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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Ajantha Mendis to miss Bangladesh Tests

Mendis to miss Bangladesh Tests

Ajantha Mendis
Mendis won the ICC Emerging Player award in September

Spin bowler Ajantha Mendis has been ruled out of Sri Lanka's forthcoming Test series in Bangladesh because of an ankle injury.

The 23-year-old, recently named world cricket's Emerging Player of the Year, suffered the injury in a club match.

Mendis will be replaced by Rangana Herath for the two-match series, which starts in Mirpur on 26 December.

But he hopes to play in the triangular one-day series, also involving Zimbabwe, which follows in January.

Mendis was an instant success when he made his Test debut against India earlier this year.

He took 26 wickets at a cost of only 18 runs each, breaking former England seam bowler Alec Bedser's 62-year-old record for the most victims in a three-match series.

Sri Lanka have won all 10 previous Test meetings with Bangladesh and, despite Mendis's absence, will be confident of extending that run.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Sri Lanka claim series whitewash

Sri Lanka claim series whitewash

Fifth one-day international, Harare: Sri Lanka 152 all out (48.5 ov) bt Zimbabwe 133 all out (44.0 ov) by 19 runs
Match scorecard
Sri Lankan bowler Nuwan Kulasekera (R) appeals on Zimbabwe"s batsman Hamilton Masakadza
Sri Lanka won despite batting poorly in Sunday's final one-dayer

Sri Lanka wrapped up a 5-0 series whitewash with victory over Zimbabwe in the final one-day match in Harare.

The tourists had posted their lowest total in the series as Zimbabwe rattled them out for 152 with Ed Rainsford returning figures of 3-22 in Harare.

But Zimbabwe could not take advantage and lost their first six wickets for only 58 runs to lose by 19 runs.

Muttiah Muralitharan did the most damage, capturing 5-29, while Keith Dabengwa top-scored with 39 runs.

Despite some modest performances by Sri Lanka in the series, skipper Mahela Jayawardene insisted he was pleased enough.

"When we came here we set ourselves goals. We needed to win 5-0. We did that," he said after finishing the series with two ducks.

If the top-order doesn't click, the middle order must come to the party. We need to complement each other
Zimbabwe captain Prosper Utseya
"Yes, it wasn't convincing, but considering the conditions and that the oppositions played well in the last three games, especially with the ball, we have to take that as an achievement.

"We knew it was going to be difficult to get 250 runs on this kind of wicket and we knew we could not afford to play bad shots. We made some mistakes.

"But the most important thing is that the guys rose up under pressure and came back strongly. We never said it was going to be a walk in the park. We needed to play consistently."

Simbabwe skipper Prosper Utseya said: "If the top-order doesn't click, the middle order must come to the party. We need to complement each other. Guys are working hard, to be honest with you, we are just failing to get the results."

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Malinga to finally get full contract

Malinga to finally get full contract
TV blackout in the offing?
By S.R. Pathiravithana
Sundaytimes.lk

Lasith Malinga -- one of Sri Lanka’s genuine fast bowlers who had been out of cricket and out of peer favour is to finally get his lost contract for 2008.

The Lankan contingent were to get their contracts renewed on March 1, 2008 but, owing to various reasons and bad handling of the issue, it was delayed.

Finally when the contracts were handed over at the end of the Asia Cup, the names of Sanath Jayasuriya (who had retired from Test cricket) and Lasith Malinga who had suffered a foot injury were missing. However Farveez Maharoof who had a similar injury to Malinga was given the full contract.

Subsequently, Jayasuriya was also included in the grade ‘A’ category (for ODIs only) at 40% of the full amount.

Thereafter with the intervention of the Sri Lanka Cricket Players Association on behalf of the beleaguered twenty-five year old fast bowler, a sum of Rs. 1.5 million was provided as compensation by Sri Lanka Cricket.

At a recent Interim Committee meeting however it was decided to back date the contract and take Malinga into the fold with the grade II contract to the value of $60,000/-.

Explaining the issue to The Sunday Times an IC member said “The decision to give Malinga a contract was a unanimous one and we would deduct the Rs.1.5 million already paid to him as compensation and give the balance with immediate effect”.

So far Malinga has played 28 Tests, taken 91 wickets at an average of 33.80, appeared in 53 ODIs and taken 79 wickets, at an average of 25.58.

The pinnacle of his career was his four wickets in a single over against South Africa which brought Sri Lanka a very unlikely victory in a World Cup tie in the West Indies last year.

Originally Malinga was overlooked for the full contract as a result of a SLC heavyweight being against him being included in the list.

TV blackout?

Meanwhile the existing TV deal with Taj TV is due expire on December 31, 2008 after the ministry of sports cancelled the deal that was due to run till 2012.

According to insiders it is remote that there would be any meaningful offers for TV rights for the ensuing term as there will not be any engagements against India in the foreseeable future. Sri Lanka is due to take on New Zealand and Pakistan at home next year.

The insider added “at present the situation is very grave. With the latest stance of India regarding the SLC over the IPL issue things are looking very bleak.

Now India has cancelled the two impending Indian tours of Sri Lanka and as a result we are not even in position to open a bid document calling for fresh TV rights... if we can not get that on time we will be in for a rough time in the very near future”.

Lankans ready to retain title

Lankans ready to retain title

A staggering amount of US dollars 300,000 will be on offer as prize money for this years annual Hong Kong six a side cricket tournament which will be worked off on November 8 and 9 at the Kowloon Cricket Club grounds in Hong Kong.

The tournament is organised and promoted by the Hong Kong Cricket Association’s commercial arm, China Cricket International Limited. First played in 1992, the tournament is fully sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC) and backed by the boards of the test playing nations.

England, Pakistan, West Indies, Sri Lanka, India and South Africa - all have triumphed at the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes. In fact Sri Lanka will be hoping to retain the title for the second successive year after having defeated the All Stars team by 16 runs in last year’s final encounter.

