Schedule of Sri Lanka Premier League

 Schedule of Sri Lanka Premier League

August 2012
Sat 11 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	1st match – Basnahira Bears v Kandurata Kites R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sat 11 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	2nd match – Nagenahira Nagas v Ruhuna Rhinos R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun 12 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	3rd match – Uthura Oryxes v Wayamba Wolves R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun 12 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	4th match – Uva Unicorns v Basnahira Bears R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Mon 13 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	5th match – Kandurata Kites v Nagenahira Nagas R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Tue 14 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	6th match – Ruhuna Rhinos v Uthura Oryxes R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Fri 17 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	7th match – Wayamba Wolves v Uva Unicorns Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sat 18 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	8th match – Basnahira Bears v Nagenahira Nagas Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sat 18 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	9th match – Kandurata Kites v Ruhuna Rhinos Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sun 19 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	10th match – Uthura Oryxes v Uva Unicorns Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Sun 19 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	11th match – Wayamba Wolves v Basnahira Bears Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Mon 20 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	12th match – Kandurata Kites v Uthura Oryxes Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Mon 20 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	13th match – Nagenahira Nagas v Wayamba Wolves Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Tue 21 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	14th match – Ruhuna Rhinos v Uva Unicorns Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Tue 21 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	15th match – Uthura Oryxes v Basnahira Bears Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy
Fri 24 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	16th match – Wayamba Wolves v Kandurata Kites R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Fri 24 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	17th match – Uva Unicorns v Nagenahira Nagas R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sat 25 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	18th match – Basnahira Bears v Ruhuna Rhinos R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sat 25 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	19th match – Kandurata Kites v Uva Unicorns R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun 26 10:30 GMT, 16:00 local	20th match – Nagenahira Nagas v Uthura Oryxes R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Sun 26 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	21st match – Ruhuna Rhinos v Wayamba Wolves R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Tue 28 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	1st Semi Final – TBC v TBC R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Wed 29 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	2nd Semi Final – TBC v TBC R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo
Fri 31 14:30 GMT, 20:00 local	Final – TBC v TBC R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Brett Lee Announces Retirement from International Cricket

Melbourne: One of the world’s fastest bowlers who made India his second home, Australia’s Brett Lee on Friday announced his retirement from international cricket ending an injury-ravaged career that spanned 13 years.

The 35-year-old affable pacer, who retired from Test cricket in 2010, had been most recently laid low by a calf injury.

Lee, a part-time bass guitarist who enjoys a huge fan-base in India, said he could not carry on anymore given the suffering his body has endured.
Brett Lee in pics
“It has been a dream career, I guess, 13 years at the top. I couldn’t ask for much more,” Lee told a television channel. Lee said he had initially planned to retire after the upcoming World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka.
“Thirteen years, Friday the 13th, it’s appropriate for me to go. I woke up this morning after not much sleep and it’s the right time to go. It just came to me this morning and I just felt it’s the right time to leave the game.
“It’s been in the back of my mind for a few months.” Lee said he was happy to have played “in a fantastic era, playing with the likes of Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Adam Gilchrist, Steve and Mark Waugh, heroes of mine growing up”.

“It’s now stage two of my life coming up so I’m pretty happy and pretty excited. My holiday will be at home, I’m sick of being away.” The paceman retired from Test cricket in February 2010 after taking 310 wickets in 76 matches.

He continued playing for Australia in one-day matches and in the Twenty20 arena. International retirement notwithstanding, Lee will continue playing in the Australian Big Bash and Indian Premier league.
Rated among the most fearsome fast bowlers in modern era, the ever-smiling six-footer took 380 wickets in 221 one-day internationals and 28 wickets from 25 Twenty20 appearances for Australia.
Interestingly his Test career began against India, a country he frequents for reasons beyond cricket. It was a sensational debut in 1999 as Lee grabbed seven wickets — five in the first innings itself to announce his arrival at the international stage.
But the promise he held out at the start of his career was hampered by frustrating injury breakdowns. The speedster underwent as many as four surgeries on his right ankle itself besides enduring shoulder problems.
However, that didn’t affect his commercial appeal either in Australia or India, where he collaborated with the legendary Asha Bhonsle for a hit song and made a cameo appearance as himself in a Bollywood movie.

He was a member of the 2003 World Cup-winning team in South Africa but missed the next edition in the West Indies due to an ankle injury. “I look back to when I was 19, and while I hope (my injuries) never happen to anyone else, it’s a fact that when you bowl fast injuries happen,” he has said.

“You have to deal with it and you have to learn from what’s happened because it makes you a stronger person. I have a saying ‘if you’re not living on the edge you’re taking up too much space’ – it means have a crack.”
Lee’s decision to retire leaves him just one wicket shy of Glenn McGrath’s Australian record of 381 ODI scalps. In fact, In nine Tests following McGrath’s departure, Lee clinched 58 wickets at 21.55 and also won the Allan Border Medal in 2008.

Source: jagran.com


 

Pak vs SL: Third Test Update

Rain ruins follow-up to exciting first day

Rain returned to haunt this Test series after the promise of an exciting game in Pallekele on the first day, when the bowlers dominated and the teams finished even. But the threat of poor weather would always remain at the venue. It had rained before the Test and early on the second day as well. A short sunny spell an hour before the start gave hope that was crushed when the showers returned, grew heavy and ensured a washout.

The rain took a break off and on, but each downpour did significant damage. The umpires had a look at the conditions at 2pm, and then again, following some more rain, at 3.05pm. After a discussion with the curators, the day's play was abandoned five minutes later.

The events gave respite to Sri Lanka, with the momentum being against them after they were reduced to 44 for 3 by a menacing spell of fast bowling led by Junaid Khan. Pakistan were bowled out for 226, but their bowlers had fought back and, in conditions favouring swing and movement, would have backed themselves to do more damage on the second day. With rain also forecast for the coming days, Pakistan's chances of levelling the series only become more difficult.

The third day's play has been scheduled for a 9.45am start, 15 minutes earlier than usual.

Source: cricinfo.com