Lasith Malinga to Undergo Ankle Surgery Before World CUp 2015

The leading strike bowler for Sri Lankan cricket team Lasith Malinga has to undergo an ankle surgery. Malings has been suffering from some problem with his ankle from quiet a long time. The orthopedic surgeon he has been consulting has advised the fast bowler that he must undergo a surgery reason being that the ankle has detoriated to the extent where surgery is the only treatment option. Methods like cortisone injections and load monitoring which has worked till now might not help any further.

This means the the surgery will keep Malinga out of action for around 16 weeks and he is expected to recover and be available for training in January.  Malinga said that he is hopeful and give his best to be fit and play for the team in the upcoming cricket world cup co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand. "I will do everything I can to be back for the World Cup" is his statement to the press. However at the same time he suggested that Sri Lanka cricket board might groom some your fast bowler so that team has someone prepared to play in his absence.

According to physicians is everything goes well, the fast bowler can get a chance to play few games against New Zealand in Sri Lanka teams tour to NZ and find his form and fitness. Sri Lanka is to play the world cup opening match against New Zealand on Feb 14. See the complete match details of 2015 world cup here.

We wish Lasith all the best for the operation and hope he will recover quickly and play for Sri Lanka in the world cup. It'd be nice to see Malinga Slinga yorkers in world cup. Wonder what a slinga is take a look in the view below:

ICC World T20 Match Details – T20 World Cup 2012

Sri Lanka is going to host the 4th ICC World T20 championship.  The inaugural match will be played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe on September 18 at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota. The tournament will last 20 days and final will be played on Oct 7 at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

List of participating nations in ICC World T20 – 21012:
Apart from the ten ICC test playing nations two ICC associate members who played the finals of the ICC T20 World Cup 2012 qualifying tournament finals i.e. Afghanistan and Ireland will also play in this year T20 tournament. Here is the complete list of nations competing in the ICC World T20 2012:

1.       India
2.       Pakistan
3.       England
4.       Sri Lanka
5.        Zimbabwe
6.        Australia
7.       South Africa
8.        New Zealand
9.        Bangladesh
10.    West Indies
11.   Ireland
12.    Afghanistan

India, Pakistan and England were the winners of the first three seasons of World T20 championship and hopefully we’ll see a new champion this time as well.  Pakistan team were the finalist for the first 2 season and first time they were unlucky to be defeated  by India but they got it better next season.

Here is the details of ICC World T20 Matches:
Tue Sep 18
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group C : 1st T20 - Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota

Wed Sep 19
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group B : 2nd T20 - Australia vs Ireland
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Wed Sep 19
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 3rd T20 - India vs Afghanistan
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Thu Sep 20
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group C : 4th T20 - South Africa vs Zimbabwe
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota


Fri Sep 21
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group D : 5th T20 - New Zealand vs Bangladesh
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Fri Sep 21
9:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 6th T20 - England vs Afghanistan
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat Sep 22
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group C : 7th T20 - Sri Lanka vs South Africa
Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium, Hambantota


Sat Sep 22
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group B : 8th T20 - Australia vs West Indies
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun Sep 23
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Group D : 9th T20 - New Zealand vs Pakistan
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sun Sep 23
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group A : 10th T20 - England vs India
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Mon Sep 24
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group B : 11th T20 - West Indies vs Ireland
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

 Tue Sep 25
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Group D : 12th T20 - Bangladesh vs Pakistan
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Thu Sep 27
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 13th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Thu Sep 27
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 14th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Fri Sep 28
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 15th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Fri Sep 28
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 16th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat Sep 29
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 17th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Sat Sep 29
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 18th T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

 Sun Sep 30
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 19th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun Sep 30
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 20th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Mon Oct 1
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 21st T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Mon Oct 1
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 1 : 22nd T20 - TBC vs TBC
Pallekele Cricket Stadium, Kandy

Tue Oct 2
15:30 local | 10:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 23rd T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Tue Oct 2
19:30 local | 14:00 GMT Super Eights, Group 2 : 24th T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

 Thu Oct 4
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT 1st Semi Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Fri Oct 5
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT 2nd Semi Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sun Oct 7
19:00 local | 13:30 GMT Final T20 - TBC vs TBC
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

World Cup Squad for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Cricket board today announced the 15 member squad for the cricket world cup 2011. The way they have announced the list of 30 probables I was expecting the senoior member like Sanath jaysurya and Chaminda Vass in the team. Particularly sanath Jaysurya he has great recode in the Indian subcontinent and was the main player behind the Sri Lankan world cup win the in woreld cup held in the sub continent years back.

Below is the Sri Lankan team for the world cup:

Kumar Sangakkara (captain), Mahela Jayawardene (vice-captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Upul Tharanga, Thilan Samaraweera, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Angelo Mathews, Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Muttiah Muralitharan, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath.

