Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar led the cricketing world in applauding Sri Lankan veterans Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, who bowed out of ODIs on Wednesday after their team's World Cup quarterfinal loss to South Africa.

JP Duminy took a hat-trick as South Africa's bowlers set up a crushing nine-wicket World Cup quarterfinal win over Sri Lanka in Sydney on Wednesday.

Inside a monastery high up in the hills that surround Bhutan’s capital city, the players on the country’s national soccer team were consulting the dice.

Sri Lanka's front-line spinner Rangana Herath is recovering well and looks likely to face South Africa in Wednesday's World Cup quarter-final at the SCG , chief selector Sanath Jayasuriya said on Monday.

The quarter-finals line-up in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 was confirmed on Sunday after the West Indies defeated the UAE in Napier and Pakistan beat Ireland in Adelaide on the last day of the pool stage matches.

Sussex have signed Sri Lanka batsman Mahela Jayawardene for the first half of their 2015 NatWest T20 Blast campaign.