sri lankan cricket team

The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket.

Sri Lanka's national cricket team transformed the country from underdog status to a major cricketing nation during the 1990s. The team went on to win the 1996 Cricket World Cup, beating Australia in the finals, and becoming World Champions. Since then, the team has continued to be a major force in international cricket. The Sri Lankan cricket team reached the finals of the 2007 Cricket World Cup but lost to Australia in a rain-affected final match. The batting of Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva (retired), backed up by the bowling of Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas (retired), among many other talented cricketers, has underpinned the successes of Sri Lankan cricket during the last 15 years.

Sri Lanka have won the Cricket World Cup in 1996, the ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 (Co-champions with India), have been runners up in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, and have been runners up in the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009. The Sri Lankan cricket team currently holds several world records, including world records for highest team totals in all three forms of the game, Test, ODI and Twenty20.
Contents

* 1 History of Sri Lankan international cricket
o 1.1 Early years
o 1.2 Test status and beyond
+ 1.2.1 Milestones
o 1.3 2009 shooting incident
+ 1.3.1 Injured
* 2 Governing body
* 3 International grounds
o 3.1 Test
o 3.2 One Day International
* 4 Tournament history
o 4.1 Current Tournaments
+ 4.1.1 ICC Tournaments
+ 4.1.2 Other
o 4.2 Defunct Tournaments
+ 4.2.1 ICC Tournaments
+ 4.2.2 Other
* 5 Current squad
* 6 Statistics and records
o 6.1 Sri Lanka record in Test Matches
o 6.2 National Records by Sri Lanka
+ 6.2.1 Batting records
+ 6.2.2 Bowling records
+ 6.2.3 World Cup Records by Sri Lanka
+ 6.2.4 Other Records
* 7 See also
* 8 References
* 9 External links

[edit] History of Sri Lankan international cricket
[edit] Early years

Ceylon, as the country was known before 1972, played its first first-class match under that name against MCC at Nomads Ground, Victoria Park, Colombo in 1926–27, losing by an innings. [1] The team's first win came against Patiala at Dhruve Pandove Stadium in 1932–33. [2] The Ceylonese side competed in the M. J. Gopalan Trophy games from the 1950s, through the change of name to Sri Lanka, well into the 1970s. Sri Lankan cricket team's One Day International debut came in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and were later awarded test cricket status in 1981, by the International Cricket Council.
[edit] Test status and beyond

* Gained Test Status in 1981 and first played a Test Match in 1982
* Won the 1996 Cricket World Cup hosted by India, Sri Lanka & Pakistan
* Semi Finalists in the 2003 Cricket World Cup hosted by South Africa
* Runners up of the 2007 World Cup hosted by the West Indies
* Runners up of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 hosted by England
* Semi Finalists in the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 hosted by West Indies

As of April 2010, the Sri Lankan team has played 192 Test matches, winning 31.25%, losing 35.94% and drawing 32.81% of its games.[3]

Sri Lankan cricket's greatest moment undoubtedly came during the aforementioned 1996 World Cup, when they defeated the top-ranked Australian team under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga in the Final. Sri Lanka's game style over the course of the series revolutionized One Day International Cricket, and was characterized by highly aggressive batting in the first fifteen overs of the innings in order to take advantage of the fielding restrictions imposed during this period. This strategy has since become a hallmark of One Day International cricket.

Sri Lankan cricket team won the Asia Cup in 1986, 1997, 2004 and 2008. Sri Lanka whitewashed England 5-0 in the NatWest Series in 2006. It was England's heaviest home defeat in 13 years. Sanath Jayasuriya was the Man of the Series.
[edit] Milestones

* Sri Lanka is the only ICC Trophy winning team to have gone on to win the Cricket World Cup at a later date.
* Sri Lanka is the only team to have participated in every edition of the Asia Cup.
* Sri Lanka is the only host team to win a Cricket World Cup.

