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	Sri Lankan team concerned about home - Breaking News
		Sri Lankan cricket team management will meet with their players on Monday and consult with their national board to decide whether their New Zealand tour will continue after devastating floods hit their homeland.
		His phone had been ringing non-stop, and he was now waiting until later in the day to speak again with his Sri Lankan board back home to discuss further plans.
		Sri Lanka are scheduled to meet New Zealand in the second one-day international at Napier's McLean Park on Wednesday.
	www.theage.com.au - http: //www.theage.com.au/news/Breaking-News/Sri-Lankan-team-concerned-about-home/2004/12/27/1103996463940.html (273 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sri Lankan cricket team (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cricket World Cup 2007 logo The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations, as well as several representatives from other cricket-playing nations who qualify through a series of qualifying matches.
		The East African cricket team was a cricket team representing Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
		Sri Lanka’s coach Dav Whatmore, one of those most responsible for Aravinda spending a season downunder, said in Aravinda’s very first match, having missed the first fortnight of the season, he top edged a hook and was out for a duck.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sri-Lankan-cricket-team (982 words)

	Sri Lankan cricket team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since then, the team has been viewed in a different light, especially the batting of Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda de Silva, backed up by the accurate bowling of Chaminda Vaas and Muttiah Muralitharan.
		Sri Lankan cricket's greatest moment undoubtedly came during the aforementioned 1996 Cricket World Cup, when they defeated the top-ranked Australian team in the Final.
		Sri Lanka's game style over the course of the series revolutionized One Day International Cricket, and was characterized by ultra-aggressive batting in the first fifteen overs of the innings in order to take advantage of the fielding restrictions imposed during this period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sri_Lankan_cricket_team (315 words)

	The Googly: Sri Lankan Cricket
		Cricket returns to Galle this week, three years after the ravaging that this island took left this area in a desperate state, and much has been written of what this Test match means to those in the city.
		He took over the captaincy of Sri Lanka in 1999 and it is widely acknowledged that his consensual style (a contrast to the dictatorial approach of his predecessor Arjuna Ranatunga) created a happy and unified team.
		Sri Lanka is still reeling from the natural disaster of the 2005 tsunami and the man-made disaster of the seemingly endless internecine fighting in the north of the island.
	www.thegoogly.com /sri_lankan_cricket/index.html (12658 words)

	A Peep in to Sri Lankan Cricket History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This was the culmination of a 'Cricketing Voyage' that began well over 150 years ago in mid 19th century, through the genius and immense skills of a rich plethora of players abounding with natural talent and sets of illustrious Cricket Administrators.
		Cricket was first introduced to Ceylon (Sri Lanka now) by the Englishmen who occupied the martime provinces in 1796, the pioneers being the militia-men in Colombo, Trincomalee and Galle along with the early coffee and tea planters in the central highlands.
		Number of Cricketing Stalwarts who were men of integrity, fostered the game here in its infancy providing encouragement for further advancement with time.; Their names and exploits to be named even in a nutshell, will need volumes.
	thinkingcricket.tripod.com /cricket/id2.html (3059 words)

	Sri Lankan cricket launches tsunami relief fund. 06/01/2005. ABC News Online
		Sri Lanka's cricketers have launched a fund to help victims of the tsunami which has devastated the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people along the country's eastern and southern coasts.
		Now the Sri Lankan cricket board has established a fund called Cricket-Aid, which will provide emergency relief and shelter to displaced families and orphans in the first phase followed by permanent housing for 200 families in the long-term.
		Sri Lanka's cricket tour of New Zealand was curtailed last week so the players could fly home to injured relatives and help the relief effort while the International Cricket Council has organised two fund-raising matches to raise money.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/46871/20050111/www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1277243.htm (484 words)

	Farewell Aravinda - SrI Lankan Cricket Legend
		Sri Lanka are World Cup wildcards, according to farewelling legend Aravinda de Silva, who is playing his fifth and final World Cup.
		Sri Lanka’s captain Sanath Jayasuriya says it has always been fun batting with Ari, so hard does he hit the ball and so easily does he hit even the fastest of bowlers.
		Sanath says the Sri Lankan team is young at heart and an exciting unit on the improve.
	www.abcofcricket.com /Article_Library/art58/art58.htm (1239 words)

