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The Sri Lanka women's under-19 cricket team represents Sri Lanka in international under-19 women's cricket.The team is administrated by Sri Lanka Cricket (SL).. The team played their first official matches at the 2023 Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup, the first-ever international women's under-19 cricket competition, in which they reached the Super Six stage.
This is a list of Sri Lankan women's One-day international cricketers. Overall, 77 Sri Lankan women have played in at least one women's one-day international for their country. A One Day International , or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status.
On 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup, Sri Lanka beat England in a pool match, which was a major upset in Women's ODI history. England are world's top ranked team and Sri Lanka is in underdog status, but this win gave a full of attention in World Cricket. [9] Sri Lanka women next beat India women and finally they finished as fifth in the rankings.
The Battle of the Blues (Also known as Royal–Thomian Cricket Encounter) is an annual Big Match in Sri Lanka played between Royal College, Colombo and S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia since 1879. It is known as The Battle of the Blues due to the colours of the two school's flags i.e. blue , gold and blue of Royal College and blue , black and ...
1996 – Hosts a 1996 Cricket World Cup fixture between Sri Lanka and Kenya with Sri Lanka making a record 398, the highest score at the time. 2001 – Sri Lanka cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan scored his only career half-century and his highest Test score of 67 against India at Kandy in 2001, which included three sixes and five fours.
Cricket was introduced in Sri Lanka during the 19th century by the British. [1] A Sri Lankan school was the first to play cricket in 1864, primarily against small clubs. With the arrival of English cricketer Ashley Walker and the founding of Royal College, Colombo, Sri Lanka's first inter-school match took place between S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia and Royal College in 1880.
Sri Lanka is primarily a source, destination, and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Some Sri Lankan women are subjected to forced prostitution in Cyprus, Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and elsewhere. Within the country, women and children are subjected to sex trafficking in ...
For clubs which held first-class status in the past, please see Category:Former senior cricket clubs of Sri Lanka. Pages in category "Sri Lankan first-class cricket teams" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.