[edit] 2009 shooting incident
Main article: 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team

On March 3, 2009, the Sri Lankan team's convoy was attacked in Lahore, Pakistan by gunmen. This led to the death of five policemen and injuries to seven cricketers and a member of the coaching team.[4] The team was on its way to the Gaddafi Stadium where they were scheduled to begin the third day of the Second Test. After the incident the test match was called off by the Sri Lankan Cricket board. Sri Lanka had agreed to tour Pakistan, replacing India who refused to do so citing security concerns.[5]
[edit] Injured

* Thilan Samaraweera
* Kumar Sangakkara
* Tharanga Paranavitana
* Ajantha Mendis
* Chaminda Vaas
* Mahela Jayawardene
* Suranga Lakmal
* Paul Farbrace

[edit] Governing body
Main article: Sri Lanka Cricket

Sri Lanka Cricket, formerly the Board for Cricket Control in Sri Lanka (BCCSL), is the controlling body for cricket in Sri Lanka. It operates the Sri Lankan cricket team and first-class cricket within Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Cricket oversees the progress and handling of the major domestic competitions: the First-class tournament Premier Trophy, the List A tournament Premier Limited Overs Tournament and the Twenty20 Tournament. Sri Lanka Cricket also organize and host the Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament, a competition where five teams take part and represent four different provinces of Sri Lanka.
[edit] International grounds
Main article: List of cricket grounds in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka national cricket team is located in Sri Lanka
Saravanamuttu
SSC
CCC
R. Premadasa
Tyronne Fernando
Galle
Asgiriya
Rangiri Dambulla
Pallekele
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Locations of all international grounds in Sri Lanka.
[edit] Test

Listed in order of date first used for Test match
No Stadium name Location Capacity First used Matches
1 Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium Colombo 15,000 17 February 1982 15
2 Asgiriya Stadium Kandy 10,300 22 April 1982 21
3 Sinhalese Sports Club Ground Colombo 10,000 16 March 1984 34
4 Colombo Cricket Club Ground (now not used) Colombo 6,000 24 March 1984 3
5 R. Premadasa Stadium Colombo 40,000 28 August 1992 7
6 Tyronne Fernando Stadium (now not used) Moratuwa 15,000 8 September 1992 4
7 Galle International Stadium Galle 35,000 3 June 1998 17
8 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium Pallekele, Kandy 35,000 1 December 2010 1
[edit] One Day International
No Stadium name Location Capacity First used Matches
1 Sinhalese Sports Club Ground Colombo 10,000 13 February 1982 56
2 Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium Colombo 15,000 13 April 1983 12
3 Tyronne Fernando Stadium (now not used) Moratuwa 15,000 31 March 1984 6
4 Asgiriya Stadium Kandy 10,300 2 March 1986 6
5 R. Premadasa Stadium Colombo 40,000 5 April 1986 94
6 Galle International Stadium Galle 35,000 25 June 1998 4
7 Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium Dambulla 16,800 23 March 2001 43
8 Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium Hambantota 35,000 20 February 2011 -
9 Pallekele International Cricket Stadium Pallekele, Kandy 35,000 8 March 2011 -
[edit] Tournament history
[edit] Current Tournaments
[edit] ICC Tournaments
World Cup record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
England 1975 Round 1 7/8 3 0 3 0 0
England 1979 Round 1 5/8 3 1 1 0 1
England 1983 Round 1 7/8 6 1 5 0 0
IndiaPakistan 1987 Round 1 7/8 6 0 6 0 0
Australia New Zealand 1992 Round 1 8/9 8 2 5 0 1
Pakistan India Sri Lanka 1996 Champions 1/12 8 8 0 0 0
England Republic of Ireland Netherlands Scotland 1999 Round 1 9/12 5 2 3 0 0
Kenya South Africa Zimbabwe 2003 Semi finals 3/14 12 6 5 1 0
WI 2007 Second place 2/16 12 9 3 0 0
India Sri Lanka Bangladesh 2011 Qualified /14 – – – – –
Australia New Zealand 2015 Qualified – – – – – –
England 2019 Qualified – – – – – –
Total 12/12 1 title 63 29 31 1 2

Asia Cup record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
United Arab Emirates 1984 Second place 2/3 2 1 1 0 0
Sri Lanka 1986 Champions 1/3 3 2 1 0 0
Bangladesh 1988 Second place 2/4 4 3 1 0 0
India 1990–91 Second place 2/3 3 2 1 0 0
Pakistan 1993 Not Held
United Arab Emirates 1995 Second place 2/4 4 2 2 0 0
Sri Lanka 1997 Champions 1/4 4 4 0 0 0
Bangladesh 2000 Second place 2/4 4 2 2 0 0
Sri Lanka 2004 Champions 1/6 6 4 2 0 0
Pakistan 2008 Champions 1/6 6 5 1 0 0
Total 9/9 4 titles 36 25 11 0 0

