Cricket News sort by Separamadu Lasith Malinga

New Zealand scraped through a nerve-wrecking one-wicket win over Sri Lanka at Cardiff in a low scoring contest. Just a couple of days, two teams at this very ground had scored nearly 600 runs and today Sri Lanka and New Zealand barely got past three figures with great difficulty.

The Asian sides, barring Pakistan when they get their act right, have traditionally found it difficult to come to terms with the seaming conditions in England. The case is no different for Sri Lanka.

As another season of the Indian Premier League kicks off, we take a look at the most successful players in the tournament over the last five seasons

That the third ODI between Australia and Sri Lanka at Brisbane was dominated by bowlers would be an understatement. Sixteen wickets fell on the day, the entire match lasted less than 50 overs and the total match aggregate did not even cross 150.

As the year draws to a close, we look at the top five bowlers in cricket in 2012 in all three formats of the game.

Sri Lanka were declared winners by 14 runs in their rain-affected Second ODI against New Zealand which was shifted from Colombo to Pallekele.

Angelo Mathews has been named as Sri Lanka’s new T20I Captain with the Board appointing him for a period of 1 year. Speedster Lasith Malinga has been named as Mathews’ deputy.

It was a dead rubber between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians as both the teams already knew that they were out of the CLT20.

Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 16 runs in a low scoring Semi Final at the Premadasa Stadium to enter into the Finals of the ICC World T20 2012! It is the second time that Sri Lanka have made it to the World T20 Final.