Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly hinted that batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar should reconsider his ODI future and concentrate on Test cricket after his poor show in the ongoing tri-series Down Under. Speaking to a news channel after India’s humiliating loss to Sri Lanka at Brisbane, Ganguly said it is up to Tendulkar to decide if “he’s still good enough [...]
February 22, 2012 | Posted in
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Mahela Jayawardene, in his first match back as Sri Lanka captain, made an interesting move in not picking a specialist spinner. Sri Lanka lost a close match, but Jayawardene did not think the team combination was the reason. “If we had taken the last four wickets, you would have said, ‘good combination’. We felt the [...]
February 9, 2012 | Posted in
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Legendary Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Thursday slammed his country’s sacking of Australian coach Geoff Marsh as “disgraceful” and “unprofessional.” Marsh was this week replaced by South African Graham Ford. The move followed Tillakaratne Dilshan quitting the captaincy on Monday. Former skipper Mahela Jayawardene was brought in to lead the team to Australia for [...]
January 27, 2012 | Posted in
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Kumar Sangakkara’s century led Sri Lanka to a riveting two-wicket win over South Africa with a ball to spare as they restored some pride in the fifth ODI. At 3-1 down, Sri Lanka appeared poised for another defeat when centuries from Graeme Smith (125) and AB de Villiers (125 not out), who added 186 in [...]
January 23, 2012 | Posted in
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Andrew Strauss admitted England had been “caught off guard” by Pakistan after slipping to a three-day, 10-wicket defeat in the first Test in Dubai. England were bowled out for 192 after Strauss chose to bat first and then sealed their fate by collapsing again second time around, this time bundled out for 160. Pakistan spinner [...]
January 20, 2012 | Posted in
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Saeed Ajmal reflected on the best performance of his life, yet also had to respond to questions about the legality of his action after he had put England in dire trouble in the first Test. England endured a torrid time against the unorthodox Pakistan off-spinner, collapsing to 192 all out, but they had no quibbles [...]
January 18, 2012 | Posted in
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Manchester City’s second home defeat in four days ended in acrimony on Wednesday night as Steven Gerrard and Roberto Mancini argued in the tunnel. The Italian had asserted that Glen Johnson should have been sent off in the closing moments of the Carling Cup semi-final. Gerrard, the Liverpool captain whose first-half penalty secured a 1-0 [...]
January 12, 2012 | Posted in
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Sri Lanka posted the joint fourth-lowest total in one-day international history as South Africa claimed a crushing 258-run win in the opening contest of their 50-over series. The tourists had been set a challenging target of 302 for victory at Paarl but were skittled for just 43 after 20.1 miserable overs. It had looked at [...]
January 12, 2012 | Posted in
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At the end of a series in which they won a Test in South Africa for the first time but were dominated in the other two matches, Sri Lanka will be confident of a better display in the ODIs. They have a strong recent record in the format and have matched South Africa in head-to-head [...]
January 10, 2012 | Posted in
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Roberto Mancini has accused Wayne Rooney of putting pressure on referee Chris Foy to send off Vincent Kompany in Manchester City’s 3-2 FA Cup defeat to Manchester United on Sunday. The defender, 25, faces a four-match ban after he was sent off for a tackle on Nani at Etihad Stadium. Mancini said: “It was not [...]
January 9, 2012 | Posted in
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The Sri Lanka cricket team is facing a crisis since captain T.M. Dilshan was acting according to the advice of his manager Roshan Abeysinghe, ignoring the team coach, Jeff Marsh’s instructions, sources said. Coach Jeff marsh after inspecting the wicket before the third test match between Sri Lanka and South Africa had asked Dilshan to [...]
January 8, 2012 | Posted in
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The main problem with Sri Lankan cricket at present is that the players are not playing as a unit, Nishantha Ranatunga, the newly elected secretary of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has said. Sri Lanka have struggled since reaching the 2011 World Cup final in April, losing Test and ODI series against Australia and Pakistan, and [...]
January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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The Indian Premier League released its 2012 tournament schedule on Friday, confirming that no matches will be played in Sri Lanka despite a request from the island’s cricket authorities. Upali Dharmadasa, the new president of Sri Lanka Cricket, said earlier this week that he had asked the Indian board to hold some IPL matches on the island [...]
January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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South Africa won their first home series since 2008, a period in which they had been denied on five occasions, prevailing over Sri Lanka by 10 wickets, to take the rubber 2-1. An innings defeat seemed the most likely result at the start of the day, but a wicketless pre-lunch session and another century from the resurgent ThilanSamaraweera helped [...]
January 6, 2012 | Posted in
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