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Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara was indicted into ICC Hall of Fame yesterday. He’s the second Sri Lankan to be recognized after Muttiah Muralitharan, who was inducted in 2019.  Vinoo Mankad, Desmond Haynes, Andy Flower were among the 10 legends of the game to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on Sunday. In the Early Cricket Era (pre-1918), South African Aubrey Faulkner was inducted, along with Australia’s Monty Noble. In the Inter-war era (1918-1945), West Indies’ Learie Constantine and Stan McCabe of Australia were inducted. In the 1946-1970 post era category, Ted Dexter...

by Rajitha Ratwatte Hurricanes at home to the Queensland Reds at Sky Stadium in Wellington. Basically, a dead rubber with the finals now definitely between two of the Kiwi teams and the Hurricanes all but ruled out. The tournament also taking on an air of “much of a sameness” and only the Australian teams showing improvement, probably due to playing better opposition. The Kiwi teams getting sloppier and losing their discipline and professionalism as the tournament progressed. A notable feature was that this was going to be the last game in New Zealand for Ngani Laumape a great servant of ...

by Rajitha Ratwatte It was expected to be a one-sided easy win for the Canterbury Crusaders. They were playing the lowly Otago Highlanders, top of the table against the near bottom. Furthermore, the Otago coach Tony Brown had dropped six of the stars or starting players, due to a breach of team discipline and ethics. Otago had Mitch Hunt was playing at no10 against the mercurial Ritchie Mo’uanga, both former teammates at Canterbury. A team of Wannabees from Otago against a team of superstars from Canterbury. It was a frenetic start and the normally reliable George Bridge on the wing for Can...