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.
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (born February 6, 1983), also known as Gopu, is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was born in Kothamangalam in Kerala.
He is only the only Kerala bowler to have taken a Ranji Trophy hat-trick. He was selected for the Duleep Trophy in 2002/03 after taking 22 wickets in his first seven games of his first season.
He came back from a hamstring injury in 2004, with a good show in the Challenger Trophy, in 2005. That earned him a place in the one-day international team for the Sri Lankan series in the 2005-06 season, and he made his Test debut against England later in the same season.
His best ODI bowling figures are 4-58, which he gained in the 5th One Day International between India and Pakistan in the former's tour of Pakistan on February 19, 2006.
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.