Shaminda Eranga

Indian captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the fourth one-day international at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Both Jayawardene and Malinga are currently playing in the ongoing Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa.

Chamara Kapugedera has replaced injured opener Tillakaratne Dilshan for the next two ODIs against New Zealand including Saturday's match.

Having taken an unbeatable 3-1 led in the five-match ODI series against South Africa, Sri Lanka decided to rest the senior troika of Mahela Jayawardene, Lasith Malinga and Rangana Herath from the final match on Wednesday.

April 5 marks the 15th anniversary of MS Dhoni's first international century - a knock that marked his arrival as the "next big thing in Indian cricket".

Allrounder Angelo Mathews has been appointed Sri Lanka's Test and ODI captain, replacing Mahela Jayawardene, for a period of one year.

Spinner Rangana Herath was rested for the first two games of the three-match ODI series against Bangladesh as selectors announced a 16-man squad.

The already depleted Sri Lanka team on Monday suffered another blow with left arm fast bowler Binura Fernando being ruled out of the T20 series against India after sustaining a hamstring injury.

Putting an official end to the contracts dispute with players, Sri Lanka Cricket announced a full strength 16-member squad for first Test against Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka have an enviable record in the World Cup. After they won the title in 1996, when they co-hosted the event with India and Pakistan, the Islanders have finished runners-up twice (in 2007 and 2011) and reached the semifinals in 2003.

SLC, which had a bitter dispute with its players over payments last year, has announced a 7% hike for them across all categories in its latest list of contracts issued.

A world record 264 against Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI gave Rohit Sharma the distinction of having scored a century in all three formats of the game at the Eden.

Shaminda Eranga, a brisk fast-medium bowler, who played 19 Tests, 19 ODIs, and 3 T20Is for Sri Lanka between 2011 and 2016 before his career ended due to a nerve-related back injury, spoke exclusively with TimesofIndia.com, before the 2022 edition of the T20 World Cup officially began, and spoke about Sri Lanka's World Cup title chances this time, India chasing their first T20 World Cup title since 2007, who he thinks India's key players in the mega tournament this time will be and much more.

The tag of the 'mystery bowler' will always follow Ajantha Mendis around but the Moratuwa-born spinner wants to be known as an 'off-spinner'.

The match was inconsequential but those who braved it on Sunday to half fill the stadium, returned home with an experience to cherish for some time.

Virat Kohli's aggressive strategy to deploy five specialist bowlers will be tested when India go into the three-match cricket Test series against Sri Lanka on Wednesday, hoping to end a 22-year-old wait for a series triumph on Lankan soil.

The magnificent six that MS Dhoni hit off Nuwan Kulasekara to win the ODI World Cup title for India on April 2, 2011, is probably the most popular and most watched six in the history of Indian cricket. The poise that Dhoni displayed in that shot, the pose he held for the cameras as the ball went sailing over the long-on fence and the way he swirled the bat, is stuff of legends.