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On Thursday 30 May 2002, the 1st day of the nPower Test Match between England and Sri Lanka, the stand will be re-opened by Jackie Rawlinson, the daughter of the late Eric Hollies

Sri Lanka coach Dav Whatmore said he was keen to play champion off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in the second cricket Test against England beginning at Edgbaston here on Thursday, but skipper Sanath Jayasuriya was however wary of exposing his trump

The England batsman, Mark Butcher, says he hopes the authorities will be lenient with him after he voiced doubts about Ruchira Perera's bowling action.In his weekly column for the Croydon Advertiser, Butcher suggested that the Sri Lankan seamer

Sri Lanka's new chairman of selectors believes that experience will be the key to success in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, suggesting an imminent shift away from the youth focused selection policy pursued in recent years

Sri Lanka are considering taking a gamble with their magical off-spinner in the second Test against England at Edgbaston

The hype which surrounds a budding fast bowler's pace is often just that, namely hype

The chances of Sri Lanka's spin wizard, Muttiah Muralitharan, being fit for the second Test against England at Edgbaston appear to be diminishing by the day

India 'A' bowlers justified their captain Hrishikesh Kanitkar's decision to bowl first in the second 'Test' against Sri Lanka A at the De Zoysa Stadium, Moratuwa on Thursday

Sri Lanka's cricketers put a controversial team selection behind them to smash the Glamorgan bowling to the tune of 337 for seven on the opening day of their four-day tour at Sophia Gardens here today.

Alex Wharf took revenge after he was dispatched for 17 runs off his first five balls by Sanath Jayasuriya

England captain Nasser Hussain admitted that everyone had underestimated Sri Lanka and that there was a lot of hard work ahead of his team for the rest of the Test series

Looking back at the first Test at Lord's, England captain Nasser Hussain was realistic enough to know that the rearguard action his team had carried off with such effect to save the match did not hide the inadequacies of the first three days

So long as player power was confined to money matters, someone like me, a spectator who saw more of the game, supported it

Sri Lanka's world class spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's chances of playing against England in the second cricket Test commencing at Edgbaston 11 days from today was put down as 60 percent by team physio Alex Kountouri, who will begin a period of

As an event, Napoleon getting off Elba may have held rather more significance, but England's escape from the jam in which they found themselves here at Lord's on Saturday evening is an achievement in which they can take a fair measure of pride

Michael Vaughan made Sri Lanka pay for two missed catches as he made his second Test hundred, giving England a possible escape route in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Lord's

Disciplined batting and rain helped Sri Lanka A draw their first unofficial Test against India A at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Muttiah Muralitharan watched the fourth day's play of the first Teat at Lord's from the visitors' dressing room balcony

England face a Herculean task if they are to stave off defeat by Sri Lanka in the first Test of the three-match series

A century from opener Gautam Gambhir in the India A second innings saw the tourists gain an overall lead of 417 runs over Sri Lanka A at the end of the third day of the first unofficial Test between the two sides being played at the Sinhalese Sports