(2010.07.13)
Fast bowler Lasith Malinga has been named in the 16-member Sri Lanka squad for the three-Test series against India beginning on July 18, setting him up for a return to Tests after two-and-a-half years . However, there was no place for spinner Ajantha Mendis, who tormented India during their previous Test visit two years ago.
Malinga played his last Test against England at Galle in 2007 before a knee injury laid him low and forced him out of cricket for nine months. Lasith has nine more days before the first Test against India and we are confident he will be fit to play. He has been bowling long spells at the nets and has shown no side effects," a selection committee source said. Since making his Test debut against Australia at Darwin in 2004, Malinga has played in 28 Tests and captured 91 wickets.The other members of the fast-bowling department are Dilhara Fernando, Chanaka Welegedara and Dammika Prasad.
Offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan who is due to retire at the end of Galle Test has also been named in the squad along with left-arm spinner Rangana Herath and young off-spinner Suraj Randiv who is likely to take Muralitharan's place for the rest of the series. Mendis, who became a star with 26 wickets in three Tests against India when they visited in 2008, was left out.
The Sri Lanka Board President's team to take on India in a three-day practice match ahead of the Tests was also named. Thilan Samaraweera will lead the side which includes first-choice Test keeper Prasanna Jayawardene and promising batsmen Lahiru Thirimanne, Ashan Priyanjan and Dinesh Chandimal.
Test squad: Kumar Sangakkara (capt), Muttiah Muralitharan (vc), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Tharanga Paranavitana, Mahela Jayawardene, Thilan Samaraweera, Angelo Mathews, Prasanna Jayawardene, Lasith Malinga, Rangana Herath, Dilhara Fernando, Dammika Prasad, Suraj Randiv, Thilina Kandamby, Chanaka Welegedara, Lahiru Thirimanne.
Sri Lanka Board President's XI: Thilan Samaraweera (capt), Upul Tharanga, Lahiru Thirimanne, Thilina Kandamby, Prasanna Jayawardene (wk), Ashan Priyanjana, Kaushal Silva, Chanaka Welegedara, Dilhara Fernando, Chaminda Vidanapathirana, Sachitra Senanayake, Ajantha Mendis, Nuwan Pradeep, Kusal Janith, Dinesh Chandimal
Monday, July 12, 2010
Sri Lanka A won the ODI series
(2010.07.13)
Sri Lanka A won the 3-match series 2-0 against Australia A
Sri Lanka A won 2 games and one game tied
Sri Lanka A vs Auatralia A 3rd ODI(2010.07.10)
(40 overs game/light conditions)
Australia A 246/5(40 overs)
AC Voges 81
TR Birt 52
I Udana 3/67
Sri Lanka A 247/8 (39.1 overs)
LPC Silva 104
CKB Kulasekara 30
XJ Doherty 3/55
Sri Lanka A won by 2 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
Sri Lanka A won the 3-match series 2-0 against Australia A
Sri Lanka A won 2 games and one game tied
Sri Lanka A vs Auatralia A 3rd ODI(2010.07.10)
(40 overs game/light conditions)
Australia A 246/5(40 overs)
AC Voges 81
TR Birt 52
I Udana 3/67
Sri Lanka A 247/8 (39.1 overs)
LPC Silva 104
CKB Kulasekara 30
XJ Doherty 3/55
Sri Lanka A won by 2 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
Friday, July 9, 2010
Sri Lanka Under-19 team in England
(2010.07.09)
Fast-bowling allrounder Chathura Peiris, will lead the Under-19 team on a tour to England from July 14 to August 7.
Peiris has with him nine others who played in the U-19 World Cup, including Sri Lanka's highest run-getter in the tournament, Banuka Rajapakse, who scored 253 runs. Four other members of the England-bound team - Nipun Karunanayake, Sanitha de Mel, Saranga Rajaguru and Dinuk Jayasinghe.Only new comer is top order batsman Ramith Rambukwella.
The team will play two youth Tests, two Twenty20s and a one-day match against the England Under-19 team.