	The Australian: Sri Lankan Cricket Board sacked (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kumaratunga dismissed the Sri Lanka Cricket committee just three days before the newly-elected members were due to take office on Sunday and replaced it with a special administration team, a ministry official said.
		A previous cricket governing committee headed by Sumathipala was similarly sacked by the authorities.
		Sumathipala was heading a cricket initiative to help survivors of the December 26 tsunamis which aimed to raise several million dollars to set up "cricket villages" in the devastated areas.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5744,12656042%255E23212,00.html (171 words)

	The Courier-Mail: Sri Lankan cricket team may cancel tour (archived) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SRI Lanka's cricket team could cut short their tour of New Zealand and return home following the devastating tidal waves which killed about 4500 people in their home country, officials said.
		The team will fly as scheduled from Auckland to Napier around midday and then discuss the future of the tour, said Kuruppu, who would not speculate on the likelihood of the team returning home.
		Sri Lanka are scheduled to play five one-day international matches and two Tests against New Zealand between now and the end of January.
	www.thecouriermail.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,11790643%255E401,00.html (393 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Sri Lankan cricket update
		Cricket authorities in Sri Lanka on Wednesday began a probe into allegations that a top official had demanded money for granting broadcast rights to a foreign television company.
		The English Cricket Board's international teams director Simon Pack was quoted in the media as saying that board officials were consulting with the British Foreign and Commonwealth offices on the local security situation.
		And the arrival of the British cricket team to play a full tour, for the first time in Lanka's history, is seen as the highlight of the itinerary.
	www.rediff.com /sports/oct/22b.htm (516 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| cricket \| news Sri Lankan skipper slams Zim
		Sri Lanka's cricket captain Marvan Atapattu on Wednesday warned international teams visiting Zimbabwe to expect the worst, saying his team's recent visit to the troubled African nation was "fairly chaotic."
		Atapattu, whose team played two Tests against a severely weakened Zimbabwe team earlier this month, wished the International Cricket Council (ICC) had stepped in earlier and stopped the matches as had happened in Australia's case.
		Sacked Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak last week urged all international teams to stay away from the strife-torn African nation until a solution is found to the domestic civil strife that has left the country's cricket in turmoil.
	sport.iafrica.com /cricket/news/325169.htm (465 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Sri Lanka must focus more in test matches, says coach - Sunday August 12, 2001 09:23 AM
		Sri Lanka scored its second convincing win in the final of a one-day triangular series last week, but the tests are expected to be more closely fought.
		Whatmore, who was re-appointed coach after a disappointing show by Sri Lanka in the 1999 World Cup, said the same players who are so focussed in the limited overs game suffer costly lapses in concentration in tests.
		Sri Lanka's last home success was a surprise 1-0 win over Australia in a three-test series two years ago, a season when it also won in Zimbabwe and beat Pakistan 2-1.
	www.cnn.com /cnnsi/cricket/news/2001/08/12/sri_lanka_focus (523 words)

	Wesley College Sri Lanka - Cricket Page
		Cricket means so much to Wesleyites and Sri Lankans everywhere.
		Premier Sri Lankan cricket club SSC at the inception was patronised by five Wesleyites C.E. Perera, C.A. Perera, R.E.S. Mendis, W.D. Abraham, F.W. Dias, Royalists and Thomians.
		To the late Percy de Bruin fell the honour of captaining that Wesley team of 1893.
	www.wesleycollege.org /cricket/cricket.htm (382 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Cricket \| Other International \| Sri Lanka \| Sri Lankan cricket counts the cost
		More details are emerging of how members of the Sri Lanka cricket team have been personally affected by the tsunami tragedy that has devastated the island nation.
		The vice-president of Sri Lanka Cricket, Aravinda de Silva, now has a huge task on his hands to resurrect much of the sport's infrastructure on the island.
		He said: "Some junior cricketers are still missing and many other players who were living in the coastal belt have suffered damages to their houses.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /sport2/low/cricket/other_international/sri_lanka/4148241.stm (500 words)

