Mahanama ideal person to be SL Coach – Murali-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Muttiah Muralitharan (left) and Roshan Mahanama Source:Dailynews Former Sri Lankan cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan believes that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) should appoint former cricketer Roshan Mahanama as the Head Coach of the Men’s National Cricket Team. “He is the only man I can think of who can change the current system mainly because of his discipline,” Muralitharan said. “I have spoken to the Sports Minister as well. Roshan Mahanama said that he wants time to think about it but this is my opinion, I don’t know what SLC thinks about this,” Muralitharan who is also a member of the SLC Advisory Committee said. ...
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Cricketers should be mentally strong – Murali-by Dhammika Ratnaweera Muttiah Muralitharan Source:Dailynews Former legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan believes that cricketers should be mentally strong and should be in a good frame of mind before representing the country at the highest level. The 48-year-old spin wizard made these observations while delivering a motivational speech to the National players at the SSC in Maitland Place on Monday. “Without a proper mentality you can’t do anything on the field and you should develop your mentality first to perform well in this game,” he explained. ...
A 4-member technical committee of former cricket Source:Ceylontoday Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa has appointed a new technical advisory committee for the development of cricket headed by former cricket captain Aravinda de Silva, who has been appointed as the chairman of the committee. Former cricketers Roshan Mahanama, Muttiah Muralitharan, and Kumar Sangakkara, who represented the Sri Lanka national cricket team, have been appointed as the other members of the new technical committee. ...
Feb 8, 2021
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‘No one else will get to 800, Lyon is not good enough’ – by Michael Vaughan Muutiah Muralitharan took 800 Test wickets in a brilliant career.CREDIT:RAY KENNEDY Source:SMH Muttiah Muralitharan retired with 800 Test wickets and, as someone who provided him with seven of those, it feels right to ask him why he thinks there is a dearth of spin in the modern game. Batting is hard right now in Test cricket but apart from India’s Ravichandran Ashwin and Nathan Lyon of Australia (more on him later, Murali is not a fan) it definitely feels as though pace, not spin, is the real weapon these days. ...
“Murali is Not a Match for Thileepan” — says Bharathiraja Thileepan during his fast unto death n September 1987 Source:Thuppahis Item in The NEWS, December 2020: “Bharathiraja asks Vijay Sethupathi to avoid Muralitharan biopic, [and] calls the latter a traitor ……. “Do you want your face to be forever associated with a racist person and be looked at with hatred by people?” he has asked Vijay Sethupathi in his letter. Pirapaharan visits Thileepan Murali after capturing his 800th Test wicket ...
Piyal Wijtunge, a top class spinner from Kandy-by Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews One of the finest bowlers to come out of Kandy is Piyal Wijtunge, who is known as one of the most complete bowlers to come out of St. Anthony’s College, Katugastota. He has won several games for the school and clubs he played. This former Antonian left arm spinner was elected one time president of the Old Antonian’s Cricket Wing. He played for St. Anthony’s College under several captains – Damian Nadarajah, Ruwan Kalpage, Suresh de Alwis for four seasons. ...
Nov 22, 2020
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Sajith Fernando does Kandy proud-by Hafiz Marikar Source:Dailynews There are countless great sportsmen in history from Kandy, the latest is Sajith Fernando who has made Kandy proud. The former national selector and top cricketer has been appointed by the United States of America Cricket (USAC) as member of its Men’s Youth Selection Panel He is a part of the five-member Men’s Youth Selection Panel, headed by Amer Afzaludin, which includes former West Indies great Alvin Kallicharran, former USA players Steve Massiah and Jannisar Khan. He becomes the first Sri Lankan to serve as a selector at any level in another ICC member country. .The Men’s Youth Selection Panel will primarily be responsible for selecting all USA Men’s Youth teams. Sajith Fernando was born on September 27, 1972 started his cricketing career at St. Paul’s College Kandy (now goes as Wariyapola Sri Sumangala College) where he was guided and made to ...
Oct 20, 2020
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Vijay Sethupathi to play legendary Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in biopic ‘800’-By PTI Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan (L) and actor Vijay Sethupathi (R) ‘I trust Vijay completely as he is one of the greatest actors and I have complete faith that hell definitely do wonders for the film,’ legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan added. CHENNAI: Popular Tamil actor Vijay Sethupathi will enact the role of legendary Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in the upcoming biopic ‘800’. The motion poster release of the film would be launched on Star Sports 1 and Star Sports 1 Tamil with Muralitharan and Sethupathi on October 13 from 6 pm ahead of the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, a press release here said. ...
Oct 13, 2020
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England vs Pakistan 3rd Test: James Anderson Becomes First Fast Bowler to Pick 600 Test Wickets-by Aditya Chauhan James Anderson becomes first seamer to pick 600 Test wickets©ICC Twitter Source:India England’s James Anderson on Tuesday became the first fast bowler and the fourth bowler overall to take 600 wickets in Test cricket after he dismissed Pakistan captain Azhar Ali (31) on the fifth and final day of the third Test at the Ages Bowl, Southampton on Tuesday. England captain Joe Root completed the catch in the slips and helped Anderson reach the historic milestone. Also Read – ENG vs PAK Test Series: Misbah-ul-Haq Invite England to Visit Pakistan, Says Players From Around the World Know About Security Level in Our Country ...
Aug 27, 2020
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SRI LANKA CRICKET NEWS (JULY 2020) – Compiled by Victor Melder Former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has come in for criticism from all corners after the International Cricket Council denied claims that he had lodged a complaint with the game’s governing body in 2011 that the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 was fixed. The ICC issued a statement hours after the Police department announced that they are dropping an ongoing investigations due to lack of evidence. Aluthgamage, who has a history of shooting from the hip, had claimed that he had evidence to prove that the closely contested 2011 final between India and Sri Lanka was fixed. Despite interrogating key members of the national cricket team and officials, the Police dropped the investigations as they did not suspect any foul play. The ICC meanwhile turned up the heat saying that they had nothing to feel suspect about the ...
Aug 1, 2020
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