Sri Lanka great Sanath Jayasuriya will coach in Melbourne next season after putting pen to paper with an ambitious Eastern Cricket Association club. Jayasuriya will lead Mulgrave, which had already signed Tillakaratne Dilshan and Upul Tharanga as players in a fruitful off-season recruiting campaign.
An independent Anti-Corruption Tribunal has unanimously cleared former Sri Lanka player Avishka Gunawardene of two charges against him under the Emirates Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Code, allowing him to resume participation in cricket with immediate effect.
Sri Lanka were only five wickets away from a win when the final day began. And when Liton Das got out in the third over of the day, it seemed a collapse was on the cards. And indeed it came true as Bangladesh were bowled out for 227 before lunch on Day 5 on Monday (May 3). The win helped Sri Lanka to pocket the series 1-0.
Sri Lankan cricket’s woes of the past 12 months could be extended for at least another fortnight unless the visitors can rise to the challenge of a buoyant West Indies team in the two-Test series starting on Sunday at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua.
Golf is my first love, and it remains the same. Cricket was an accident, yet it was the best experience for me personally. I was Vice President of Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) under Mr. Gamini Dissanayake, who was unfortunately assassinated. Later in 1995 I was elected the President of BCCSL.
A brilliant all-round display from Wanindu Hasaranga and a 95-run opening stand helped Sri Lanka to the series-levelling 43-run victory on Friday. Hasaranga was named Player of the Match after taking 3/17 with the ball and scoring an unbeaten 19 with the bat but he was far from the lone performer.
Upul Tharanga has announced his retirement from international cricket. The 36-year-old made his announcement on a Facebook post. “As the good old saying goes ’’All good things must come to an end’’, I believe it is time for me to bid farewell to my International Cricket Career after over 15 years of giving the game my all,” he wrote.