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Kenya lost all their games at the 2011 World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, also falling to heavy defeats to New Zealand by 10 wickets, Sri Lanka by nine wickets and Australia by 60 runs. It even lost to minnows Canada, by five wickets, and... Full Article at Adelaide Now
Or Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian who lived in Charles de Gaulle's Terminal One from 26 August 1988 to July 2006. This guy's name is Parameswaran. He's from Sri Lanka and he was stranded in Caracas' international airport, Venezuela for four months. Full Article at Gizmodo
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Kenya’s huge loss against Pakistan, the International Cricket Council and Kenyan officials said on Thursday. Cricket Kenya (CK) chief executive Tom Sears said the ICC wanted to know the involvement of the player, who is yet to be named, in the... Full Article at GulfToday.ae
A Kenyan player is being investigated over suspicion of fixing a 2011 World Cup game against Pakistan, in Hambantota, in Sri Lanka, according to the chief of Kenya cricket Board. Tom Sears, the outgoing chief executive officer of Cricket Kenya, did not... Full Article at Calcutta Telegraph
A CA official confirmed that Australia wanted to play the series in Sri Lanka as well which would have given both teams practice ahead of the mega event. However, with Sri Lanka Cricket’s refusal to host it, Australia is keen to play the series at... Full Article at The Express Tribune Pakistan
By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com Three shipping containers found in Sri Lanka stuffed with 359 elephant tusks came from Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service reported Thursday. Trading in tusks is illegal, and Sri Lanka seized the cargo on Tuesday after it was... Full Article at MSNBC
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International Cricket Council (ICC) has reportedly been investigating a Kenyan cricketer for alleged irregularities during a World Cup match last year. According to reports, the World Cup match played between Kenya and Pakistan in Hambantota in Sri... Full Article at India Today
Cricket Kenya chief executive Tom Sears said that the player, who he would not name, has not been suspended but is under investigation by the ICC. Sears indicated that the World Cup game in question was Kenya's heavy 205-run loss to Pakistan in... Full Article at Gulfnews
Nearly 500 people were seized by police across Asia over an $11.5-million telecom scam targeting people in China, state media said on Thursday. Most of the 482 people held were from China and Taiwan. They were arrested there and in Thailand, Malaysia,... Full Article at Channel News Asia
The Mountain Echoes Festival held this week in the Bhutanese capital Thimpu is part of a growing South Asian circuit that currently comprises thriving literary festivals in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The Thimpu event, which was first held in... Full Article at France 24
May 24 (IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has launched an investigation into fresh match-fixing claims involving a Kenyan player during a 2011 World Cup match against Pakistan at Hambantota in Sri Lanka. The ICC has asked Kenyan cricket... Full Article at MSN India
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Sri Lanka have included seam bowler Lasith Malinga in their T20 and one day international squads for the home series against Pakistan starting next month. Malinga, who plays only the shorter versions, was recently included in the highest category of Sri... Full Article at Zee News
Kenya’s huge loss against Pakistan, the International Cricket Council and Kenyan officials said on Thursday. Cricket Kenya (CK) chief executive Tom Sears said the ICC wanted to know the involvement of the player, who is yet to be named, in the... Full Article at The Express Tribune Pakistan
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It's God's grace and there will be lot more expectations. I'm lucky to have played with legends of the game such as Stephen Fleming, Matthew Hayden, Mike Hussey and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. I hope it will only improve and there's a long way to go this season, as we have the IPL before the T20 World Cup and...
The team has been playing good under Misbah-ul-Haq. Barring ODIs against England, they haven't lost a series. The coach Dav Whatmore also knows the [Pakistani] culture very well from his experience in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. I think Pakistani cricket is in safe hands.
Now Sri Lanka has its own house in New York for the first time since joining the United Nations in 1955, and it will remain Sri Lanka's own
This new appointment is definitely bound to further strengthen the existing relations between our two countries. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has shown how important Sri Lanka-Turkish relations are, and I personally feel he has honored the Turkish nation by appointing [his] consul general as ambassador o...
The new gateway complements Kuehne + Nagel’s existing direct services in Shanghai and serves as an alternative to the company’s other two gateways in Singapore and Sri Lanka
In addition, AEB signed a collaboration contract to build its first algae biofuels production facility in Asia. The facility is being built in Sri Lanka with the local subsidiary of industrial giant Holcim, the world's second largest cement and building materials company.
That is very important. That is why Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj led a delegation to Sri lanka to find out for themselves the status of rehabilitation of Tamils. That is why India supported the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka on human rights violations (in the UN Human R...
When many countries decided to support the resolution against Sri Lanka in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), India took a belated decision. You should not forget the fact that the DMK's efforts led to India supporting the resolution.
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Wadey will be in England with us in the one-day squad. He’ll be in Sri Lanka against Pakistan with us and he’ll be in the Twenty20 World Cup
At the moment most of our senior Proteas are spread around the world in England and India and those who are at home are undergoing rehabilitation from injuries picked up during the past season. We also have to bear in mind that the Proteas have a hectic schedule ahead of it with very important tours to ...
To augment our local network further we inaugurated a new Branch in Al Wakrah and an Electronic Branch in Royal Plaza. On the international front, we have entered into an agreement with Commercial Bank of Ceylon, the largest private sector bank in Sri Lanka, for remittance of funds from Qatar to Sri Lan...
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We will meet and talk out things and also plan for the future. We will now start focusing on the coming series with Australia in Sri Lanka and also on possibly holding the PPL this year
There must be some political influence behind the decision but whatever it is, it is a huge setback for Pakistan because the deadlock would’ve been broken by this tour and bringing in teams like Sri Lanka was next in the PCB’s plans
Mahela Jayawardene is doing a good job so far but Sri Lanka needs a stable team if they need to dream about the next World Cup title
The idea is to give exposure to a few new players either in the ODI or in the T20 as the tilt is towards building a separate T20 squad for this year's T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka
Following the recent announcement that Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka will proceed, Saeed Ajmal will be unavailable for Worcestershire's T20 campaign
Following the recent announcement that Pakistan's tour of Sri Lanka will proceed, Saeed Ajmal will be unavailable for Worcestershire Friends Life t20 campaign
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He has experienced success with two international teams, periods that included an ICC Cricket World Cup final appearance with Sri Lanka in 2011 and Bangladesh's first Asia Cup final last month. His knowledge of the sub-continent and England, and his experience with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, will bring a...
He has experienced success with two international teams, periods that included an ICC Cricket World Cup final appearance with Sri Lanka in 2011 and Bangladesh's first Asia Cup final last month. His knowledge of the sub-continent and England, and his experience with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, will bring a...
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They attended a series of banquets hosted by the Mahinda Rajapaksa government and came back with handful of gifts Theirvisit did not make any impact on the sufferings of the Tamils in Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka and Ireland: Unless Italy end Namibia's 100pc record in the final round of Group B matches today, Ireland will need to win three straight play-off games to qualify for the World Twenty20 finals in Sri Lanka in September.
Sri Lanka and Namibia: Unless Italy end Namibia's 100pc record in the final round of Group B matches today, Ireland will need to win three straight play-off games to qualify for the World Twenty20 finals in Sri Lanka in September.
Sri Lanka and Australia: Meanwhile, Ireland will face either England or Australia in their opening match of next September's World T20 in Sri Lanka, should they qualify.
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