Category: Sports

NEW DELHI, Aug 5, 2007 (AFP) – Indian cricket was rocked by an acrimonious slanging match on Sunday as the game’s powerful establishment moved to crush a breakaway multi-million dollar series. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is determined to ensure the failure of the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) which is […]

August 02, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s star fast bowler Lasith Malinga is to join English county Kent for just under a month, the governing body of the sport here, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), said Thursday. Malinga becomes the fourth Sri Lankan to play for an English county in the current season — Muttiah Muralitharan […]

July 31, 2007 (AFP) – Former Sri Lanka fast bowler Asantha de Mel was re-appointed chief of the national cricket selection committee which was reshuffled by the sports minister on Tuesday. De Mel and Don Anurasiri were retained from the previous selection panel and will be joined by Mahes Goonathilake and Ranjith Madurasinghe in the […]

July 29, 2007 (AFP) – A multi-million-dollar rebel league in India seems set to take Sri Lankan cricket by storm with several top players approached to join the lucrative series, sources said on Sunday.The Indian Cricket League (ICL), promoted by the country’s largest listed media group Zee Telefilms, features six teams playing Twenty20 matches across […]

July 30, 2007 (AFP) – England’s winter tours of Sri Lanka looked set to go ahead after local officials claimed Monday that a security assessment team sent by the tourists was satisfied with the arrangements.Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chairman Jayantha Dharmadasa said that John Carr, a top official of the England and Wales Cricket Board […]

July 29, 2007 (AFP) – A top English cricket official has arrived in Sri Lanka to assess the security of potential venues before a planned tour in the war-torn nation in October.John Carr, from the England and Wales Cricket Board, arrived on Friday to visit all the venues for the matches on a truncated tour. […]

COLOMBO, July 26, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka has been confirmed as host of the Asian Rugby championship in November after the world governing body was assured of the players’ safety, a top official said on Thursday.Dilroy Fernando, the chief executive officer of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union, said the International Rugby Board (IRB) […]

July 23, 2007 (AFP) – Sanath Jayasuriya became the first player to achieve the one-day double of 10,000 runs and 300 wickets as Sri Lanka thrashed Bangladesh by five wickets here on Monday. The 38-year-old veteran gave an impressive all-round performance, taking 4-31 before making 24 to help the home side take an unbeatable 2-0 […]

SYDNEY, July 21, 2007 (AFP) – Andrew Symonds on Saturday urged Australian cricket fans not to taunt Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan if he passes Shane Warne’s Test wicket world record while touring Down Under this year.Australian crowds have regularly abused “Murali” since he was twice called for throwing, with even Prime Minister John Howard […]

SYDNEY, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – An Australian rugby player who went to his doctor with severe headaches was amazed to find he’d been living with an opponent’s tooth embedded in his forehead for months, it was reported Tuesday.Ben Czislowski clashed heads with an opponent during a game in the Queensland Cup competition in early […]

KANDY, Sri Lanka, July 14, 2007 (AFP) – Prolific Muttiah Muralitharan has set his eyes on taking 1,000 Test wickets after becoming only the second bowler in history to reach the 700-mark on Saturday. The Sri Lankan off-spinner achieved the landmark with the last ball of the third and final Test against Bangladesh here that […]

KANDY, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan batsmen took advantage of a rain-free period to set themselves for a big total in the third and final cricket Test against Bangladesh here on Friday.The hosts, who bowled out Bangladesh for 131 in the first innings, replied with 161-2 by lunch on the third […]