Asia Cup Review: Sri Lanka tick a few more boxes but the World Cup is still too far away
Sri Lanka punched above their weight to win the recent Asia Cup, and this has got everyone excited, right from the apostates no more to cricket...
Asia Cup Review: Sri Lanka tick a few more boxes but the World Cup is still too far away
Asia Cup Review: Sri Lanka tick a few more boxes but the World Cup is still too far away
September 22, 2022
The perils of hyping up Dunith Wellalage
The perils of hyping up Dunith Wellalage
June 23, 2022
Pathum Nissanka is scoring runs, but should he be in the T20I team?
Pathum Nissanka is scoring runs, but should he be in the T20I team?
March 7, 2022
Asia Cup Review: Sri Lanka tick a few more boxes but the World Cup is still too far away
Asia Cup Review: Sri Lanka tick a few more boxes but the World Cup is still too far away
September 22, 2022
The perils of hyping up Dunith Wellalage
The perils of hyping up Dunith Wellalage
June 23, 2022
Pathum Nissanka is scoring runs, but should he be in the T20I team?
Pathum Nissanka is scoring runs, but should he be in the T20I team?
March 7, 2022
Unsung Suranga Lakmal, Sri Lanka’s best bowler in the post-Murali era, renounces gloom in search of a new dawn
Unsung Suranga Lakmal, Sri Lanka’s best bowler in the post-Murali era, renounces gloom in search of a new dawn
February 16, 2022
Don’t blame Lahiru Kumara. Blame yorkers.
Don’t blame Lahiru Kumara. Blame yorkers.
December 30, 2021
Who should be Sri Lanka’s first choice left-arm spinner between Embuldeniya and Jayawickrama?
Who should be Sri Lanka’s first choice left-arm spinner between Embuldeniya and Jayawickrama?
December 2, 2021
The perils of hyping up Dunith Wellalage
“Wella…Wella…Wella…”, chanted the Sri Lankan crowd that had thronged the stadium when Dunith Wellalage came back to bowl his second spell in the third ODI between...
Pathum Nissanka is scoring runs, but should he be in the T20I team?
Surely, you must be kidding, right? How can you not pick someone who has scored 562 runs in 19 innings at an average of 29.57 in...
Unsung Suranga Lakmal, Sri Lanka’s best bowler in the post-Murali era, renounces gloom in search of a new dawn
Ladies and gentlemen, Suranga Lakmal has announced his retirement. Sans much fanfare. Sans any media blitz. In a way, it is unfair on a bowler who...
Don’t blame Lahiru Kumara. Blame yorkers.
Lahiru Kumara has been at the receiving end of scathing criticism for his death-over performances. But the fault lies more with the strategy of bowling yorkers at the death than with Lahiru Kumara.
Who should be Sri Lanka’s first choice left-arm spinner between Embuldeniya and Jayawickrama?
One bowler picked up a five-wicket haul in his debut Test match in South Africa. The other bowler returned an eleven-wicket match figure in his debut...
Review of Sri Lanka’s World Cup: Familiar issues persist despite renewed hope
Though the Sri Lankan team’s World Cup campaign has elicited joy and excitement, Sri Lanka has not yet made significant progress. The present optimistic sentiments are positively dangerous for the future of Sri Lanka cricket.
Sri Lanka need a cultural revolution in the shorter formats
An in-depth look at Sri Lanka’s struggles in limited-overs cricket.
What does the selection of Pathum Nissanka and Ashen Bandara into the shorter formats say about Sri Lanka cricket?
Pathum Nissanka and Ashen Bandara were picked into shorter formats though neither of them took part in the LPL. Did LPL make a mistake by not picking them or has the Sri Lankan management made a mistake by picking them? And what do these conflicting stands say about Sri Lanka as a whole?
Sri Lanka’s epidemic of non-spinning “spinners”
Sri Lanka’s strategy of valuing reliability over spin is the major reason for their downfall in Tests at home.
Sri Lanka have a spin-bowling problem and we need to talk about it
Sri Lanka’s home record in Tests has become, admittedly, very poor. However, it is the batsmen who have been pointed fingers at while the spinners have managed to go scot-free. The spinners deserve more flak than the batsmen and this article discusses why.
The second-string Sri Lankan team has exposed the longstanding selection issues
Sri Lankan selectors have been the biggest reason behind the team’s poor performances in recent times. The success of the second-string Sri Lankan side in Pakistan only proves this longstanding issue.