Four of the players who helped Sri Lanka to their maiden Hong Kong Cricket Sixes triumph last year have been included in the team that will defend the title next week.

The three newcomers include talented all-rounder Gayan Wijekoon, who has played for his country at test level and in last year’s Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa.

Sri Lanka went on to win by 16 runs for their first Sixes success in 11 attempts. In fact Sri Lanka have been drawn in the Sobers Group together with the 2008 All-Stars, Australia and Hong Kong.

The tournament has been further boosted with the inclusion of living legend Sanath Jayasuriya who will showcase his devastating batting skills for the All Stars team.

The Sri Lankan ace - one of the most lethal hitters in the game will join an awesome All-Stars team that already contains test greats Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Justin Langer, Stephen Fleming and Matthew Hoggard.

The All-Stars have been pooled with defending champions Sri Lanka in the Sobers Group, meaning Jayasuriya will face a meeting with his countrymen on day one of the tournament.

The Bradman Group contains India, Pakistan, England and South Africa.

Hosts Hong Kong have included in their squad five of the players who helped them win the ACC Trophy in Kuala Lumpur in August.

Hong Kong will once again be captained by Manoj Cheruparambil while the squad is rounded out by Phil Pemberton. Cheruparambil, Pemberton and Dar all played in last year’s Sixes.

The past winners of the Hong Kong Sixes: 1992 (Pakistan), 1993 (England), 1994 (England), 1995 (South Africa), 1996 (West Indies), 1997 (Pakistan), 1998, 1999, 2000 (not held) 2001 (Pakistan), 2002 (Pakistan), 2003 (England), 2004 (England), 2005 (India), 2006 (South Africa), 2007 (Sri Lanka).

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Tendulkar breaks Lara Test record

Tendulkar spoke to the media after play in Mohali

India's Sachin Tendulkar has set a new record for the most runs scored by a batsman in Test cricket, overtaking the mark set by West Indies' Brian Lara.

Tendulkar, 35, scored the 15 extra runs he needed to overtake Lara's aggregate of 11,953 on day one of the second Test against Australia in Mohali.

Already the holder of a record 39 centuries in 151 Tests, Tendulkar hit the landmark runs off Peter Siddle.

A rapturous but sparse crowd in the Punjabi city stood to applaud him.

Afterwards, having been dismissed for 88 - and becoming the first man to 12,000 runs - he said: "It's definitely the biggest milestone because it's taken me 19 years to get - it's not something that can happen overnight.

"The journey has been fantastic. There have been ups and downs. So many times there have been stones thrown and you have to turn them into milestones.

"I knew I was 14 runs short [when Friday's innings started]. I have just been trying to focus on the game but whoever I see in front of me they have an opportunity to remind me.

"I decided to keep it simple and keep watching the ball."

Tendulkar insisted he had no plans to end his career in the immediate future.

"As long as I'm enjoying it I will play. I don't need X, Y or Z to tell me when I should stop or continue. When I started playing nobody told me that. So nobody need to tell me now either," he added.

He spent the tea interval on 13 not out, just one run away from Lara's record. But after the 20-minute break he hit his first ball for three down to third man and saluted the crowd before the Australian fielders went to shake his hand.

Tendulkar celebrates record achievement

Fireworks were set off around the ground.

India's President Pratibha Patil later said Tendulkar had "given joy to millions of Indians", while the country's Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, described the batsman as a genius.

"I congratulate Sachin Tendulkar on becoming the highest run-scorer in Test cricket," said Singh.

"Sachin is truly worthy of the mantle of the greatest run-scorer in Tests. I have been following his cricket and there is no doubt that he is a genius."

Former India captain Kapil Dev says his compatriot is a hero to a cricket-loving nation and admire the way he has dealt with the adoration.

"I think he is one of the finest batsmen the world has ever seen," said Dev, who was once the world's leading wicket-taker.

"Millions of people in this country love him. Every kid wants to be come Sachin Tendulkar.

"He has set a standard for those young people to follow him. The country needs heroes like him.

"It is not easy to play for 19 years with the pressure he has had throughout his career. People love him. He can't go out, do the things he wants to do.

LEADING TEST RUN-SCORERS
SR Tendulkar (India): 12,027
BC Lara (ICC/W Indies): 11,953
AR Border (Aus): 11,174
SR Waugh (Aus): 10,927
R Dravid (ICC/India): 10,302
RT Ponting (Aus): 10,239
SM Gavaskar (India): 10,122
Names in bold current players

"Every simple thing he does in his life, people notice. Hats off to him for still coming forward to play cricket."

It was fitting that Tendulkar established the new mark against Australia, the overwhelmingly dominant team of his era - and a side against whom he has achieved distinguished success.

A prodigy as a youth, his century as a 19-year old on an ultra-fast wicket in Perth is often regarded one of the best innings ever to have been played in Australia.

He was only 16 when he made his Test debut, in 1989 and scored his first Test hundred, a match-saving one against England at Old Trafford, a year later.

Tendulkar was regarded by the late Sir Don Bradman as the one batsman of the modern era who most reminded him of himself.

A tremendous performer in the one-day arena, Tendulkar is also the highest scorer and century-maker in that format.

Former England batsman Geoff Boycott, who became the first Englishman to score more than 8,000 Test runs, breaking West Indies all-rounder Sir Garry Sobers' batting record in the process, told BBC Radio 5 Live that Tendulkar will hold the record for years to come.

But the 67-year-old still regards Bradman as the greatest batsman the game has seen, saying: "There's none of us who have come near him."

606: DEBATE
"Tendulkar's handled publicity very well. In India where they're mad on cricket it'd be easy to get sucked into it, but he's managed to keep a private life and kept that at arms length from his public life and it's nice for him," said Boycott.

"There'll always be people who break records because nowadays they play more Test matches than ever, more one-day internationals.

"It was inevitable that people like Lara and Tendulkar - two of the great players of the last few years - would break records of some distinction almost every other year or two.