India - Sri Lanka - New Zealand Tri Series - Live Cricket Score

Indian team for the tri series has been announced today. Other two teams participating in the tournament are Sri Lanka and New Zealand. New perhaps looking this series and practice for the umcomming world cup.

Comming to the team announcement three senior plaayer Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh have been dropped from the team whereas Yuvraj Singh makes a comback after being dropped from the Asia Cup. Ishant Sharma & Abhimanyu Mithun are considered in the team, on the other hand Zaheer Khan remains our due to injury.

Below is the Indian cricket team for the series:

India squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Ravindra Jadeja, Dinesh Karthik, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhimanyu Mithun, Ashish Nehra, Pragyan Ojha, Saurabh Tiwary

Series starts on Ausgust 10 below are the match details:

Tue Aug 10
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 1st Match - India v New Zealand
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium


Fri Aug 13
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 2nd Match - Sri Lanka v New Zealand
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium


Mon Aug 16
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 3rd Match - Sri Lanka v India
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Thu Aug 19
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 4th Match - Sri Lanka v New Zealand
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium


Sun Aug 22
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 5th Match - Sri Lanka v India
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium


Wed Aug 25
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST 6th Match - India v New Zealand
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium


Sat Aug 28
09:00 GMT | 14:30 local
14:30 IST Final - TBC v TBC
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium

Meanwhile don't forget to catch the live score of third test match between India and Sri Lanks from Aug 3-7, 2010 (10:00 local, 04:30 GMT)

Can India save first test match - India vs Sri Lanka

Can India save first test match or will it be a winning farewell to the legendary spinner Muralitharan. I am not sure if India can save the test match or not but one thing is for guaranteed that Muthiah Muralitharan will retire from text cricket with 800+ wickets in his stats. Murali thinks only Harbhjan Sing can get closer to his records but he is not as consistent as the Sri Lankan offie, and none other bowler seems to be close to him, thus his record will stay longer.

Now comming to the match India is 63 suns behind the Sri Lankan score with only batting pair of Laxman and Dhoni left. Even if they get close to a 100 runs partnership then also its nothing for Sri Lanka to chase. Now only rain can draw the match for India or a rare partner ship or a long innings that last for atleast 3 sessions.

Stay tuned and watch the live score at http://icccricket.blogspot.com

Also you can catch a glimpse of Muralithan at your blog in the past:

• Video of Murali taking his 500th wicket

• Murali breaks Warne's record

• Shane Warne : 700 Test wickets n gud byee to cricket

India vs Sri Lanka One day series match schedule

The five match one day series between India and Sri Lanka is goin to start tomorrow below is the schedule of five matches:

1st ODI v Sri Lanka at Dambulla - Aug 18, 2008
Match scheduled to begin at 10:00 local time (04:30 GMT)

2nd ODI v Sri Lanka at Dambulla - Aug 20, 2008 (10:00 local, 04:30 GMT)


3rd ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 24, 2008 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)


4th ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 26, 2008 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)


5th ODI v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 29, 2008 (14:30 local, 09:00 GMT)

Sri Lanka v India, 3rd Test, PSS, Colombo, 2nd day

Well on first day Indian team were bowled out at 249 thanks to 51 runs partnership at the end between Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma. On the second days play till now Srilanka is 64/2 in 24.1 overs and another 74.5 overs are yet to be bowled. Hope India wud be able to atleast draw the match.

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Aisa Cup June 2008 - Pakistan team announced - Kamran akmal out of the team

Pakistani selectors announced the Pakistan's cricket team for Asia cup toournamnet starting next week and surprisingly they have dropped experienced wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal for the Asia Cup tournament.

Akmal was omitted from a list of 20 players picked to attend a short training camp, from which a 15-member squad will be named for the June 24-July 6 Asia cup tournament in Pakistan.

India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong are the other countries taking part.

"Kamran remains our number one keeper but we also wanted to give chances to others and we felt Kamran also deserved to take a well deserved rest," chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed told reporters.

Akmal who has played in 38 tests and 88 one-dayers, has been told to get over a extended period of inconsistent form behind the stumps.

The final squad is due to be named on June 22.

The selectors had no other surprises for the tournament although pacer Mohammad Asif will not take part as he remains in detention in Dubai on suspicion of carrying illegal drugs.

Pakistan squad:

Shoaib Malik (Capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Misbah-ul-Haq, Sarfraz Ahmed, Shahid Afridi, Fawad Alam, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Khan, Asad Rauf, Yasir Hameed, Bazid Khan, Mansoor Amjad, Naumanullah, Saeed Ajmal.