Hashan Tillakaratne

Hashan Tillakaratne, the dogged left-handed middle-order batsman of yesteryear, has been appointed head coach of the Sri Lanka women's cricket team for a period of six months.

Mahela Jayawardene has urged his one-time teammate Hashan Tillakaratne to come out with substantial proof about the allegations of fixing matches since 1992 including the team composition for this year's World Cup final.

Former skipper Hashan Tillakaratne has claimed that match-fixing is common in Sri Lanka and promised to reveal names of those involved soon.

The hurriedly-arranged Sri Lankan women cricket team's tour of Pakistan scheduled later this month has been indefinitely postponed, head coach Hashan Tillakaratne said on Wednesday.

Kumar Sangakkara said Hashan Tillakaratne should work with the ACSU unit of the ICC and the home authorities in Sri Lanka if he has "anything more than allegations."

Former Sri Lanka skipper Hashan Tillakaratne has been appointed as the country's women's cricket team head coach.

Pakistan pacer Sohail Tanvir and Canadian batsman Ravinderpal Singh have tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of the inaugural Lankan Premier League (LPL) beginning November 26, dealing a fresh blow to the organisers.

Hashan Tillakaratne refused to divulge the names of Lankan players, who have been fixing matches since 1992, said he would make revelations only to ICC.

Muttiah Muralitharan feels his former teammate Hashan Tillakaratne should either furnish proof of match-fixing by the country's cricketers or stop making such allegations.

Former captain Hashan Tillakaratne has denied that he had named ex-skippers Aravinda de Silva and Sanath Jayasuriya as being involved in match-fixing.

Sri Lanka Cricket stoutly denied any move to replace Hashan Tillakaratne from the post of national team's manager for the upcoming home series against India.

Former India pacer Irfan Pathan on Sunday said he will play in the Lanka Premier League for Kandy Tuskers franchise.

Pakistan's former cricket captain Imran Khan believes that ICC will have to adopt new ways to curb the menace of match-fixing as it is very difficult to detect and prove.

It was on April 26, 2003, when former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming registered his highest score in Test cricket. The former Kiwi skipper achieved the feat against Sri Lanka in the first Test of the two-match series.

The sustained poor show of the Lankan team during their 'horror series' against India is beginning to get to not just the players, but also the side's coaching staff, which consists of some former players who had distinguished records in Test cricket.

Indian batsman Ajinkya Rahane created a world record as he became the first non-keeper player to take eight catches in a Test match.

Statistical highlights on the third day of the first cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in Galle on Friday.

International players are always fighting against injuries. Most of them owe a lot to trainers and physios for their longevity on the field.

Sri Lankan keeper-batsman Niroshan Dickwella has said that their batsmen planned to play the sweep against India's spinners and used it to good effect in the second innings of the second Test here.

South African star Aiden Markram has achieved a historic feat in Test cricket, becoming the first outfielder to take nine catches in a single match. His exceptional performance in Guwahati surpassed Ajinkya Rahane's previous record of eight. Markram's incredible display, spread across both innings, has rewritten the record books for fielding excellence.

Three sparkling centuries by the Lankan batsmen following Marvan Atapattu's 108 yesterday, shut India out of the third test at Colombo on day three.

A look back at the second Test of the 2001 tour to Sri Lanka, when India, needing a win to stay to stay alive in the series, were carried home by their skipper.

One of the highlights of the on-going Test series between India and Sri Lanka is the contrasting methods employed by the batsmen of the two teams while playing spin - despite having cut their teeth on similar surfaces, against similar type of spinners.

A day after a doping scandal rocked Sri Lankan cricket, the sports ministry on Monday confirmed that the ICC has informed opening batsman Upul Tharanga about flunking a random dope test conducted during the recent World Cup.

Statistical highlights after the third day's play in the opening Test between India and Sri Lanka on Friday.

Chris Gayle, one of T20 cricket's biggest draws, has pulled out of the inaugural Lanka Premier League (LPL) along with England pacer Liam Plunkett and Pakistan's Sarfraz Ahmed, dealing a huge blow to the tournament even before its take-off.

The terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team bus on March 2009 in Lahore still haunts the then captain Mahela Jayawardene, who says he still gets the "flashbacks" of the nerve wracking incident.

Kusal Mendis and Avishka Fernando both slammed centuries to set up a convincing 45-run victory for Sri Lanka in the rain-interrupted first one-day international against New Zealand. Earlier, Kusal and Avishka stitched together a 206-run stand off 215 balls for the highest second-wicket partnership in ODIs for Sri Lanka against New Zealand

The third day of the third Test between India and Sri Lanka threaded many individual and team records.

They might not step out in public holding hands, but will the two look each other in the eye to communicate at a meaningful level? It’s an answer that eludes Sri Lankan cricket as it heads towards the World Cup unsure of how the association between coach Chandika Hathurusingha and captain Dimuth Karunaratne will pan out.