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It is the oldest cricket match series in the central province and the second oldest in Sri Lanka, having been played since 1893. [11] [12] The Battle of the Blues (Matara) has been played between St. Thomas' College, Matara, and St. Servatius' College Matara since 1900. [13] [14] [15] Over the years, many other Big Matches have been established.
Mathews became an important member of the Sri Lanka One Day team during the Sri Lanka tour of Australia in 2010/11. At the first match, on 3 November 2010, Mathews scored a magnificent match-winning 77* runs with a partnership with Lasith Malinga, who also scored his only half-century. Sri Lanka was in trouble when he came into the crease, but ...
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 1 is a Sri Lankan general entertainment television channel that provides content in both English and Sinhalese, aimed at the youth market. It was founded in 1992 as MTV Newsvision, making it one of Sri Lanka's first privately owned television channels. [1] Its sister channel, MTV, was renamed Sirasa TV in June 1998, and MTV Newsvision was ...
The 2023 Lanka Premier League also known as Skyfair.news LPL T20, for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), a Twenty20 franchise cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. It began on 30 July and the final was held on 20 August 2023. [1] The tournament was played by five teams in three international venues. [2]
It was Sri Lanka's first ever series win against Pakistan in a T20I bilateral series. [57] Sri Lanka went on to win the final T20I match by 13 runs, winning the series 3–0. [58] It was the first time in a three-match T20I series that Sri Lanka had won 3–0, and the first time that Pakistan had been whitewashed. [59]
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.
[8] [9] Sri Lanka Cricket and Innovative Production Group apparently sealed a five-year multi-million dollar agreement worth US$10 million with Supreme TV which is also regarded as one of the biggest broadcasting deals in Sri Lanka's history. [10] The channel telecast Sri Lanka Tour of India Sri Lanka territories. [11]