Upul Chandana

The preparatory camp of Kolkata Tigers, one of the six teams featuring in the T20 venture of ICL, is all set to be held at the Cricket and Football Club in Kolkata.

COLOMBO: Sanath Jayasuriya, Upul Chandana, Dilhara Fernando and Nuwan Zoysa all had family members caught in the disaster

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake honoured PM Narendra Modi with the Mitra Vibhushana award for his friendship towards Sri Lanka. Modi, on a state visit to Colombo, was also welcomed at Independence Square and interacted with 1996 World Cup-winning Sri Lankan cricketers.

Some people are destined to watch the unfolding of history from the ringside. Upul Chandana is one of them. The leg-spinner, who played 147 ODIs and 16 Tests, was part of Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup winning side, but he didn't get a game the whole tournament. But that hardly mattered to him then, and even now.

Sri Lanka is buzzing with the IFFA 2010, for which Gitanjali Lifestyle is an associate sponsor. And making the event a lot more exciting was the IIFA Foundation Celebrity Cricket Match hosted by them, in support with UNICEF.

Two celebrity cricket matches organised by the IIFA foundation saw the Sangakkara XI winning hands down over Bollywood actors.

Cricket Pundits still call Aravinda de Silva the main architect behind Sri Lanka's World Cup triumph in 1996. The man himself disagrees with this.

BCCI put the onus on the ICC to respond to the Sri Lanka Cricket's decision to allow its players aligned with ICL to compete in the island nation's domestic tournaments.

Senior ICL officials are tightlipped on whether Atapattu's move to South Africa meant that he would not join ICL.

The decision of Sri Lankan cricket to permit ICL players participate in their domestic tournament has not gone down well with some of their officials.

The ICL World booked their place in the final of the Indian Cricket League's World Series Twenty20 competition by beating ICL Pakistanis by six wickets.

Royal Bengal Tigers skipper Craig McMillan said that the Indian players are adapting themselves to the situation well and are learning very quickly what is required of them.

Welcoming SLC's decision to allow the cricketers aligned with the ICL to play in domestic tournaments, Kiran More said it was a 'victory of cricket'.

Slam bang cricket in its T20 avatar will come to this coastal city on November 19 when Sri Lankan XI will take on Dakshina Kannada Cricket Association XI.

Lahore Badshahs have another chance to get into the groove as they take on Royal Bengal Tigers in the ICL Twenty20 Championship on Sunday.

The ICL set the ball rolling for its high-profile Twenty20 venture by unveiling its six teams which has batting greats Brian Lara and Inzamam-ul-Haq as its star attraction.

Former Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu said SLC's decision to lift the domestic ban on him and four other cricketers who had aligned with ICL should send a "strong message" to other boards.

Warnaweera is the first of many cricketers who have come up from the southern Sri Lanka. Galle in many ways is the crown jewel of this region in cricketing terms.

Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Praveen Jayawickrama took six wickets on his debut to dismiss Bangladesh for 251 and put the hosts in a strong position on day three of the second Test on Saturday.