Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Mahawaduge Dilruwan Kamalaneth Perera (born July 22, 1982, Panadura) is a Sri Lankan first class cricketer. He plays for the Panadura Sports Club and also represents Sri Lanka A. An allrounder, Perera is a right-arm offbreak bowler and right handed batsman and has made the double of 200 wickets and 2000 first class runs. In 2004 he represented Sri Lanka at the Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes Championship.
Full name : Mahawaduge Dilruwan Kamalaneth Perera
Born : July 22, 1982, Panadura
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm offbreak
Test debut : Only ODI
ODI debut : ISri Lanka v England at Colombo (RPS), Oct 13, 2007
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.