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The team first played first class cricket (as Ceylon) in 1926–27 and became an associate member of the ICC in 1965. They made their international debut in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and were later awarded the Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket-playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket.
Jayawardene, Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara [319] are the only Sri Lankan players who have scored triple centuries. [11] Muttiah Muralitharan, who was hailed by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002 as the "best bowler ever" in Test cricket, dominates the bowling records for Sri Lanka. [12] He is the world record holder for the highest ...
The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played One day international cricket in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation. The Sri Lankan team transformed themselves from the underdog status to a leading ...
The History of the Sri Lanka national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832. By the 1880s a national team, the Ceylon national cricket team, was formed which began playing first-class cricket by the 1920s. The Ceylon national cricket team had achieved associate member status of the International Cricket ...
Basnahira South cricket team (1992–2003, 2008–2010) Kandurata cricket team (1990–2010) Nagenahira cricket team (2010) North Central Province cricket team (2004–2005) Ruhuna cricket team (1990–2010) Sri Lanka Cricket Combined XI (2010) Sri Lanka Schools XI cricket team (2008–2009) Uthura cricket team (2010) Uva cricket team (2004, 2010)
The Ceylon national cricket team, later Sri Lanka national cricket team, represents Sri Lanka in international cricket since its first international representative match in 1927. Before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One Day International (ODI) status on 21 July 1981, Sri Lanka had ...
List of Sri Lanka national cricket captains. This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained a Sri Lankan national cricket team at official international level. Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 21 July 1981. Previously they were an associate member of the ICC from 1965, which made them eligible ...
1 Sanath Jayasuriya, Chaminda Vaas, Mahela Jayawardene, Dilhara Fernando and Upul Tharanga also played ODI cricket for Asia XI. Only their records for Sri Lanka are given above. 2 Muttiah Muralitharan and Kumar Sangakkara also played ODI cricket for Asia XI and World XI.