Cricket in Sri Lanka

Cricket in Sri Lanka

·         Introduction

Cricket is the most well-liked sport in the state. Sri Lanka is one among the twelve nations that participate in check cricket and one among the League of Iroquois that has won a cricket World Cup. Cricket is vie at skilled, semi-professional and recreational levels in the country and international cricket matches are watched with interest by a large proportion of the population.

Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon) was occupied by the nation in 1796 and have become a British colony in 1815. As in all places that the British arrived in large numbers, cricket soon followed and it is reasonable to assume that the game was first played on the island by 1800. The earliest definite mention of cricket in Ceylon was a report within the capital of Sri Lanka Journal on five Gregorian calendar month 1832 that mixed up the formation of a cricket club. The capital of Sri Lanka Cricket Club was shaped before long subsequently and matches began in Gregorian calendar month 1832. Since then, the game has adult domestically with major events like the Premier Trophy (starting 1938) and Premier restricted Overs Tournament (starting 1988–89). Sri Lanka's {one day at some point in the future someday sooner or later in some the unspecified time within the future} international debut came in 1975 cricket World Cup and were later awarded check cricket standing in 1981, by the International Cricket Council.

·       Governing body

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, Sri Lanka A cricket team, Sri Lankan women's cricket team and first-class cricket within Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka could be a full member of the International Cricket Council and therefore the Asian Cricket Council. Sri Lanka co-hosted the 1996 Cricket World Cup and therefore the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

·       Domestic competitions

Sri Lanka Cricket oversees the progress and handling of the most important domestic competitions: the excellent tournaments - SLC Tier A and B tournaments, the List A tournament - Premier restricted Overs Tournament and also the Twenty20 competition - Twenty20 Tournament, within which all of the subsequent fantabulous groups take part:

Badureliya Sports Club (Maggona)

Burgher Recreation Club (Colombo)

Chilaw Marians Cricket Club (Colombo)

Colombo Cricket Club (Colombo)

Colts Cricket Club (Colombo)

Moors Sports Club (Colombo)

Negombo Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club (Colombo)

Ragama Cricket Club (Katunayake)

Saracens Sports Club (Colombo)

Sinhalese Sports Club (Colombo)

Sri Lanka Army Sports Club (Panagoda)

Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club

Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club (Colombo)

Several competitions have been arranged where teams were formed out of each of the major provinces, independent to the above clubs:

Inter-Provincial Cricket, established 1990, presently with five groups (Basnahira North, Basnahira South, Kandurata, Ruhuna, and Wayamba)

Super Four Provincial, established 2017, currently with 4 teams (Colombo, Dambulla, Galle, and Kandy)

·       National cricket team

The staten cricket team is that the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team 1st compete {one day at some point in the future someday sooner or later in some unspecified time within the future} international cricket in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and were later awarded check standing in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation.

The Sri Lankan team remodeled themselves from the {underdog|failure|loser|n"art-20">Sri Lanka presently holds the record for the best Team totals of all formats of the games.

Sri Lanka have won the Cricket World Cup in 1996, the ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 (Co-champions with India), the ICC World Twenty20 in 2014.

They are also five times champions of Asia Cup in 1986, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2014 and have been runners up in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2009 Interstate Commerce Commission World Twenty20 and 2012 ICC World Twenty20.

·       Women's cricket team

The Staten women's cricket team is the team that represents Sri Lanka in international women's cricket matches.Sri Lankan women's cricket team's international debut came in 1997 with a three-match ODI series against the Netherlands. Since then, the team has pictured state in international women's cricket tournaments.