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T20 World Cup: Knew spin would play a major role, says Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka after win over Ireland

HOBART: Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka on Sunday credited the spinners for their dominating nine-wicket win over Ireland in a T20 World Cup match, saying keeping spin options for the death overs did the trick.

The Times of India

T20 World Cup: Sri Lanka beat Ireland by 9 wickets

HOBART: Kusal Mendis hit an unbeaten fifty after the bowlers put up a clinical show to guide Sri Lanka to a dominating nine-wicket win over Ireland in a T20 World Cup Super 12 match, here on Sunday.

The Times of India

Ireland bat first in Sri Lanka T20 clash

Ireland will bat first against Sri Lanka in their Twenty20 World Cup clash at Bellerive Oval in Hobart after winning the toss.

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T20 World Cup: Teams, format, prize money and India vs Pakistan

The tournament is divided into two parts: qualification round and the Super 12s that are followed by semis and final.

Al Jazeera

There are no 'minnows' in T20 World Cup anymore

If there is one thing the group 1 stage of this T20 World Cup has driven home, it is that there are no longer any 'minnows' at the event. The stage started with former champions Sri Lanka being thrashed by Namibia and ended with Ireland dumping the West Indies, the…

The Times of India

T20 World Cup 2022 team-by-team guide, how to watch, when is it

The Super 12 phase of the 2022 Men's T20 Cricket World Cup gets underway on Saturday. Here's your team-by-team guide to the tournament — and when Australia is in action.

ABC News

T20 World Cup 2022: Semi-final fixtures, Super 12 final tables and results as England set for India showdown

The semi-finals of the T20 World Cup are in the diary as the 2022 competition nears its climax.

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Sri Lankan lawmakers vote to trim presidential powers

Sri Lankan lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that trims the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters who are seeking political reforms and solutions to the country’s economic crisis

The Independent UK

Sri Lanka passes constitutional amendment to trim presidential powers

Sri Lanka's parliament on Friday passed a constitutional amendment to trim presidential powers, beef up anti- corruption safeguards and build a way out of the worst financial crisis in decades.

Reuters

Booker prize winner urges people not to circulate pirated copies of his novel

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka spent seven years writing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which won the prestigious award on Monday, and asks readers to honour the work put into it

The Guardian - UK

T20 World Cup: Ravichandran Ashwin is peerless in Tests but has quality competition in T20s, says Muttiah Muralitharan

MELBOURNE: Sri Lankan bowling great Muttiah Muralitharan says the quality and depth in Indian cricket's white ball eco-system is so good that the country has created an unimaginable talent pool in T20 format.

The Times of India

England face T20 World Cup clash with Chris Silverwood’s Sri Lanka

The Lions beat the Netherlands by 16 runs to qualify for the Super 12

The Independent UK

Sri Lankan lawmakers debate bill to trim presidential powers

Sri Lankan lawmakers have begun debating a proposed constitutional amendment that would trim the powers of the president, a key demand of protesters who are seeking political reforms and solutions to the country’s dire economic crisis

The Independent UK

T20 World Cup: Clinical Sri Lanka seal Super 12 berth with 16-run win over Netherlands

GEELONG (Victoria): Kusal Mendis stood tall with a gritty 79 as Asian champions Sri Lanka bounced back from their early debacle to seal their Super 12 berth with a 16-run win over the Netherlands in the T20 World Cup here on Thursday.

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ICC approves four players replacements at T20 World Cup

MELBOURNE: Pacer Kasun Rajitha has replaced an injured Dushmantha Chameera in the Sri Lankan squad for the T20 World Cup, with the ICC approving three other replacements.

The Times of India

T20 World Cup: The highs and lows of the previous editions

NEW DELHI: Twenty20 cricket was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board for inter-county cricket in 2003 to boost the game's popularity, especially amongst youngsters. And it won't be an understatement to say that T20 cricket has taken the world by storm, after being viewed suspiciously in the beginning.

The Times of India

Asia Cup title is history, need to get into Super 12s of T20 World Cup, says Sri Lanka skipper Dasun Shanaka

GEELONG (Australia): The Asia Cup title is a thing of the past now, insists Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka, saying their only focus right now is to produce a perfect performance in their must-win match against the Netherlands to qualify for the Super 12 stage of the T20 World Cup.

The Guardian - UK

‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams

Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better

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Newslaundry

Daily Dose Ep 1177: Umar Khalid denied bail, SC to hear plea on Bilkis Bano remissions

Jude Weston brings you the news from New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.

Radio France Internationale

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins coveted Booker Prize

Shehan Karunatilaka, who was named as the winner of the Booker prize with his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, is the second Sri Lankan writer to win the prize for novels written in English.

The Guardian - UK

Tamil refugees on Chagos Islands fear deportation under Rwanda-type plan

UK government lawyers tell asylum seekers they can return to Sri Lanka or be removed to undisclosed country

Evening Standard

Booker prize: Who is Shehan Karunatilaka and what is the Seven Moons of Maali Almeida about?

The journalist exposes the brutality of the Sri Lanka civil war, but with lightness and wit

The Times of India

ICC T20 World Cup: Interesting facts and trivia

The eighth edition of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup began in Australia last Sunday with the qualifying-stage matches, from where four teams will join the top eight in the 'Super 12' phase beginning October 22.

The Conversation

Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for Sri Lankan political satire, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Prize for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

Newsroom.co.nz

Massey grad wins Booker

Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka has won the 2022 Booker Award - and might soon be returning to live in NZ, where he studied at Massey University and Whanganui Collegiate.

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