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The Sri Lanka national baseball team [2] is the national baseball team of Sri Lanka. Baseball was introduced to Sri Lanka in the mid 1980s. American baseball coach Jim Dimick [3] was the first official coach to teach the game to the players. The team represents Sri Lanka in international competitions. Sri Lanka took part in the first ever Asian ...
6 wild pitches in one game. Number of occurrences: 3. [22] Most recently, Bill Gullickson, October 4, 1982. Bert Cunningham of the 1890 Players' League threw five wild pitches in a single inning. 26 hits allowed in a game. Number of occurrences: 1. Allan Travers, May 18, 1912. 29 hits allowed in an extra-inning game. Number of occurrences: 1 ...
A test match between Sri Lanka and England at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, March 2001. Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. [8] It is one of the twelve nations that are full members and take part in test cricket and one of the seven nations that has won a Cricket World Cup. Cricket is played at professional, semi ...
Under the captaincy of Mathews, however, lost all the matches in the 5 ODI series against India in 2014. This is the largest loss by Sri Lanka in a bilateral series. [31] The year 2014 was the limelight of Mathew's captaincy, where Sri Lanka won many bilateral ODI series and also the 2014 Asia Cup. [32]
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 ...
TV Derana is a Sri Lankan private entertainment terrestrial television channel broadcasting in Sri Lanka.Launched on 11 October 2005, [2] it is one of the most popular television networks in the country. [3]
Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga is the only cricketer to have taken three ODI hat-tricks. A hat-trick in cricket is when a bowler takes three wickets on consecutive deliveries, dismissing three different batsmen. It is a relatively rare event in One Day International (ODI) cricket with only 50 occurrences in 4546 matches since the first ODI match between Australia and England on 5 January 1971. The ...
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka 14 July 2017: 2 352/9: 352 South Africa: Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka 4 August 2006: 3 326/5: 326 Zimbabwe: Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 14 January 1998: 4 304/9: 304 South Africa: Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa 13 February 2019: 5 268/4: 268 New Zealand