Former Sri Lanka Captain, Marvan Atapattu has been appointed as the National team batting coach with immediate effect. Marvan will be joining a strong coaching team comprising of Stuart Law, Champaka Ramanayaka, and Ruwan Kalpage for the forthcoming tour of England  this summer, which includes 3 Test matches 5 One day Internationals and 2 T20 games against hosts England this summer which gets underway next month. Marvan played 90 Tests and 268 one day internationals in his illustrious career, and was recognized as a perfect technician with the bat. Atapattu has scored 16 test centuries in 90 test matches which includes 6 double hundreds plus 17 half centuries. . In the one day arena Mavan aggregates 8529 runs in 268 ODI’s… Read More →

Tier A Teams M Bloomfield Cricket & AC 8 4 1 2 1 – - – 96.905 Colts Cricket Club 7 3 – 2 2 – - – 78.220 Sinhalese Sports Club 7 2 – 3 1 – - 1 71.380 Chilaw Marians Cricket Club 7 2 2 2 1 – - – 66.955 Nondescripts Cricket Club 7 2 – 2 3 – - – 66.120 Ragama Cricket Club 7 2 1 2 1 – - 1 62.570 Lankan Cricket Club 6 1 2 1 2 – - – 42.770 Tamil Union Cricket & AC 5 1 1 1 1 – - 1 35.340 Saracens Sports Club 7 – 3 – 4 – - – 25.230 Badureliya Cricket Club 5… Read More →

Attention All Print and Electronic Media From Media Unit – Sri Lanka Cricket Subject T.M. Dilshan Appointed as National Captain Date April 18, 2011 Sri Lanka Cricket is proud to announce the appointment of T.M. Dilshan as the National Captain in all 3 formats of the game for Sri Lanka’s tour of England in May 2011. The National Selectors have postponed the appointment of a Vice Captain, since the prospective candidates are nursing injuries, and their availability for the forthcoming tour is still in question. Sri Lanka Cricket will keep the media updated on further developments pertaining to the appointment of the Vice Captain in due course. “Thank you once again for you continued support to Sri Lanka Cricket” Tel:… Read More →

As of 15th March 2011

Points table as of 15th March 2011

Group A Teams M WO LO FW FL FT MT NR Points Galle CC 3 1 – 2 – - – - 37.510 Matale CC 3 1 – 1 – - – 1 26.630 Sebastinites C 3 – - 2 – - – 1 23.790 Xavirites CC 3 1 – - 1 – - 1 20.900 Malay CC 3 1 – - 1 – - 1 19.470 Leo’s CC 3 – 1 1 1 – - – 15.305 Kalutara PCC 3 – 1 – 1 – - 1 7.020 Old Dharmapalian SC 2 – 1 – - – - 1 4.700 Kandy CC 3 – 1 – 1 – - 1 4.655 United Southern CC 2 – - – 1… Read More →

– Amended Itinerary

Sri Lanka Cricket has organized special events on the 18th of November at our newly constructed World Cup venue Mahinda Rajapakse International Stadium to commemorate His Excellency’s second term in office. We append below our agenda on this historic day. Cricket materials will be distributed to 3 district associations from the Southern Province namely Galle, Matera and Hambantota. Coaches from the district to be awarded ICC endorsed coaching booklets. A coaching programme for 200 young hopefuls will be conducted by SLC coaching staff. We wind up the day’s events with a six a side Cricket encounter between the SLC coaching staff team and a team from the Hambantota district cricket association.

Sri Lanka Cricket distributed cricket gear to 30 schools at a simple ceremony officiated by Chairman D.S.de Silva. 450 schools were recipients of cricket material as per the approved development plan undertaken to distribute cricket materials to schools. Sri Lanka Cricket under the guidance of its Chairman D.S.de Silva selected 30 more schools in addition to the 450 that are already in the development plan and assured all 480 institutions that cricket gear will be upgraded every three years. The investment and the pledge are keeping in line with His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse’s   vision of “Gamata Cricket”. In the recently concluded distribution Ceremony, 10 senior kits and 26 junior kits were distributed along with Center matting’s to schools that… Read More →

Australian “Gavin Fingleson” specialized fielding coach, is pictured here demonstrating modern fielding skills to the men’s National Squad Players at SSC grounds. Gavin was contracted for a two week period by SLC to work exclusively with the National Team in their preparation of the forthcoming tour of Australia which begins later this month and also taking into consideration the World Cup which is around the corner.

The media accreditation process for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is now open. This is an online process that can be followed by clicking on www.dnanetworks.co.in/iccwcaccreditation. As part of the application process you will need to upload a jpeg photograph, a letter of approval/assignment from your editor and a jpeg or pdf version of a relevant piece of identification. As such, it will help you as you fill out your application to have those documents ready in advance to upload. The closing date for applications is 15 November 2010. Important notes: ·         Given the large number of applicants expected, space for media will be limited. Only working journalists with specific assignments will be accredited to the ICC Cricket World… Read More →

Schedule for U15 Inter District Tournament