Ceylon national cricket team
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| Nickname(s) | The Lions | ||||||||||||
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| Association | Sri Lanka Cricket | ||||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||||
| Test captain | Dinesh Chandimal | ||||||||||||
| One-day captain | Angelo Mathews | ||||||||||||
| T20I captain | Angelo Mathews | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Chandika Hathurusingha | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Test status acquired | 1982 | ||||||||||||
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| ICC status | Associate member (1965) Full member (1981) |
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| ICC region | Asia | ||||||||||||
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| Tests | |||||||||||||
| First Test | v  England at P. Sara Oval, Colombo; 17–21 February 1982 |
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| Last Test | v  India at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi; 2–6 December 2017 |
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| One Day Internationals | |||||||||||||
| First ODI | v  West Indies at Old Trafford, Manchester; 7 June 1975 |
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| Last ODI | v  Zimbabwe at Shere Bangla Stadium, Dhaka; 17 January 2018 |
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| World Cup Appearances | 11 (first in 1975) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1996) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup Qualifier Appearances | 1 (first in 1979) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1979) | ||||||||||||
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| First T20I | v England at the Rose Bowl, Southampton; 15 June 2006 |
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| Last T20I | v India at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai; 24 December 2017 |
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| World Twenty20 Appearances | 6 (first in 2007) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (2014) | ||||||||||||
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| ICC Rankings | Current | Best-ever |
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| Test | 6th | 2nd |
| ODI | 8th | 1st |
| T20I | 8th | 1st |
| Tests | Played | Won/Lost |
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| Total | 267 | 84/100 (83 draws) |
| This year | 0 | 0/0 (0 draws) |
| ODIs | Played | Won/Lost |
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| Total | 812 | 373/398 (5 ties, 36 no result) |
| This year | 1 | 0/1 (0 ties, 0 no result) |
| T20Is | Played | Won/Lost |
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| Total | 102 | 51/49 (1 tie, 1 no result) |
| This year | 0 | 0/0 (0 ties, 0 no result) |
The Sri Lanka national cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, represents Sri Lanka in international Cricket. It is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One-Day International (ODI) status. The team first played international cricket in 1926–27, and were later awarded Test status in 1982, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket. Dinesh Chandimal is the current captain in Tests and Angelo Mathews is reappointed as the captain in ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) in 2018.
Sri Lanka's national cricket team achieved considerable success beginning in the 1990s, rising from underdog status to winning the Cricket World Cup in 1996. Since then, the team has continued to be a force in international cricket. The Sri Lankan cricket team reached the finals of the 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups consecutively. But they ended up being runners up in both those occasions. The batting of Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda de Silva, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan backed up by the bowling of Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath, among many other talented cricketers, has underpinned the successes of Sri Lankan cricket in the last two decades.
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