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The Pakistan Cricket Board is still awaiting a written reply from the Sri Lankan cricket authorities on the forthcoming series between the two countries...

The confusion over the holding of the Pakistan and Sri Lanka series has been sorted out after the Sri Lankans were firmly informed of...

Sri Lanka's top stars will skip most of the matches in the country's inaugural premier league Twenty20, dealing another blow to the struggling event,...

Cameron White was retained Wednesday as captain of Australia's Twenty20 team for their upcoming tour of Sri Lanka but dropped from the one-day squad...

While agreeing to ease visa restrictions on the business community, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have decided to review the existing Free Trade Agreement (FTA)...

Sri Lanka’s cash-strapped cricket governing body is likely to scale down its inaugural Twenty20 league and go ahead without foreign players, a source close...

Mahela Jayawardene's career-best 144 provided the platform for Sri Lanka's 69-run victory against England in the second one-day international at Headingley here on Friday....

Cricket Australia said Monday that it expects Sri Lanka to provide adequate security for Australia's tour this year despite a slashing of the security...

Jayawardene’s unbeaten 72 saw Sri Lanka to a crushing nine-wicket victory against England in the lone Twenty20 international here on Saturday. Man-of-the-match Jayawardene’s innings...

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) delayed a meeting with Indian officials over the participation of India's players in the island's inaugural Twenty20 competition on Thursday....

Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar on Thursday said he would not participate in the inaugural Sri Lankan Premier League since he wants to...

An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday granted bail to Mohsin and Ashfaq, both nominated in an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009....

Sri Lanka’s cricket officials Monday reacted cautiously to an invitation to tour Pakistan, just two years after players were targeted in a deadly militant...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka were forced Wednesday to leave out star fast bowler Lasith Malinga while also naming four uncapped players for the 16-member Test squad for the tour of England. Sri Lanka play three Tests, five one-dayers and one Twenty20 international during the tour starting on May 14. Malinga, who last played a Test in August last year, was in top form during the recent World Cup and is currently taking part in the Indian Premier League (IPL), where he is turning out for Mumbai

LAHORE - The Sri Lankan baseball team on Monday paid a visit to the Liberty Roundabout, the place where the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked in May 200p, to pay homage to those killed and injured by terrorist during the attack.
The team members laid a floral wreath near the plaque at the Liberty Roundabout, remembering the martyrs of the day. This is the first Sri Lankan team to have visited Pakistan since the attack took place.
The Sri Lankan cricket team is due later

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss on Thursday said the country needed a strong and stable cricket administration to allow players to focus only on the game and not be distracted by politics.
"On the field, we've done pretty well for past 18 months," Bayliss said in an interview with AFP. "Getting to the World Cup final itself is an achievement, though we lost (to India)." But off the field, Australian-born Bayliss said, Sri Lanka could improve the way the game

LAHORE - The Pakistan Cricket Board Women Wing has announced the women team for upcoming quadrangular series featuring Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Ireland and Holland.
The tournament will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from April 18 to May 1.
The PCB has called the camp training of the selected players from April 6-17 at National Cricket Academy, Lahore, for the preparation of the series.
The squad: Sana Mir (captain), Javeria Wadood (vice captain), Bismah Maroof, Nida