Chamara Silva

A few days back, the Sri Lankan Cricket team was ambushed by a group of terrorists while travelling from the hotel to the stadium. This was a really surprising attack considering the fact that cricketers are revered like Gods in the sub-continent. Yup, even the terrorists are hardcore cricket fans!! As it turns out, the terrorists were actually students of the Terrorist Training School in Talibanistan, which is affiliated with the Jihadi International University. They were enrolled in the...Read Full Story

By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal Arrival of spinner Ajantha Mendis has added new impetus to the Sri Lankan cricket team performance. Sri Lanka has been on its victory march and in the just concluded Test match series between Srilanka and India, once again the Colombo boys roamed home with an easy win. Sri Lanka survived early blows to clinch the series against India with a comfortable eight-wicket victory on the penultimate day of the third and final Test at Colombo on August 11 Monday. Despite the...Read Full Story

Photos: AFP Cricket’s sad day: Sri Lankan cricketer Thilan Samaraweera, who was injured in the terror attack on the team, is being taken to hospital in Lahore on Tuesday. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was grappling on Tuesday with the shock and implications of an audacious Mumbai-style terrorist attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore, carried out by a dozen men armed with guns, grenades and rockets. The team was fortunate to escape with injuries to five players. But...Read Full Story

A dozen masked gunmen armed with rifles and rocket launchers attacked vehicles carrying members of Sri Lanka's national cricket team in east Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least two players and killing five police officers, officials said.The attack in Lahore came at a time of unrest in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, both of which are trying to defeat insurgencies. It was unclear who was behind the assault, but it appeared to have been carefully coordinated.City police chief Haji Habibur...Read Full Story

India and Sri Lanka have some added motivation heading into their Commonwealth Bank series clash on Tuesday in Brisbane with top spot on the table up for grabs - albeit two matches into the competition.The Indians started off the Commonwealth Bank series in less than convincing fashion during Sunday's washed out opener against Australia and will need to lift their output when they come up against their southern island neighbour.India only managed to be bowled out for 194 from 45 overs and...Read Full Story

Australia has extended its Test winning sequence to 13 with an innings and 40-run victory over Sri Lanka in the first 3 mobile Test match of the summer series.Pace paring Brett Lee and Stuart Clark ignored persistent rain delays after more heavy showers in Brisbane to wrap up the tourists' second reply 15 balls after lunch.Lee, named man-of-the-match, finished with match figures of 8-112.65 minutes of play were lost in the morning session but Sri Lanka still lost wicketkeeper Prasanna...Read Full Story

He may have waited an eternity to get his chance but new Australian opener Phil Jaques looks set for a long career after scoring his second successive century on the opening day of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Hobart on Friday.On yet another embarrassingly one-sided day, the all-conquering Australians - aiming for a 14th successive Test victory following their innings victory in the series' opener in Brisbane - had raced to 3-329 at stumps with Jaques making 150 while Mike Hussey (101...Read Full Story

NEW DELHI, March 3 (Reuters) - India said Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan was shocking and audacious, exposing the "hopelessly inadequate" security provided to the players, six of whom were wounded. "It's a shocking incident," Palaniappan Chidambaram, India's home minister, told reporters. "It is quite clear that the security of the Sri Lankan team was hopelessly inadequate. We condemn the incident." Six Sri Lankan cricketers and their British assistant coach were...Read Full Story

Former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan told the BBC on Tuesday the ambush on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore was one of the worst security failures ever seen in his country.Khan, who retired from cricket in 1992 and now heads his own political party, said the security provided to the team was less than that provided to most Pakistani ministers, branding it "completely shameful"."I think this was one of the worst security failures in Pakistan," he told the BBC."The Pakistan government...Read Full Story

There was terrorist attack on Srilankan Cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan while Srilankan team go for play test match at Gaddafi stadium.Srilankan team's player are injured named Kumar Sangakara and SamarVira etc.Infact Srilankan team was on tour of Pakistan and playing test match.this terrorist attack was playing where Srilankan cricket team go for playing test match and players where in the busRead Full Story