Champions Trophy record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
Bangladesh 1998 Semi-finals 3 or 4/9 2 1 1 0 0
Kenya 2000 Quarter-finals 5–8/8 2 1 1 0 0
Sri Lanka 2002 Joint 1st 1/12 4 3 0 0 1
England 2004 Round 1 ?/12 2 1 1 0 0
India 2006 Round 1 8/10 6 4 2 0 0
South Africa 2009 Round 1 6/8 3 1 2 0 0
Total 6/6 1 title 19 11 7 0 1
World Twenty20 record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
South Africa 2007 Super 8s 6/12 5 3 2 0 0
England 2009 Second place 2/12 7 6 1 0 0
WI 2010 Semi-finals 3/12 6 3 3 0 0
Total 3/3 0 titles 18 12 6 0 0
[edit] Other
Asia Games record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
People's Republic of China 2010 Bronze medal match 4/9 3 1 2 0 0
Total 1/1 0 titles 3 1 2 0 0
[edit] Defunct Tournaments
[edit] ICC Tournaments
World Cup Qualifier record
Year Round Position GP W L T AB
England 1979 Champions 1/12 6 4 1 0 1
England 1982 Not eligible
England 1986 Not eligible
Netherlands 1990 Not eligible
Kenya 1994 Not eligible
Malaysia 1997 Not eligible
Canada 2001 Not eligible
Republic of Ireland 2005 Not eligible
South Africa 2009 Not eligible
Total 1/9 1 title 6 4 1 0 1

Australasia Cup record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
United Arab Emirates 1986 Semi Finals ?/5 1 0 1 0 0
United Arab Emirates 1989–90 Semi Finals ?/6 3 1 2 0 0
United Arab Emirates 1994 First Round ?/6 2 0 2 0 0
Total 3/3 0 titles 6 1 5 0 0

Asian Test Championship record
Year Round Position GP W L D NR
India Sri Lanka Bangladesh Pakistan 1998–99 Second place 2/3 3 0 1 2 0
Sri Lanka Bangladesh Pakistan 2001–02 Champions 1/3 2 2 0 0 0
Total 2/2 1 title 5 2 1 2 0
[edit] Other
Commonwealth Games record
Year Round Position GP W L T NR
Malaysia 1998 Third place 3/16 5 3 2 0 0
Total 1/1 0 Titles 5 3 2 0 0
[edit] Current squad

This lists all the players who have played for Sri Lanka in the past year, and the forms in which they have played.

