Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Chameera most exciting bowler since Malinga - Ramanayake

Sri Lanka's fast-bowling coach Champaka Ramanayake has said that 23-year-old Dushmantha Chameera is the most exciting fast bowling 'find' he has come across since Lasith Malinga

04-Jul-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Injured Chameera out of Pallekele Test

Sri Lanka's new fast-bowling find Dushmantha Chameera has been ruled out of the third Test against Pakistan because of a side strain

02-Jul-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Absence of Ajmal a huge psychological factor - Atapattu

Sri Lanka head coach Marvan Atapattu has said the absence of Saeed Ajmal was a psychological boost for the home side ahead of the three-Test series against Pakistan that begins in Galle on Wednesday

15-Jun-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Patient Kusal cracks consistency code

Inconsistency is perhaps what separates the otherwise indistinguishable Kusal Perera from Sanath Jayasuriya, but the batsman's recent form seems to have put him back on track

01-Jun-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Kaluwitharana bets big on young SL trio

Sri Lanka A coach Romesh Kaluwitharana felt Kithuruwan Vithanage, Kusal Perera and Ashan Priyanjan were ready to take the next step towards nailing down their places in the senior team

01-Jun-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Limit to what we can do in a short time - Wettimuny

Sri Lanka Cricket's interim committee is fighting against time to fulfil the tasks they have set out to achieve after sports minister Navin Dissanayake assured the stakeholders that elections would be held by January

18-May-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

SLC in talks with Rhodes for brief coaching stint

SLC is in talks with Jonty Rhodes to work with the Sri Lankan team for a ten-day stint in the lead-up to the home series against Pakistan in June

10-May-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Kaluwitharana stresses discipline for SL A players

Sri Lanka A won the three-match one-day series against Pakistan A 2-1 but their primary objective to provide a steady flow of players to the senior team remains a concern

03-May-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Great expectations from A tour for Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Pakistan A's tour to Sri Lanka, which commences in Matara on Sunday, is being looked at by both countries as one that could help fill vacancies created in their senior sides

25-Apr-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

'Mathews' rise the highlight of last two years' - De Zoysa

The maturing of Angelo Mathews as a player and as a captain was the highlight of Michael de Zoysa's two-year term as manager of the Sri Lanka cricket team

18-Apr-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Wijegunawardene replaces Jayasuriya as chief selector

Former Sri Lanka fast bowler Kapila Wijegunawardene was named the new chairman of cricket selectors replacing Sanath Jayasuriya

08-Apr-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Jayasuriya-led selection panel quits

Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka's chairman of selectors, handed in his resignation on Friday, praising his co-selectors for helping him run a successful committee for the past two years

03-Apr-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

SL sports minister wants to rid 'system corruption' from SLC

Sri Lanka sports minister Navin Dissanayake said he set up the interim committee to run Sri Lanka cricket so that there "is no system corruption" within the board

02-Apr-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

SLC seeks to clear air with ICC over interim committee

An interim committee to run Sri Lanka cricket that came into power yesterday is under scrutiny for breaching the ICC constitution

02-Apr-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Wettimuny to head SLC interim committee

Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake has appointed a nine-member interim committee headed by former Sri Lanka Test opener Sidath Wettimuny to run the administration of Sri Lanka Cricket

31-Mar-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Snape pulls Sri Lanka players closer

Former England cricketer turned psychologist Jeremy Snape is playing such a role in keeping the Sri Lankan players focused on the World Cup

14-Mar-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Rookie Chameera set on pace and accuracy

Dushmantha Chameera is only 23 and is already being spoken of as the quickest of the Sri Lankan bowlers playing in the 2015 World Cup. He can clock speeds of more than 140kph

14-Mar-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Will be done with Tests by August - Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara has said he will retire from Test cricket "by the end of August"

08-Mar-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

'I can easily play for another 2-3 years' - Dilshan

Tillakaratne Dilshan believes he has a role to play in Sri Lanka's limited-overs teams after Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara retire at the end of the ongoing World Cup

21-Feb-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Former BCCSL secretary de Silva dead

Bandula de Silva, who died in Colombo on Tuesday, was a former cricket secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, as it was known then, and belonged to an era when Sri Lanka were struggling to obtain full membership of the ICC

18-Feb-2015•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

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