In an interview Wisden editor Scyld Berry said consolidating the importance of Test cricket, the longest and ultimately most satisfying form of the game, was paramount.
Pakistan government pledged the same level of security to Sri Lankan cricketers as is provided to visiting heads of state.
Nishantha Ranatunga, brother of Sri Lanka Cricket chairman Arjuna Ranatunga, has been appointed the new manager of the Sri Lanka team.
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Pakistan face international sporting isolation after gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore on Tuesday in a chilling reminder of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.
US Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has said the attack on Sri Lanka cricketers in Lahore is a reminder of the threat of militancy not just to Pakistan, but to the entire world.
India's best-known cricket historian Ramchandra Guha says it is bad enough to kill innocent civilians, but to kill sportsmen is the most despicable act, because sportsmen are entertaining people.
Former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi lashed out at former Pakistan captain-turned-politician Imran Khan following Tuesday's terror attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore, saying teams should stop visiting Pakistan to play cricket. Imran had accused India of double standards after it decided not to tour Pakistan last year on security grounds but continued with the home series against England despite the terror attacks in Mumbai.
Sri Lanka's World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has challenged the Sports Ministry's decision to sack him as Sri Lanka Cricket chief in the Supreme Court.
A second armed attack in the space of a year on a bus carrying a national sports team has highlighted the vulnerability of top-level athletes and the publicity such ambushes attract. Two members of Togo's football delegation died when gunmen attacked the team bus on Friday as it travelled to the African Nations Cup in Angola. The driver was killed in the assault.
Sri Lanka fast bowler Chaminda Vaas has told the country's national selectors that he is retiring from Test cricket with immediate effect, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed on Saturday.
Zimbabwe lost two early wickets but recovered to finish 126 for two at the close on the second day of the second Test on Monday in reply to Sri Lanka's first-innings total of 504. Brian Chari and Craig Ervine were both 60 not out as Zimbabwe fought back after a poor start when they slumped to 17 for two but the hosts still trail by 378 runs. Sri Lanka, who won a closely contested first Test last week, went from 290 for five overnight to being dismissed just before tea with Asela Gunaratne completing a maiden test century.
Miffed at the "hostile" statements from Sri Lanka Cricket officials against Indian Premier League, the BCCI has decided to put on hold India's all future bilateral series against Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka's spin wizard and Test cricket's highest wicket-taker will play for Bengal in their Ranji Trophy campaign this season.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has said he is concerned that militants could attack Premier League clubs but added he had no plans to seek increased security for his side.
Team India's administrative manager Niranjan Shah says the terror attack on Sri Lanka's cricketers in Lahore will certainly have an impact on the 2011 World Cup, to be co-hosted by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. 'It will have some effect, there is no doubt about it,' Shah said in Napier on Tuesday.
The Lahore second Test between Sri Lanka and hosts Pakistan has been called off after a gun attack on the touring team bus injuring players, a Sri Lankan cricket board official said. Six members of Sri Lanka's cricket team were wounded in a shooting attack in Pakistan on Tuesday, and two including an assistant coach were still being treated in hospital, Sri Lanka's sports minister said.
Mumbai Indians have decided to ask the Board of Control for Cricket in India for a replacement for their injured pace bowler Lasith Malinga.
All-rounder Angelo Mathews has been appointed Sri Lanka's limited-overs skipper six months after relinquishing the captaincy across all three formats.
A five-member Sri Lankan cricket delegation will arrive in India next week to finalise a 40 million dollars deal with Indian Premier League, the country's sports minister Gamini Lokuge said on Saturday. 'We will negotiate the proposal of four million dollars to be paid annually to Sri Lanka Cricket and will depute a five-member delegation that will arrive in India on October 18.'
The former captain asked Sri Lanka Cricket to release him from his annual central contract.
Injury-ravaged pacer Lasith Malinga has stepped down as Sri Lanka's captain for the upcoming World Twenty20 in India following another breakdown during a disappointing Asia Cup campaign in Bangladesh.
Shaken by the recent terror attack on Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore, former England captain Kevin Pietersen has hinted that he was considering snapping ties with the lucrative Indian Premier League starting next month.
The opening match and the formal inauguration of the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is to be held in Mumbai on April 10, IPL sources said.
New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram on Wednesday said he was having second thoughts about travelling to India for the Indian Premier League following the terror attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore.
Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi on Tuesday assured all players taking part in the upcoming Twenty20 tournament that they would be provided the tightest security available. 'We will be having extremely tight security measures for the tournament. In fact, we have put these measures into place after the Mumbai attacks. Let me assure everyone that security is the top most priority for us,' he added.
Sri Lanka vice-captain Kumar Sangakkara, who suffered minor injuries after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan team's bus in Lahore, said the entire cricket team is a state of shock. 'Everybody is safe. They are a few injuries, but all of them are out of danger. We all are a bit shocked but fine,' Sangakkara told CNN-IBN.
Despite playing more then 50 contests with India in the past five years, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is keen for more and is planning to host Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men for three Tests and a tri-nation one-day series in July-August this year.
Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara has been fined 15 percent of his match fee for showing dissent at an umpire's decision during the sixth One-Day International against England in Pallekele on Saturday.
The same charge was levelled against Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft who was caught on camera rubbing a piece of sandpaper on the ball against South Africa in March.
A protracted contract dispute between Sri Lanka Cricket and its players has reached boiling point just weeks before India are due to tour there.
Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga on Monday said he believes that ace off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan can end up with more than 1000 Test wickets if he plays for another few years. The 47-year-old was effusive in his praise of India ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and said India are on the right track in their preparation for the 2011 World Cup.
Sri Lanka Cricket denied reports that all-rounder Thisara Perera indulged in match-fixing during this year's Indian Premier League, saying that it has full faith in its players.
Marvan Atapattu announced his retirement from international cricket after Sri Lanka lost the second Test to Australia.
The Warne-Muralitharan Trophy is a joint initiative from Cricket Australia and Sri Lanka Cricket to celebrate 25 years of Test cricket between the two countries.
Sri Lanka's Tillakaratne Dilshan was among the leading players who went unsold at the IPL auction last week and now the most dangerous batsman is doubtful for the Asia Cup.
Sri Lanka on Wednesday offered to play a charity match with an Indian cricket team to raise money for the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks.
A top official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has indicated that it is close to signing a deal with a leading international team to tour the country, which has not hosted a Test nation since 2009. Najam Sethi, who heads the PCB's executive committee, said on a television channel that he cannot disclose the name of the concerned team, but it was a leading side.
Sri Lanka's tour of Zimbabwe has been cancelled due to 'issues facing Zimbabwe Cricket', said SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga on Friday.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have suspended Kithuruwan Vithanage from all forms of the game for one year after finding him guilty of misconduct and breaching the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Code of Conduct.
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