Sri Lankan national cricket team

Sri Lankan national cricket team
Test status received	1982
First Test - Match	against England in Colombo , 17-21 February 1982
First ODI	versus West Indies in Manchester , June 1975
First T20I	v England in Southampton , June 2006
captain	Dimuth Karunaratne ( test , ODI ), Lasith Malinga ( T20I )
Coach	Mickey Arthur
Official ICC test ranking	5 of 12
Official ICC ODI ranking	8 of 20
Official ICC T20I ranking	7 of 84
World Cup participation	12
First World Cup	1975
Best World Cup result	Winner (1996)
Champions Trophy participation	7th
First Champions Trophy	1998
Best Champions Trophy result	Winner (2002)
World Twenty20 participations	6th
First World Twenty20	2007
Best World Twenty20 result	Winner (2014)
Asia Cup participation	11
First participation in the Asia Cup	1984
Best Asia Cup result	Winner (1986, 1997, 2004, 2008, 2014)
As of June 24, 2017

The Sri Lankan national cricket team is the national cricket team that represents Sri Lanka at the international level. The team is represented by Sri Lanka Cricket and has been a full member of the International Cricket Council since 1982 and has had test status since .

history

Before full membership

Cricket in Sri Lanka, the former Ceylon, goes back a long time. The first club, the Colombo Cricket Club, played games from 1833. International games were initially only held against traveling teams such as England and Australia , the first taking place in 1882. The first first class match was played against the MCC in Colombo in 1927 . The first one-day game took place during the 1975 World Cricket Championship . There the team was eliminated in the preliminary round. Since it had no test status, it had to qualify for the next world championship, which was achieved by winning the ICC Trophy in 1979 . In the following finals , the team was also eliminated from the preliminary round, but managed to win against India . Not least because of this, it was decided in 1981 to grant full membership to Sri Lanka.

The young test nation

The first test match took place against England in Colombo in 1982 and was lost with 7 wickets. After the next four test matches were also lost in the same year, part of the team went on a rebel tour to South Africa . The South African team was banned internationally due to the apartheid policy and so this tour caused a scandal. All players involved in the Arosa Sri Lanka team, including Sri Lanka's first test captain Bandula Warnapura, were banned from all cricket and their careers were thus over. This made it difficult for the team to achieve success at first. The first test match win was achieved in 1985 when they could prevail against India. Otherwise, the first few years were mainly characterized by draws and defeats in the friendly matches. At the World Championships in 1983 , 1987 and 1992 , Sri Lanka failed clearly in the preliminary round. In the 1996 edition , the tournament was partially held in Sri Lanka. Australia and the West Indies refused to play Sri Lanka in Colombo in the preliminary round for security reasons and the team won the other preliminary round matches. After a quarter-final victory against England, the semi-final against India was canceled due to spectator riots that started when India lost numerous wickets in a short period of time. The final was then won against Australia with 7 wickets, which meant the first world title for Sri Lanka.

After the establishment

After winning the World Cup in 1996, the test game also became more constant. At the 1999 World Cup , however, the team dropped out again in the preliminary round. At the Champions Trophy 2002, the team shared the victory with India when the final was scheduled twice due to rain, but could not be played in full. Also at the World Cup a year later they reached the semi-finals again before being eliminated by Australia. This good result in one-day cricket was even improved when four years later they even made it into the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup . At the newly established World Championship in Twenty20 Cricket , it was initially difficult. A retirement in the Super6 in 2007 was followed by a second place in 2009 and a semi-finals in 2010 . At the 2011 World Cup , second place could be repeated again, which was also achieved at the ICC World Twenty20 2012 . At the ICC World Twenty20 2014 they managed to win the tournament for the first time with a 6 wicket win against India. The following year at the 2015 World Cup , they lost significantly to South Africa in the quarter-finals and thus failed to reach the semi-finals for the first time since 1999. They had a similar experience four years later in England when they were in the preliminary round of the 2019 Cricket World Cup , where they only came in sixth.

Captains

Test match captains

No.	Surname	Period
1	Bandula Warnapura	1981-1983
2	Duleep Mendis	1981-1987
3	Somachandra de Silva	1982-1983
4th	Ranjan Madugalle	1987-1988
5	Arjuna Ranatunga	1989-1999
6th	Aravinda de Silva	1991-1999
7th	Hashan Tilla caratne	1998-2004
8th	Sanath Jayasuriya	1999-2003
9	Marvan Atapattu	2002-2006
10	Mahela Jayawardene	2005-2013
11	Kumar Sangakkara	2009-2011
12	Tillakaratne Dilshan	2011–2012
13	Angelo Mathews	2012 – today
14th	Rangana Herath	2016-2017
15th	Dinesh Chandimal	2017-2019
16	Suranga Lakmal	2018-2019
17th	Dimuth Karunaratne	2018 – today

Stages

See also : List of test cricket stadiums

The following stadiums served as the venues for Sri Lanka's home tests.