Squad: Chathura Peiris (capt), Kithuruwan Vithanage, (vice-capt), Banuka Rajapakse, Rumesh Buddika, Nipun Karunanayake, Ramith Rambukwella, Denuwan Rajakaruna, Danushka Gunatilaka, Akshu Fernando, Yasoda Lanka, Charith Jayampathy, Lahiru Jayaratne, Sanitha de Mel, Saranga Rajaguru, Dinuk Jayasinghe
Fast-bowling allrounder Chathura Peiris, will lead the Under-19 team on a tour to England from July 14 to August 7.
Peiris has with him nine others who played in the U-19 World Cup, including Sri Lanka's highest run-getter in the tournament, Banuka Rajapakse, who scored 253 runs. Four other members of the England-bound team - Nipun Karunanayake, Sanitha de Mel, Saranga Rajaguru and Dinuk Jayasinghe.Only new comer is top order batsman Ramith Rambukwella.
The team will play two youth Tests, two Twenty20s and a one-day match against the England Under-19 team.
Squad: Chathura Peiris (capt), Kithuruwan Vithanage, (vice-capt), Banuka Rajapakse, Rumesh Buddika, Nipun Karunanayake, Ramith Rambukwella, Denuwan Rajakaruna, Danushka Gunatilaka, Akshu Fernando, Yasoda Lanka, Charith Jayampathy, Lahiru Jayaratne, Sanitha de Mel, Saranga Rajaguru, Dinuk Jayasinghe
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Australia A Couldn't win a game yet
(2010.07.08)
Sri Lanka A tour of Australia
Australia A Couldn't win a game yet
After Sri Lanka A lost the 2 Tests & T20 against Astralia A
they could lead the ODI series.
1st ODI(2010.07.04)
Australia A won the toss & chose to bat couldn't pass 200 just 197 & Sri Lanka
passed the score in 47th over within 5wickets
Australia A 197(50)
TR Brit 54
XJ Doherty 37
NLTC Perera 5/37
Sri Lanka A 198/5 in 47.4 overs
J Mendis 81
K Kulasekara 44
JA Gaberfield 2/21
Sri Lanka A won by 5 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
2nd ODI(2010.07.07)
Australia A won the toss & chose to field,Sri Lanka A openers gave a
good start but couldn't pass 275.D/L method tied the match in the last over
Sri Lanka A 257/8
LD Chandimal 59
FDM Karunarathne 53
LW Feldman 3/43
Rain delayed the match & to the D/L method riversed target
was 208 in 34 overs
Australia A 207/7 in 34 overs
MS Wade 45
AB Mcdonald 36
BMAJ Mendis 2/17
Match tied (D/L method)
Sri Lanka A tour of Australia
Australia A Couldn't win a game yet
After Sri Lanka A lost the 2 Tests & T20 against Astralia A
they could lead the ODI series.
1st ODI(2010.07.04)
Australia A won the toss & chose to bat couldn't pass 200 just 197 & Sri Lanka
passed the score in 47th over within 5wickets
Australia A 197(50)
TR Brit 54
XJ Doherty 37
NLTC Perera 5/37
Sri Lanka A 198/5 in 47.4 overs
J Mendis 81
K Kulasekara 44
JA Gaberfield 2/21
Sri Lanka A won by 5 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
2nd ODI(2010.07.07)
Australia A won the toss & chose to field,Sri Lanka A openers gave a
good start but couldn't pass 275.D/L method tied the match in the last over
Sri Lanka A 257/8
LD Chandimal 59
FDM Karunarathne 53
LW Feldman 3/43
Rain delayed the match & to the D/L method riversed target
was 208 in 34 overs
Australia A 207/7 in 34 overs
MS Wade 45
AB Mcdonald 36
BMAJ Mendis 2/17
Match tied (D/L method)
Sanath Jayasuriya
( 2010.07.07)Sanath Jayasuriya, a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, was born on June 30, 1969 in Matara. He is an all-rounder, who is a left-handed opening batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Sanath Jayasuriya captained the Sri Lankan team for a span of four years from 1999 to 2003. He was educated at the Servatius College in Matara, where his talents were spotted and nourished by the principal, G.L. Galappathy, and coach, Lionel Wagasinghe. Sanath Jayasuriya is married to Sandra and has three children.