"I broke Garry Sobers' record and I said at the time that if you play enough Test matches and you're pretty good at what you do then you'll break records.

"But it didn't make me a better player than Garry Sobers and it won't make Tendulkar a better player than Bradman, a genius - the best batsmen of the lot."

Former England batsman Allan Lamb paid tribute to Tendulkar's feat, telling BBC Radio 5 Live: "He's very classical. He's a batter who keeps very still at the wicket. That's something that every youngster is told to do.

"He's got all the shots in the book. He can play all round the wicket and he's got a lot of time to play his shots, and that's what makes him such a great player.

"Lara got his runs in 131 Test matches, so you've got to say that's an incredible achievement.

"Tendulkar's probably not the player he was two or three years ago, so he will probably hang up his boots in a year or so. But then you've got Ricky Ponting steaming up from the back so I don't know how long the Indians will hold that record."

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Third World Twenty20 set for 2010

Third World Twenty20 set for 2010

India win the ICC World Twenty20
India won the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa in September 2007

The ICC multi-nation tournament scheduled for the West Indies in 2010 has been shortened from a Champions Trophy to be another World Twenty20.

It will be the third such tournament since the very successful first event in South Africa in September 2007.

The decision has been taken because this year's 50-over-a-side Champions Trophy has been postponed by 12 months due to security worries in Pakistan.

The second ICC World Twenty20 takes place in England next June.

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: "Although the World Twenty20 is to be held every second year, we decided to hold two on the trot to set the calendar right and ensure a better spread of tournaments."

FUTURE ICC TOURNAMENTS
June 2009: World Twenty20, England
September-October 2009: Champions Trophy, Pakistan
April-May 2010: World Twenty20, West Indies
2011: World Cup, South Asia

The event, scheduled to be held from 23 April 23 to 9 May, will be staged at three venues to be chosen by the ICC in January 2009 following nominations from the West Indies Cricket Board.

"With the ICC Champions Trophy being the final major ICC event of 2009, and the ICC Cricket World Cup being the 50-over event in 2011, it makes perfect sense to have a tournament of a different format in between," Lorgat said.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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Sri Lanka WON > beat Pakistan in final

Sri Lanka WON > beat Pakistan in final

Twenty20 tournament final, King City:
Sri Lanka 133-5 (19 overs) bt Pakistan 132-7 (20 overs) by 5 wickets

Sanath Jayasuriya
Jayasuriya hit two sixes and three fours at the top of the order

An opening stand of 66 set Sri Lanka on the way to victory as they beat Pakistan in the quadrangular Twenty20 tournament final in Canada.

Spinner Ajantha Mendis took 3-23 as Sri Lanka restricted Pakistan to 132-7 from their 20 overs after winning the toss.

Veteran opener Sanath Jayasuriya (40) and Mahela Udawatte (25) then laid the platform for Sri Lanka's victory.

Despite a flurry of wickets, Chamara Kapugedera (17 not out) saw them home by five wickets with an over to spare.

After Pakistan were put in, opener Shoaib Khan junior - who made his international debut earlier in the four-team tournament - fell early for a duck when he gave a return catch to Dilhara Fernando.

His opening partner Salman Butt anchored the innings with 44 before becoming one of Mendis's three victims, but Misbah-ul-Haq (23 not out) was the only other Pakistan player to pass 20.

Mendis had been rested when the sides met at the round-robin stage on Saturday, when Pakistan won by three wickets - but the emerging spinner made the difference with three wickets in mid-innings, including the dangerous Butt and captain Shoaib Malik, and his 11 wickets from three games earned him the player of the series award.

Sri Lanka got off to a superb start, with man-of-the-match Jayasuriya smashing pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar for two consecutive sixes while Udawatte plundered 14 from an Umar Gul over.

The rapid scoring meant Pakistan were always up against it, and although Malik took a tidy 2-17 with his off-spin, the hapless Akhtar's three wicketless overs cost 40 runs.

Jayasuriya won the man-of-the-match award, while Mendis was named as player of the series for his 11 wickets in three matches.

Meanwhile, in the third-place play-off, Zimbabwe posted 184-5 against Canada before bowling the hosts out for 75 to claim a 109-run victory.

After Canada chose to field first, Zimbabwe opener Hamilton Masakadza's 79 off 52 balls was more than the hosts' entire team managed.

He added 89 for the second wicket with Justice Chibhabha (40), while Elton Chigumbura (25 off 10 balls) and Keith Dabengwa (16 off six balls) pitched in with some big hitting in the final stages.

Canada never really got going as skipper Prosper Utseya took 3-26, Tatenda Taibu picked up three stumpings and only Abdool Samad's 29 saved the hosts from total humiliation.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Pakistan recovery sinks Sri Lanka > Twenty20 tournament Canada

Pakistan recovery sinks Sri Lanka

Twenty20 tournament, King City: Pakistan 141-7 (19.5 ovs) bt Sri Lanka 137-9 (20 ovs) by three wickets

Fawad Alam
Alam's bold hitting in partnership with Malik inspired a superb Pakistan win

An unbroken 50 partnership in four overs led Pakistan to a three-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the quadrangular Twenty20 event in Canada's King City.

Jehan Mubarak hit six fours in 39 and Kaushalya Weeraratne added 20 from 13 balls as Sri Lanka posted 137-9.

Pakistan lost two wickets in the third over and were 92-7 after the 16th.

But Fawad Alam hit three sixes in his 23 off eight balls and successive fours from skipper Shoaib Malik, who made 42, sealed victory with one ball remaining.

Mubarak was at the crease in the first over of the match as Sanath Jayasuriya, after hitting Shoaib Akhtar for consecutive fours, top-edged to fine-leg.

His fellow left-hander Mubarak gave the Sri Lankans an excellent platform, striking three fours in one Shoaib over, and adding two more in the next from Sohail Tanvir.

