Sri Lanka were to resume at 44 for three wickets in reply to Pakistan's first innings total of 226 but steady rain meant not a single ball could be bowled.
SL captain Marvan Atapattu believes his team's rain-ruined one-day series victory over England will boost their confidence for next month's Test series.
Now that the Canadian Immigration Refugee Board adjudicators have opened to the media hearings for the detention of the 492 Sri Lankan Tamils, who arrived in the Canadian waters on August 9 on board MV Sun Sea, a number of stories are coming out as to who these people are, more so of women and children, who are being kept in separate correctional facilities.
Sri Lanka's cricket selectors on Tuesday included uncapped all-rounder Jeevan Mendis in the 15-man squad to play the first Test against Pakistan starting this weekend.
India's batting sensation Virat Kohli, named player of the tournament, is also the most valuable player of World T20 2016. With a fifty and two wickets, England's Joe Root is just behind him.
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum and senior batsman Ross Taylor will skip next month's limited overs series in Sri Lanka to prepare for December's home tests against West Indies, the country's cricket board said on Saturday.
The Indian bowlers again suffered, as Sri Lanka Board President's XI posted 260 for six in their second innings before the teams agreed to a draw, in the three-day tour match at the Colts Cricket Club Ground, in Colombo, on Thursday.
Rajneesh Gupta presents the numbers from the T20 series against England.
The 34-year-old left-hander was rewarded for his century in the final Test against South Africa.
Farveez Maharoof's five-wicket haul, including a hat-trick, and half-centuries from Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene saw Sri Lanka crush India by seven wickets in the sixth and final group match of the Asia Cup 2010, in Dambulla, on Tuesday.
Ambati Rayudu slammed his maiden hundred as India produced yet another comprehensive batting performance to ease past Sri Lanka by six wickets in the second One-Day International, in Motera, Ahmedabad, on Thursday.
India get a chance to make amends for recent debacles, climb up the ODI rankings and break a 15-year jinx in the Asia Cup which takes off on Tuesday with home favourites Sri Lanka facing the ever-so-unpredictable Pakistan in the opening match.
Sri Lanka said on Sunday that the relationship between New Delhi and Colombo was "strong," as it dismissed suggestions that there was "pressure" from New Delhi" for an early political solution to the Tamil ethnic problem during the visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sri Lankan Minister Douglas Devananda, whose visit as part of presidential delegation has come under controversy following reports that he is a proclaimed offender in India, on Thursday said all political leaders were pardoned as per the Indo-Sri Lanka pact but maintained that he was prepared to face legal action, if any.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to facilitate a dialogue between fishermen associations in the state and Sri Lanka in Chennai in December following frequent attacks and arrests of fishermen by naval personnel of the island nation.
Ishant Sharma claimed five wickets as India bowled out Sri Lanka for 201 to claim a healthy 111-run first innings lead, on Day 3 of the third and final Test in Colombo, on Sunday.
However the final decision to shift the tournament will be Asian Cricket Council's prerogative.
Three years ago, Delhi had backed Colombo against the United States. What has changed now? Jyoti Malhotra finds out
India were knocked out of the Asia Cup tournament after Bangladesh continued their giant-killing act by upsetting Sri Lanka by five wickets in the last league match in Mirpur.
Sri Lankan media on Tuesday said the country has been delivered a body blow by India which has said it is "inclined to" vote in favour of a United States moved resolution against it at the on-going United Nations Human Rights Council session.
Sri Lanka have called up uncapped wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Chandimal in their 15-man squad for next month's Twenty20 World Cup. The highly-rated 20-year-old was included in the squad named by selectors on Wednesday after scoring 320 runs at an average of 53.33 in Sri Lanka's domestic T20 league.
A rejuvinated Sri Lanka will look to exploit the injury problems and bowling woes of Australia when the two teams clash for the title in the third and last final of the cricket tri-series to be played in Adelaide on Thursday.
Make no mistake. Jackman is a huge catch! But even the star's celebrity status might not be enough to rake in huge sales as expected.
Over 5,000 fishermen from various hamlets in the district on Thursday commenced on an indefinite strike protesting the arrest of their fellow fishermen belonging to Akkaraipettai off Kodiakarai coast by the Sri Lankan navy.
The third specialist spinner's slot will be the subject of much deliberation when the national selection committee, headed by Sandeep Patil, meets in New Delhi, on Thursday, to announce the squad for the three-Test away series against Sri Lanka, starting August 12.
Holding that there was no change in India's stand on the issue of reconciliation and devolution of political powers to ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has informed Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa that New Delhi will work towards ensuring that Tamils are "masters of their own destiny within framework of a united Sri Lanka."
Images from the second ODI of the CB tri-series between India and Sri Lanka in Perth, on Wednesday.
India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin surged to the top of the MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers after a superb outing in the first Test against the West Indies in Antigua which the visiting side won by an innings and 92 runs.
Asia now has more millionaires than North America.
In a major boost to the presidential campaign of former top Sri Lankan army general Sarath Fonseka, the dominant Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance on Wednesday announced support to him.
The Delhi high court directed Nimbus to provide live feed to the state broadcaster for the February 17 match
The ICC is likely to deliberate on the venues for next year's Twenty20 World Cup, scheduled to be held in Bangladesh, during the governing body's annual conference in London.
Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical analysis of the third ODI between India and Sri Lanka in Margao.
Virender Sehwag returns to the side after missing last month's one-day series against the West Indies because of poor form.
The Feroz Shah Kotla wicket in New Delhi for the fifth and final One-Day International between India and Sri Lanka on Sunday would be a sporting one and not a featherbed with 280 plus expected to be a winning score, the curator said. Curator Vijay Bahadur Mishra said the groundstaff have re-laid the pitch used during the India-Australia ODI for Sunday's match and he has intentionally left a bit of grass on it.
Yuvraj Singh was on Tuesday ruled out of India's last two One-day International matches against Sri Lanka because of his finger injury.
Following are the statistical highlights of day four of the third and final India-Sri Lanka Test match in Mumbai.
Australia's fielding coach Mike Young will join the Indian cricket team as a consultant for the Twenty20 and One-day series against Sri Lanka later this month, the BCCI said in Mumbai on Friday.
Harbhajan Singh's figures of four for 107 are his second-best against Sri Lanka in India -- his best being 7 for 62 at Ahmedabad in December 2005.
In the course of his century, Rahul Dravid (11,182) obliterated Australian Allan Border's run-aggregate of 11,174, moving into the fourth position in the list of top run-getters in Tests. Dravid's runs' tally is exceeded only by Sachin Tendulkar (12,917), Brian Lara (11,953) and Ricky Ponting (11,345).
