SLC insists no sanction from ICC

England motivated by Australia’s behaviour

England will use Australia’s behaviour after winning the first Ashes Test as motivation for the second match in Adelaide on Saturday, says Joe Root. Captain Steve Smith was laughing in the news conference as opener Cameron Bancroft described being ‘headbutted’ by England’s Jonny Bairstow in a bar. “You are disappointed to see a reaction like that in a press conference,” said England skipper Root, 26. “If that’s not motivation to the players, I don’t know what is.” Both Bairstow and Bancroft

01 Dec, 2017

India says loss to Sri Lanka an eye-opener

At 29 for 7, India were in danger of plummeting to the all-time?lowest ODI total. While they managed to avoid the ignominy thanks to MS Dhoni’s stubbornness down the order, a total of 112 proved woefully inadequate even in bowling-friendly conditions; Sri Lanka chased it down with 29.2 overs to spare. Rohit Sharma, in his first ODI as captain, admitted such matches were an “eye-opener” but refused to read much too much into it. “Credit should go to the Sri Lankan bowlers, they made full use of

11 Dec, 2017

Sri Lanka Cricket calls for EGM in January

Sri Lanka Cricket today (12) announced that at its monthly meeting held on 6th December 2017 the Executive Committee, has unanimously declared an Extraordinary General Meeting to be held on the 7th of January at the SLC Headquarters. The purposes of this meeting, as declared by the Notice inter alia shall be to; 1.) Adopt and approve the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Sri Lanka Cricket (amended in accordance with the amendments to the Regulations of the Sport Law No. 25 of 1973) 2

12 Dec, 2017