The Duniyah Cricket Blog

So much has been written about in the past several months with regards to the decision made by our cricketers to honour their lucrative IPL contracts rather than playing for their Country in the hastily arranged tour of England next year which co-insides with the second season of the IPL.
Most of us Lankans here at [...]

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Seldom does one experience great pleasure and joy at being proved wrong and I happen to be one to experience such a feeling as Sri Lanka wrapped up an impressive series win over the Indians in the 3rd Test played at the P. Sara Stadium on the 11th. As those of you who read my [...]

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I am a massive fan of Kumar Sangakkara and have followed his development as a world class batsman with great interest over the years. Like many others, I have also read with great interest and admiration the plethora of articles that Sangakkara seems to be writing these days to various publications. The following comment made [...]

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This summer when India tour Sri Lanka, there is no doubt that 4 of the most talented spinners in world cricket will be on show.  Sri Lanka have the great Muttiah Muralitharan with over 1000 wickets to his name in international cricket and the man hyped to be his successor, Ajantha Mendis.  India’s spinners (Anil [...]

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Kumar Sangakkara’s entry into Sri Lankan cricket was certainly not pre-destined by any stretch of one’s imagination. He was more or less a non-factor in the domestic cricket scene in Sri Lanka but a swashbuckling innings of 156 not out for Sri Lanka ‘A’ in a 50 over encounter against the visiting Zimbabwe ‘A’ team [...]

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