Indies. The Test match was marked by a magnificent triple century by former West Indies captain Chris Gayle. This series has started a new era for West Indies cricket, under new leadership and other shakeups. Sri L

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

The series has been dead and dusted with one game to go. Sri Lanka have emerged 2-0 winners in three match ODI series. Sri Lanka also won the only T20 game. Admittedly, there is not a lot to play for at Sunday's game at Brisbane. The only motivation is for Sri Lanka to achieve clean sweep an