Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan, who has just retired from ODI cricket, suggested he did not have enough support from his team-mates during his 10-month stint as captain and was "hurt" by the manner in which he was removed from the post. Addressing the post-match press conference after the loss to Australia in the third ODI last night, Dilshan lamented that two former captains gave him no support when he assumed captaincy in 2011.
Debutant fast bowler Bilawal Bhatti dismissed experienced duo Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene in consecutive deliveries as Pakistan strengthened their hold on the first Test against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Letting Virat Kohli play county cricket is 'nonsense', feels former England captain Bob Willis
India, Australia and Bangladesh are out of the competition, so the runs of Sharma, Warner, and Shakib will remain the same, whereas Root and Williamson will play in the final of the World Cup.
India are currently placed at the second position in the tournament standings with 13 points from eight matches.
Earlier, Australia's former skipper Ricky Ponting held the record for scoring most international runs in a decade with 18,962 runs to his credit in the 2000s.
Rudi Koertzen has apologised to Kumar Sangakkara after mistakenly giving him out on the final day of the second Test against Australia.
Statistical highlights of the third cricket One-day international between India and Sri Lanka in Uppal.
Pakistan pacer Sohail Tanvir took four wickets to limit Sri Lanka to 218 for nine in their 50 overs in the fifth and final ODI at the Shaikh Zayed stadium, in Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday.
With 100-plus Tests and 400-plus wickets, most of them not exactly coming on rank turners, Harbhajan's name will always figure among true blue cricketing elites of India.
BCCI acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary is livid with GM (Cricket Operations) Saba Karim for ignoring the names of Indian stalwarts of yesteryears.
Pakistan, replying to Sri Lanka's first inings total of 413, were 35 for 2 at stumps on Day 2 of the third Test.
Rajneesh Gupta explains the numbers that led to the world's cricket cognoscenti to vote Ravichandran Ashwin as the ICC Cricketer of the Year 2016 and the ICC Test Cricketer of the Year 2016.
# Kumar Sangakkara took his dismissals' tally to 13 (12 catches + 1 stumping) in nine matches in the IPL -- the most by a wicketkeeper.
Sri Lanka appointed former captain Marvan Atapattu as the team's batting coach for the England tour, which gets underway next month.
The pressure will be on former captain Tillakaratne Dilshan to continue to play a pivotal role for Sri Lanka.
Rajasthan Royals' skipper Shane Warne feels that dismissing Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara and dashing South African batsman JP Duminy was turning point during their eight-wicket win in Hyderabad on Saturday.
The ICC has confirmed that the Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 has approved Peter Handscomb as a replacement player for Shaun Marsh in the Australia squad for the remainder of the tournament.
# Kumar Sangakkara (65 off 47 balls) has registered his ninth fifty in the IPL.
Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Deccan Chargers and Kochi Tuskers Kerala, in Kochi, on Wednesday.
Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara gave a batting masterclass in the shortest version of the game to lead Sri Lanka to an emphatic nine-wicket win over England in a one-off Twenty20 international in Bristol on Saturday.
Rohit Sharma's 104 at Edgbaston helped India to secure the win they needed to guarantee a place in the semi-finals of the ICC World Cup.
After his team crushed Royal Challengers Bangalore by 33 runs and notched its first victory at home, Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara asked his players not to get carried away but work hard towards build a winning momentum.
Riding on half-centuries from skipper Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott and Joe Root, England put up a massive 293-7 from their 50 overs.
The stalwart coach had passed away at the age of 87 in January this year.
After the match, Tendulkar gave a speech at the Wankhede which made cricketing fans all over the globe a little teary-eyed.
Faisalabad Wolves rode on skipper Misbah-ul-Haq's unbeaten 93 to beat Kandurata Maroons by 10 runs and post a consolation win in an inconsequential qualifying match of the Champions League Twenty20 in Mohali, on Friday.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara might find the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings system flawed but the country's retired spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan feels it is alright and India are a deserving number one in the Test Championship.
Sri Lanka were 128-2 at the end of day one after bowling out South Africa for 169 in the opening Test of the series.
Kumar Sangakkara and Tharanga Paranavitana hit centuries to put Sri Lanka on top India on a truncated opening day of the first Test in Galle, on Sunday. Having elected to bat, Sri Lanka were sitting pretty on 256 for two in 68 overs before play was called off early due to bad light.
A quickfire half-century by Sunny Sohal and an equally useful knock of 49 from captain Kumar Sangakkara helped Deccan Chargers register a 16-run victory over Delhi Daredevils in their Indian Premier League match, at the Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi, on Tuesday.
Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said his national team-mates playing in the Indian Premier League will have to abide by their cricket board's decision asking them to return home midway into the Twenty20 league for the tour of England.
Sachin's Blasters suffered their third successive defeat against Warne's Warriors, going down by four wickets in a last-over thriller, to lose the Cricket All-Stars T20 Series 0-3 at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
"I think that he deserved it," said Warner of the reception Clarke received on the first day of the fifth Test on Thursday.
Sri Lanka might have handed India its biggest ODI defeat in terms of balls remaining on Sunday, but captain Kumar Sangakkara feels the islanders' best victory against the team came way back in the year 2000 in Sharjah.
VVS Laxman believes that the current national cricket team is full of match-winners and if they play to their potential, they can beat Sri Lanka in their own backyard.
Sri Lankan captain Kumar Sangakkara on reminded his team-mates to focus on the job at hand and not get carried away by emotions in Muttiah Muralitharan's swansong cricket Test against India.
Sri Lanka were expected to win, but South Africa had other plans.
Dhoni fetches 'Spirit of Cricket' honour.
