• Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket-playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket. Sri Lanka's national...
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  • The Ceylon national cricket team, later Sri Lanka national cricket team, represents Sri Lanka in international cricket since its first international representative...
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  • the Sri Lanka national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832. By the 1880s a national team, the Ceylon national cricket...
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    national cricket team (Pashto: د افغانستان کرکټ ملي لوب‌‌‌‌‌‌ډله, Persian: تیم ملی کریکت افغانستان) represents Afghanistan in international cricket....
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  • Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status. It became an associate...
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  • Chandika Hathurusingha (category Sri Lanka Test cricketers)
    born 13 September 1968) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach and former player. He represented the Sri Lanka national cricket team from 1991 to 1999 as an all-rounder...
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    The Pakistan national cricket team has represented Pakistan in international cricket since 1952. It is controlled by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB),...
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  • had a national cricket team before it achieved Test status. A summary of key moments: Rhodesia was represented in the South African domestic cricket tournament...
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    Muttiah Muralitharan (category Sri Lanka Test cricketers)
    17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer. Averaging over six wickets per Test match, he is widely regarded...
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    a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team. He is often regarded as the best rated Sri Lankan player in...
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  • awarded Test status, along with Afghanistan, on 22 June 2017. Ireland and Afghanistan are the most recently appointed Test-playing nations. Modern Cricket was...
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    runs in Test. Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, becoming the first Indian captain to win the Cricket World Cup...
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    hauls in Test cricket by Tim Southee". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 January 2021. "2nd Test, Colombo, Nov 25-29 2012, New Zealand tour of Sri Lanka". ESPNcricinfo...
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  • women's national cricket team (formerly also known as the Southern Stars) represent Australia in international women's cricket. Currently captained by Alyssa...
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    Ravi Shastri (category Coaches of the Indian national cricket team)
    team. As a player, he played for the India national cricket team between 1981 and 1992 in both Test matches and One Day Internationals. Although he started...
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    The Sri Lankan Civil War (Tamil: இலங்கை உள்நாட்டுப் போர், romanized: Ilaṅkai uḷnāṭṭup pōr; Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිවිල් යුද්ධය, romanized: śrī laṁkāvē...
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    Shane Warne (category Test cricket hat-trick takers)
    Personality of the Year. In 2007, Cricket Australia and Sri Lanka Cricket decided to name the Australia–Sri Lanka Test cricket series the Warne–Muralidaran...
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    2022). "Sri Lanka becomes first full-member cricket nation to introduce T10 League". SportsCafe.in. Retrieved 8 December 2022. "ZC to launch six-team T10...
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  • ICC Cricket World Cup was the 12th Cricket World Cup, a quadrennial One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament contested by men's national teams and...
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  • India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.[citation needed] It has several variants and is usually played by 2 teams consisting of 3-4 players each. If...
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  • The Scotland national men's cricket team (Scottish Gaelic: Sgioba nàiseanta criogaid na h-Alba; Scots Scotland naitional cricket team) represents the country...
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  • pitches and dreadful over rates from both teams, but thanks largely to Ian Botham won a one-off test in Sri Lanka on the way home. Bob Willis was appointed...
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    Jason Roy (category England Test cricketers)
    (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, and previously played for the Test team. In domestic cricket, he represents Surrey, and has played in...
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    Paul Collingwood (category Coaches of the Scotland national cricket team)
    subsequent tour of Sri Lanka Collingwood led the team to victory in the ODI Series. In the later Test series, he became the 709th Test wicket of Muttiah...
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    Kevin Pietersen (category England Test cricket captains)
    series in Sri Lanka. This form was still fluctuating in the warm-up matches for the Test series, scoring 4, 1 and 59 against the Sri Lankan Cricket XI. This...
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  • of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS) has published a list of early matches which are believed to have been of a high standard. Test cricket, the...
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    was inaugurated by Jamaican sprinter and tournament ambassador Usain Bolt on May 15; as test events, the stadium hosted "community cricket events" in late-May...
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    Don Bradman (category Australia national cricket team selectors)
    His cricketing successes have been claimed by Shane Warne, among others, to make Bradman the "greatest sportsperson" in history. Bradman's career Test batting...
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  • carrying the Sri Lanka national cricket team to a match at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium in Pakistan. Six Pakistani policemen escorting the team and two civilians...
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    India; kapardi in Nepal; kabadi or sadugudu in Tamil Nadu; and chakgudu in Sri Lanka. Origins of Kabaddi are not clear. The sport is said to have existed in...
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