Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Grit, guts
and gumption personified Amarnath's roller-coaster career, which began
in 1969 and spanned two eventful decades. He was cricket's Frank Sinatra
- the master of the comeback. He started his career as suspect against
short-pitched fast bowling, and finished it as one of the finest and
bravest players of pace. His defining season was 1982-83: coming back
to the side after three years, he stood tall to knock off 1182 runs
- including five hundreds - in 11 away Tests against West Indies and
Pakistan. He crowned the season with back-to-back Man of the Match awards
at the climax of India's World Cup-winning campaign in 1983. But his
world came crashing down again the following home season, when he managed
only one run in six innings against that same West Indian team. "Mr
Amarnought" got the axe. But it wasn't the end: he bounced back
with renewed force and vigour and was soon hooking fast bowlers off
his eyebrows again. He didn't go in for cheap runs - nine of his 11
Test centuries were scored overseas -- and he collected his share of
bruises. He will be remembered as a batsman who didn't flinch in the
face of fire.
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
Grit, guts
and gumption personified Amarnath's roller-coaster career, which began
in 1969 and spanned two eventful decades. He was cricket's Frank Sinatra
- the master of the comeback. He started his career as suspect against
short-pitched fast bowling, and finished it as one of the finest and
bravest players of pace. His defining season was 1982-83: coming back
to the side after three years, he stood tall to knock off 1182 runs
- including five hundreds - in 11 away Tests against West Indies and
Pakistan. He crowned the season with back-to-back Man of the Match awards
at the climax of India's World Cup-winning campaign in 1983. But his
world came crashing down again the following home season, when he managed
only one run in six innings against that same West Indian team. "Mr
Amarnought" got the axe. But it wasn't the end: he bounced back
with renewed force and vigour and was soon hooking fast bowlers off
his eyebrows again. He didn't go in for cheap runs - nine of his 11
Test centuries were scored overseas -- and he collected his share of
bruises. He will be remembered as a batsman who didn't flinch in the
face of fire. 
