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Sri Lanka brings Kusal Janith Perera, and Mathews into the White ball series Vs NZ
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has named a strong two 18-member squads for the ODI and T20I series against New Zealand.
The Islanders will be heading into the white ball format with ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League points in mind.
The Dasun Shanaka-led team are currently in the 10th spot in the Super League table with 77 points. The 3-match ODI series is crucial for the Lankans in order to secure direct qualification for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 scheduled to be held in India.
The ODI series is scheduled to begin on March 25, while the T20I series commences on April 2.
Rookie pacer Dushmantha Chameera has been ruled out from both series as he is still undergoing rehabilitation after his left ankle surgery. Meanwhile, former Skipper Angelo Mathews also return to the white ball format after the lapse of three years where he was last seen in action in an ODI game back in March 2021 during the tour of West Indies. The former skipper has featured in 218 ODIs for Sri Lanka, scoring 5835 runs at 41.67 – the second-best average among Sri Lankan batters.
His return for the series in New Zealand will also be a golden opportunity as a dress rehearsal ahead of the World Cup. will return to the team after a two-year break.
Meanwhile Wicketkeeper batter Kusal Perera has also earned a spot in the T20 squad for the first time in 16 months. The 32-year-old last played in the format against West Indies in November 2021 before he underwent a shoulder injury.
ODI Squad: D Shanaka(c), P Nissanka, N Fernando, K Mendis(wk), A Mathews, C Asalanka, S Samarawickrama, D de Silva, S Arachchige, W Hasaranga, D Wellalage, M Theekshana, K Rajitha, L Kumara, P Madushan, D Madushanka, C Karunaratne, M Pathirana
T20I Squad: D Shanaka(c), P Nissanka, K Mendis(wk), K Perera, D de Silva, C Asalanka, L Croospulle, S Samarawickrama, N Fernando, W Hasaranga, M Theekshana, D Wellalage, K Rajitha, L Kumara, D Madushanka, C Karunaratne, M Pathirana, P Madushan
ශ්රී ලංකාව කුසල් ජනිත් පෙරේරා සහ මැතිව්ස් නවසීලන්තයට එරෙහිව වයිට් බෝල් තරඟාවලියට ගෙන එයි
නවසීලන්තයට එරෙහිව පැවැත්වෙන එක්දින සහ විස්සයි20 තරගාවලිය සඳහා ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ක්රීඩකයින් 18 දෙනෙකුගෙන් යුත් ප්රබල සංචිත දෙකක් නම් කර තිබේ.
ICC පිරිමි ක්රිකට් ලෝක කුසලාන සුපර් ලීග් ලකුණු මනසේ තබාගෙන දූපත් වැසියන් සුදු පන්දු ආකෘතියට පිවිසෙනු ඇත.
දසුන් ශානකගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් කණ්ඩායම මේ වන විට සුපර් ලීග් ලකුණු සටහනේ 10 වැනි ස්ථානයේ පසුවන්නේ ප්රසාද ලකුණු 77ක් ලබා ගනිමින්. ඉන්දියාවේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත 2023 ICC පිරිමි ක්රිකට් ලෝක කුසලානය සඳහා සෘජු සුදුසුකම් ලබා ගැනීම සඳහා තරග 3 කින් සමන්විත එක්දින තරගාවලිය ලංකා ක්රීඩකයින්ට තීරණාත්මක වේ.
එක්දින තරඟාවලිය මාර්තු 25 වනදා ආරම්භ වීමට නියමිත අතර T20I තරඟාවලිය අප්රේල් 2 වනදා ආරම්භ වීමට නියමිතයි.
නවක වේග පන්දු යවන ක්රීඩක දුෂ්මන්ත චමීර ඔහුගේ වම් වළලුකර සැත්කමෙන් පසු තවමත් පුනරුත්ථාපනය වෙමින් සිටින බැවින් තරගමාලා දෙකෙන්ම ඉවත් කර තිබේ. මේ අතර, හිටපු නායක ඇන්ජලෝ මැතිව්ස් ද වසර තුනකට පසු නැවත සුදු පන්දු ආකෘතියට පැමිණ ඇති අතර එහිදී ඔහු අවසන් වරට 2021 මාර්තු මාසයේදී බටහිර ඉන්දීය කොදෙව් සංචාරයේදී එක්දින තරඟයකදී ක්රියා කළේය. හිටපු නායකයා ශ්රී ලංකාව වෙනුවෙන් එක්දින තරග 218කට ක්රීඩා කර ඇති අතර, ලකුණු 5835ක් 41.67ක් ලෙස ලබාගෙන ඇත – එය ශ්රී ලංකා පිතිකරුවන් අතර දෙවැනි හොඳම සාමාන්යය වේ.
