Sri Lanka

The Sri Lanka Cricket Executive Committee took a decision to grant its member clubs (ones, which maintain cricket grounds) a sum of LKR 100,000 each for the months of March and April to help upkeep the standards of the venues and infrastructure facilities. They will be giving the District Cricket Associations a grant of LKR 150,000 to help uplift the livelihood of players from district squads as well as managerial staff who are facing financial strains due to the situation. Eleven member clubs

Mickey Arthur has been officially confirmed as Sri Lanka’s Consultant Head Coach. The 51-year old coach from South Africa will take over the reins of the national cricket team from Rumesh Ratnayake who was an interim appointment throughout the limited-overs tourney in Pakistan. He had been appointed after Chandika Hathurusinghe was released in a scenario where the Sri Lankan Sports Ministry was immensely disappointed with the results garnered by the national team in H1 2019. This is Mickey Arthur’s 4th big-time international cricket

The international cricket season in full bloom right now. England and Sri Lanka, India and Australia, Bangladesh and the West Indies and Pakistan and New Zealand are all engaged in battles in different formats of the game. By the end of the year, more important tours and matches would have commenced. As so many teams battle it out, there will be a lot of records and landmarks achieved. Here is a look at five interesting approaching milestones in international cricket. Shikhar Dhawan approaching

Although Sri Lanka is usually very solid at home, they put up a mediocre show in the first Test of the 3-match series against England at Galle where they were thumped by the visitors by 211 runs. The first Test was also Rangana Herath’s farewell Test and Sri Lanka have a mighty challenge in front of them to draw level without the ace spinner’s presence in the second Test at Kandy. Sri Lanka without Chandimal – a big blow While they must have