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The President of Sri Lanka is directly elected by voters for a five-year term. [1] Below is a list of presidential elections in Sri Lanka, including the number of votes obtained by each candidate and voter turnout. [2]
The day/night Test match between South Africa and Zimbabwe was scheduled to last for only four days in duration, with the last such four-day Test match being played in 1973. The season started with India leading the Test cricket rankings , South Africa leading the ODI rankings , New Zealand leading the Twenty20 rankings , and England women ...
However, on 14 October 2017, the Sri Lankan team expressed their reluctance to travel to Pakistan, requesting that the fixture be moved to a neutral venue. [15] On 16 October 2017, Sri Lanka Cricket confirmed that the fixture in Lahore would go ahead as planned, but their limited-overs captain, Upul Tharanga, had pulled out of the match. [16]
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's party and its allies won an overwhelming two-thirds majority in a parliament election, results released early Friday showed, giving him the power to enact ...
This was his 10th century against Sri Lanka in all forms of international cricket in 2017, the most by one player against a single team in a calendar year. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] Kohli also became the fastest batsman to reach 16,000 international runs and became the first Test captain to score centuries in each game of a three-match Test series.
Follow live coverage of Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka from the Sri Lanka in Bangladesh 2024 today. The ICC Test Championship sees nine teams compete across a two-year cycle of matches before a two-team ...
The main opposition alliance, Sajith Premadasa's Samagi Jana Balawegaya, won 40 seats, a decrease from the previous election. Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe's New Democratic Front secured 5 seats, while former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna collapsed from 145 seats in the previous election, winning 3 seats. [3] [4]
The India cricket team toured Sri Lanka between July and September 2017 to play three Test matches, five One Day Internationals (ODIs) and a Twenty20 International match. [1] [2] [3] Ahead of the Test series, the teams played a two-day warm-up match in Colombo.