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Follow live coverage of Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka from the Sri Lanka in Bangladesh 2024 today. The ICC Test Championship sees nine teams compete across a two-year cycle of matches before a two-team ...
Mahela Jayawardene holds several batting and fielding test cricket records for Sri Lanka.. Test cricket is the oldest form of cricket played at international level. [1] A Test match takes place over a period of five days, and is played by teams representing Full Member nations of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Follow live coverage of Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan from the Afghanistan in Sri Lanka 2024 today. The ICC Test Championship sees nine teams compete across a two-year cycle of matches before a two ...
This is a list of Sri Lankan Test cricketers. A Test match is an international cricket match between two representative teams that are full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Both teams have two innings, and the match lasts up to five days. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his first Test cap. Where ...
Sri Lanka playing England in its first Twenty20 International, at the Rose Bowl, Hampshire on 15 June 2006. A Twenty20 International (T20I) is an international cricket match between two teams that have official T20I status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is played under the rules of Twenty20 cricket and is the shortest form of the game. The first such match was ...
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
The R. Premadasa Stadium was also one of the three grounds in Sri Lanka that hosted matches for the 1996 Cricket World Cup. The other two were the Asgiriya Stadium and the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground. [6] The R. Premadasa Stadium was the venue for the match in 1997 where Sri Lanka scored a record 952 runs for 6 wickets against India. [7]
In Super Four, Sri Lanka first played against rivals Bangladesh. Sri Lanka batted first and scored 257/9 in 50 overs. Samarawickrama scored 93 runs and Mendis scored 50. Bangladesh made a steady start in the chase, and despite Towhid Hridoy's score of 82, Sri Lanka won the match by 21 runs. [376]