ඔහු නවසීලන්තයේ පැවැත්වෙන තරගමාලාව සඳහා නැවත පැමිණීමද ලෝක කුසලානයට පෙර ඇඳුම් පෙරහුරුවක් ලෙස ස්වර්ණමය අවස්ථාවක් වනු ඇත. වසර දෙකක විවේකයකින් පසුව නැවතත් කණ්ඩායමට පැමිණෙනු ඇත.
මේ අතර කඩුලු රකින පිතිකරු කුසල් පෙරේරා ද මාස 16කට පසු පළමු වරට T20 සංචිතයේ ස්ථානයක් හිමිකරගෙන තිබෙනවා. 32 හැවිරිදි ඔහු උරහිසේ ආබාධයකට ලක්වීමට පෙර අවසන් වරට 2021 නොවැම්බර් මාසයේදී බටහිර ඉන්දීය කොදෙව්වන්ට එරෙහිව ආකෘතියට ක්රීඩා කළේය.
එක්දින සංචිතය: ඩී ශානක (ඇ), පී නිශ්ශංක, එන් ප්රනාන්දු, කේ මෙන්ඩිස් (විකේ), ඒ මැතිව්ස්, සී අසලංක, එස් සමරවික්රම, ඩී ද සිල්වා, එස් ආරච්චිගේ, ඩබ්ලිව් හසරංග, ඩී වෙල්ලාලගේ, එම් තීක්ෂණ, කේ රාජිත, එල් කුමාර, පී මධුෂාන්, ඩී මධුශංක, සී කරුණාරත්න, එම් පතිරණ
විස්සයි20 සංචිතය: ඩී ශානක (ඇ), පී නිශ්ශංක, කේ මෙන්ඩිස් (විකේ), කේ පෙරේරා, ඩී ද සිල්වා, සී අසලංක, එල් කෲස්පුල්ලේ, එස් සමරවික්රම, එන් ප්රනාන්දු, ඩබ්ලිව් හසරංග, එම් තීක්ෂණ, ඩී වෙල්ලාලගේ, කේ රාජිත, එල් කුමාර, ඩී මධුශංක, සී කරුණාරත්න, එම් පතිරණ, පී මධුෂාන්
இலங்கை அணி குசல் ஜனித் பெரேரா, மற்றும் மேத்யூஸ் ஆகியோரை வைட் பால் தொடருக்கு எதிராக நியூசிலாந்துக்கு கொண்டு வந்தது
நியூசிலாந்துக்கு எதிரான ODI மற்றும் T20I தொடருக்கான இரண்டு 18 பேர் கொண்ட வலுவான அணியை இலங்கை கிரிக்கெட் (SLC) அறிவித்துள்ளது.
ஐசிசி ஆண்கள் கிரிக்கெட் உலகக் கோப்பை சூப்பர் லீக் புள்ளிகளை மனதில் கொண்டு தீவுவாசிகள் வெள்ளை பந்து வடிவத்திற்குச் செல்வார்கள்.
தசுன் ஷனக தலைமையிலான அணி தற்போது சூப்பர் லீக் பட்டியலில் 77 புள்ளிகளுடன் 10வது இடத்தில் உள்ளது. இந்தியாவில் நடைபெறவுள்ள ஐசிசி ஆடவர் உலகக் கோப்பை 2023க்கான நேரடித் தகுதியைப் பெறுவதற்கு 3 போட்டிகள் கொண்ட ஒருநாள் தொடர் இலங்கையர்களுக்கு முக்கியமானது.
ஒருநாள் தொடர் மார்ச் 25ஆம் தேதியும், டி20 தொடர் ஏப்ரல் 2ஆம் தேதியும் தொடங்க உள்ளது.
புதிய வேகப்பந்து வீச்சாளர் துஷ்மந்த சமீர தனது இடது கணுக்கால் சத்திரசிகிச்சைக்குப் பின்னரும் புனர்வாழ்வு பெற்று வருவதால் இரண்டு தொடர்களிலிருந்தும் நீக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார். இதற்கிடையில், முன்னாள் கேப்டன் ஏஞ்சலோ மேத்யூஸ் மூன்று ஆண்டுகளுக்குப் பிறகு வெள்ளை பந்து வடிவத்திற்குத் திரும்பினார், அங்கு அவர் கடைசியாக மார்ச் 2021 இல் மேற்கிந்திய தீவுகள் சுற்றுப்பயணத்தின் போது ஒரு ஒருநாள் ஆட்டத்தில் விளையாடினார். முன்னாள் கேப்டன் இலங்கைக்காக 218 ஒருநாள் போட்டிகளில் விளையாடி 5835 ரன்களை 41.67 சராசரியாக எடுத்துள்ளார் – இது இலங்கை பேட்டர்களில் இரண்டாவது சிறந்த சராசரி.