	Lasith Malinga : The new poster-boy of Sri Lankan Cricket : Cricketfundas.com
		Sri Lanka A regulars like Russel Arnold, Avishka Gunawardena and Saman Jayantha were around, but all fingers were only pointing towards one man, who they hailed as the next best thing to happen for Sri Lankan cricket – Lasith Malinga.
		After seeing the raw talent and youthful enthusiasm in this future star of Lankan cricket, Champaka Ratnayake (a former Sri Lankan paceman and a coach at the Cricket Foundation at Galle) presented Lasith with a chance to represent Galle CC in first class cricket.
		He made rapid strides with the Sri Lankan ‘A’ team on its tour of New Zealand in the winter and gave a lot of positive impulses to the selectors.
	www.cricketfundas.com /malingaprofile.html (599 words)

	Cricinfo - Sri Lankan series won't be played under new rules
		The Sri Lankan cricket board have informed the BCCI of its decision not to introduce the changes, which officially take effect on July 31.
		It is the prerogative of the hosts to decide on this matter." He added that the BCCI had no problem with the decision of the Sri Lankan board to stick to the old rules.
		The new rules, which will come into effect from July 30, allow every team to make one substitution during the game and has 20 overs of fielding restrictions instead of 15, of which two blocks of five are used at the fielding captain's discretion.
	www.cricket.net /srilanka/content/story/212398.html (207 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - Bruised Sri Lanka damaged by controversies - Wednesday January 22, 2003 11:18 AM
		The cricket board appears worried by the new injury that star spinner Muralitharan suffered on his leg in Sri Lanka's four-wicket loss to Australia on Jan. 15.
		The cricket board has offered the players 10-12 percent of the guaranteed fee of US$6.4 million from the International Cricket Council, the sport's world governing body, but the players were demanding 20 percent.
		The Sri Lankan cricket board has retained hard-hitting opener Sanath Jayasuriya as captain and recalled veteran left-hander Hashan Tillakaratne to the 15-member squad.
	www.cnn.com /cnnsi/cricket/news/2003/01/22/srilanka_cwc_ap (647 words)

	indya.com Cricket: Sri Lanka Tour - Lankans need greater focus in Tests: Coach Whatmore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sri Lanka scored their second convincing win in the final of a One-day triangular series last week, but the Tests are expected to be more closely fought.
		Whatmore, who was re-appointed coach after a disappointing show by Sri Lanka in the 1999 World Cup, said the same players who are so focused in the limited-overs game suffer costly lapses in concentration in Tests.
		"Test cricket is a little less intense, the urgency is not there to get runs, bowlers have the time to work on getting batsmen out, but the pressure is still there," Whatmore said.
	www.indya.com /srilankatour/news/1208whatmore.htm (444 words)

	News - Sri Lankans leave for New Zealand : HTCricket.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buddhist monks chanted hymns and tied good-luck white threads on the wrists of a 14-member Sri Lankan cricket team on Thursday before they departed for New Zealand to complete a tour that was interrupted by the tsunami.
		The team, led by Marvan Atapattu, assembled at Colombo's main cricket stadium for the religious ceremony.
		Sri Lankan players cut short their tour following the Dec. 26 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 31,000 on the island nation.
	www.htcricket.com /2005/Mar/24/htcricket/14_1292630.htm (290 words)

