Wayamba Elevens
| Captain: |
 Mahela Jayawardene
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| Coach: |
Lanka de Silva
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| Colours: | Green Blue White |
| Founded: | 1990 |
| Home ground: | Welagedara Stadium |
| Capacity: | 10,000 |
| First-class debut: |
Ruhuna in 1990 at Galle International Stadium |
| IP FC wins: | 0 (Group Stage 2010) |
| IP LO wins: | 1 Joint champions with Kandurata (2007–08) |
| IP T20 wins: | 3 (2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10) |
| CLT20 wins: | none |
| Official website: | Sri Lanka Cricket |
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| Location | Kurunegala, North Western Province, Sri Lanka |
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| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Opened | 1972 |
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| Wayamba cricket team (1990–present) | |
Wayamba cricket team was a Sri Lankan first class cricket team based in Kurunegala, that represented North Western Province. It drew cricketers from Sri Lanka Premier Trophy. The team competed in two provincial tournaments: the first class cricket competition known as the Inter-Provincial Tournament, and the Twenty20 competition known as the Inter-Provincial Twenty20. Also Wayamba province cricket team became joint champions with Kandurata in the 2007/08 Inter-Provincial Limited overs tournament after the finals match drawn due to rain.
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, Ajantha Mendis and Thilan Samaraweera are some of the experienced cricketers play for Wayamba province cricket team.
Wayamba Province cricket team participated every tournament from the inaugural season to 1994/95 season. After the tournament revived after nearly ten years in 2003/04 season the team excluded from the tournament. Eventually in 2007/08 when the team included again in the Inter-Provincial Limited overs tournament they went on to win the title under the captaincy of Mahela Jayawardene.
When the Inter-provincial tournament started in 1990 teams used English names. The team representing North Western Province is known as North Western province team. But from the 2007/08 season, the teams named in Sinhalese, North Western province team then onwards known as "Wayamba team" (Sinhalese for "North West").
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