Kaushalya Weeraratne hit a mammoth six onto the adjacent moto-cross track, but that proved to be the final boundary for Sri Lanka, as the final four overs produced only 18 runs.

After the two-wicket burst from Farveez Maharoof early in the Pakistan reply there was a brief flurry of runs, Misbah-ul-Haq hitting Dilhara Fernando for four and six in successive deliveries.

But a promising stand of 48 was ended by Weeraratne, who dismissed both Misbah and Younus Khan in the space of three balls.

In his next over Weeraratne had dangerman Shahid Afridi caught on the boundary second ball.

Alam swiped his third ball over the VIP stand at mid-wicket and when he just cleared long-on for six more in the next over from Fernando it left 13 needed from the final six balls.

They were bowled by Nuwan Kulasekara, who was also deposited into the VIP stand by Alam, and then it was left to the captain to hit the winning runs with his fifth boundary.

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Twenty20 Cricket In Canada 2008 , Matches Schedule

Al Barakh Twenty20 Quadrangular

* October 10th: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, Canada v Pakistan

* October 11th: Canada v Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka v Pakistan

*October 12th: Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Canada v Sri Lanka

*October 13th: Final & 3rd/4th Place Play-Off

Canada Coach Looking For A Win In T20 Quadrangular

Canada Coach Looking For A Win In T20 Quadrangular

Cricket Canada


On the eve of the quadrangular Twenty20 series involving Canada, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and
Sri Lanka, Aaron Kumar spoke to the Canadian national coach, Pubudu Dassanayake.

Dassanayake talks to Cricket World® about Canada’s good performance in the recently concluded triangular tournament, their prospects in the quadrangular series, his hopes for the future and his thoughts on club cricket in Canada.

Canada recently reached the finals of the triangular series, involving Bermuda and the
West Indies, what impressed you the most about your teams performance in that competition and what can you take from that tournament?

At the beginning of the year, we had a few problems, as there were too many injuries and then some people were not available for different tournaments, too many players went in and out. But in the tri-nations series we had our best combination. The main reason that we did well in that tournament was that the team was together and they gelled, and they played as a good team.

I would like to give a special mention to Rizwan Cheema, he was playing international cricket for the first time in the tri-nation series and he performed really well, he scored two quick 50s and when an opener scores a quick 50 it gives a real boost to the whole team.

What are your thoughts ahead of the forthcoming quadrangular series at the weekend?

Since the start of the year, our main target was to play Twenty20 cricket because of the Twenty20 World Cup qualifier. We are really ready because we know the areas where we went wrong in the World Cup Qualifier. The preparation for this tournament has been very good, we are really playing together, tomorrow we play Pakistan. We are just going to play to our strengths, and hopefully we can pull of an upset in this tournament.

You mention pulling off an upset, what would you consider to be a good performance for Canada in this tournament in terms of results?

We want to beat Zimbabwe, to win one game in this series for sure, and then against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, if everything goes according to plan then we might be able to beat one of those teams. If not we want to pull off a good score and play a good game.

In Twenty20 cricket one or two overs is enough to change the whole game. At the same time if you make one big mistake then it is not easy to recover so it is anybody’s game and we are the host team we know how the wicket is behaving, we know the King City Cricket ground, the weather is a bit cold and our players are used to it, so there is a slight advantage to our side but it just a matter of us being able to do things right.

Canada
© REUTERS/Andy Clark (TRINIDAD &TOBAGO). Picture Supplied by Action Images

What are your long term goals for this Canadian team?

The main aim is that we need to prepare the team for the World Cup Qualifier next April - we want to play in the World Cup, that is the main goal for us.

Right now our team's average age is around 30, I am planning to bring that down slightly to 27 and we have a few plans to get a few players contracted to play full time.

But we are not looking at big changes until April. We want to go with the same team, keep that team together and do well in the qualifier, once we qualify for the World Cup we plan to build a young team for the 2011 World Cup.

What do you think of club cricket in Canada but in particular the Toronto and District league?

The Toronto District league is the best league in Canada, it is the only league that has turf - the other leagues play on a matting.

It is a really tough tournament, when I came over for the first time in 2000 I was thinking ‘this league is going to be easy’ but when you play, it is very competitive. All the teams are playing really hard and it is not easy to win a championship in that league, it is a real high standard tournament. 90% of the Canadian team play in the league.

Cricket World recently did a feature on club cricket in Canada where we focused on Civics CC. What is your take on this club?

They really work hard at their training. I know this because the team that I used to play for, we all practised at the same place. They were always reaching the play offs, every year , they have a good bunch of players. They are very unfortunate, they have just missed out a few times on winning the championship, they reached the finals and they have reached finals and semi -finals many times.

Civics is one of the teams that practises really well, and practice is well organised. They have lots of youngsters coming in and they are one of the clubs that are not scared to put youngsters into the team. They are a club that help the system a lot.


Al Barakh Twenty20 Quadrangular

October 10th: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, Canada v Pakistan
October 11th: Canada v Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka v Pakistan
October 12th: Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Canada v Sri Lanka
October 13th: Final & 3rd/4th Place Play-Off

Sri Lanka's England tour at risk

Sri Lanka's England tour at risk

Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan and Chamara Silva
Muralitharan (centre) will not feature in the Test series in England

The decision to let Sri Lanka players compete in the Indian Premier League may threaten the 2009 tour to England, says the country's sports minister.

The Test series in May clashes with the IPL campaign, which will feature key players Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Muttiah Muralitharan.

"Any problems should be discussed and sorted," minister Gamini Lokuge said.

"I told the board to talk to England to find a way out early if they find it difficult to play the team we send."

A total of 13 Sri Lanka players are contracted to the IPL.

The sports minister told Sri Lanka Cricket that the players involved should be allowed to miss the Tests in England to compete in India.

"I told Sri Lanka Cricket to release the IPL-contracted Sri Lanka players to play the IPL tournament and select a team with the remaining group of players, who are also equally talented, for the England tour.

