Statistical highlights of the 5th ODI, between India and Sri Lanka at the Ferozeshah Kotla, in New Delhi, on Sunday
The experience of playing three Deodhar Trophy matches at the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack earlier this year came in handy for all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja who produced a career-best four-wicket haul to help India spank Sri Lanka in the third One-day International.
England picked up three early wickets as Sri Lanka struggled to 218 for six at lunch on the third day of the third and final Test at Lord's on Saturday.
Following are the statistical highlights of the first India and Sri Lanka ODI played at Madhavrao Scindia stadium in Rajkot on Tuesday.
Sri Lankan players will be playing the ODI tri-series in Australia, the Commonwealth Bank Series, because of their love for cricket, despite not getting their payments on time.
India pacer S Sreesanth is likely to miss Wednesday's Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka because of an upset stomach. 'He is not well. We are hoping he will get well before the game,' India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.
Expressing that he was "very fond" of India, Fonseka, who is being endorsed as the joint opposition candidate to challenge the incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa, said he was looking forward to support from India during his future plans.
The second day's play in the three-day practice game between the visiting Sri Lankan team and the Board's President's XI has been called off due to wet condition of the ground.
Over 5,000 fishermen from various hamlets in Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu on Thursday started an indefinite strike to protest the arrest of their fellow fishermen belonging to Akkaraipettai off Kodiakarai coast by the Sri Lankan Navy.
Unseasonal rain in Mumbai could deny the tourists vital match practice before the first Test against India that begins in Ahmedabad on November 16.
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After the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan earlier this year, the Sri Lankan Cricket Board is leaving no stone unturned to ensure their team's safety during their tour to India starting this month.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi on Tuesday asked the Centre to grant permanent residential status to over 1.6 lakh Sri Lankan Tamil refugees residing in the state.
Sri Lankan batsmen led by their number three Kavindu Kulasekara provided stiff resistance against the Indian bowlers as the hosts finished the third day's play on 235 for five as the first 'Youth Test' looks set to be heading for a tame draw in Dambulla, on Thursday.
South Africa's top-order batsman Hashim Amla is struggling to be fit for the next two one-day internationals in Sri Lanka after suffering a groin strain in Tuesday's defeat by the home side.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said Sri Lanka and New Zealand are willing to play in place of the West Indies in September's tri-series that also involves Australia.
The former India fast bowler will make his debut as the latest member of the Emirates Elite Panel of match referees when he takes charge of the Test series later this month.
Completing its mission of studying first-hand the conditions prevailing in the camps housing internally displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka, the delegation of 10 Members of Parliament from Tamil Nadu returned to Chennai on Wednesday and submitted its report to Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.
On a mission in Sri Lanka to ascertain the living conditions of displaced Tamils after the end of the war, a delegation of MPs from Tamil Nadu on Sunday visited them in camps, who expressed their keenness to return to their towns and villages during an 'emotional interaction.'
India's T20 World Cup challenge has ended. But it is likely that Virat Kohli (MVPI of 338) will go on to become the tournament's most valuable player because he enjoys a lead of 109 runs over second-placed Joe Root (229).
Seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar wreaked havoc with a brilliant opening spell as he powered India into the final of the tri-series following a convincing 81-run victory over Sri Lanka via the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-affected match in Trinidad, on Tuesday.
Rain played spoilsport as the crucial ODI match between Sri Lanka and West Indies in the tri-nation series was pushed to the reserve day on Monday, at the Queen's Park Oval.
Chris Gayle blasted a quickfire century to power West Indies to a comfortable six-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the tri-nation series in Jamaica, on Friday.
Sri Lanka named a 16-member team for the upcoming Test series against India with uncapped 23-year-old fast bowler Vishwa Fernando the only fresh face picked by the national selectors.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was the mastermind behind the attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3.
Notwithstanding the objections from India and Tamil minority parties, an "urgent bill" will be presented in Sri Lankan parliament next week aimed at diluting the provincial council powers devolved in terms of the 1987 Indo-Lanka accord.
Hoping that Sri Lanka would allow displaced Tamil civilians to return to their homes soon, India has said a "broad-based" political solution to the Tamil question will enable "more effective" utilisation of the Rs 500 crore aid given by it for rebuilding war-ravaged areas.
Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik smashed a century each as India warmed up their Champions Trophy campaign with a five-wicket thumping of Sri Lanka in their first practice game in Birmingham on Saturday.
Shahid Afridi's dream of leading the Pakistan team came true as the flamboyant all-rounder was on Wednesday appointed captain for the one-off Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka next month.
Spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has been named in Sri Lanka's one-day international squad for their five-match series against Pakistan, starting next week, after recovering from a knee injury. Muralitharan, 37, the highest wicket-taker in ODI history, missed the three-match Test series with a tendon injury and will team up with Ajantha Mendis and recalled leg spinner Malinga Bandara in a 15-man squad that includes three spinners.
India on Monday said Sri Lanka has not done enough to rehabilitate displaced Tamils and asked Colombo to allow the Red Cross to take up relief and give media access to refugee camps in the strife-torn areas.
Kaushal Silva, the wicketkeeper-batsman, is the only uncapped player in the squad, while there was no place for Ajantha Mendis, who is nursing an injury. Three Tests will be played in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah.
Captain Michael Clarke hit his 15th Test century to lead Australia to a draw in the final Test against Sri Lanka on Tuesday and a 1-0 win in the three-match series. Clarke and Michael Hussey put together a record fifth wicket partnership of 176 to inflict a first home defeat in a Test series on Sri Lanka since they lost to Pakistan in 2006.
A 'chance meeting' with Pullela Gopichand near an auditorium lift was enough for Manasi Joshi to convince the national coach of her burning desire to become a world champion.
Ricky Ponting's side was ruled to be one over short of its target at the end of the Sri Lanka innings when time allowances were taken into consideration.
The "mild-mannered" Veerasamy Thiruvengadam Velupillai, the father of the slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam supremo Prabhakaran, never endorsed the militant ways of his son and was not even on talking terms with him for a long period, a media report said on Sunday.
With the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam wiped out, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday offered equal rights for Tamils through a political solution, but stressed that it won't be 'imported'. He said the government does not accept the military solution as final and that his aim was to provide equal rights to all communities. Rajapaksa said it was necessary to give the Tamil people the freedoms that are the right of people in all other parts of the country.
Eight fishermen were injured in separate incidents of attack allegedly by the Sri Lankan Navy while fishing off Kodiakarai coast, fisheries department officials said on Thursday.
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