It's going to be India versus New Zealand in the first semifinal of the ICC World Cup on Tuesday, with hosts England taking on five-time defending champions Australia in the other on Thu
Angelo Mathews once again turned out to be a thorn in India's flesh with a gutsy hundred after a top-order collapse.
While India can keep chances of finishing the group stages of the 2019 World Cup as the top placed team alive, for Lanka it will be all about bowing out with a win
Sri Lanka put a mammoth 338/6 as youngster Avishka Fernando slammed a century. In reply, Nicholas Pooran and Fabian Allen spiced up Windies chase but Angelo Mathews added a crucial twist at the end
Sri Lanka are placed seventh on the ICC World Cup 2019 Points Table with six points from seven matches, need to win their final two games to keep semi-finals hope alive
Sri Lanka cricket team are all but out of the ongoing World Cup after suffering a nine-wicket drubbing against a clinical South Africa
A win for Sri Lanka would make the semi-finals race even tougher for teams and the Dimuth Karunaratne-led side would draw confidence from their win against tournament favourites England
Stating that the players are not new to conditions in England, Matthews said it was the occassion and the nature of the tournament that would make the difference
Mendis went on to stress the fact that the team is together and the country behind them in the wake of the Colombo attacks last month
Jayawardene, who recently guided Mumbai Indians to their fourth Indian Premier League victory has in the past presented plans to change the country's domestic cricket which got rejected
In the last four years, Sri Lanka have managed to win only four out of the 20 ODI series they have played. In 2015 edition of the world cup they failed to qualify for the semi-finals.
Oshada Fernando and Kusal Mendis propelled Sri Lanka to an eight-wicket win on the third day of the second Test, playing exactly the sort of cricket that Karunaratne wanted.