Kumar Sangakkara feels keeping the Sri Lankan players out of the Chennai matches in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League is not going to "curtail" the spirit of the game.
For Muttiah Murailtharan, Chennai is like a second home, his wife being from the city. A Tamilian by birth, Muralitharan is however disappointed and frustrated that Sri Lankan players won’t be allowed to participate in the Indian Premier League’s sixth season.
With just two years to go until the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 cricket fans around the world can now participate in the build up to the tournament on social media.
There is no more exciting sight in limited-overs cricket than Lasith Malinga steaming in to bowl. The accent is on all-out attack, the accelerator pushed down hard to the floor. Complexity does not really come into it. No bowler communicates so strongly the raw sense that battle is joined.
South Africa batsman Hashim Amla and Australia captain Michael Clarke have continued their dogfight for the number-one batting position on the Reliance ICC Test Player Rankings for batsmen.
Sri Lankan Star batsman Kumar Sangakkara believes the role of player agents has been misunderstood by Sri Lanka Cricket and said they were not a detriment to the game. His comments comes in the middle of the debate in country wide over agents influencing the Sri Lankan Cricket unnecessarily and local media crying out for sacking of agents from the cricket . However Sri Lankan Batsman believes public and SLC perspective on the role of agents is not the right one.
Talismanic Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan's absence from the Sri Lanka touring party is undoubtedly a blow, especially when playing a team that has a near-flawless record at home.
However, one man's loss is another man's gain and in this case, Shakib's status as a genuine all-rounder has brought about chances for two players -- left-handed batsman Mominul Haque and left-arm spinner Enamul Haque Jr.
New Zealand have chosen three new players, dropped two veterans and will experiment with a new opening partnership in a squad named Sunday for the upcoming England Test series.
Hamish Rutherford, Tom Latham and Bruce Martin are elevated to the Test ranks while all-rounder James Franklin and spinner Jeetan Patel are omitted from the 12-man squad.
The national selectors announced a 15-man Test squad for next month's Sri Lanka tour, excluding ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan. In place of Shakib, who will undergo an operation on his right leg this week and will subsequently be out of action for six weeks, the selectors have included middle order batsman Mominul Haque and slow-left arm bowler Enamul Haque Jr.
World Cup-winning former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga came down heavily on the International Cricket Council (ICC), calling the sport's world governing body ‘toothless’.
New Zealand have chosen three new players, dropped two veterans and will experiment with a new opening partnership in a squad named Sunday for the upcoming England Test series.
