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Ajantha Mendis, the Sri Lankan spinner who was injured among with some of his team-mates in the terrorist attack on their team bus in Lahore earlier this month, has been released from hospital after shrapnel was extracted from his head and back.

The chairman of the new seven-member interim committee to run Sri Lanka Cricket, Somachandra De Silva, has pinpointed the ICC World Twenty20, the Under-19 World Cup in 2010, and the 2011 World Cup as targets for Sri Lanka and said that he will give the country’s players full support.

South Africa crushed Sri Lanka by nine wickets to take seventh place in a battle between the two winless teams in the tournament. Only two Sri Lankan batsmen made it to double-digits as their side folded for 75, a total South Africa sauntered past with more than 21 overs to spare.

Former Sri Lanka legspinner Somachandra de Silva has emerged as a strong contender for the chairman’s post on the interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC).

Sri Lanka’s new captain Kumar Sangakkara has asked the players to do more to improve their own performances.

India ensured that they did not have to depend on net run-rates to qualify for the Super Six by beating Sri Lanka by 35 runs at the Bankstown Oval in Sydney.

Kumar Sangakkara was named captain of Sri Lanka for the World Twenty20 tournament in England while Muttiah Muralitharan was appointed Sangakkara’s deputy in the provisional 25-member squad announced by the national selection committee today
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The ICC chief executives’ committee (CEC) has recommended South Africa as hosts for this year’s Champions Trophy at a teleconference meeting today.

Sri Lanka’s cricketers and officials, who were attacked by terrorists in Lahore, are undergoing post traumatic counselling in Colombo, team manager Brendon Kuruppu has said.

Sri Lanka will resist any move to shift this year’s ICC Champions Trophy out of the country due to concerns over adverse weather.

A round-up of the fourth round of matches of the 2008-09 Inter-Provincial tournament.

Jenny Gunn, the England fast bowler, and Rose Fernando, the Sri Lankan offspinner, have been reported for suspect bowling actions.

Sanduni Abeywickrama, the middle-order batsman, has been approved by the event technical committee of the 2009 Women’s World Cup as a replacement for allrounder Chamani Seneviratna in Sri Lanka’s squad.

Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has accused Chris Broad of lying in claiming that security was lax for the visiting team and officials in Lahore.

Thilan Samaraweera, who was shot on his leg during the armed attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore, has undergone a two-hour surgery and is reported to be safe and stable.

Muttiah Muralitharan has questioned whether the terrorists who perpetrated Tuesday’s attack on the Sri Lankans had received inside information as to the team’s movements.

The UAE squad have pulled out of their tour of Sri Lanka following this week’s attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.

Chris Broad landed back in Manchester and launched a stinging attack on the security in Lahore at the time of yesterday’s attack which left eight people dead, while expressing his concern that the incident sounds a ‘death knell’ for cricket in Pakistan.

Ahsan Raza, the fourth umpire for the second Test in Lahore, is in a critical condition after reportedly being shot in the back during the armed raid on the Sri Lankan team on Tuesday.

Pakistan have begun hunting the terrorists who attacked the bus carrying Sri Lanka’s cricketers in Lahore on Tuesday. Six policemen and two civilians were killed in the attack which left five Sri Lankan cricketers injured..

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has attributed his players’ immediate reaction in taking cover when terrorists attacked their team bus in Lahore to the situation in his own country.

Reactions to the attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, which has put in doubt Pakistan’s status as an international sporting venue.

The bus driver who drove the Sri Lankans to the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Mehar Mohammad Khalil, has recounted the chilling moments of the shootout which nearly claimed himself and the lives of the players.

Younis Khan, the Pakistan captain, has said his team were fortunate to escape the terrorist strike on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore on Tuesday.

ICC president David Morgan has played down suggestions that the 2011 World Cup will be moved away from Pakistan where some of the matches are scheduled to be staged.

Trevor Bayliss, the Sri Lanka coach, who was in the team bus when the attack took place, spoke to Cricinfo while waiting to be airlifted out of Pakistan.

A round-up of the third round of matches of the 2008-09 Inter-Provincial tournament.

A shoot out occurred in Lahore close to the Gaddafi Stadium which left five Sri Lankan players injured and another eight people dead.

Marvan Atapattu, the former Sri Lanka captain and opening batsman, has been hired by Cricket Canada as their batting coach till April 19.

Thilan Samaraweera attributes the dramatic upswing in fortunes to a few technical adjustments he has made.

Weather concerns could prompt the International Cricket Council to move the Champions Trophy away from Sri Lanka. The tournament, scheduled to be played in October, may be shifted to Australia, South Africa or the United Arab Emirates, according to the International Cricket Council’s general manager, Dave Richardson..