Key

* S/N: Shirt number

Name Age Batting Style Bowling Style Domestic team Forms S/N
Captain and Middle-Order Batsman and Wicketkeeper
Kumar Sangakkara 33 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium Nondescripts Test, ODI, Twenty20 11
Vice Captain and Spin Bowler
Muttiah Muralitharan 38 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Tamil Union Test, ODI, Twenty20 08
Opening Batsmen
Sanath Jayasuriya 41 Left-Handed Bat Slow Left-Arm Orthodox Bloomfield ODI, Twenty20 07
Tharanga Paranavitana 28 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Sinhalese Test
Upul Tharanga 26 Left-Handed Bat Nondescripts ODI 44
Lahiru Thirimanne 21 Left-Handed Bat Ragama ODI 66
Jeevantha Kulatunga 37 right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium Colts ODI, Twenty 20 06
Malinda Warnapura 31 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Colts Test 10
Middle-Order Batsmen
Mahela Jayawardene 33 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium Sinhalese Test, ODI, Twenty20 27
Thilina Kandamby 28 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Leg-Break Sinhalese ODI, Twenty20 25
Chamara Kapugedera 23 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium Colombo Test, ODI, Twenty20 16
Thilan Samaraweera 34 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Sinhalese Test, ODI 03
Chamara Silva 31 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Leg-Break Bloomfield ODI, Twenty20 05
Wicket-keepers
Prasanna Jayawardene 31 Right-Handed Bat Bloomfield Test 04
Dinesh Chandimal 21 Right-Handed Bat Nondescripts ODI, Twenty20 17
All rounders
Tillakaratne Dilshan 34 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Bloomfield Test, ODI, Twenty20 23
Chinthaka Jayasinghe 32 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium Bloomfield Twenty20 18
Angelo Mathews 23 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Colts Test, ODI, Twenty20 69
Thissara Perera 21 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium-Fast Colts ODI 15
Muthumudalige Pushpakumara 29 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Tamil Union ODI, Twenty20 21
Gihan Rupasinghe 24 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Leg-Break Tamil Union Twenty20
Kaushalya Weeraratne 30 Left-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium-Fast Ragama Twenty20 34
Pace Bowlers
Dilhara Fernando 31 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Sinhalese ODI, Twenty20 26
Nuwan Kulasekara 28 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Colts Test, ODI, Twenty20 92
Suranga Lakmal 23 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Medium-Fast Tamil Union ODI 82
Lasith Malinga 27 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast Nondescripts Test, ODI, Twenty20 99
Dammika Prasad 27 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Fast-Medium Sinhalese Test, ODI 30
Thilan Thushara 29 Left-Handed Bat Left-Arm Fast-Medium Sinhalese Test, ODI, Twenty20 97
Isuru Udana 23 Right-Handed Bat Left-Arm Medium-Fast Tamil Union Twenty20 61
Chaminda Vaas 37 Left-Handed Bat Left-Arm Fast-Medium Colts Test 22
Chanaka Welegedara 29 Right-Handed Bat Left-Arm Fast-Medium Moors Test, ODI 12
Spin Bowlers
Malinga Bandara 31 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Leg-Break Nondescripts ODI, Twenty20 72
Rangana Herath 33 Left-Handed Bat Slow Left-Arm Orthodox Moors Test 78
Ajantha Mendis 25 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break
Right-Arm Leg-Break Sri Lanka Army Test, ODI, Twenty20 40
Suraj Randiv 26 Right-Handed Bat Right-Arm Off-Break Bloomfield ODI, Twenty20 88
[edit] Statistics and records
[edit] Sri Lanka record in Test Matches

Last updated on 04 December 2010
Won Tied Lost Drawn Total
Sri Lanka v Australia home 1 0 5 4 10
away 0 0 8 2 10
total 1 0 13 6 20
Sri Lanka v Bangladesh home 8 0 0 0 8
away 4 0 0 0 4
total 12 0 0 0 12
Sri Lanka v England home 4 0 3 4 11
away 2 0 5 3 10
total 6 0 8 7 21
Sri Lanka v India home 6 0 4 8 18
away 0 0 10 7 17
total 6 0 14 15 35
Sri Lanka v New Zealand home 5 0 3 5 13
away 2 0 6 5 13
total 7 0 9 10 26
Sri Lanka v Pakistan home 3 0 6 6 15
away 6 0 9 7 22
total 9 0 15 13 37
Sri Lanka v South Africa home 4 0 2 4 10
away 0 0 6 1 7
total 4 0 8 5 17
Sri Lanka v West Indies home 5 0 0 3 8
away 1 0 3 2 6
total 6 0 3 5 14
Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe home 7 0 0 0 7
away 3 0 0 5 8
total 10 0 0 5 15
Home 43 0 23 34 100
Away 18 0 47 32 97
Overall 61 0 70 66 197
% Breakdown
[edit] National Records by Sri Lanka

Records are bold if it is a World Record.
[edit] Batting records

Test Matches

* Highest team total – 952/6 against India in 1997.
* Highest aggregate of runs- Mahela Jayawardene (8221) in 101 matches at an Average of 53.38
* Most number of matches played – Muttiah Muralitharan (126).
* Most number of matches as captain – Arjuna Ranatunga (56) from 1989 to 1999.
* Highest individual score – 374 by Mahela Jayawardene against South Africa in July 2006.
* Highest partnership – 624 for the third wicket by Kumar Sangakkara (287) & Mahela Jayawardene (374) against South Africa in 2006.
* Most number of centuries – Mahela Jayawardene (25) in 101 matches.
* Most number of half centuries – Arjuna Ranatunga (38) in 93 matches.
* Most number of dismissals(includes wicket-keeping) – Kumar Sangakkara (173 dismissals) in 79 matches.
* Most number of catches – Mahela Jayawardene (142) in 101 matches.
* Highest average (qualification 20 inns.) – Kumar Sangakkara (54.59)

