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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 ...
The Sri Lanka national cricket team played their first Test match on 17 February 1982, against England, and recorded their first victory on 6 September 1985, in a match against India. [5] Since then, they have played nearly 300 matches, against every other Test-playing nation. [ 6 ]
The Sri Lankan national cricket team toured New Zealand January to March 1991 and played a three-match Test series against the New Zealand national cricket team. The series was drawn 0–0. New Zealand were captained by Martin Crowe and Sri Lanka by Arjuna Ranatunga.
Pakistan beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 175 in the final to become the first Asian Test Champions and received US$250,000 in prize money. Sri Lanka, the losing finalists, were awarded US$145,000, and India, the losers of the first round, US$100,000. [ 5 ] '
Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat. Hasan Mahmud (Ban) made his Test debut. Sri Lanka's score of 531 in the first innings was the highest total in a Test innings without a century. [38] Mominul Haque (Ban) became the fourth Bangladeshi player to complete 4000 runs in Tests. [39] World Test Championship points: Sri Lanka 12, Bangladesh 0
The 2002–03 Australia Tri-Nation Series (more commonly known as the 2002–03 VB Series) was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tri-series where Australia played host to England and Sri Lanka.
Zimbabwe (38) v Sri Lanka (40/1) Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, Sri Lanka 8 December 2001: Scorecard: 4 101/10 Sri Lanka (50) v India (51/0) R.Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka 17 September 2023: Scorecard: 5 135/11 Zimbabwe (67) v Sri Lanka (68/1) Harare Sports Club, Harare, Zimbabwe 22 November 2008: Scorecard
Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga holds the record for most wickets taken in a year when he took 36 wickets in 2021, 34 wickets in 2022 & 23 wickets in 2024. Dushmantha Chameera with 22 wickets in 2021 and Maheesh Theekshana in 2022 jointly hold the Sri Lankan record for most wickets in a year.