While Sri Lanka struggles to make a direct entry to the 2019 World Cup, neighboring India has set their site in reaching the finals. At the pre-match press conference ahead of the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka, Indian skipper Virat Kohli

?   Sri Lanka will look to seal a direct qualification for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 during the upcoming five-match home series against India which commences in Dambulla on Sunday.

  Defending champion West Indies will open its campaign against host New Zealand in next year’s ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup, the schedule for which was announced on Thursday.  

Former Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews is expected to bowl during the five-match ODI series against India starting Sunday. Mathews who has taken 111 wickets in 187 matches, stopped bowling since returning to the side after a long injury lay-off.

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera has called for a report from Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) after the host was whitewashed 3-0 by India in the recent three-match Test series.

Uncapped bowlers Malinda Pushpakumara and Vishwa Fernando have been recalled to Sri Lanka’s limited-over side for the five-match ODI series against India. The selectors have also recalled all-rounders Thisara Perera and Milinda  Siriward

Brushing aside allegations that they changed players to the whims and fancies, Chairman of cricket selectors

Sri Lanka's bowling coach Chaminda Vaas on Saturday expressed satisfaction with the performance of spinners Malinda Pushpakumara and Lakshan  Sadakan , who shared five wickets between them to restrict India to 329

Sri Lanka have picked Dushmantha Chameera and Lahiru Gamage for the third and final Test match against India. The third Test begins on Saturday in Pallekele.   

Former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga has blamed Sri Lanka’s string of humiliating defeats on the country’s cricket chief and demanded his investigation by the International Cricket Council.

Batting great Aravinda de Silva had said that Sri Lanka should look at the team in the long-term in order to stop the current slide.

Left-arm spinner Axar Patel has replaced the suspended Ravindra Jadeja in India’s squad for the third Test against Sri Lanka, to be held at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium from August 12.  

Colombo - Sri Lanka's cricketers have been urged to ignore trolling on social media after a dismal run of results triggered a wave of criticism - with even a government minister poking fun online.

Sri Lanka Cricket has appointed former Sri Lanka fast bowler Rumesh Ratnayake as the National Fast Bowling coach.

Veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath has been ruled out of Sri Lanka's third Test against India owing to back pain.

Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh Chandimal admitted at the post-match press conference that their decision to play one seamer in the match proved costly.

India’s Ravindra Jadeja has been suspended for the upcoming Pallekele Test after his accumulated demerit points reached six within a 24-month period following his latest breach of the ICC Code of Conduct for which he received a 50 per cent fi

When the coalition of Thilanga Sumathipala and Jayantha Dharmadasa convincingly beat the group led by once-powerful board secretary Nishantha Ranatunga at the Sri Lanka Cricket election in 2016, expectations were high of the new administrators. &nb

Sri Lanka fell like a pack of cards in the first innings but came up with a concerted effort in their second innings after India enforced the follow on with a mammoth 439 first innings lead to end the day three on 209 for 2 at stumps.

India have neutralized the threat of Rangana Herath by continuously attacking the veteran spinner by using their feats and Anjikya Rahane says it was a conscious effort by the batters to attack.

Sri Lanka’s chance of leveling the series suffered a cruel blow as seamer Nuwan Pradeep was ruled out of bowling for the remainder of India’s first innings. Pradeep suffered a hamstring injury on day one while bowling and immediately wa

India enforced the follow-on after bowling Sri Lanka out for 183, a first innings lead of 439. Indian bowlers led by Ravichandran Ashwin ran through Sri Lanka's remaining eight wickets to restrict Sri Lanka to a meagre 183 in response to

Left-handed bat Lahiru Thirimanne has been recalled to the national team for the second Test against India

A lookalike to his cricketing idol Sanath Jayasuriya, Kusal Perera played as a middle order bat most of his career but given

Cricket Manager Asanka Gurusinha had denied playing a role in Graham Ford’s early exit from the 45-month contract. Ford resigned soon after the Champions Trophy.

The Oval has extracted every last drop of publicity from its 100th test but even the famous old ground's PR department would have struggled to dream up an ending so dramatic it may be talked about 100 games hence.

After a break from cricket, former national coach Marvan Atapattu has come back to discuss the “ins and outs” of Lankan school cricket, and is trying see where we have lapsed in our concentration. He did a detailed study on the subject

  Sri Lanka’s wheels fell off after the Test against India here in Galle yesterday — well and truly exposing their limitations in all departments of the game.