Damp outfield delays play at Kandy until lunch
Despite the arrival of emergency tarpaulins, which covered 90% of the ground, the around-the-clock mopping up operations of an army of groundstaff and, ironically, bright blue skies and blazing sunshine, no play was possible before lunch on the
04-May-2003•Charlie Austin
Fleming still upbeat after second day's play
Stephen Fleming remained upbeat about his side's chances despite New Zealand slipping to 75 for 4 on a truncated second day in this second Test
04-May-2003•Charlie Austin
Sri Lanka take the upper hand on rain-curtailed day
For five sessions they lazed in their hotel, looking forward to the chance to win their first series in Sri Lanka for two decades, as an army of groundstaff mopped up a waterlogged outfield with hand sponges and scraped away the mud with cardboard
04-May-2003•The Wisden Bulletin by Charlie Austin
No play at Kandy
The opening day's play of the second match of the two-Test series at Kandy was abandoned without a ball being bowled after heavy overnight rain left large areas of the outfield saturated
03-May-2003•Charlie Austin
Looking skywards
After an attritional drawn opening Test in Colombo, a dreary contest on a lifeless pitch, more frustration is in store for the second Test at Kandy
02-May-2003•Charlie Austin in Kandy
Sri Lanka named unchanged squad for second Test against New Zealand
The Selection Committee, at a meeting held on 28th April 2003 has decided to select a squad of 15 players from which the Team will be selected for the above test match at the Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy
29-Apr-2003•BCCSL
Series victory essential to keep Sri Lanka in touch
Sri Lanka needs to win the two-Test home series against New Zealand starting in Colombo on 25th April to remain in contention for third place in the ICC Test Championship table
23-Apr-2003•ICC Media Release
Sri Lanka prepares for party of a lifetime
As another English season draws to a close, the trees turn yellow and the temperature falls, cupboards will be raided for fleeces and pullovers
02-Jun-2002•Charlie Austin
Sri Lanka prepares for party of a lifetime
As another English season draws to a close, the trees turn yellow and the temperature falls, cupboards will be raided for fleeces and pullovers
01-Jun-2002•Charlie Austin
Sri Lanka crush Zimbabwe but sterner tests lie ahead
Sri Lanka completed their third consecutive Test series win on Monday when
they crushed a poor Zimbabwean side by an innings and 94 runs at Asgiriya
International Stadium in Kandy
07-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
Sri Lanka poised for series clinching win on fourth day
Zimbabwe were left with their backs firmly to the wall in Sri Lanka's hill
country capital on Sunday night with the hosts poised for a series clinching
win on the fourth day of this second Test
06-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
CricInfo talks to Murali after his narrow failure to take all ten
Hill-country spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan came agonisingly close to
recording the best bowling figures ever in Test cricket at the Asgiriya
International Stadium on Saturday morning only to be denied all ten when
Chaminda Vaas inadvertently
05-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
Day of anti-climax after Muralitharan misses out on all ten
A day that started with anti-climax, when hometown hero Muttiah Muralitharan
narrowly failed to become the third man in history to take ten wickets in an
innings, ended with Sri Lanka in a now familiar position of dominance in
this one-sided Test
05-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
Sri Lankan sports minister intervenes in selection debacle
Sports minister Johnston Fernando forced Sri Lanka's selectors into a U-turn
late on Thursday night as members of the team seriously contemplated
standing down from the second Janashakthi National Test in protest of the
decision to rest Marvan
04-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
Sri Lanka team for Second Janashakthi National Test
On a request made the team management to the Chairman of the National
Selection Committee and the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sport, it was
decided to retain the same team that won the first Test, for the second Test
of the Janashakthi National
04-Jan-2002•BCCSL
Muralitharan grabs limelight with brilliant nine wicket burst
An extraordinary power struggle between the national selectors and the Sri
Lankan team may have dominated the build-up to the second Janashakthi
National Test against Zimbabwe at Kandy but local hero Muttiah Muralitharan
soon grabbed the limelight
04-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
Sri Lanka selectors rest Atapattu in Kandy
Kandy's reputation for the bizarre and unpredictable was enhanced further on
the eve of the second Test against Zimbabwe when the Sri Lankan selectors
made two unexpected changes, resting vice-captain Marvan Atapattu and
promising fast bowler
03-Jan-2002•Charlie Austin
Brian Lara doubtful for Pakistan tour after injury set-back
Brian Lara's chances of regaining fitness in time for West Indies tour of
Pakistan looked slim on Tuesday morning after a hairline fracture was
discovered in his elbow
18-Dec-2001•CricInfo
Brian Lara thanks Sri Lankan medical authorities
Injured West Indies batting star Brian Lara showered praise on the medical
team at the Kandy General Hospital in Sri Lanka
16-Dec-2001•BCCSL
West Indies cruise into final after Gayle's whirlwind display
West Indies secured a place in the LG Abans triangular series final after
another poor performance by Zimbabwe's batsmen and a pyrotechnic batting
display by Chris Gayle at Asgiriya International Stadium on Sunday
16-Dec-2001•Charlie Austin