Sri Lankan national cricket team
Sri Lanka cricket crest
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| Test status acquired | 1982 | ||||||||||||
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| Captain | Angelo Mathews | ||||||||||||
| Coach | Graham Ford | ||||||||||||
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| Test Matches | |||||||||||||
| First Test | v  England at P. Sara Oval, Colombo; 17–21 February 1982 |
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| Last Test | v  Bangladesh at P. Sara Oval, Colombo; 15–19 March 2017 |
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| First ODI | v  West Indies at Old Trafford, Manchester; 7 June 1975 |
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| Last ODI | v Bangladesh at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo; 1 April 2017 |
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| World Cup Appearances | 11 (first in 1975) | ||||||||||||
| Best result | Champions (1996) | ||||||||||||
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| First T20I | v England at Rose Bowl, Southampton; 15 June 2006 |
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| Last T20I | v Bangladesh at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo; 6 April 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 | 7th | 2nd |
| ODI | 7th | 1st |
| T20I | 8th | 1st |
| Tests | Played | Won/Lost |
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| Total | 258 | 81/96 (81 draws) |
| This year | 4 | 1/3 (0 draws) |
| ODIs | Played | Won/Lost |
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| Total | 790 | 369/380 (5 ties, 36 no result) |
| This year | 8 | 1/6 (0 ties, 1 no result) |
| T20Is | Played | Won/Lost |
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| Total | 95 | 51/42 (1 tie, 1 no result) |
| This year | 8 | 5/3 (0 ties, 0 no result) |
The Sri Lankan cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka in international cricket and 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. Angelo Mathews is the current captain of all formats of the game.
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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