Nagas win SLPL2012 opener by 5 runs on D/L Method

By Fathima Zanaida

COLOMBO (TheSportsNext) August 11, 2012: Nagenahira Nagas started the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League 2012 on a winning note here Saturday when they defeated Ruhana Royals by five runs on Duckworth/Lewis Method at R Premadasa Stadium in the opening match of the competition.

Shahid Afridi rates Indian Premier League as the best T20 league

By Ubaid Awan


KARACHI (TheSportsNext) August 8, 2012: Former Pakistani skipper Shahid Khan Afridi said Wednesday that the Indian Premier League (IPL) is the best foreign Twenty20 league and absence of Pakistani cricketers was a disappointing factor.

Afridi was talking to reporters at the Moin Khan Cricket Academy on the sidelines of the Corporate Twenty20 tournament which is played every year during the holy month of Ramadan.