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Ajantha Mendis retires: Mystery spinner who faded away due to over reliance on carrom ball and weak first-class system
Rex • 6 years agoAjantha Mendia had relied heavily on the carrom ball for his wickets and once teams figured out how to counter that, he was half the bowler he used to be. A lack of stock ball hurt him dearly.
World Cup Memories: 'Everything just went silent in my mind’, ‘Job done, mission accomplished’; Suresh Raina, Gautam Gambhir relive 2011 final
Jigar Mehta • 6 years agoThat hell-raising six by India's captain off Kulasekara to lift the World Cup still elicits goose bumps and evokes emotions off Raina. "It’s ironic, but in my mind, everything just went silent as MS cracked that straight six, my eyes just fixed on that ball, watching it travel," he winds back the clock
IPL 2019, MI season review: Mature Mumbai Indians' collective approach, fine planning stand out in title-winning campaign
Gaurav Joshi • 6 years agoIn 2018, Mumbai had constantly been playing catch-up cricket, but this time around they were always ahead of the eight balls. The mid-season revival also enabled the think tank to experiment and come up with Plan B's.
Sri Lanka sports minister to present plan in parliament to change Constitution of nation's cricket board
• 6 years agoFernando said he had consulted former greats Mahela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan and Sidath Wettimuny in making the plan.
New Zealand's Mike Hesson replaces Darren Lehmann as coach representative in ICC Cricket Committee
• 7 years agoUnder Hesson, New Zealand achieved their highest Test, ODI and T20I rankings, rising to third in Tests in July 2015, second in ODIs in May 2016 and No 1 in T20Is in May 2016.
IPL 2018: Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma emphasises on team-bonding ahead of mounting title defence
Jigar Mehta • 7 years agoMumbai Indians recruited a cluster of young talent and with just seven players in the team sheet from the last season, the challenge is to get them working as a cohesive unit.
Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene set to be included in SLC committee formed to revive Sri Lanka cricket
• 8 years agoAccording to sources in the Sri Lankan sports ministry, Sangakkara and Jayawardene may join Aravinda de Silva and corporate honcho Hemaka Amarasuriya in the committee.
Arjuna Ranatunga skips brainstorming session organised to probe into Sri Lankan cricket's decline
• 8 years agoFormer Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga skipped a brainstorming session, organised to probe into Sri Lankan cricket's decline, because it wasn't a sports ministry exercise but something done by the current cricket administration itself
India vs Sri Lanka: SLC chief Thilanga Sumathipala rejects call for his resignation from Arjuna Ranatunga
Avinashr • 8 years agoSumathipala said his administration has laid long term plans to resurrect the country's cricket but it will take 3-4 more years to yield results.
ICC Champions Trophy 2017: Angelo Mathews says Sri Lanka happy to walk in as underdogs against India
• 8 years agoSri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews conceded that it will be "very hard to beat India" in the Champions Trophy group league game on Thursday.