Record-breaking fast bowler Lasith Malinga, seen here 04 April 2007, is doubtful for Sri Lanka's World Cup Super Eights clash against New Zealand on Thursday with an ankle injury. ©Reuters ...

Dec 30 (Reuters) - Dinesh Chandimal will lead the Sri Lankan Twenty20 team in New Zealand following a knee injury to Lasith Malinga, the country's cricket board has said. Regular Twenty20 captain ...

Sri Lanka has confirmed its white ball squads which will tour Pakistan this month for an ODI series followed by the tri-nation tournament.

New Zealand and Sri Lanka enter the three-match ODI series with completely different aims. With the World Cup just five months away, Gary Stead, the New Zealand coach, stressed they'll be trying to ...

Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, ending a 17-year career in which he became the highest wicket-taker in Twenty20 internationals. Sept 14 ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Fast bowler Lasith Malinga, who captained Sri Lanka to its 2014 T20 World Cup victory, retired from playing cricket on Tuesday. “Hanging up my T20 shoes and retiring from all ...

* Malinga returns home after injury flared * Selectors yet to name replacement (Adds details, quotes, byline) By Sudipto Ganguly MUMBAI, March 18 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's World Twenty20 title defence ...

COLOMBO — Defending champion Sri Lanka said Lasith Malinga was stepping down as captain of its World Twenty20 side Tuesday after the team’s disastrous Asia Cup showing, with Angelo Mathews to skipper ...

As both sides head into the 2nd ODI, Sri Lanka will aim to bat deeper and convert starts into substantial scores, while ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - Even if he had not been a cricketer, Lasith Malinga would have turned heads at the World Cup. His bleached, straw-coloured hair, blown like a lion's mane, would ...

Madushanka was out of the ODIs with a knee injury, whereas Pathirana wasn't part of T20I squad because of an infection ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's World Twenty20 title defence suffered a jolt on the day the tournament gets underway with Lasith Malinga's slow recovery from a knee injury forcing the fast bowler to ...