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Sri Lanka tough task for Aussies: Bayliss
Wednesday, 3 August 2011 - 7:12 AM SL Time



Former Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss expects his former charges to provide stiff opposition to Australia in their upcoming tour.

Australia begins its two Twenty20, five one-day international and three-Test stint in Sri Lanka with a T20 in Kandy on Saturday night and Bayliss feels the tourists will have to do well to enjoy success.

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Aussies call facilities at Pallekele fantastic
Saturday, 6 August 2011 - 4:08 AM SL Time

Australian captain Cameron White called facilities at the Pallekele International Stadium fantastic and that preparations for his side ahead of the two T-20 games have gone very well. The Australians arrived in Kandy on Wednesday and following some intense training sessions said were looking forward to the games against Sri Lanka.

`Our preparation has been good and the facilities here have been excellent. This is a fantastic ground and the group is really ready to go,` White, the Victorian captain who will lead Australia in the two T-20s told journalists yesterday.

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Dilshan ton overpowers Australia
Sunday, 7 August 2011 - 8:39 AM SL Time

Sri Lanka 198 for 3 (Dilshan 104*) beat Australia 163 for 8 (Warner 52, Dilruwan 3-26) by 35 runs

There was both brute-force hitting and innovative strokes in Tillakaratne Dilshan`s century

Sri Lanka`s captain Tillakaratne Dilshan struck a compelling century then marshalled his team neatly in the field to secure a 35-run victory over Australia in the first Twenty20 international in Kandy.

Sent in to bat at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, the hosts were headed for a total of about 150 before Dilshan (104, 57 balls, 12 fours, five sixes) and the allrounder Jeevan Mendis (29, 19 balls) combined for a stand of 104 runs in a mere 45 balls to lift the hosts to 198 for 3. Dilshan hammered 67 from his final 23 deliveries, a sequence that effectively decided the match.

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Nightmare on Wall Street Dow takes 635-point tumble after S&P downgrades US credit
Tuesday, 9 August 2011 - 3:31 AM SL Time


Obama says U.S. will always be a AAA-rated country, despite what rating agencies say

-BREAKING NEWS

NEW YORK Wall Street tumbled again Monday, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping 635 points and chalking up its Worst day since November 2008, amid a rout in global stocks after rating agency S&P downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time.

S&P cut the long-term debt rating for the U.S. by one notch to AA+ from AAA late Friday. The move wasn`t unexpected, but it comes when investors are already feeling nervous about a weak U.S. economy, European debt problems and Japan`s recovery from its March earthquake.

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Johnson bowls Australia to 1-0 lead
Thursday, 11 August 2011 - 12:36 PM SL Time

Australia 192 for 3 (Watson 69, Clarke 53*, Ponting 53) beat Sri Lanka 191 (Randiv 41, Johnson 6-31) by seven wickets


Mitchell Johnson was Man of the Match for his 6 for 31

`Calm` Johnson enjoys tough conditions

Trial by spin for transitional Australia


Mitchell Johnson produced the fourth-best figures in Australia`s one-day history to set his team on the path to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in Pallekele. After losing the Twenty20s, Australia found a new spark with the arrival of the 50-over captain Michael Clarke, who attacked in the field and then helped steer the side home with Ricky Ponting after Shane Watson set up the chase.

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Sri Lanka not giving up hopes on number one rank....
Friday, 12 August 2011 - 9:26 AM SL Time

Sri Lanka not giving up hopes on number one rank

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Despite a crushing defeat in the first One Day International of the five match series against Australia, Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan hasn`t given up hope on leading his team to the number one ranking in the world. A 4-1 series win would have helped Sri Lanka to topple Australia from their number one rank, but defeat on Wednesday meant that Sri Lanka will have to now win all four remaining games of the series to achieve the prestigious top spot.

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Ponting steers Australia to eight-wicket win
Monday, 15 August 2011 - 7:07 AM SL Time

Australia 211 for 2 (Ponting 90*, Clarke 58*) beat Sri Lanka 208 (Sangakkara 52, Bollinger 3-35) by 8 wickets

Hosts need a little more circumspection

Perhaps Tillakaratne Dilshan should send Australia in next time. He needs to do something to shake his team out of its slumber after another professional performance from Australia, this time led by Doug Bollinger with the ball and Ricky Ponting with the bat, set up a comfortable eight-wicket win and a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.

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Series on the line for struggling Sri Lanka.......
Tuesday, 16 August 2011 - 11:58 AM SL Time

Australia`s one-day record under Michael Clarke is very strong

The series is less than a week old, but it will be decided by Tuesday night if Australia continue their winning form after comfortably taking the first two matches. The eight-wicket victory in Hambantota on Sunday was almost a carbon copy of the opening win in Pallekele: Sri Lanka won the toss and batted poorly, failing to see out their overs, and then couldn`t build any pressure on Australia in the chase. They must find their batting mojo if they are to keep the series alive heading in to the Colombo, where the final two matches will be played.

