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Fast bowlers set to dominate Galle Test

The first Test of the three match series between Sri Lanka and India at the Galle International Stadium will be played on a pitch conducive to fast bowling according to ground manager Jayananda Warnaweera

11-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

Sri Lanka vs India - 1st Test Match

The Selection Committee of the BCCSL, met on the 09th August 2001 at the Board Headquarters, and the following Sri Lankan Squad of 16 players and 03 Team Management Members were selected to represent Sri Lanka at the 1st Test Match to be played from

11-Aug-2001•BCCSL

Sri Lankan selectors recall Hashan Tillakaratne for Test series

The Sri Lankan selectors left out veteran batsman Aravinda de Silva from the 16-man squad selected for the forthcoming Test series against India, which starts on next Tuesday at the Galle International Cricket Stadium

10-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

Women's Cricket in Sri Lanka

Women's Cricket in Sri Lanka started in 1978 when four leading Colombo clubs - Colts Cricket Club, Burgher Recreation Club, Nondescripts Cricket Club and Nomds Cricket Club - met in the first ever tournament for the Rajasingham Trophy, which was won

10-Aug-2001•S. de S. Wijeyeratne

Practice match abandoned because of dangerous wicket

India's last chance of meaningful match practice before the first Test in Galle was scuppered today when the P

10-Aug-2001•Charlie Austin

Ganguly might move up the order for the Tests

In terms of match practice, India could have done without the final day of the three day practice match against Sri Lanka Board XI being abandoned, but Indian skipper, Sourav Ganguly was philosophical.

10-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

India bat throughout day as Ganguly temper frays

India made good use of their only chance to gain match practice before the first Test at Galle next week, when they batted throughout the second day of this three-day warm up game against a Sri Lankan Board XI at P Saravanamuttu Stadium today

09-Aug-2001•Charlie Austin

Sadagoppan Ramesh: It was a good knock leading up to the Tests

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.

09-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

Sports Minister scraps plans for Dharmadasa headed committee

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)

08-Aug-2001•CricInfo

Vandort century holds up India in practice game

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

08-Aug-2001•Charlie Austin

Dav Whatmore: We are saving our best for the biggest games

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

08-Aug-2001•Dav Whatmore

Aravinda de Silva unlikely to play against India

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

08-Aug-2001•Charlie Austin

Timely hundred for Vandort as selectors look on

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

08-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

Tendulkar unlikely to participate in Test series

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

08-Aug-2001

Vandort century holds up India in practice game

08-Aug-2001•Charlie Austin

10th Match (Final), Coca Cola Cup, India v Sri Lanka,Statistical Highlights

It was the 1744th ODI in cricket history

06-Aug-2001•Rajneesh Gupta

Jayasuriya: I didn't expect it to be that easy

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

06-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

Test replacements leave for Colombo

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

06-Aug-2001

Ganguly: You need something exceptional on occasions like that

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

06-Aug-2001•Rex Clementine

Jayasuriya 14th batsman to be left stranded on 99

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

05-Aug-2001•Rajneesh Gupta

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