Australia to play three Tests, five ODIs in Sri Lanka

[Sir john]

Australia will play three Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20 internationals when they tour Sri Lanka in August and September this year, the Sri Lanka board has announced. While the established centres at Galle and the Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo, are set to host a Test each, Pallekele - situated just outside Kandy - has been awarded the second Test. Pallekele International Stadium, situated which was constructed in the build up to the World Cup, has hosted just one Test previously, when Sri Lanka took on West Indies in December 2010, but that game was badly affected by rain and ended without a single innings being completed. Pallekele will also host both T20 games and one ODI, while Sri Lanka's other new stadium, Hambantota gets two ODIs. Hambantota was also built for the World Cup and hosted two games. However, the cost of constructing the stadiums left Sri Lanka Cricket in debt to the tune of $23 million, with the result that the board pledged the newly built stadiums plus the income from upcoming tours as collateral to raise funds to pay for the World Cup.

Itinerary of Australia's tour of Sri Lanka

    August 6: 1st T20, Pallekele
    August 8: 2nd T20, Pallekele
    August 10: First ODI, Pallekele
    August 14: 2nd ODI, Hambantota
    August 16: 3rd ODI, Hambantota
    August 20: 4th ODI, Colombo
    August 22: 5th ODI, Colombo
    August 31-September 4: 1st Test, Galle
    September 8-12: 2nd Test, Pallekele
    September 16-20: 3rd Test, Colombo

[Cricket Tragic]

Good to see 2 new venues. I hope that they get rid of the SSC for test cricket.

[TheWall]

get ready for some FTB's making records

[gaurav92]

get ready for some FTB's making records

Absolutely :(

[Sidhoni]

Lanka should do well in tests, can not afford another weak test team.

[saneindian]

On their last tour, Aussies whitewashed the Lankans 3-0 in despite Murali taking 27 wickets in the series. Lehman and Martyn were briiliant for the Aussies. Would be great to see Lanka prepare absolute turners and return the complements this time though.

[Cricket Tragic]

On their last tour, Aussies whitewashed the Lankans 3-0 in despite Murali taking 27 wickets in the series. Lehman and Martyn were briiliant for the Aussies. Would be great to see Lanka prepare absolute turners and return the complements this time though.

Warne had a brilliant series as well.

[Sir john]

gilly too played well on that tour his 144 was absolutely class :agree:

[Cricket Tragic]

^Indeed. I'm impressed Sir John. I thought that you only followed matches played by Kenya and Zimbabwe. :hmmm:

[Sir john]

^Indeed. I'm impressed Sir John. I thought that you only followed matches played by Kenya and Zimbabwe. :hmmm:

i am following every ODI and test from 2001.

[wobblydoggy]

I hope Sri Lanka beat them, to keep those Aussi's down

[Cricket Tragic]

i am following every ODI and test from 2001.

:two_thumbs_up: