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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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Monday, May 20, 2013
Submitted by Island Cricket
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Submitted by Jehan
Mahela Jayawardena has played for Kings XI Punjab, Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Delhi Daredevils in the IPL T20 from 2008 and the former Sri Lankan captain has not been lucky to figure in the championship winning side. He has played 33 matches for the Daredevils and has seen good times...
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Having led the team since the Champions League T20 last year, after Virender Sehwag stepped down, Mahela Jayawardene was expected to guide the side through to the playoffs, at least. Things, however, went quite wrong for him as a batsman and a captain. An injury during a first-class game...
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Sri Lanka Cricket has targeted to develop the Kurunegala Welagedera Stadium upto International level before the year 2015 said the Assistant Secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket Ranjith Madunusinghe of Kurunegala recently. He was speaking at the Media Conference held at Kurunegala Municipal...
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
For 17-year-old Lisha, it was a dream come true. The class XII student, who is undergoing treatment for Osteosarcoma (bone cancer), could not believe that two of her favourite cricketers Irfan Pathan and Mahela Jayawardene had come to meet her in Delhi..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Delhi Daredevils skipper Mahela Jayawardene said they will have to "move on" after enduring a tough Indian Premier League season during which they finished at the bottom of the table. Delhi finished with the wooden spoon after losing their final game to Pune Warriors by 38 runs...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Sunrisers Hyderabad threatened to blaze into the playoffs. They then opened the back door for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Then Darren Sammy danced down the track and lifted Iqbal Abdulla for successive sixes to send the Uppal Stadium into a frenzy. Sunrisers had taken the final playoff...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori and Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara are set to join an exclusive club of cricketers to play in six ICC Champions Trophy tournaments after they were named in their respective squads for the elite event to be staged in England and Wales from...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Amid the bad news in the IPL, and with the knowledge that this afternoon's game was as dead as it could get in this tournament in the battle of the bottom-placed sides, a healthy crowd made its way to the Sahara Stadium in Pune, a considerable distance from the main city..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Work on the first turf wicket in the war-ravaged North will begin at the end of this month, with St. Patrick’s College Jaffna becoming the proud recipient of this facility. Sri Lanka Cricket Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga told the Sunday Times, “On May 26 and 27 we are hoping to have two...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
I love to indulge in cricket. But, nowadays it is confined to the couch in my living room and the press enclosure at the venues. If watching cricket is my favourite past-time, about 75-80 per cent of my time is devoted to supporting Sri Lankan cricket and watching them in action..
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Submitted by Daniel Alexander
Sri Lanka Cricket has signed up the 2017 Indian Tour with their TV provider Ten Sports. SLC Treasurer Nuski Mohammed explained, “That was done a few days ago. Under the existing agreement and the recommendation of the Attorney General on the subject we signed the agreement duly...
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