President, PM congratulate Rajapaksa

President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday congratulated Mahinda Rajapaksa on his re-election as the President of Sri Lanka and expressed the hope that under his leadership “all communities can live in dignity and harmony” in the island nation.

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Rajapaksa takes initial lead

Early returns on Wednesday showed Sri Lanka's incumbent president ahead of his estranged former army chief in their bitter race to win the country's first presidential election after its quarter-century war against Tamil Tiger rebels.

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Sri Lankan presidential polls today

A straight fight between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and General (retired) Sarath Fonseka. Until the retired General threw his hat into the ring, in late October 2009, the election was considered a one-horse race with certain victory for Mr. Rajapaksa.

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Where is Sehwag?

Where is he? He and Bhajji were omitted for the matches against Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. It would have been understandable if they were rested for the Bangladesh match but the match against Sri Lanka was very crucial. I sense some controversy brewing up.????

India crush Lanka to storm into final

India crushed the islanders by eight wickets in a lopsided match in Dhaka on Sunday.
The Indian bowlers did a neat job, skittling out Sri Lanka for a meagre 213 in 46.1 overs before their batting colleagues took over, guiding the team to 214 for two for a facile win that came with 17.2 overs to spare.

India bundle Sri Lanka out for 213

Zaheer Khan and Amit Mishra took three wickets each as India bowled Sri Lanka out for a paltry 213 in the fifth One-Day International of the tri-nation series at Shere Bangla National Stadium here Sunday.

Lanka canter to 9-wicket win, book final match berth

Mahela Jayawardene (108) and Upul Tharanga (118 not out) cracked sparkling centuries as Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by nine wickets to storm into the final of the cricket tri-series here on Friday.

Chasing a modest 250 for a win, Jayawardene and Tharanga tore apart the Bangladesh bowlers to canter to the target with 7.1 overs to spare at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium.

Earlier, Bangladesh put up a shoddy batting display coming up with a modest score of 249 for nine with captain Shakib Al hasan top-scoring with 47 after being put into bat in front of 10,000-odd spectators.

Sri Lanka's win not only booked them a berth in the January 13 final they have also almost shut the final match door on the hosts.