Sa’adi Thawfeeq chats to Canada coach Pubudu Dassanayake about the World Cup Qualifiers and the advantages of preparing the team in Sri Lanka.

Thilan Samaraweera scored his second double-hundred of the series and Tillakaratne Dilshan notched up his first century to keep Pakistan under extreme pressure on the second day in Lahore.

After Thilan Samaraweera made an assured hundred in Lahore to follow up his double-century in the first Test, his team-mate Kumar Sangakkara hailed him as the player “batting best” in the Sri Lankan side.

A serene 204-run partnership between Kumar Sangakkara and Thilan Samaraweera allowed Sri Lanka to soak up the pressure of three early wickets and reach a comfortable position by the end of the opening day at Lahore.

The Lahore Test will be the last of Mahela Jayawardene’s tenure as Sri Lankan captain but he is confident that he will not be distracted by emotion and will remained focused on the task of winning the series which is currently level after the draw in Karachi.

The two-Test series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka has been reduced to a one-Test play-off after the draw in Karachi. The contest over the next five days at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore is of utmost importance to both teams and their captains.

Younis Khan, the Pakistan captain, has no expectations of a series win from his young side when it meets Sri Lanka for the second Test in Lahore on Sunday and will focus on having his players work together.

Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe have agreed to postpone their one-day series next month because of issues raised by the proposed broadcaster.

Younis Khan’s attacking tactics did not pay off too well on the first day of the Test, but Pakistan’s new leader wants his side to adopt a aggressive approach to replicate the success of the country’s teams through the 1980s and 1990s.

With a draw always on the cards on a flat deck, Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan captain, said he was pleased with the way his team performed at the National Stadium, barring the minor blip in their second innings in the final session on the final day, when they lost half their side with only [...]

Wasim Akram, the former Pakistan captain, has said he was perplexed by the docile pitch prepared at the National Stadium for the first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

In the end the pitch won. Pakistan created late excitement by knocking out five top-order wickets but they didn’t have enough time to pull off the minor miracle.

Younis Khan took full advantage of a dead pitch at the National Stadium, scoring his maiden triple-century - the third by a Pakistan batsman - to push his side to safety and the match towards a draw.

A round-up of the second round of matches of the 2008-09 Inter-Provincial tournament.

The pitch at the National Stadium in Karachi has come under fire with Pakistan’s coach and captain criticising the lifeless track prepare by the home side, and saying they made contests less interesting.

Sri Lankan coach Trevor Bayliss is confident of Sri Lanka pulling off a victory against Pakistan in the first Test. Despite Younis Khan’s fine century on the third day, the visitors look to be in command - still ahead by 348 runs with Pakistan having lost three wickets.

Younus Khan’s battling century kept Sri Lanka at bay on day three in Karachi. It was a slow day, with the run rate never crossing three an over, but Younis and Shoaib Malik’s dogged efforts ensure the home side inched toward the safety of avoiding the follow-on.

A docile pitch at the National Stadium in Karachi did little to ease Pakistan’s entry into the Test arena after 14 months. It hardly offered any assistance to their pace attack, and coach Intikhab Alam was frank that the track, on which Sri Lanka amassed 644 for 7 declared, was not what the home team [...]

Thilan Samaraweera, the Sri Lanka batsman, said he was delighted with his maiden double-century in Karachi.

Farveez Maharoof, the Sri Lanka bowling allrounder, has been ruled out of the two-Test series in Pakistan with a groin injury.

Mahela Jayawardene struck his first double-century outside Sri Lanka - his fifth overall - while Thilan Samaraweera went past 200 for the first time in his Test career to put the visitors in a rock solid position on the second day in Karachi.

Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lankan captain, went past 8000 Test runs during the course of his 25th century - his first against Pakistan - on the opening day of the Karachi Test.

On a warm day in Karachi, when Test cricket returned to Pakistan after 14 months, the Sri Lankan top order indulged themselves to reach a strong position by the end of the opening day.

Younis Khan, Pakistan’s captain, does not feel that the absence of experienced players will be a deterrent to his side’s first Test series in over a year.

The Sri Lankans fell 112 runs short of their target in the warm-up match against Patron’s XI despite Kumar Sangakkara’s century.

A round-up of the opening matches of the 2008-09 Inter-Provincial tournament.

Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas is keen to get back into the one-day fold and hopes the 2011 World Cup would provide the stage for his final bow.

Centuries by openers Azhar Ali and Ahmed Shehzad put the Patron’s XI in a dominant position against the Sri Lankans on day one of their tour game in Karachi.

Chamari Polgampola and Shashikala Siriwardene took three wickets each to bowl out Pakistan for 123 and hand Sri Lanka a confidence-boosting win just before the World Cup in the tri-nation final in Dhaka.