Sri Lanka Cricket ( SLC ) is the governing body for cricket in Sri Lanka . It was first registered with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Sports as the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka on 30 June 1975 as a national sports body. The board was renamed in 2003.
15-617: The Abu Dhabi T10 also known as T10 League , is a T10 cricket league in the United Arab Emirates launched and owned by T Ten Sports Management. The league is approved by the Emirates Cricket Board . The matches are 10-overs-a-side and the duration of each match is approximately 90 minutes. The tournament is a round-robin format followed by Eliminators and the Final. The International Cricket Council (ICC) officially sanctioned
30-654: A cricket club. The Colombo Cricket Club was formed soon afterwards and matches began in November 1833 when it played against the 97th Regiment. Throughout the 20th century, the game became increasingly popular in Sri Lanka. It was in the 1975 inaugural Cricket World Cup that they made their international debut. They lost to the West Indies by 9 wickets. They did however turn heads at the same tournament with an excellent display in their match against Australia. The national team won
45-589: Is a short form of cricket . Two teams play a single innings , which is restricted to a maximum of ten overs (60 legal balls ) per side, with the game lasting approximately 90 minutes. The first competition using this format took place in December 2017 , the opening season of the T10 League (now known as the Abu Dhabi T10) in the United Arab Emirates . The International Cricket Council (ICC) officially sanctioned
60-589: Is a greater emphasis on fast scoring and hitting boundaries . There have been various positive and negative reactions to T10 cricket, all largely pertaining to the shortness of the format. Sri Lanka Cricket The SLC operates all of the Sri Lankan national representative cricket sides, including the Men's , Women's and Under-19 sides. The SLC is also responsible for organising and hosting Test tours and one day internationals with other nations, and scheduling
75-455: The 2023 Cricket World Cup , Ranasinghe called for the resignation of the SLC board. On 6 November 2023, after the board's secretary Mohan De Silva resigned, Ranasinghe removed the entire SLC board and replaced them with a seven-member interim committee led by Arjuna Ranatunga —captain of Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup team. The next day, in response to a petition by the board's president Shammi Silva ,
90-572: The Appeal Court ruled that the previous board was to be reinstated for a period of two weeks pending hearings. On 10 November 2023, the ICC suspended SLC for failing to meet "the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and ensure that there is no government interference in the governance, regulation and/or administration". While the board of the ICC ruled that the suspension would not affect Sri Lanka's day-to-day participation in international cricket,
105-659: The Caribbean Premier League featured two exhibition women's T10 cricket matches, each played before two of the knockout matches. In May 2020, Cricket West Indies announced that the first edition of the Vincy Premier T10 League would start on 22 May 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The Vanuatu T10 Blast started one day earlier in Port Vila . In June 2020, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced
120-851: The ICC Trophy in 1979. On 21 July 1981, Sri Lanka was admitted to full membership of the ICC and was awarded Test Match status. The inaugural Test was played at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo in February 1982 against England but Sri Lanka lost by 8 wickets. Sri Lanka won the 1996 Cricket World Cup by defeating Australia. Sri Lanka won the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 by defeating India. In 2023, SLC faced accusations of corruption and declining standards, with Minister for Sports Roshan Ranasinghe having considered its board to be "traitorous and corrupt". After being eliminated from
135-642: The commencement of the first edition of the PDC T10 League. A number of other minor T10 leagues have been started, such as the Cricket Fiji Vakataukata T10 League and the Malaysia T10 Bash. T10 cricket is notably shorter than other cricket formats; the shortest format of cricket played at the international level is T20 cricket , in which games are 20 overs per side and last approximately 3 hours. Because of its relative shortness, there
150-478: The country was stripped of its rights to host the 2024 Under-19 Cricket World Cup . On 28 January 2024, the ICC lifted the suspension, after its board ruled that SLC were no longer in breach of membership obligations. Sri Lanka Cricket oversees the progress and handling of the major domestic competitions in the country: They also organize and host the Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament ,
165-563: The home international fixtures. Cricket was brought to the nation when it was colonized by the British. As everywhere that the British arrived in numbers, cricket soon followed and it is reasonable to assume that the game was first played on the island by 1800. The earliest definite mention of cricket in Ceylon was a report in the Colombo Journal on 5 September 1832 which called for the formation of
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#1732869771826180-412: The league in 2018 as a semi-professional cricket tournament. The league has seen significant year-on-year growth in viewership and economic value, with the 2021-2022 edition of the tournament having reached 342 million viewers through television and digital streaming compared to roughly 37 million viewers in the 2017 edition , and the league's economic impact now valued at US$ 621.2 million. The league
195-673: The league. In May 2020, Eoin Morgan , the captain of the England cricket team , supported the idea of using the format at the Olympics , with former international cricketers Virender Sehwag and Shahid Afridi also supporting the idea. In June 2022, Cricket West Indies became the first full-member cricket board to start a T10 competition, which is called The 6ixty . Later that year, Sri Lanka Cricket and Zimbabwe Cricket announced plans to start their own T10 competitions in 2023. T-Ten Sports,
210-817: The organisers of the Abu Dhabi T10, have helped organise T10 leagues in Zimbabwe and the USA . India hosted the Indian Street Premier League , a tennis ball cricket league, in the T10 format in March 2024, with over ₹ 1,165 crore (US$ 140 million) having been spent by the winning bidders in order to own the six teams in the competition. In May-June of 2024 Nepal T10 was organized in Biratnagar at MBJ Cricket Ground. In 2019,
225-670: Was founded by Shaji Ul Mulk, the chairman of T10 League The purpose of starting this league was to bring out the local talent of UAE on a big level and to entertain the viewers by doing something unique by introducing a 10 overs cricket format. . 10 out of the 11 players on a team can be overseas players (from any part of the world) All its other rules are like other franchise leagues of the world . 94/3 (9.2 overs) 91/5 (10 overs) Team now defunct T10 cricket First-class cricket One Day International Limited overs (domestic) Twenty20 International Twenty20 (domestic) Other forms T10 cricket or Ten10 cricket
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