Sri Lanka’s World Cup match against Pakistan was abandoned as a no result without a ball being bowled due to rain throughout the day at the County ground at Bristol on Friday with both teams sharing one point each. With the one point Sri Lanka and Pakistan with three points each moved to third and fourth positions in the Word Cup table behind New Zealand and Australia each with four points. The Sri Lanka versus Pakistan match was the first of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup to be washed out with all the other 10 games played to-date completed despite some having being marred by bad weather. The prevailing weather was so adverse that both teams left  their respective… Read More →

Number 2 ranked India swept aside South Africa by 6 wickets on a superb all-round performance with Rohit Sharma scoring an unbeaten 122 after Chahal with 4 for 51 and Bumrah 2 for 35 had restricted the opposition to 227 for 9 in 50 overs at Southampton on Wednesday. India’s tight reign over South Africa’s batsmen was reflected by just a top score of 42 by Chris Morris while the next best was by skipper Faf du Plessis’ 38. Sharma was lucky to survive a dropped chance when only 1off Rabada, but broke loose from the eighth over of the Indian innings. As he summed it up after the game, it was not his characteristic aggressive approach at the start… Read More →

Having collapsed from a stranglehold of 144 for 2 wickets in 21.2 overs to 180 for 8 in 32.2 overs and rallied to 201 all out in 36.5 overs in a rain red 41 over match, Sri Lanka fought back to stop Afghanistan’s charge after the first wicket had posted 34 runs in just 4.4 overs to pull off a 34-run win in their second match of the IC C World Cup 2019 at the Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Afghanistan, set 187 to win on the revised D/L method, was bowled out for 152 in 32.4 overs. When it seemed the demons at Cardiff had haunted the Lankans as in the previous game in the loss to New Zealand, medium paceman… Read More →