ODI Matches

* Highest team total- 443/9 against Netherlands in July 2006.
* Highest aggregate of runs – Sanath Jayasuriya (13,151) in 432 matches at an average of 32.71.
* Most number of matches played – Sanath Jayasuriya (432).
* Most number of matches as captain – Arjuna Ranatunga (193) from 1988 to 1999.
* Highest individual score – 189 by Sanath Jayasuriya against India in October, 2000.
* Highest partnership – 286 for the first wicket by Sanath Jayasuriya (152) & Upul Tharanga (109) against England in July 2006.
* Most number of centuries – Sanath Jayasuriya (28) in 432 matches.
* Most number of half centuries – Sanath Jayasuriya (67) in 432 matches.
* Most number of dismissals(includes wicket-keeping) – Kumar Sangakkara(291 dismissals) in 246 matches.
* Most number of catches – Mahela Jayawardene (159) in 299 matches.
* Highest average (qualification 20 inns.) – Marvan Atapattu (37.57).
* Highest number of sixes in a match – Sanath Jayasuriya (11).
* Highest number of sixes in a career – Sanath Jayasuriya (268).

Twenty20 Matches

* Highest team total – 260/6 against Kenya on 14 September 2007.
* Highest winning margin – 172 runs against Kenya in 14 September 2007.

[edit] Bowling records

Test Matches

* Most number of wickets – 800 by Muttiah Muralitharan at an average of 21.77 in 132 matches.
* Best individual bowling – 9-51 by Muttiah Muralitharan against Zimbabwe in January 2002.
* Best bowling in a match – 16-220 by Muttiah Muralitharan against England in August 1998.
* Most number of 10 wicket hauls – Muttiah Muralitharan (22).
* Most number of 5 wicket hauls – Muttiah Muralitharan (67).
* Best average – 18.94 by Ajantha Mendis.
* Most number of wickets taken bowled – Muttiah Muralitharan (157).
* Most number of wickets taken stumped – Muttiah Muralitharan (41).

ODI Matches

* Most number of wickets – 505 by Muttiah Muralitharan at 22.74 in 329 matches.
* Best individual bowling – 8-19 by Chaminda Vaas against Zimbabwe in December 2001.
* Most number of 5 wicket hauls – Muttiah Muralitharan (8).
* Best Average – 10.25 by Ajantha Mendis.
* Most Test Wickets – Muttiah Muralitharan ( broken in 2007 against England at home)
* Only bowler to take 4 wickets in 4 consecutive balls – Lasith Malinga against South Africa in March 2007.
* Only bowler to have taken two ODI Hat-tricks in a career – Chaminda Vaas against Zimbabwe in 2001 and Bangladesh in 2003.
* Only bowler to have taken 8 wickets in a ODI – Chaminda Vaas against Zimbabwe in 2001.

[edit] World Cup Records by Sri Lanka

* Highest team total – 398/5 against Kenya in 1996.
* Highest partnership(runs) – 183 for the third wicket by Sanath Jayasuriya(115) and Mahela Jayawardene (82) against West Indies in 2007.

- 183 for the third wicket by Asanka Gurusinha (84) and Aravinda de Silva (145) against Kenya in 1996.

* Most number of runs – Sanath Jayasuriya (1165) in 38 matches.
* Highest individual score – Aravinda de Silva (145) against Kenya in 1996.
* Most number of matches played – Sanath Jayasuriya (38).
* Best individual bowling – 6-25 by Chaminda Vaas against Bangladesh in 2003.
* Most number of dismissals (includes wicket-keeping) – Kumar Sangakkara (32) in 21 matches.
* Most number of wickets – Muttiah Muralitharan (53) in 31 matches.
* World's only bowler to take four wickets in four consecutive balls – Lasith Malinga against South Africa in 2007.
* First Sri Lankan bowler to take a World Cup Hatrick – Chaminda Vaas against Bangladesh in 2003.
* World's only bowler to have taken a World Cup Hat-trick in the first three balls of a match – Chaminda Vaas against Bangladesh in 2003.

[edit] Other Records

* The world's Highest total in a Test match: 952-6 vs India
* The world's Highest score in a ODI match: 443-9 vs The Netherlands on the 4th of July 2006
* The world's Highest score in a 20-20 match: 260-6 vs Kenya on the 14th of September 2007.
* The world's Fastest ODI half-century was scored by Sanath Jayasuriya (17 balls).