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Sri Lanka impress in comfortable win
Wednesday, 17 August 2011 - 5:59 AM SL Time

A hundred from Upul Tharanga and five wickets for Lasith Malinga saw Sri Lanka to a comfortable 78-run victory in the third one-dayer against Australia in Hambantota on Tuesday.

Man-of-the-match Tharanga hit his fourth ODI century of the year, sharing in an opening stand of 137 runs with captain Tillakaratne Dilshan as the hosts posted 286 for nine in their 50-overs. Malinga then sealed the result with his best-ever figures against the Aussies who were bowled out for 208, the home side keeping their series hopes alive with two games left to play.

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Revitalised Sri Lanka look to even series
Saturday, 20 August 2011 - 8:57 AM SL Time

Revitalised Sri Lanka look to even series

Big Picture

A lot has changed in Australian cricket over the past 24 hours but one thing remains the same: the team is in Sri Lanka trying to win a one-day series. The players have been briefed on the Argus report, which has resulted in Andrew Hilditch and Greg Chappell being removed from the selection panel, and the captain and coach being made selectors. Chappell remains in Sri Lanka with the side, and will pick the team for Saturday`s match. It might be difficult for the players to retain their focus amid such turmoil, but given how impressive Sri Lanka were in the third match, they will need to shut out all distractions.

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All-round Australia take series with big win Sri Lankan tracks supports Aussie Bowlers...three spinners four or five of them will not bring results, if they fail to read the wicket.
Sunday, 21 August 2011 - 8:13 AM SL Time

Lanka v Australia, 4th ODI, Colombo

All-round Australia take series with big win

Australia 133 for 5 (Marsh 70, Prasanna 3-32) beat Sri Lanka 132 (Jayawardene 53, Lee 4-15, Doherty 4-28) by five wickets

Xavier Doherty picked up a career-best 4 for 28

Crisis? What crisis? To watch Australia demolish Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI in Colombo, it would be easy to believe all was well with Australian cricket. Thanks to some fine bowling from Xavier Doherty and Brett Lee, a calm innings from Shaun Marsh, and a couple of brain explosions from Sri Lanka`s batsmen, Australia secured the series with a match in hand, courtesy a five-wicket win in the fourth ODI.

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Batsmen lacked application - Atapattu
Monday, 22 August 2011 - 7:42 AM SL Time

Batsmen lacked application - Atapattu

Sri Lanka`s batsmen have failed to click as a unit, according to their batting coach Marvan Atapattu AFP

Sri Lanka`s batting coach Marvan Atapattu has blamed a lack of application from the Sri Lanka batsmen for the team`s poor performance in the ongoing ODI series against Australia. Australia took an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series after they beat the hosts by five wickets in the fourth ODI in Colombo on August 19.

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Sri Lanka Ducks International Probe......ducks how long....
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 - 8:05 AM SL Time

Sri Lanka Ducks International Probe

- Although the Sri Lankan government has evaded calls for an international probe into alleged excesses while militarily defeating Tamil separatism in 2009, it may yet be called to account at the September session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

The United States has asked Sri Lanka to place its own internal investigation under the `Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission` before the UNHRC, but Colombo has refused to comply.

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Calling All Seamers This Is Cricket`s Bowling Crisis .
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 - 2:24 PM SL Time



Calling All Seamers! This Is Cricket`s Bowling Crisis .

By RICHARD LORD

When Sri Lanka host Australia in a three-match Test series starting next week, one thing is for sure: there won`t be any low-scoring games. Sri Lankan pitches are notoriously low and slow. But more important in this series is an issue that affects nearly all the Test-playing nations at the moment: they bat better than they bowl.

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Chinese pay bribes to win Hambantota contracts.....so why, it is our Heritage...
Friday, 26 August 2011 - 10:16 AM SL Time

Chinese pay bribes to win Hambantota contracts: Wikileaks cable .

A US embassy cable just leaked by whistleblower Wikileaks has revealed that the the US believed Chinese were bribing Sri Lanka officials to win contracts, especially those related to mega development projects in Hambantota.
`It is likely that corruption and political patronage are significant factors playing into the focus on Hambantota. Often when Chinese companies win contracts, their success is due in part on their widespread distribution of graft to senior Sri Lankan government officials. While it is currently unknown to what extent President Mahinda Rajapaksa is involved in Hambantota development, it seems logical that his hand is also out when commercial enterprises, especially the Chinese, jockey for contracts and projects.`

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