No.	Stadion	city	First edition
1	Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium (Saravanamuttu Stadium)	Colombo	17th February 1982
2	Asgiriya Stadium	Kandy	April 22, 1983
3	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC)	Colombo	March 16, 1984
4th	Colombo Cricket Club Ground (CCC)	Colombo	March 24, 1984
5	Ranasinghe Premadasa Stadium (Premadasa Stadium)	Colombo	August 28, 1992
6th	Tyronne Fernando Stadium (Fernando Stadium)	Moratuwa	September 8, 1992
7th	Galle International Stadium	bile	June 3, 1998
8th	Pallekele International Cricket Stadium	Kandy	December 1, 2010

Balance sheet

The team has the following results against the other full members of the ICC in Test, ODI and Twenty20 cricket ( as of August 1, 2020 ).

opponent	Testing					ODIs					Twenty20s
	Sp.	S.	U	N	N	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO	Sp.	S.	U	N	NO
Afghanistan	0	0	0	0	0	4th	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0
Australia	31	4th	0	19th	8th	97	32	0	61	4th	16	8th	0	8th	0
Bangladesh	20th	16	0	1	3	48	39	0	7th	2	11	7th	0	4th	0
England	34	8th	0	15th	11	75	36	1	36	2	9	4th	0	5	0
India	44	7th	0	20th	17th	159	56	1	91	11	19th	5	0	13	1
Ireland	0	0	0	0	0	4th	4th	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0
New Zealand	36	9	0	16	11	99	41	1	49	8th	19th	7th	1	10	1
Pakistan	55	16	0	20th	19th	155	58	1	92	4th	21st	8th	0	13	0
Zimbabwe	20th	14th	0	0	6th	57	44	0	11	2	3	3	0	0	0
South Africa	29	9	0	14th	6th	77	31	1	44	1	13	5	1	7th	0
West Indies	20th	9	0	4th	7th	60	29	0	28	3	11	6th	0	5	0

International tours

→ Main article : List of Sri Lankan national cricket team international cricket tours

Since its full member status in the ICC, Sri Lanka has been on bilateral tours against the other full members and other members of the ICC with ODI and Twenty20 status.

International tournaments

World Cricket Championship

• 1975 preliminary round
• 1979 preliminary round ( qualification )
• 1983 preliminary round
• 1987 preliminary round
• 1992 preliminary round
• 1996 winner
• 1999 preliminary round
• 2003 semi-finals
• 2007 2nd place
• 2011 2nd place
• 2015 quarter-finals
• 2019 preliminary round

Champions Trophy

• 1998 semi-finals
• 2000 quarter-finals
• 2002 winner (shared)
• 2004 preliminary round
• 2006 preliminary round
• 2009 preliminary round
• 2017 preliminary round

World Twenty20

• 2007 Super 8
• 2009 2nd place
• 2010 semi-finals
• 2012 2nd place
• 2014 winner
• 2016 Super 10

Asia Cup

• 1984 2nd place
• 1986 winner
• 1988 2nd place
• 1990 2nd place
• 1993 tournament canceled
• 1995 2nd place
• 1997 winner
• 2000 2nd place
• 2004 winner
• 2008 winner
• 2010 2nd place
• 2012 4th place
• 2014 winner
• 2016 4th place
• 2018 preliminary round

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sri Lanka domestic cricket: A brief history ( English ) Cricinfo. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
2. ^ Ceylon v Marylebone Cricket Club ( English ) Cricket Archive. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
3. ↑ England in Sri Lanka Test Match ( English ) Wisden. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
4. ↑ Sa'adi Thawfeeq: Rewind to Sri Lanka's rebel tour ( English ) Dilmah Cricket Network. February 24, 2005. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
5. ↑ Sri Lanka's crowning glory ( English ) Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
6. ^ Charlie Austin: India and Sri Lanka share the spoils ( English ) Cricinfo. September 30, 2002. Retrieved August 14, 2012.
7. ↑ The time period refers to the corresponding cricket season in which the first or last game of the time as captain took place
8. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka / Test Matches / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
9. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka / One-Day Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.
10. ↑ Records / Sri Lanka / Twenty20 Internationals / Result Summary ( English ) Cricinfo. Accessed July 31, 2020.