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The 2020–21 SLC Twenty20 Tournament was a Twenty20 cricket tournament that was held in Sri Lanka. It took place from 4 to 20 March 2021. [1] Colombo Cricket Club were the defending champions. [2] A total of 26 teams took part in the tournament, [3] split into four groups, with 79 matches being played.
Sri Lanka competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was the nation's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
The 2012 World Twenty20 is the fourth edition of the Twenty20 tournament. The first was hosted by South Africa in 2007, where India beat Pakistan in a thriller to become Twenty20 champions. Pakistan, the losing finalists in 2007, defeated Sri Lanka in 2009 tournament to become World T20 Champions, held in England.
Joe Root (Eng) The England cricket team toured Sri Lanka in January 2021 to play two Test matches. [1] [2] The Test series formed part of the inaugural 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. [3] [4] Originally, the tour was scheduled to take place in March 2020, but the series was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5]
Sri Lanka Standards Institution also known as Sri Lanka Standards Institute (SLSI) is the National Standards Authority/Board of Sri Lanka as a subsidiary member of International Organization for Standardization was established in 1964 under the former Bureau of Ceylon Standards Act No. 38 of 1964. [1] The institution later functioned under the ...
Player of the series. Dean Elgar (SA) The Sri Lanka cricket team toured South Africa in December 2020 and January 2021 to play two Test matches. [1] [2] The Test series formed part of the inaugural 2019–2021 ICC World Test Championship. [3] [4] Ahead of the tour, Quinton de Kock was named as the Test captain of South Africa's side.
Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga holds the record for most wickets taken in a year when he took 36 wickets in 2021 in 20 T20Is. Dushmantha Chameera with 22 wickets in 2021 and Lasith Malinga in 2009 jointly hold the Sri Lankan record for most wickets in a year.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.The index considers the health, education, income and living conditions in a given country to provide a measure of human development which is comparable between countries and over time.