Sri Lanka

Power consumption surged to record levels in Sri Lanka last week when millions switched on their televisions to watch the World Cup cricket match between Sri Lanka and South Africa.
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The finances of Sri Lanka's recently sacked cricket board are in such confusing shape that they will require an independent probe by a special committee, a member of the new interim administration has said.

India's former captain Kapil Dev has appeared before the national cricket board's match-fixing investigator and made some changes to statements he had given earlier to a federal agency, the inquiry official said.
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Sri Lanka is to launch an inquiry into alleged financial irregularities at the country's cricket board, a government newspaper has reported.
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The Sri Lankan cricket board has signed a $7.75 million deal with India's Sony Entertainment Television that gives the company rights to telecast all matches played on the Indian Ocean island.
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India's government has told the country's cricket board it should not send a team to the forthcoming Sharjah tournament in which Pakistan are also competing.
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Manoj Prabhakar, banned for five years by the Indian cricket board, said on Wednesday he had deserved better treatment for helping expose match-fixing.
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The Indian government has denied the country's national cricket team permission to play a test match in Pakistan next month, according to local television reports.

New Zealand has accepted an invitation to replace India in the Coca-Cola Cup cricket tournament at Sharjah from April 8-20.
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UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has won exclusive rights to broadcast England's next two cricket tours of Sri Lanka.

The Asian Cricket Test championship will go ahead even if India decides to withdraw from the tournament, a top official has confirmed.
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Sri Lanka Tourism and Sports Minister Lakshman Kiriella has appointed a four-man interim board headed by former Royal College and Cambridge Blue cricketer Vijay Malalasekera to carry out the day-to-day activities of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL).
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Cricket chiefs of three Asian nations have sought a meeting with the Indian government to request reversing its decision to cancel a tour of Pakistan.
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World cricket's governing body have acted to prevent a repeat of the pitch fiasco that caused international matches in India and West Indies to be abandoned during the 1997-98 season.
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The sacked president of Sri Lanka's cricket board was granted bail on Monday as police sought his arrest over fraud allegations that have plagued the game in the country.
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The fate of Sri Lanka's cricket board hangs in the balance with an interim committee on standby to take over if the administration is crippled by its latest legal battle.
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London and Hong Kong-based international sports marketing group World Sports Group has won the sponsorship and broadcasting rights for cricket matches in Sri Lanka for three years, the local cricket board said.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in association with Citibank and Visa International have announced a new credit card aimed at promoting the development of cricket in India, officials said.