COLOMBO: Sri Lanka have added spinner Akila Dananjaya, batter Pathum Nissanka, and seamers Lahiru Kumara and Binura Fernando to their revised 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, the country’s cricket board said on Sunday.... The quartet replaced all-rounders Lahiru Madus-hanka and Kamindu Men-dis, spinner Praveen Jayaw-ic-krama and veteran fast bow-ler Nuwan Pradeep.... Middle-order batter Kusal Perera, who was a major doubt due to a hamstring injury, made the final cut....

PALLEKELE: Fast bowler Chamika Karunaratne led an inspired Sri Lankan attack to pull off a thrilling 26-run win over Australia in the rain-hit second One-day International on Thursday. Chasing a rain-revised target of 216 in 43 overs, Australia suffered from regular wicket falls to get bowled out for 189 in 37.1 overs as Sri Lanka bounced back from their opening loss in the five-match series in Pallekele. Karunaratne returned figures of 3-47 including Steve Smith, for 28, and Glenn Maxwell, for

The International Cricket Council( ICC) on Thursday announced its ODI team of the year featuring two Pakistani players — Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman — with the former given the reins to captain the honorary line-up, just as in the T20I eleven. The cricket body had unveiled its T20I team of the year a day ago, naming Azam as its skipper for his" classy best" performance in the format last year, during which he was also the leading run-scorer at the T20 World Cup.... He earned the same honours fo

David Miller and Kagiso Rabada combined to propel South Africa to a thrilling victory as they edged Sri Lanka by four wickets despite a hat-trick by Wanindu Hasaranga in the T20 World Cup on Saturday at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. With South Africa needing 15 off the final over, Miller smashed two sixes and Rabada struck the winning boundary as South Africa reached their target of 143 with one ball to spare in Sharjah. Miller finished with 23 off 13 balls while Rabada made 13 off seven to carry

Willey adds to the squad a wealth of T20 experience( 269 matches).... Mujeeb appeared for the Capitals last season.... The 22-year-old talented English batter Jordan Cox is also amongst the Giants new recruits for Season 2....

ABU DHABI: Former T20 World Cup champions Sri Lanka survived an early batting collapse before blowing away debutants Namibia by seven wickets in their first Group ‘A’ fixture on Monday.... Sri Lanka lost three wickets within the batting Powerplay for 26 runs before avoiding further hiccups by reaching 100-3 in 13.3 overs after Namibia were blown away for 96 in 19.3 overs at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium.... Bhanuka Rajapaksa, dropped on 18 at fine leg, went on to score an unbeaten 42 for Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: Inspired bowling and unbeaten fifties from Quinton de Kock and Reeza Hendricks helped South Africa sweep the Twenty20 series 3-0 against Sri Lanka with a crushing 10-wicket win on Tuesday. Chasing 121 for victory, South Africa romped home in 14.4 overs with De Kock on 59 and Hendricks making 56 in the third T20 in Colombo. South African bowlers Bjorn Fortuin and Kagiso Rabada took two wickets each to restrict Sri Lanka to 120-8 after the hosts elected to bat first.De Kock and Hendricks

“ Hopefully I will make up next time.” Mendis struck again in the first ball of his second over when Shai Hope was well caught by Oshada Fernando at short leg.... “ We need to first bowl them out and then put some runs on the board.... It will give bowlers some breathing space too.” Karunaratne was invo-lved in two hundred-plus stands with Pathum Nis-sanka( 56) and Dhananjaya de Silva( 61)....