"But I understand that (the England and Wales Cricket Board's) television rights and income for the proposed tournament could be jeopardised if you do not send the star players."

The one-day international series between England and Sri Lanka may not be affected, as it begins on 27 May, two days after the six-week IPL finishes.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Tendulkar could miss Aussie Tests

Tendulkar could miss Aussie Tests

Sachin Tendulkar
Tendulkar has scored more than 11,800 runs in 150 Tests

India batting star Sachin Tendulkar could miss at least part of the forthcoming Test series against Australia because of an elbow injury.

The 35-year-old will miss a domestic game next week after suffering the injury on a recent tour to Sri Lanka.

"He is not playing the Irani Trophy and has been advised a week of rehabilitation," said Board of Control spokesman Ratnakar Shetty.

The four-match series against Australia starts in Bangalore on 9 October.

And although Tendulkar was well below his best in Sri Lanka, where he managed a highest score of only 31 in three Tests, his absence would be a major blow to India's chances of avenging their 2-1 home defeat by Australia.

He holds the record for the most centuries in Tests, with 39 in 150 matches, and is only 77 short of beating Brian Lara's record for the most runs in Test cricket, the former West Indies captain having retired with a total of 11,953.

Tendulkar has had a number of injury problems in recent years and missed the first two matches against Australia four years ago because he was suffering from tennis elbow.

He underwent corrective surgery on his left elbow in May 2005, but jarred the joint while attempting to take a catch during the third Test against Sri Lanka in August.

Although he was ruled out of the one-day series which followed, team officials insisted the injury would only put him out of action for two to three weeks.

His recovery has proved slower than expected and merely adds to the dilemma facing India's selectors as they consider their batting line-up to face Australia.

With Tendulkar, former captains Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly, and VVS Laxman all in their mid-30s, there have been calls for the introduction of some younger talent.

But with Australia having named two uncapped spin bowlers, Bryce McGain and Jason Krejza, in their squad for the tour, the expectation was that India would name their strongest possible top six in order to try and capitalise on that potential weakness.

Speaking on Thursday, Tendulkar said Tests against Australia were now even bigger than those against regional rivals Pakistan for the Indian team.

"All the series we have played in the recent past, from 2001, have all been close ones," he commented.

"As we all know, (Australia) is the number one team in the world. They will come here with serious force. They still have a lot of experienced players in the team. It is not that it is a completely transformed side with no senior players in the team."

Sunday, September 21, 2008

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Sprint queen Susie to call quit

Sprint queen Susie
to call it quits

By Samiddha Rathnayake
Local sprint queen Susanthika Jayasinghe is finally calling it a day. The Nation reliably learns that Jayasinghe, 33 is quitting to start a family.
She is expected to make her plans for retirement public very shortly ending a glorious 17-year athletics career the highlights of which were her winning an Olympic medal and also a medal in the IAAF World championships.

In 2000 at the Sydney Olympics, Jayasinghe became only the second Sri Lankan athlete and the first female athlete to win an Olympic medal. She also won two World Championship medals – silver at Athens in 1997 and a bronze at Osaka ten years later. All her medals were won at her pet event the women’s 200 metres where her personal best timing is 22.28 secs. In the 100 metres her personal best is 11.04 secs. She also won several gold medals in the Asian Athletics circuit.

Susanthika’s last hurrah was at the Beijing Olympics where she managed seventh place in the 200 metres semifinals.
Along with athletes Damayanthi Dharsha and Sugath Tillakaratne, Susanthika lifted Sri Lanka athletics to international competitive level.

According to a source close to her family, Susanthika has taken this decision on advice from her doctors. “Most probably there will be a function in the coming month to announce her retirement,” Sunil Jayaweera, her one time coach said.
Jayaweera further stated that Susanthika has not yet decided whether to start a second phase of her life as a coach, but said that at the moment she would concentrate on her family life.

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--- The Nation

WORLD CUP! We are down the wrong lane

WORLD CUP! We are down the wrong lane

The age old adage about the pack of sticks always has intrigued me. It’s about the old woman advising her disagreeing grandchildren the wisdom of togetherness and how she asked them to break a pack of sticks bound together and once again requested them to take them one-by-one and break them. Simple logic, but a thing that has not been able to get into the heads of many an institutional head who are taking this country and the allied works towards its final destiny.
Making a sermon to those knuckle-heads who are engaged in politics is not my business.

But, we think it is our duty to drive some sanity into those in charge of sports in this country and who are under the impression that they are the know-alls that could guide any given sport to its final destiny just because they have played the game at the highest level.


Will Lankan cricket suffer as a result of these latest developments?

At the same time they are obsessed with their own convictions so much that they do not stop at anything to get to their desired seats – no obstacle stands tall in front of them nor would any obstacle run deep enough. In short, they would stoop down to any level or scale any slippery wall to get there. The result -- when they finally go on to occupy the chair the bitterness that they experienced upon their travails keeps exuding from their actions thereafter.

Let me drive more to the point. Recently while discussing the hottest topic in sport in Sri Lanka – Cricket (Well… Sanjeewa Jayasinghe hijacked it for a moment or two) with my contact who is also a cricketer who has played the game at the highest level and a person who keeps a very close eye on the proceedings in the middle, drove home a few salient points. Sadly, so far he has shunned the administrative aspects of it and has put his focus into a subject that brings more honour to the Sri Lankan Cricketing cause.

Very bluntly he got on to business. He quipped “What is our next priority in cricket?” I looked blank for a few seconds when he helped me out of my predicament. “It is the 2011 World Cup. That is what we have to prepare for. Mind you it is being played in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.”

Then the whole episode took an unexpected turn. He continued “The specialty of this is that when it was held in this region Sri Lanka ran away with the trophy. But, now with less than a 1000 days remaining for the event, are we prepared or even preparing ourselves towards that goal?”

