Images from Day 2 of the second Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, on Friday.
Images of the third day's play of the second Test between India and Sri Lanka being played in Colombo.
While Herath has been appointed for Tests against Afghanistan and Sri Lanka as New Zealand's spin bowling coach, Rathour will be with the Kiwi side only for the contest against Afghanistan.
Akila Dananjaya's career-best 6-54 was in vain as India beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in their second one-day international to go 2-0 up in the five-match series in Pallekele on Thursday.
India amassed 600 in their first innings and returned to blow away the top half of the Sri Lankan batting order to tighten their grip on the first Test at the Galle International Stadium on Thursday.
The second ODI between India and Sri Lanka will be played at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo starting 1500 IST today.
A unique protest has been launched by protestors in Sri Lanka with underwear placed on the temporary metal barriers erected to block protesters at the main entrance to the island's parliament.
India lose 7 wickets for 22 runs. Defeat seems certain. Then the Master and an unlikely disciple take charge.
Images from Day 1 of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, on Thursday.
The SLC said in a statement on Tuesday that an independent committee had recommended a full lifting of the ban on Gunathilaka with "due consideration to his cricketing career and its impact on the cricketing ambitions of the nation".
Questions will remain as to why he ended his Test career at the age of 36, despite being one of the fittest cricketers, and why he didn't wait to cross the 10,000-run mark, observes veteran cricket correspondent K R Nayar.
Indian opener Devdutt Padikkal on Thursday confirmed he will be out of action for three to four weeks owing to a fracture he sustained in his thumb.
Images from Day 2 of the third and final Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo on Sunday.
Images from Day 3 of the second Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, on Saturday.
Seven persons had been arrested in connection with the blasts.
Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the end of holy month of Ramzan, is being celebrated across the world on Monday with fervour and gaiety.
Images from Day 4 of the second Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, on Sunday.
Images from Day 2 of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India in Galle, on Friday.
The hosts, chasing a mammoth 550 for a win, only managed 245 runs before their second innings folded in the final session of the penultimate day after Dimuth Karunaratne had been dismissed for 97.
On Tuesday, August 30, 2022, university students staged anti-government protests in Colombo.
The Sinhala and Tamil new year on Thursday, April 14, 2022, didn't halt the angry protests in Colombo against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his government outside the presidential secretariat.
The first of the three T20I games between India and Sri Lanka will be played at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo starting 1900 IST today.
Ranil Wickremesinghe -- six times Sri Lanka's prime minister -- realised his long cherished dream when he arrived on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, to inaugurate the country's parliament, finally as its president.
Suspended by the ICC for "political interference", Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will soon introduce a new law to curb meddling of any sorts by people with considerable influence in the corridors of power.
Photos from Day 5 of the 3rd Test between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo in Tuesday
Retiring home hero Kumar Sangakkara featured in a brief rebuilding act in his final Test as Sri Lanka reached 140 for three in reply to India's first innings total of 393 on day two of the second Test in Colombo, on Friday. Images from the second day's play.
Images from the opening day of the first Test between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, on Thursday.
Photos from Day 3 of the third Test played between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo on Sunday
Harish Kotian/Rediff.com assesses the Indian side after the 2-1 series triumph in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka watchers were startled on Tuesday evening to see an anti-government protestor being dragged off a Sri Lankan Airlines flight by police personnel at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike airport.
''As a neighbour and a big brother of our country, India has always helped us.'
Kumar Sangakkara, who rose to become one of the greatest Sri Lankan to have played the game, walked out to bat for one final time in international cricket amid a standing ovation at the P Sara Oval and guard of honour by the visiting Indian team.
The President had been moved out of his residence on Friday, in anticipation of Saturday's protests.
'There is fear that the president and prime minister are dragging their feet and won't resign.'
Sri Lanka's Gunathilaka cleared of sexual assault charge in Australia
Paceman Mohammed Shami struck twice as India closed in on a massive win on day three of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka on Monday.
Images from Day 4 in the third and final Test between Sri Lanka and India, in Colombo, on Monday
Images from Day 1 in the first Test between India and Sri Lanka at Galle.
Sri Lankan batting once again promised a lot but delivered too little losing as many as seven wickets for 53 runs after they were cruising along at 185 for 3.
Sri Lanka is bankrupt, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared on Tuesday.
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