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Indian opener Sadagoppan Ramesh made a brilliant 63 in the practice match against a Sri Lanka Board XI leading up to the three Test matches, and at the end of the day's play declared that it was a crucial innings.

The Sri Lankan Sports Minister Laksmann Kiriella has been forced to abandon plans to appoint a new National Development Committee following protests from the Interim Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL)

Sri Lanka's Test hopefuls may have flopped, but future prospect Michael Vandort impressed with a fine century, as a Sri Lanka Board XI middle order recovered from the loss of early wickets to score 326 against India at P.Saravanamuttu Stadium today

Dav Whatmore National Coach During the last 12 months we have started to see a very encouraging trend: Sri Lanka are playing their best one-day cricket in the biggest games

Sri Lanka's five-man selection committee will select the Test squad for the forthcoming three-match series against India on Thursday night and they look set to omit veteran batsmen Aravinda de Silva

Sri Lankan Board XI batsman Michael Vandort stole the limelight on the first day's play of a three-day practice match against India with a brilliant century and, by doing so in front of the national selectors, became a serious contender for a place

Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar is unlikely to participate in the three-Test series in Sri Lanka as the pain in his right toe still persists, according to Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) sources here today

Sri Lanka's Test hopefuls may have flopped, but future prospect Michael Vandort impressed with a fine century, as a Sri Lanka Board XI middle order recovered from the loss of early wickets to score 326 against India at the P Saravanamuttu Stadium

It was the 1744th ODI in cricket history

Sri Lankan captain and player of the series Sanath Jayasuriya said he didn't expect India to go down so tamely in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup which his side won by 121 runs, "Honestly, I didn't think we could win the game that easily" said

Leaving behind memories of the crushing defeat to Sri Lanka in the final of the triangular series at Colombo yesterday, eight Indian cricketers arrived in Chennai on Monday

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly after his side's humiliating defeat in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup where his side was beaten convincingly by Sri Lanka admitted that his side had been outplayed by Sri Lanka in all departments of the game

Sanath Jayasuriya became the second Sri Lankan and 14th batsman in ODI history to be left stranded on 99 when he spooned a simple catch to his Indian counterpart off the bowling of Shewag in the final of the Coca- Cola Cup

Sri Lanka reserved their best performance of the Coca-Cola Cup until the end and cheered on by an animated capacity crowd, they crushed India by 121 runs in the final played tonight at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo

With barely 37 days left for the Asian Test Championship involving Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the tournament has run into trouble with India insisting on changing Dhaka as the venue for the final

Despite the stunning comeback into the Coca-Cola Cup triangular oneday series in Colombo, the big question facing India is whether they can break their losing streak in the last four final appearances when they take on Sri Lanka on Sunday

India and Sri Lanka have been involved in some enthralling cricketencounters in the recent past

The celebrations are over as far as Virendra Shewag is concerned

The trend these days is to take only one wicketkeeper on a tour

Notwithstanding some pyrotechnics from Virender Shewag and the possibility of an epic clash between India and Sri Lanka in the final of the Coca-Cola Cup on Sunday, this triangular series will not remembered for the cricket, which has been