Sanath Jayasuriya made his Test debut for the Sri Lankan national team in February 1991 against New Zealand in Hamilton and has scored 6,973 runs in 110 matches, at an average of 40.07 in his Test career. His highest Test score of 340 came against India, and he has been the recipient of the Man of the Match award four times. On his last innings before bidding farewell to Test cricket, Sanath Jayasuriya smashed six 4s in an over against England, becoming the third batsman to achieve this feat in Test cricket.
One of the world's most uncompromising strikers of the ball, Jayasuriya found belated fame as a pinch-hitter at the 1996 World Cup, and then demonstrated that he was also capable of massive scoring in Tests, eventually becoming Sri Lanka's highest Test run-scorer. He remains dizzily dangerous, especially on the subcontinent's slower, less bouncy surfaces. Short in stature and powerfully built, he cuts and pulls with awesome power, and his brutal bat-wielding is at odds with his shy, gentle nature. Wised-up opponents have learned to set traps in the gully and at third man to stem the flow of runs, but on song he can be virtually unstoppable, capable of scoring freely on both sides of the wicket.
Jayasuriya is also an extremely effective and canny left-arm spinner, especially in one-day internationals where his stock leg-stump darts are mixed up with clever variations in pace. Jayasuriya served commendably as Sri Lanka's captain for a successful tenure after the sacking of Arjuna Ranatunga in 1999. His leadership style was consensual in comparison to the Napoleon approach adopted by Ranatunga, and he soon built a happy and unified team. The huge responsibility of leading the team, though, started to show and by the 2003 World Cup, after a myriad of off-field controversies, it was clear that he had become a reluctant captain. He eventually resigned in April 2003.
Having stepped down, his position in the side was more vigorously debated and a one-day slump prompted several pundits to call time on his career. But Jayasuriya was far from finished, and he bounced back in 2004 with his most prolific year in Test cricket since 1997. The year included a blazing second-innings century against Australia at Kandy that nearly levelled the series and a marathon double-hundred against Pakistan at Faisalabad. Twin centuries followed during the Asia Cup 2004 and his form was impressive enough for Somerset to sign him up for a season of County Cricket in 2005. And in the Indian Oil Cup in 2005, Jayasuriya became only the fourth batsman to get to 10,000 runs in one-day cricket.
He retired in 2006, only to almost immediately retract his decision. After behind-the-scenes machinations which hinted at internal power struggles between board and coach, he was shoehorned into the squad for the Test series in England but did not play. He bounced back in typical form, however, in the one-day series that followed, showing he has a few more miles left on the clock.
At the age of 38, Jayasuriya scored 467 runs during the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies and was the oldest player in the World Twenty20 that followed in South Africa. He called time on his Test career during the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007-08, and bowed out with a cracking 78 in his final innings. His one-day career was all but over when he was omitted for the ODIs in the West Indies in 2008. However, a stirring performance in the IPL - finishing the third-highest run-getter with 514 runs - prompted his country's sports minister to intervene in his selection for the Asia Cup. He ultimately shaped Sri Lanka's title victory with a blistering hundred under pressure. In January 2009, during the first ODI against India, he became the second man to cross 13,000 ODI runs, and at 39 years and 212 days the oldest man to score an ODI century.
Sanath Jayasuriya made his Test debut for the Sri Lankan national team in February 1991 against New Zealand in Hamilton and has scored 6,973 runs in 110 matches, at an average of 40.07 in his Test career. His highest Test score of 340 came against India, and he has been the recipient of the Man of the Match award four times. On his last innings before bidding farewell to Test cricket, Sanath Jayasuriya smashed six 4s in an over against England, becoming the third batsman to achieve this feat in Test cricket.
One of the world's most uncompromising strikers of the ball, Jayasuriya found belated fame as a pinch-hitter at the 1996 World Cup, and then demonstrated that he was also capable of massive scoring in Tests, eventually becoming Sri Lanka's highest Test run-scorer. He remains dizzily dangerous, especially on the subcontinent's slower, less bouncy surfaces. Short in stature and powerfully built, he cuts and pulls with awesome power, and his brutal bat-wielding is at odds with his shy, gentle nature. Wised-up opponents have learned to set traps in the gully and at third man to stem the flow of runs, but on song he can be virtually unstoppable, capable of scoring freely on both sides of the wicket.
