India captain Anil Kumble won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the second Test in Galle on Thursday. Both the teams have fielded unchanged sides, that played in the first Test in Colombo.
Mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis made it to Sri Lanka's 14-member squad for the first cricket Test against India with the pace attack looking severely depleted by injuries to frontline pacers.
Images from the opening match of IPL 2010 between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders, at the DY Patil stadium in Navi Mumbai, on Friday.
Former Sri Lankan seamer Chaminda Vaas said he was never approached by any bookmaker during his 16-year-old International cricketing career.
Indian Premier League champions Deccan Chargers start as one of the favourites in the 12-team tournament. The presence of top international stars like Andrew Symonds, Scott Styris, Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha and Chaminda Vaas definitely makes them one of the teams to watch out for.
Sri Lanka would not emulate India's ultra-aggressive tactics against Australia during their upcoming two-Test series, ace off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan said.
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene won the toss and elected to bat in the fifth and final one-day international against India in Colombo on Friday. Having already won the series, India left out Subramaniam Badrinath, Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar and drafted in Pragyan Ojha, R P Singh and Irfan Pathan.
The selectors offered the pair, the most successful bowlers in Sri Lanka's one-day international history, an opportunity to rest because both have niggling injuries.
Sri Lanka have called up uncapped all-rounder Angelo Mathews for their tour of Zimbabwe in November. The 21-year-old was selected after a series of impressive performances with the 'A team' and will compete for a place in a new-look middle order after the selectors omitted Tillakaratne Dilshan and Chamara Silva. Veteran opener Sanath Jayasuriya has been rested to make room for Upul Tharanga, who will open the batting with Mahela Udawatte having returned to form recently.
Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas will retire from Test cricket after the third and final match against Pakistan, the fast bowler announced on Sunday. The 35-year-old had been recalled to the squad earlier in the week after being overlooked for the first two Tests, a move that prompted speculation he would be given a farewell match after Sri Lanka took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.
Bowler Chaminda Vaas could play his final Test after being recalled to the Sri Lankan side to face Pakistan starting on Monday. Vaas, 35, is expected to announce his retirement from Test cricket before the start of the third Test, which would be his 111th game in a 15-year career that has bagged 354 wickets.
Sri Lanka recalled 35-year-old bowler Chaminda Vaas for the third and final Test against Pakistan, starting on Monday. The left-armer, who has taken 354 wickets in 110 test matches, was not selected for the first two Tests won by Sri Lanka.
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Sachin Tendulkar has been ruled out of the forthcoming one-day series in Sri Lanka after injuring his elbow during the third Test in Colombo. Chennai's Subramaniam Badrinath will replace him in the 16-man squad for the five-match series, beginning on August 18.
Foolish to focus only on Mendis: Dravid The Sri Lankan attack is not all about Ajantha Mendis. It will be foolish to focus only on the mystery spinner and ignore others, like Muralitharan and Vaas, warned former India captain Rahul Dravid.
Sachin Tendulkar, who dropped a rung to 14th in the batsmen's rankings, leads a pack of five Indians in the top-20.
The Sri Lankan paceman was discharged from hospital late on Sunday after striking his head on an advertising hoarding during a one-day match between Essex and Middlesex.
Kolkata Knight Riders won their second straight match beating Deccan Chargers (Hyderbad) by five wickets in the Indian Premier League at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Few believed terrorists could target cricketers in Pakistan and Chaminda Vaas' wife was one of them, who thought it was a joke when news first broke out of the Sri Lanka team coming under the attack in Lahore on Tuesday.
Sanath Jayasuriya has been recalled to Sri Lanka's one-day squad for a tri-series with Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in January. Jayasuriya, 39, was rested for the recent five-match ODI series in Zimbabwe but will return for the limited-overs leg of Sri Lanka's Bangladesh tour.
Sri Lanka left-arm fast bowler Chaminda Vaas took his 400th wicket in one-day internationals when he dismissed Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh for a duck in the fourth one-day international on Wednesday.
Spinner Ajantha Mendis claimed 5-56 as Sri Lanka dismissed India for 249 on the first day of the third Test.
Sri Lanka won both the first two matches by an innings and now have the chance to give reserve players an outing.
Bangladesh conceded a huge 488-run first innings deficit on the second day of the first Test.
The withdrawal of top players is a big setback for the tournament even before it could start.
Tendulkar made way for Ganguly while Zaheer was included as the sixth Indian in the revised 14-member team.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul hit a six off the last ball of the game to give the West Indies a thrilling win over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international in Port of Spain on Thursday. Chasing Sri Lanka's total of 235 for 7, West Indies' last pair of Chanderpaul and Fidel Edwards needed 10 from the last two balls. Chanderpaul hit the penultimate ball for a straight four and then crashed a full toss from Vaas over the mid-wicket boundary for a remarkable victory.
A patient century from Thilan Samaraweera helped Sri Lanka recover to 268 all out at the close of play on the third day of the second Test on Saturday, setting West Indies a victory target of 253. The tourists were reeling at 99 for six but a seventh-wicket stand of 138 between Samaraweera (125) and Chaminda Vaas (45) hauled Sri Lanka back into the game
Australian media reported that the Indian off-spinner features in the list of seven bowlers with highly suspect action drawn by ICC.
Chaminda Vaas took five wickets as Sri Lanka defeated the West Indies by 121 runs on the final day of the opening Test in Georgetown, Guyana on Wednesday. The home team, set an unlikely victory target of 437, slumped from 156 for one to 315 all out.
West Indies were 269 for nine, needing seven runs to save follow-on, at the end of the third day of the first Test against Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said his team is undaunted by India's 3-1 victory over the West Indies.
Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu said the grassy Kotla track would suit his pace bowlers
They won the fourth ODI at Auckland, leveling their five-game series at 2-2.
The left-arm seamer has been ruled out of the tri-series opener against India on Saturday with a hamstring injury.
Sri Lanka's leading pace bowler has been ruled out of the first Test against South Africa, starting on Thursday.
Three members of the squad are down with flu ahead of Wednesday's match against Pakistan.
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