நியூசிலாந்தில் தொடருக்கு அவர் திரும்புவது உலகக் கோப்பைக்கு முன்னதாக ஆடை ஒத்திகையாக ஒரு பொன்னான வாய்ப்பாக இருக்கும். இரண்டு வருட இடைவெளிக்குப் பிறகு மீண்டும் அணிக்கு திரும்புவார்.
இதற்கிடையில் விக்கெட் கீப்பர் பேட்டர் குசல் பெரேராவும் 16 மாதங்களில் முதல் முறையாக டி20 அணியில் இடம் பிடித்துள்ளார். 32 வயதான அவர் தோள்பட்டையில் காயம் ஏற்படுவதற்கு முன்பு நவம்பர் 2021 இல் மேற்கிந்திய தீவுகளுக்கு எதிராக கடைசியாக விளையாடினார்.
ஒருநாள் அணி: டி ஷனக (கேட்ச்), பி நிஸ்ஸங்க, என் பெர்னாண்டோ, கே மெண்டிஸ் (வி.கே), ஏ மேத்யூஸ், சி அசலங்க, எஸ் சமரவிக்ரம, டி டி சில்வா, எஸ் ஆராச்சிகே, டபிள்யூ ஹசரங்க, டி வெல்லலகே, எம் தீக்ஷன, கே ராஜித, எல். குமார, பி மதுஷன், டி மதுஷங்க, சி கருணாரத்ன, எம் பத்திரன
T20I அணி: டி ஷனக (கேட்ச்), பி நிஸ்ஸங்க, கே மெண்டிஸ் (வாரம்), கே பெரேரா, டி டி சில்வா, சி அசலங்க, எல் குரூஸ்புள்ளே, எஸ் சமரவிக்ரம, என் பெர்னாண்டோ, டபிள்யூ ஹசரங்க, எம் தீக்ஷன, டி வெல்லலகே, கே ராஜித, எல் குமார, டி மதுஷங்க, சி கருணாரத்ன, எம் பத்திரன, பி மதுஷான்
News
Sri Lanka Triumphs in Billie Jean King Cup Juniors Semi-Final
Sri Lanka secured a commanding victory over the Maldives in the semi-final of the 2026 Billie Jean King Cup Juniors – Asia/Oceania Pre-Qualifying Event, held in Colombo. The host nation advanced to the final with a 2-0 win, showcasing resilience and determination on home soil.

In the opening singles match, Annaya Norbert staged a remarkable comeback after dropping the first set 2-6. She rallied to take the next two sets 6-4, 6-1, sealing the first point for Sri Lanka. Her ability to shift momentum under pressure proved decisive in setting the tone for the tie.
The second singles encounter saw Akesha Silva deliver another strong performance. Despite losing the opening set 4-6, Silva responded with authority, dominating the second set 6-0 before closing out the match 6-3. Her victory ensured Sri Lanka’s place in the final without the need for a doubles decider.
Cricket
Pathirana, Wanindu, Eshan Await Fitness Nod for IPL 2026
Pathirana, Wanindu, Eshan Await Fitness Nod for IPL 2026
Sri Lanka’s Matheesha Pathirana, Eshan Malinga, and all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga are set to join their respective franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026, pending clearance from Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) mandatory fitness tests.
The assessments, scheduled in the coming days, will determine their readiness after injuries kept them out of the ICC T20 World Cup earlier this year. Early signs suggest the players are recovering well, and officials remain optimistic about their participation.
Pathirana, who became the most expensive Sri Lankan player in IPL history after Kolkata Knight Riders secured him for INR 18 crore at the mini-auction, is expected to be a key figure with his death-over bowling expertise. He previously impressed at Chennai Super Kings, earning recognition for his composure under pressure.
While the trio awaits clearance, several Sri Lankan cricketers have already received their No Objection Certificates (NOCs). Kamindu Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, and Dushmantha Chameera are preparing to join their franchises, with Nissanka heading to Delhi Capitals, Chameera also continuing with Delhi Capitals, and Mendis retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad.
In total, seven Sri Lankan players will feature in IPL 2026, underlining the growing presence of the island nation’s talent in the league.
Cricket
Avishka Gunawardena Appointed SL U-19 Head Coach
Former Sri Lanka cricketer Avishka Gunawardena has been appointed as the head coach of the Sri Lanka Under-19 team. The decision comes as part of Sri Lanka Cricket’s efforts to strengthen the youth development program and prepare the next generation of players for international competition.
Gunawardena, known for his aggressive batting style during his playing days, brings a wealth of experience to the role. He has previously served in various coaching capacities, including stints with domestic teams and the national setup. His appointment is expected to provide young cricketers with valuable guidance and mentorship.
Sri Lanka Cricket officials expressed confidence that Gunawardena’s leadership will help nurture emerging talent and build a strong foundation for future success.
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