Sri Lanka Legends edge South Africa in a thriller-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Tillakaratne Dilshan celebrates a wicket. Source:Dailynews Sri Lanka Legends made a superb team effort to beat South Africa Legends by 11 runs in their Road Safety World Series cricket match played at Indore in India yesterday. It was a very thrilling game until the very last over which was bowled by all-rounder Ishan Jayaratne. Sri Lanka Legends led by T.M. Dilshan well depended on 166 total to seal their third back-to-back victory. SA Legends managed to get 154 for 6 wickets in the allotted 20 overs with 11 runs behind. South African Morné van Wyk was the successful stroke-maker scoring 76 in 56 balls with 4 fours and 6 sixes to build up the innings but his efforts were not enough to seal the deal for the Proteas. ...

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Dilshan century powers Sri Lanka Legends to a 38-run win vs Australia Legends Source : dailymirror Sri Lanka Legends breezed past Australia in the opening match of their campaign in the Road Safety Series on Sunday, 11 September. Sri Lanka rode on a tremendous first innings batting show to post a mammoth 218 runs on board, which ended up being more than enough to beat Australia, who were led by former all rounder Shane Watson. For Sri Lanka, their openers took over the scene swiftly, hitting 6 sixes and a massive 24 boundaries between themselves. While Dilshan went on to make 107 off 56 balls at a massive strike rate of 191.07, his batting partner Dilshan Munaweera scored 95* off 63 balls, falling eerily short of a century. Legendary Australian bowlers were taken apart on the day. The likes of Brett Lee and Shane Watson were put to the sword, leaking ...

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Dickwella, Gunathilake and Mendis given a pardon, permitted to play in domestic cricket- Lanka Premier League to commence on 5th December  By sunil Thenabadu (sports editor-eLanka) Banned Sri Lanka cricketers  for misconduct for breaking the Bio-Bubble while touring England with SL team Niroshan Dickwella, Dhanushka Gunathilaka and Kusal Mendis in June this year have got a reprieve  before their one year ban period expired have been granted permission to play in the Lanka Premier League (LPL) that will have top players both overseas and local in action when it begins on December 5 in Sri Lanka.  The three players were banned from both international and domestic cricket and fined Rs.10 million each at a time they were also involved in a pay dispute with Sri Lanka Cricket.  The squads:  Jaffna Kings: Faf du Plessis, Thisara Perera, Wahab Riaz, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shoaib Malik, Usman Shinwari, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Avishka Fernando, Upul Tharanga, Chaturanga de Silva, ...

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