Cricket News

The Selection Committee of the BCCSL has chosen the following squad for the Under-19 Tour to Pakistan from the 15th to the 29th of November

Sri Lanka commence their three-Test series against West Indies on Tuesday knowing that a series win will guarantee will see them climb up the ICC Test Championship table

Brian Lara, temporarily at least, silenced his vocal band of critics on Tuesday with a superb century on his return to Test cricket in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle

West Indian preparations may well have been bedeviled by poor weather and injuries, but that did not hinder the performance of star batsmen Brian Lara, who announced his return to Test cricket with a brilliant hundred on the opening day of this

Former Sri Lankan captain and current International Cricket Council (ICC) match referee, Ranjan Madugalle, has been appointed as the ICC as it's chief referee

Sri Lanka's Under 19 cricketers will travel Pakistan on Thursday to play a five-match one-day series starting on November 18

Sri Lankan coach Dav Whatmore has warned his players not to take their recent Test record in Galle for granted as they prepare to take on West Indies in the first ever three-Test series against the two sides on Tuesday

West Indian preparations for the first Test in Galle, which have already been hampered by security fears, poor weather and the production of a spinner friendly surface, have been hit by fresh injury problems on the eve of the series opener

New Zealand gained one of the plums of world cricket, the staging of the 16-team ICC Under-19 World Cup event, more or less by popular acclaim

West Indies fans may yet get to see and hear live cricket coverage of their team's campaign in Sri Lanka starting later this week

The West Indies preparations for the first Test against Sri Lanka next week were disrupted once again on the last day of their final practice match at Matara on Saturday

West Indies fans in the Caribbean who were hoping to either see or listen to live cricket coverage of the West Indies' Test series with Sri Lanka can forget about it - at least for now

Left-hand opener Chris Gayle powered his way towards a century, but rain intervened again on the second day of the West Indies last practice game at Matara on Friday

Sri Lanka may have lost in the final in Sharjah but coach Dav Whatmore is far from downbeat, believing that the team was doing the basics well

Sri Lanka may have put their faith in pace against India but their strategy has changed for the West Indies Test series and the selectors have picked three spinners for the first Test starting next week in Galle

West Indies bowlers enjoyed their first match practice of their Sri Lanka tour on Thursday, easing fears that they would start the Test series next week under prepared, but they were still forced to toil hard in high heat by a strong Sri Lanka A side

The Sri Lankan cricket board (BCCSL) declared on Wednesday that it had secured "a smashing victory" in the legal fight against WSG Nimbus in the Sri Lankan Supreme Court

Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya said there was no cause for alarm after the team's five-wicket defeat to Pakistan in the Sharjah final on Sunday

West Indies first warm-up game on their tour of Sri Lanka was abandoned on Monday, after torrential downpours over the weekend washed out two full days of play

The Jamaican opening batsman, Wavell Hinds, has been cleared to make the tour of Sri Lanka with the West Indies team after all