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Sri Lanka Cricket's newly elected chairman Jayantha Dharmadasa receives a garland after he was elected uncontested to the top post at the cricket board on April 16, 2013. © AFP/Ishara S. KODIKARA
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
The whole nation is looking up to the ICC Champions Trophy that gets underway next month in England. There is quite a bit of optimism among the local fans that Sri Lanka will come up with an impressive performance this time around after the recent disappointments in all three forms of the...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Upon resuming office, officials of Sri Lanka Cricket’s Executive Committee spoke of their ambitions plans to make the national cricket team the best in all three formats. But more than a month on, the authorities have done little to show they mean what they talk..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
MCA is one of the nation’s premier Cricket Associations with a well documented colonial past and yet with a promising future. The Association has nurtured the game over the years spotting talent and training them.Great stalwarts have overseen the functioning of the Association with..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
The win against England at the Oval Test in 1998 has received most of the attention following The Island website poll, ‘What’s Sri Lanka’s best overseas Test win’. There are other memorable games as well away from home that are hard to forget for most of them were achieved against...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
The Island poll now on asking what was Sri Lanka’s most memorable Test win, has become a talking point among cricket fans. Our previous poll which asked who was Sri Lanka’s greatest batsman in the pre-Test era was equally interesting and among the almost 5000 of our readers who voted..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
At the start of the IPL season, few would have tipped Sunrisers Hyderabad to be one of the four teams that qualify for the playoffs. Now, however, their prospects in their first season have boiled down to one simple task in the very last league game, against Kolkata Knight Riders: a win..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Despite three years of unremitting mediocrity, the fans of Pune Warriors have faithfully turned up to cheer on their side. It will be a testament to their loyalty if they show up in numbers for Warriors' final game of the season, which pits their team against Delhi Daredevils..
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
The dropping of Sri Lanka’s new skipper Angelo Mathews by theselectors of the franchise that he is playing for Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League demonstrates a good lesson in big league cricket that one needs to keep one’s form up or risk being sidelined..
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
As the curtain falls and dust settles over the Sri Lanka Cricket Board elections, ever expected winds of change and breath of fresh air failed to blow once again into the web of Sri Lanka Cricket. Cricket lovers every nook and corner of the country and more so 80 affiliated member clubs..
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
The new administration of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) under their new Chairman Jayantha Dharmadasa has just taken over and sat down to their tasks. Immediately they have discovered SLC’s cupboards are empty. That is something of a ritual each time someone takes over from the outgoing body..
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Sri Lanka Cricket Combined led by opener Dimuth Karunaratne qualified to play Rest of Sri Lanka in the final of the President’s trophy one-day triangular when they defeated Sri Lanka ‘A’ by six wickets in the final league match played at the Pallekele Stadium yesterday.Sri Lanka ‘A’ who...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
The eagerly looked forward to television and broadcasting and production contract which Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has to take a final decision on is still pending because of the change of office-bearers brought about as a result of the recent election.When the existing television contract...
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