Ajantha Mendis

For former India leg-spinner Amit Mishra, the issue wasn’t about Chakravarthy being "decoded" but about execution under pressure.

Sanju Samson's stellar batting, including 89 runs in the T20 World Cup final, helped India post a massive total. Jasprit Bumrah's exceptional bowling, taking four wickets in the final, was also crucial. Despite Samson being named Player of the Tournament, AB de Villiers felt Bumrah's match-winning performances warranted stronger consideration.

Virender Sehwag won the Test batting honour for his sublime 201 not out in the Galle Test against Sri Lanka last year.

Jasprit Bumrah's sensational four-wicket haul powered India to their third T20 World Cup title, crushing New Zealand by 96 runs in the final. His historic spell made him the first fast bowler with a four-fer in a knockout match and the leading pacer in T20 World Cup history. India's massive 255/5 set the stage for a dominant victory.

India pacer Deepak Chahar on Sunday recorded the best-ever figures in the Twenty20 Internationals when he returned figures of six for seven runs against Bangladesh at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. Chahar also became the first Indian bowler to take a hat-trick in the shortest format of the game.

Indian captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the fourth one-day international at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Ajantha Mendis might have suffered a poor run in the recent ODI series against India but Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene believes the mystery spinner will soon make a successful comeback.

Sri Lankan mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis on Wednesday announced his retirement from all forms of the game. The 34-year old, who made his debut for Sri Lanka in 2008 and last played in international cricket in 2015, took 288 wickets for his country across the three formats.

The tag of the 'mystery bowler' will always follow Ajantha Mendis around but the Moratuwa-born spinner wants to be known as an 'off-spinner'.

MS Dhoni has been elected as the captain of Sydney Morning Herald newspaper's Test team of the year which also features Gautam Gambhir.

If Sri Lanka would as much as dare to win the trophy in England, Sanath Jayasuriya is their biggest hope once again.

Senior Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene and off-spinner Rangana Herath have been rested for the one-day series against Bangladesh starting February 17.

Putting an official end to the contracts dispute with players, Sri Lanka Cricket announced a full strength 16-member squad for first Test against Bangladesh.

West Indian T20 specialist Chris Gayle will don the Adani Sportsline-owned Gujarat Giants jersey in the upcoming season of the Legends League Cricket (LLC) along with Virender Sehwag when action begins at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on September 16.

Sri Lankan selectors left out Lasith Malinga and all-rounder Angelo Mathews from the 16-member squad for the three-match Test series in England.

Sourav Ganguly threatened to stop playing for Bengal if some Cricket Association of Bengal members continue to create problems for his family.

The cricket fraternity hailed Deepak Chahar after the medium pacer became the first Indian man to take a hat-trick in Twenty20 Internationals. Chahar ended the match with figures of 6-7, beating the earlier record held by Sri Lanka's Ajantha Mendis.

Sri Lanka's left-arm spinner Rangana Herath has ruled himself out of the five-match one-day international series against Pakistan, scheduled to commence on December 18 at Sharjah.

SLC, which had a bitter dispute with its players over payments last year, has announced a 7% hike for them across all categories in its latest list of contracts issued.

The top five wicket-takers in the Asia Cup have been Sri Lanka bowling wizard Muttiah Muralitharan, Lasith Malinga, mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis, the only non-Sri Lankan bowler on this list Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal stands at the fourth position while the legendary Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas is fifth. The tournament starts on September 14.

Legendary India cricketer Virender Sehwag and charismatic West Indies batter Chris Gayle, among others, celebrated Navratri in Jodhpur, where their team, the Adani Sportsline-owned Gujarat Giants, will play the final leg match of the Legends League Cricket (LLC) at the Barkatullah Khan Stadium on Monday.

Following a brilliant start to their Legends League Cricket 2022 campaign with a victory against India Capitals, Adani Sportsline-owned Gujarat Giants reached Lucknow on Sunday.

In the age of non-stop cricket and growing competition, BCCI secretary N Srinivasan emphasised the importance of match fitness for cricketers.

India's Test squad has been unable to cope with the mystery deliveries of Ajantha Mendis and Yuvraj sounded cautious when quizzed on the issue.

Sachin Tendulkar feels that Rahul Dravid's experience would come in handy during the tri-series in Sri Lanka and the subsequent Champions Trophy in SA.

Having taken an unbeatable 3-1 led in the five-match ODI series against South Africa, Sri Lanka decided to rest the senior troika of Mahela Jayawardene, Lasith Malinga and Rangana Herath from the final match on Wednesday.

Chennai Super Kings is set to drop Sri Lankan recruits Nuwan Kulasekara and Akila Dhananjaya for the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League, starting on April 3.

Indian Skipper Anil Kumble hinted that the visitors might retain the line-up that lost the opening Test against Sri Lanka for the second match of the series.

Mahela Jayawardene, captain fantastic and the man with the silken touch, has led his team Wayamba United to the SLPL semifinals as group toppers.

The Sri Lankan approach to ICL is most sensible, according to retired all-rounder Russel Arnold.