As a vocation he scrutinizes the game of cricket at very close quarters, not only on the local playing field, but, on foreign lands where even the ‘big guns’ keep firing at each other. So the knowledge that he accumulates as a result is incomparable.

As expected he dropped the bomb. He continued “Right at present the Lankan limited version of the game is not at its best and we even keep losing home series on a regular basis. There are gaping holes in our batting structure in this segment of the game, but nothing meaningful is being done to solidify it.” Then changing gears he switched the subject. “At the same time I see another very sinister move developing in the Indian subcontinent. Without beating round the bush I will say it is the repercussions of forming the Indian Premier League or in shorten form the IPL and the Indian Cricket League. Since the IPL and the ICL stormed into Asian cricket and stole its focus, the entire cricket playing gentry have got hooked on to it just like unsuspecting gets entangled for life on to the fisherman’s rod.”

More logical arguments were on its way “Now in Sri Lanka there is a huge rift between the administration and the players owing to the IPL. In Bangladesh already lost more than a few players who have resigned from the mainstream to engage themselves in ‘money cricket’ in the ICL. They are now in the process of building damage control fences to preserve whatever that is left in Bangladesh Cricket. In Pakistan more factors than the IPL have put its cricket into chaos, but, ‘money cricket’ has also played a huge role there.

“But, not surprisingly what has happened to Indian cricket? It has sailed from strength to strength, since the formation of the IPL and wittingly or unwittingly the ICL. They not only have got into a huge focus slot, but, keep unearthing new players of the caliber of Badrinath and Rohit Sharma. To drive a point further by 2011 most of today’s so called seniors may not be there in action for the World Cup representing India – that is their focus right now. Mind you this was a team that could not enter the proceedings in the final rounds of the last World Cup held in the West Indies”.

My awe at his concern and in-depth study on the matter took precedence. He calmly continued “At this end what have we done? We have miscalculated the whole issue. Already one hastily organized tour is in jeopardy and is also threatening to take our cricket apart. I see that from the very basic beginning we have handled this situation without any foresight. The right way of handling this situation is not to go and organize rival tours and try blocking the participation of players in the IPL.

This was the second occasion that the Lankan administration has done that. Wouldn’t it have been more prudent if our administration had spoken to the Indian administration and agreed upon a more workable IPL play chart for our cricketers? I agree that cricketers should being sportsmen who have a limited professional life should make the maximum during their limited period while in the field. But, it also should reflect more on the national cause than the individual cause. It is here that a professional administration comes into play.

“I believe our administration upon the development of a ‘money cricket’ situation of this nature had a discussion with the players and arrived at an amicable solution.”

The argument was getting more intense. There were more points to ponder “Just see within the time limit to the next World Cup we will be playing eight ODIs against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh during the rest of 2008, Fifteen ODIs against India, Pakistan and New Zealand in 2009, a tri-series involving India and another five ODI series against India in 2010. We are also billed to play a tri-series in Australia in early 2011 just before the World Cup, but with Australia’s new Policy of chopping the year-end tri-series that too may be off. This means we will be playing only about forty ODIs during that period and along with the Asia Cup.

“At the same time the Lankan administration has antagonized their Indian counterparts and this too may not augur too well towards the Lankan cause. As a result a change of the cricket administration on an urgent basis has become imperative. In the midst if there is a cricket election Lankan cricket may plunge into further chaos and I am sure it is going to be a bloody battle fought on and off the field. At this juncture what I see is to have another administration involving all the warring factions and get them work on a broader framework with national cricket taking precedence of petty politics”.

The Sunday Times

Players Association works Malinga deal

Players Association works Malinga deal
By S.R. Pathiravithana ,
The Sunday Times

Lasith Malinga

The Sri Lanka Cricket Players Association has been able to work out a compensation package for out of favour sling arm paceman Lasith Malinga. Malinga last appeared for the country against Australia on February 29 2008 in Melbourne.

Thereafter he missed the subsequent international engagements due to a leg injury. This also led to SCL overlooking the 25-year-old fast bowler for a central contract this year. Upon this development the Sri Lanka Cricket Players Association took up the issue with Sri Lanka Cricket and made a request to consider including Malinga for central contract.

However SLC in consideration of this issue has agreed to pay Malinga a sum of US$ 15,000/- with a promise of considering him for central contract upon his re-entry to the national team.

Malinga who made his Test debut against Australia in Darwin on July 1 2004, so far has appeared for the country in 28 Tests capturing 91 wickets. However his ODI record is not as impressive as the Tests as he has captured only 79 wickets in 53 outings for the country.

