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Sri Lanka, despite some periods of uninspired cricket, completed a predictable clean sweep of the one-day series when they beat a gallant young Zimbabwe team by 25 runs at Harare Sports Club

The allround skills of Kumar Sangakkara and Upal Chandana carried adangerously weakened Sri Lanka through to a 72-run victory overZimbabwe in the fourth one-day international at Harare Sports Club

Bruce Elliott, the biomechanics professor in charge of assessing MuttiahMuralitharan's doosra, has criticised the Sri Lankan board for jumpingthe gun and partially leaking the results of Muralitharan's tests to themedia, a move which he believes

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have denied reporting match referee Chris Broad tothe ICC for 'boozing' with Australia's players during the recent series.Mohan de Silva, the president of SLC, claims that he was misquoted by a reporterfrom the state-run

Sri Lanka have decided to rest five of their key players, including their captain Marvan Atapattu, for the fourth one-day international against Zimbabwe in Harare tomorrow

The Sri Lankan board has forwarded the report on Muttiah Muralitharan's doosra to the ICC

Post-match quotes from Marvan Atapattu, Chaminda Vaas and Geoff Marsh

The harsh realities of international cricket were catching up with the new, enthusiastic, but very raw Zimbabwe team, as they were bowled out for 136 inside 37 overs by Sri Lanka at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo

The Indian women defeated Sri Lanka by six wickets to wrap up their third successive series

Umpire Steve Bucknor has admitted that Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action "appears terrible" to the naked eye, but has urged those who doubt its legality to judge him by the evidence of TV replays

Thilanga Sumathipala, the embattled former president of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC),has announced that he does not intend to take up his role as SLC international affairs representative, which would include him being an ICC director, until he has cleared

Marvan Atapattu, Sri Lanka's captain, vowed that his team will put up a better performance after their unconvincing 12-run win in the first one-dayer against Zimbabwe

The ICC has effectively blackballed Muttiah Muralitharan's doosra, and warned that he risks being reported and possibly banned if he continues to use the delivery

Before the start of this first one-day international between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, it was widely expected that the inexperienced new Zimbabwean team would be humiliated

Chris Broad has been asked to step down from the Sri Lankan tour of Zimbabwe by the ICC, and Mike Proctor will take his place as match referee

The International Cricket Council has questioned the credibility of allegations levelled against its match referee, Chris Broad, who was accused by Colombo's Sunday Observer newspaper of "boozing" with the Australian team during their recent

The moment of truth for Zimbabwe's new politically-acceptable team finally arrived

Bruce Elliott's biomechanics team at the University of Western Australia has concluded that Muttiah Muralitharan should be allowed to continue using his doosra until the completion of further biomechanical research into slow bowling

Sri Lankan cricket authorities have confirmed that they have written to the ICC expressing concern over the conduct of Chris Broad

Marvan Atapattu, leading the Sri Lankan Test team for the first time, has called for his batsmen to accept greater responsibility and take a leaf out of Brian Lara's book