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The Singhalese Sports Club (SSC) was a first-class cricket club in Colombo, Sri Lanka till 2025 when they were relegated after enduring a horrendous 2024-25 version of the Major Club 3 day tournament in which they could only muster a single victory and lost two of their eight matches [2] [3].
In 1992 Australian tour of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka lost the SSC Test match to Australia by 16 runs after being set a target of only 181 runs. [7] This is one of Sri Lanka's narrowest defeats in Test cricket. [8] Shane Warne took three wickets in thirteen balls; this was his first notable performance in Test cricket. [9]
List of Sports Clubs in Colombo. ... Sinhalese Sports Club; Colombo Cricket Club; Colts Cricket Club ... Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club; Sri Lanka Army Sports ...
Kurunegala Sports Club (first-class in 1992–93) Matara Sports Club (first-class 1997 to 2001) Nomads Sports Club (extinct; last first-class in 1995) Old Cambrians Sports Club (first-class in 1991–92) Rio Sports Club (first-class in 2001–02) Seeduwa Raddoluwa Cricket Club (became Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club in 2011)
A test match between Sri Lanka and England at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo, March 2001. Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. [8] It is one of the twelve nations that are full members and take part in test cricket and one of the seven nations that has won a Cricket World Cup. Cricket is played at professional, semi ...
The R. Premadasa Stadium was also one of the three grounds in Sri Lanka that hosted matches for the 1996 Cricket World Cup. The other two were the Asgiriya Stadium and the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground. [6] The R. Premadasa Stadium was the venue for the match in 1997 where Sri Lanka scored a record 952 runs for 6 wickets against India. [7]
They played two first-class and two limited overs matches versus Sri Lanka and two further first-class matches versus the Sri Lanka Board president's XI. India defeated Sri Lanka at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground by 6 wickets but the other three first-class games were impacted by the weather and were drawn.
The Colombo Cricket Club Ground is the home ground of the Colombo Cricket Club, the oldest first-class cricket club in Sri Lanka. [2] The Ground is one of the three cricket grounds located in Maitland Crescent, Colombo, the other two being the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground and the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground. [3]