Atapattu welcomes Lanka’s ICL u-turn

Atapattu welcomes Lanka’s ICL u-turn

Angered Indian board to take up the issue with ICC

While Sri Lanka’s ICL cricketers welcomed Sri Lanka Cricket’s decision to lift the domestic cricket ban on them, the Indian cricket board is reportedly irked at Sri Lanka’s change of stance.
Former Sri Lanka captain Marvan Atapattu who will play for the Delhi Giants in the upcoming ICL season said that the SLC’s decision has sent a strong massage to other boards that have imposed similar bans to reconsider their decision.
“It’s a very strong message to other boards that have imposed similar bans,” Atapattu was quoted by the Cricinfo.
The former skipper vehemently criticized, India’s instance on imposing bans on players playing in the ‘rebel league’ and urged all the respective national bodies including India to follow Sri Lanka.
“It’s a message that the game is not ruled by any single body, and nobody should try to rule the game. I hope that other boards, including India, also let all their ICL players play in all forms of cricket. The players in India have taken a brave stand by joining ICL; they are very young and talented. Why not give them a chance now?”
Atapattu, 37, who also represents ICL’s World XI, was among the five who are now free to play domestic cricket again after the one-year-old ban was lifted by an interim committee of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), headed by Arjuna Ranatunga. The others who benefited from the decision, taken last week, were Russel Arnold, Upul Chandana, Avishka Gunawardene and Saman Jayantha who will now be able to play in the domestic league but are not eligible for national selection.
“We are hopeful this will soon lead to a situation where our cricketers can play for their country and choose between the ICL and IPL. Right now, the situation is grossly unfair where some of our players play in IPL while the others sit at home and watch it on TV. It’s not fair that only players who play in the IPL can play for Sri Lanka. The ICL is a similar tournament, with a similar format, and only the name is different. So why is there this discrimination,” Atapattu was quoted saying.
Angered by the decision of their Sri Lankan counterpart, Indian cricket board who earlier persuaded other cricket boards to ban ICL players said that they would take up the matter with the International Cricket Council (ICC).
“We have come to know about it (lifting of ban). It is very strange. We have not spoken to the Sri Lankan cricket board till now. But will take up this issue with the ICC,” IANS quoted, BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah as saying.
The decision comes close on the heels of Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) banning 13 players for 10-years after they signed up with the ICL.
The previous interim committee of the SLC, led by controversial Jayantha Dharmadasa, had imposed a total ban on all national cricketers playing the ICL tournament, preventing them from taking part in all forms of cricket and cricket related activities locally and internationally.
Meanwhile ICL officials hailed Sri Lanka cricket board decision to lift a domestic ban on five players and an umpire who signed up with them last year. “We are happy that Sri Lanka Cricket has taken a positive step towards the game,” ICL business head Himanshu Mody was quoted saying.

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Sri Lanka lift ICL domestic ban

Sri Lanka lift ICL domestic ban

Marvan Atapattu
Atapattu retired from international cricket to the play in the ICL

Sri Lanka have defied the world cricket establishment by lifting the domestic ban on players involved with the unauthorised Indian Cricket League.

The decision allows five players, notably former captain Marvan Atapattu, to play Sri Lankan club cricket.

Banned ICL players had previously only been able to participate in English county cricket, where a ban would have been considered restraint of trade.

Sri Lanka will continue to uphold the international ban on ICL players.

Shane Fernando, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) media manager, said: "Players will be allowed to play for their respective clubs and share their expertise, but cannot represent the country."

The SLC had previously banned Atapattu, Russel Arnold, Upul Chandana, Avishka Gunawardena and Saman Jayantha but they, and umpire Ranmore Martinesz, will now return to the domestic fold.

The decision comes two days after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) handed 10-year bans to 13 of its players associated with the ICL, a competition run in direct competition to the officially recognised Indian Premier League.

A number of countries banned ICL players taking part in official cricket following lobbying from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

ICL officials heralded Sri Lanka's decision as a "step in the right direction".

"We hope that this decision will pave the way for Sri Lankan cricketers to play both for the ICL and their country in the near future," ICL head of business Himanshu Mody told Cricinfo.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Reserve strength: Sri Lanka’s sqauds >>> Part 1

Reserve strength: Sri Lanka’s sqauds

PART ONE

At any one moment and in the immediate future a country’s cricketing capacities depend in part on its bench strength, the reserves in the wings so to speak and thus on it’s B Team, or rather, the A Squad as it is called. Injuries occur among the top fifteen players. Pacemen are especially liable to breakdown. Indeed, during the past year Maharoof, Malinga, Welagedera, Dilhara Fernando and, now, Dhammika Prasad have been sidelined at some point or other by injury or strain. Only idiots – and there have been one or two such voices on display – would blame Sri Lanka Cricket and/or the medical staff for such happenings. One has only to look over the record of English South African and Australian fast bowlers in recent years to accept that this is a perennial issue.

(File Photo) Sri Lanka outplayed the Indians at the National Stadium, Karachi, winning by 100 runs to lift the Asia Cup for a fourth time

It is to the credit of SLC, from Sumathipala’s time to Jayantha Dharmadasa’s recent spell, that they organised many A Squad tours and/or home series over the last 4 or 5 years. Contradicting Marvan Atapattu’s absurd "muppett" outburst, one can say that such building work has generated fresh talent and sustained Sri Lanka’s bench strength. The Duleep Trophy series in India revealed the abilities of Chamara Silva and Malinda Warnapura as well as the potential of Kaushal Silva as wicket-keeper batsman. Warnapura (and captain Dilshan) scored heavily in Zimbabwe in late 2007, while Dilruwan Perera revealed his allrounder capacities. Dhammika Prasad was part of the A Squad touring England in late-summer 2007. Instances could be multiplied ….

Hathurasingha

I had the good fortune to chat with Chandika Hathurasingha on a few occasions in the course of the Indian series during my visit to Sri Lanka in July-August. He was adamant that the impending A Tour of South Africa should be one that was development-oriented with a longer term perspective. He agreed that for the Duleep Trophy series in India Sri Lanka needed the best reserve squad on hand since the objective was to win the trophy (they came runners-up I believe) in competition with the best provincial sides. But for A Series of the South African type he wished the Board to be more future-oriented. For this reason he was opposed to the selection of older players who had been performing well in the domestic circuit — for instance, Lanka de Silva, Gayan Wijekoon and Hasantha Fernando whose names I brought up. Indeed, the radio commentator, Haritha Perera, was even more adamant on this point when I raised the topic with him at Dambulla. So Hathuru had other voices in line with him on this issue. The case is not cut and dried however: I will return to it at the end. The Saf tour by the A Squad demands our attention first.

My conversations with Hathuru were before the squad was named. He indicated that he had told the selectors what his wishes were with reference to the "composition" of the squad of XV, that is, how many batsmen, bowlers, allrounders et cetera. Clearly, he would have had more specific inputs, but was not in a position to divulge details to me. Once the squad was announced, a few days after our talk, he was clearly unhappy, but, understandably, could not say more. Reading Sa’adi Thawfeeq’s news report on the subject, however, one may suspect that the decision not to include the off-spinner Sachitra Senanayake (who had an outstanding domestic season in the A tier) and the (left-arm?) mystery leg spinner, Seekkug? Prasanna, left him fuming. Instead the older hands Rangana Herath and Malinga Bandara had been selected.