Jayasuriya is also an extremely effective and canny left-arm spinner, especially in one-day internationals where his stock leg-stump darts are mixed up with clever variations in pace. Jayasuriya served commendably as Sri Lanka's captain for a successful tenure after the sacking of Arjuna Ranatunga in 1999. His leadership style was consensual in comparison to the Napoleon approach adopted by Ranatunga, and he soon built a happy and unified team. The huge responsibility of leading the team, though, started to show and by the 2003 World Cup, after a myriad of off-field controversies, it was clear that he had become a reluctant captain. He eventually resigned in April 2003.
Having stepped down, his position in the side was more vigorously debated and a one-day slump prompted several pundits to call time on his career. But Jayasuriya was far from finished, and he bounced back in 2004 with his most prolific year in Test cricket since 1997. The year included a blazing second-innings century against Australia at Kandy that nearly levelled the series and a marathon double-hundred against Pakistan at Faisalabad. Twin centuries followed during the Asia Cup 2004 and his form was impressive enough for Somerset to sign him up for a season of County Cricket in 2005. And in the Indian Oil Cup in 2005, Jayasuriya became only the fourth batsman to get to 10,000 runs in one-day cricket.
He retired in 2006, only to almost immediately retract his decision. After behind-the-scenes machinations which hinted at internal power struggles between board and coach, he was shoehorned into the squad for the Test series in England but did not play. He bounced back in typical form, however, in the one-day series that followed, showing he has a few more miles left on the clock.
At the age of 38, Jayasuriya scored 467 runs during the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies and was the oldest player in the World Twenty20 that followed in South Africa. He called time on his Test career during the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007-08, and bowed out with a cracking 78 in his final innings. His one-day career was all but over when he was omitted for the ODIs in the West Indies in 2008. However, a stirring performance in the IPL - finishing the third-highest run-getter with 514 runs - prompted his country's sports minister to intervene in his selection for the Asia Cup. He ultimately shaped Sri Lanka's title victory with a blistering hundred under pressure. In January 2009, during the first ODI against India, he became the second man to cross 13,000 ODI runs, and at 39 years and 212 days the oldest man to score an ODI century.
Batting
Tests Matches
Matches 110
Innings 188
Runs 6973
Highest Score 340
Average 40.07
100s 14
50s 31
ODI Matches
Matches 444
Innings 432
Runs 13428
Highest Score 189
Average 32.43
100s 28
50s 68
Bowling
Tests Matches
Matches 110
Innings 140
Wickets 98
BBM 9/74
ODI Matches
Matches 444
Innings 367
Wickets322
BBM 6/29
Tests Matches
Matches 110
Innings 188
Runs 6973
Highest Score 340
Average 40.07
100s 14
50s 31
ODI Matches
Matches 444
Innings 432
Runs 13428
Highest Score 189
Average 32.43
100s 28
50s 68
Bowling
Tests Matches
Matches 110
Innings 140
Wickets 98
BBM 9/74
ODI Matches
Matches 444
Innings 367
Wickets322
BBM 6/29
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Cricket Games
You can play online cricket games here (Not only cricket some other sports also)
http://www.gamesjockey.com/
http://www.gamesjockey.com/
Retirement of Muttiah Muralitharan
( 2010.07.07)Muttiah Muralitharan, the leading wicket-taker in Tests and ODIs, will retire from Test cricket after the first Test against India in Galle, which begins on July 18. While he will not play the subsequent tri-series, and will pick and choose which ODIs to play in, Murali will be available for selection if the team needs him for the 2011 World Cup, which Sri Lanka is co-hosting.
Murali has taken 792 wickets in 132 Tests and 515 wickets in 337 ODIs.It is better to retire after playing the rest of two Test matches.Also he can hold the record of one an only player to take 800 wickets in Test.Can Murali take his 800th wicket in the 1 st Test.......
Murali has taken 792 wickets in 132 Tests and 515 wickets in 337 ODIs.It is better to retire after playing the rest of two Test matches.Also he can hold the record of one an only player to take 800 wickets in Test.Can Murali take his 800th wicket in the 1 st Test.......
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