	Quake disaster casts shadow over Sri Lankan cricket tour of New Zealand.htm in Business Recorder on December 28, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AUCKLAND: Sri Lanka's cricket tour of New Zealand was put in doubt Monday after the devastating tidal waves which killed nearly 6,000 people in their home country.
		Sri Lanka lost the first of five scheduled one-day international matches against New Zealand by seven wickets on Sunday and flew Monday from Auckland to Napier, where the second match is scheduled for Wednesday.
		Kuruppu met with the team and New Zealand Cricket chief Martin Snedden in Napier and then told a press conference a decision on the future of the tour would be taken Tuesday after he could speak with Sri Lanka's cricket board overnight.
	www.paksearch.com /br2004/Dec/28/Quake%20disaster%20casts%20shadow%20over%20Sri%20Lankan%20cricket%20tour%20of%20New%20Zealand.htm (395 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| cricket \| news Sri Lankan coach targets Australia
		Sri Lanka's new cricket coach John Dyson said on Monday he hoped he could lift the team to "knock the Australians off their perch" as the best side in international cricket.
		Dyson, 49, declined to give financial details of his 18-month contract with the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka, but said he was "pleased and excited" with his new job.
		He said Sri Lanka's strength was its aggressive style of cricket while its main weakness was a lack of consistency.
	sport.iafrica.com /cricket/news/253665.htm (286 words)

	Sri Lankan squad arrives
		The team is scheduled to leave for Mumbai later on Thursday night.
		None of the players talked to waiting reporters at the airport, saying they were instructed by the Sri Lankan Board not to talk to the media since an official press conference has been arranged in Mumbai on Friday.
		The Sri Lankans will open their campaign in Nagpur on October 25 and play the remaining matches in Mohali (Oct 28), Jaipur (Oct 31), Pune (Nov 3), Ahmedabad (Nov 6), Rajkot (Nov 9) and Baroda (Nov 12).
	inhome.rediff.com /cricket/2005/oct/20lanka1.htm (215 words)

	Australian Psychological Society : Enhancing the teamwork of the Sri Lankan cricket team: A case study of applying ...
		This case study describes a strengths-based approach to enhancing the teamwork of the Sri Lankan cricket team prior to their April-July 2006 tour of England.
		I suggested to the coach that, prior to an AI team meeting, that I engage the players in ‘Naming Elephants' (Hammond and Mayfield, 2004), which is a metaphor for making implicit issues explicit, bringing certain Sri Lankan Cricket ‘undiscussables' into the open, or having ‘difficult conversations'.
		I believe strengths-based strategies like Appreciative Inquiry are ideally suited for helping teams enhance their teamwork and, in addition to the references listed below, I encourage those charged with the responsibility of coordinating coaching and leadership development programs to browse the resources on the AI Commons website (http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/).
	www.psychology.org.au /inpsych/cricket (1637 words)

	When today's greats move on, Sri Lankan cricket is on a road to nowhere - SportColumnsPeterRoebuck - www.smh.com.au
		Working upwards, Sri Lanka has not been able to find a captain to replace Jayasuriya, a splendid fellow inclined to wait till the stars are properly aligned before moving his mid-on a little wider.
		Sri Lankan cricket is being sued for millions of dollars after a dispute arose over a television contract and most particularly the board's disregard of a clause requiring compulsory arbitration in the event of a dispute.
		Cricket cannot afford to lose a country where the game is loved and where it has been wonderfully well played.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/24/1079939717869.html (792 words)

	Ajith Perera's Golden Era of Sri Lankan Cricket
		"The Golden Era of Sri Lankan Cricket", is the story of the team that radiated brilliance in 0vers limited cricket, starting around the World Cup ’96 and extending beyond that for a longer period of time.
		Aroused as they will almost certainly have been by the events of a melodramatic tour of Australia, the cricket -loving public of the world were in for a delectable feast of entertainment with some stupendous strokeplay over the course of watching Sri Lanka play this global event, World Cup ’96.
		Sri Lanka shocked the entire cricketing world by winning this prestigious title just 21 years after their first participation at the inaugural World Cup competition as an associate member.
	www.cricketumpire.net /ajitintr.htm (704 words)

	Sri Lankans keen to compete in World Cup - theage.com.au
		The Sri Lankan cricket team wants to play in next month's World Cup, according to captain Sanath Jayasuriya.
		The Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka said the national squad had yet to accept its contract offer for the cup.
		The International Cricket Council had set a January 17 deadline for the Sri Lankan players to sign the cup contracts.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/20/1042911328028.html (313 words)

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