Spin bowlers

Since Ajantha Mendis burst into the front ranks in lethal fashion a few months back, we are now considering the issue of back-up strength whenever Murali needs a rest or should some untoward injury occur. Even before Mendis’s capacities were revealed, Herath (aged 30) has been the subject of extreme prejudice in cyber-circles in contrast to the favoured son, Malinga Bandara (aged 29). Herath is underestimated as a spinner and his usefulness with the bat is not considered. Playing for the A team in the foreign conditions of Zimbabwe in October-November 2007 against what was virtually their First Eleven, he had the following figures:

ONE: 16-4-39-2 (in a drawn game)

TWO: 11.4-3-25-4 and 14-2-45-3 (match won)

ODI ONE: 8-0-35-1

ODI TWO: 10-0-19-4

ODI THREE:10-0-24-3

— all matches won.

A little earlier, playing against the full Indian XI in a three-day game at Grace Road, Leicester, he had figures of 18-1-62-2 (out of five wkts to fall) when India declared in the first innings and then had 13-4-66-2 (out of six wkts) when the match was drawn. In fact, he reached the figure of 500 first-class wickets during this match, no mean feat.

That said, I would certainly have omitted Herath from the Saf tour and chosen one of the new spinners in tandem with Bandara, with the latter being rewarded for his patience and kept in good trim, so to speak, by this exercise. My argument here is that one needs to combine experience (Bandara) with potential good recruit (whether Senanayake or Prasanna). Sending two raw spinners was/is a risk. It would not help Sri Lanka’s reserve forces if one sent 15 raw recruits on an A tour and they were massacred on the field because of their lack of experience and/or steel.

Here, it is important to note that the A squad also includes two spinning allrounders, Dilruwan Perera (off spin and Gihan Rupesinghe (left arm leg spin). Perera is a genuine all rounder, where Rupesinghe is more of a batsman. When one considers the fact that one has two other young allrounders in the background, namely, Milinda Siriwardene and Sachith Pathirana, then, SL’s future is good.

Siriwardene (aged 23 and with the Chilaw Marians now) was touted as a prospective left-arm spinner by Jerome Jayaratne some years back, but has recently making waves as a batsmen in the U23 Tournament after missing most of the main domestic season. Pathirana, the 19-year old Trinitian who skippered the U 19 Team recently, has a good record at the tenn level and long experience in captaincy (important that).— so good that

There were some avid cyber-net fans who were even selecting Pathirana for the first XV in what must be treated as fits of absurd, utopian expectation. We have had occasional successes in bumping individuals up from teenage cricket to the highest level: Arjuna Ranatunga and Aravinda de Silva are the prime examples, while Farveez Maaharoof and Chamara Kapugedera are more recent ones. But such decisions effecting radical double promotions up the ladder must be taken by accredited individuals who have observed the players closely over a series of matches. For any armchair observers, such as this author, to impose such choices confidently on the basis of U 19 statistics is quite horrendous.

So, in sum, we have Muralitharan, Mendis, Bandara, Herath, Senanayake, Prasanna, Perera, Siriwardene and Pathirana as our spinning stock at present (besides a host of other lefties). Given such a list, Kaushal Lokuarachchi (aged 26; who toured England with the A Squad in July-August 2007) and Sajeewa Weerakoon (who played for the A Team on several occasions a few years back) must be aware that their prospects are bleak unless they produce some miracle.

The lengthy list also underlines the difficulties faced by the Selectors. How are they to provide the last four named with decent opportunities at A level? Invariably, one or two players are going to miss out. This is why selections at the A team level can be of such momentous significance for individual players and why we outsiders have to police issues of favouritism carefully and fairly.

Pacemen

The most enlightening instance of Hathuru’s long-term strategy was revealed during his remarks on the fast bowling complement. He emphasised the fact that our leading body of pacemen, inclusive of the promising new find, Dhammika Prasad, are aged 26 or over. So, Sri Lanka Cricket – and here Anushya Samaranayake and Jerome Jayaratne would surely have been involved – have identified some young bowlers in the age range 18-to-20 who possess genuine pace a s well as general potential. "Isuru Udana, Suranga Lakmal and Pradeep" are the names that have been entered in my notebook. The selectors responded to this call for long-term nourishment. Lakmal was inserted into the A Team Squad and, then, when Prasad suffered an injury, Udana replaced Prasad. Thus, two rookies joined the experienced hands, Sujeeva de Silva Welagedera (recovered from injury) and Ishara Amerasinghe, for the A Team’s tour of South Africa. Plaudits are due here for the SLC Selection Committtee.

Captaincy

Thilina Kandambi (aged 26) was appointed skipper for this tour. Kandambi captained the U19 squad during their tour of Australia in 1999 and I was impressed by his on-field and off-field demeanour in Adelaide during the course of a Test Match marked by blatantly prejudiced umpiring. Since then his batting performances for Bloomfield were quite ordinary till 2007 and, during the limited opportunities available to him as a "fringe squad member" on the occasional tour, his achievements were patchy. By moving to the SSC and responding to Naweed Nawaz’s guidance, he resurrected his career: in the 2007-08 season his Premier League statistics read as 822 runs in 12 innings for an average of 68.50 – third in line behind Thilan Samaraweera (aged 32, av. = 86.14) and Tharanga Paranavitana (aged 26; av. = 74.41).

Kandambi is a left-handed batsman in the same mould as Arjuna Ranatunga both in anatomical form and in style of batting — with improvisations galore. He has also revealed an ability to hit sixes so he is definitely a prospect as a middle and/or top order batsman in both forms of the game. The only reservation I have is about his degree of cricket-quickness in the field within the middle ring, an issue about which I cannot comment without observation of his movements at the present moment.

Part II tomorrow *******************

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