Having been given a long rope, despite a shaky technique, the onus is on Lahiru Thirimanne to step up and convert promise into substance

A Sri Lankan fan inspired by the heroes of 1996 ponders the impact of an Associate-free World Cup on cricket fans in Kabul, Dublin, Rotterdam and Kathmandu

For a Sri Lanka fan, the team's losing streak in the New Zealand ODIs is perhaps the equivalent of getting paralysed by poison. Your body is immobile giving the impression that you've died, but inside, you are still very much alive. Screaming.

A lesson for Sri Lankan Cricket from Breaking Bad - if it ain't broke, don't obsess over fixing it

The SLPL has had mixed reviews - there are the fanboys of Sri Lanka cricket and then there are the ones who didn't get it at all

Board criticises media and fans for demanding a well-run cricket administration

Angelo Mathews is the man Sri Lanka turn to when they need a finisher in a chase. He talks about the pressure of the role, his Test form, and captaincy ambitions

If there's one thing that Sri Lanka Cricket is good at, it's communicating with its star players

Victories and absence of long names raise red flags

Big hits, steely glares, great music and lively entertainment makes even a one-sided game rather fun

Says pesky supporters have been hindering the progress of the team

The sport would have been played in pristine outfits, by beautiful people who'd get all their problems solved by someone smarter than the umps

There walk among us those who will rip your intestines out, fill them with Statsguru links and feed them back to you if you say a word against Samaraweera

Sri Lanka's new coach gets introduced to the ways of the team's senior players

There's all this free time to spend, but only if the Sri Lankan team stops making all those SOS calls

What do you get when Sri Lanka's ever-so-smooth captain puts together a crack team to get up the noses of the Australians? Cricket plus heist movie, that's what

The SCG had the feel of an after-semester do. No one much minded that one side didn't really show up

Television's Amazing Race unfailingly delivers stereotype teams each season. What if cricketers were to go on the show, we asked ourselves