Sri Lanka, who lost their first three matches in the series, are trying to become the first team to qualify for the finals after such a poor start.
Sanath Jayasuriya and Marvan Atapattu made centuries in a record opening stand as Sri Lanka smashed 343 for five in their one-day international match against Australia on Thursday.\n\n
Sri Lanka, 2-0 down in the series, closed on 239 for two in reply to Australia's first innings total of 401
The former captain hit a brilliant 131 as Sri Lanka, chasing 352 for victory, ended day 4 on 301 for 7, in the second Test against Australia.
The home team reached 264 for two at the close after Jayasuriya clubbed 12 fours and a six in his 85 from 104 balls.
List of fastest 50s in one-day internationals after Australia's Damien Martyn reached his 50 in 22 balls against Bangladesh.
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Atapattu has kept the job despite Sri Lanka's failure this month to qualify for a home tri-series final for the first time.
The ace spinner took his 450th Test wicket and a five-wicket haul for a record 37th time in the second Test against New Zealand.\n\n
Opening batsman Fakhar Zaman became Pakistan's first double centurion in one-day internationals, when he smashed 210 off 156 deliveries against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on Friday.
Kumar Sangakkara thumped his second successive century to set up the Lankan victory.
The victory virtually assured England a place in the finals of the triseries in Australia.
The 38-year-old, who played nine one-dayers and two Twenty20 internationals for Sri Lanka, has been charged with three counts of breaching the anti-corruption code of the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB), the global governing body said.
Jayasuriya posted his 13th Test hundred as Sri Lanka finished on 285 for 3 at close on day 3, an overall lead of 264, in the first Test against Pakistan.
Statistical highlights of the third cricket One-day international between India and Sri Lanka in Uppal.
'Extremely grateful for the year I have had. A World Cup victory would have been nice but as a team, throughout the year, whether red ball or white ball cricket, the team came together really well'
With Ravichandran Ashwin and Amit Mishra tormenting Sri Lankan team in the first two Tests, former captain Sanath Jayasuriya feels that the newer crop of batsmen emerging from the island nation have not done proper assessment of their ability to handle quality spinners.
The ICC said the former Sri Lanka pacer was charged with three counts of breaching the code, including "fixing or contriving" aspects of an international match.
The country's Sports Ministry worked closely with the International Cricket Council's (ICC) ACU during the process of drafting the bill.
India's limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is on the verge of breaking another record in One Day Internationals. The 35 year-old batsman is only four sixes short of eclipsing none other than legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar's record of scoring the most number of sixes for India.
ICC's Anti Corruption Unit official Alex Marshall said that most of the bookies indulging in corrupt practices are Indians.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the first Indian and the fifth player overall to scale the milestone of 200 sixes in ODIs. Check out the statistical highlights from the Cuttack ODI.
Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers from cricket World Cups held between 1975 to 2015.
Sri Lanka Cricket chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya has expressed disappointment at not being kept in the loop as far as the retirement plans of Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene from T20 Internationals were concerned.
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Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya has said Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar was the best player in world cricket and nobody could replace him.
Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya has lauded Virat Kohli for his leadership qualities in his initial days as Test skipper.
New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum smashed the fastest fifty in the history of the World Cup during the Group A match against England in Wellington.
The Sri Lankan opener struck 61 off 40 balls, including six fours and three sixes, to help Sri Lanka outclass South Africa by five runs in the ICC World T20.
Sri Lanka Cricket's selection committee chairman Aravinda de Silva stood by his panel and took full responsibility for making last-minute changes to the team for the ICC World Twenty20. "All decisions were taken in the best interest of the team and we take responsibility," de Silva, the hero of Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup win, said. He replaced the committee headed by Kapila Wijegoonawardana. Wijegoonawardana's committee was sacked by the Sports Ministry just a few days before the team departed. De Silva's committee, which also included Kumar Sangakkara, made changes to the squad picked by the previous committee. Sri Lanka fared poorly and failed to make it to the semifinals in a woeful defence of their title won in 2014.
Images from the T20 World Cup Super 12s match between Sri Lanka and Australia, in Dubai, on Wednesday.
Refusing to blame the players for the debacle in the ongoing One-Day series in India, former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga said the country's administrators are responsible for the fiasco which has also disturbed the team's World Cup preparations.
En route to a record sixth Asia Cup title, Team India and Captain Dhoni set an array of records.
Joe Root's England will have to step up their game against the turning ball to escape that fate in the test series beginning at Galle on Tuesday.
When South Africa's AB de Villiers scored the quickest century on Sunday, he broke more than just an ODI record. Here is how the South African has rewritten cricketing history.
The veteran fast bowler believes Sri Lanka could surprise opposition teams in the round-robin format.
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