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Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is one of the twelve nations that take part in Test cricket and one of the six nations that has won a cricket World Cup. Cricket is played at professional, semi-professional and recreational levels in the country and international cricket matches are watched with interest by a large proportion of the population.

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  • Cricket ist in Sri Lanka die wichtigste Sportart. Der professionelle Cricket-Sport wird vom Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) organisiert. Die sri-lankische Nationalmannschaft ist seit dem Jahr 1982 berechtigt Test Cricket zu bestreiten. Ihre größten Erfolge waren der Gewinn des Cricket World Cup 1996, dem geteilten Sieg bei der ICC Champions Trophy 2002 und der Gewinn der ICC World Twenty20 2014. (de)
  • Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is one of the twelve nations that take part in Test cricket and one of the six nations that has won a cricket World Cup. Cricket is played at professional, semi-professional and recreational levels in the country and international cricket matches are watched with interest by a large proportion of the population. Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon) was occupied by the British in 1796 and became a British colony in 1815. As in all places that the British arrived in large 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 a cricket club. The Colombo Cricket Club was formed soon afterwards and matches began in November 1832. Since then, the sport has grown domestically with major events such as the Premier Trophy (dating from 1938) and the Premier Limited Overs Tournament (starting 1988–89). Sri Lanka's one day international debut came in the 1975 Cricket World Cup. The country was awarded Test cricket status by the International Cricket Council in 1981. (en)
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  • Sri Lanka cricket team celebrating after winning the 2014 ICC World Twenty World Cup (en)
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  • * Premier Trophy * Premier Limited Overs Tournament * Premier Twenty20 Tournament (en)
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  • * Cricket World Cup * ICC World Twenty20 * ICC Champions Trophy * Nidahas Trophy * Warne–Muralidaran Trophy * Sobers–Tissera Trophy * ICC World Test Championship * ICC Cricket World Cup Super League (en)
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  • * National Super League 4-Day Tournament * National Super League Limited Over Tournament * Lankan Premier League (en)
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  • Cricket in Sri Lanka (en)
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  • Cricket ist in Sri Lanka die wichtigste Sportart. Der professionelle Cricket-Sport wird vom Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) organisiert. Die sri-lankische Nationalmannschaft ist seit dem Jahr 1982 berechtigt Test Cricket zu bestreiten. Ihre größten Erfolge waren der Gewinn des Cricket World Cup 1996, dem geteilten Sieg bei der ICC Champions Trophy 2002 und der Gewinn der ICC World Twenty20 2014. (de)
  • Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is one of the twelve nations that take part in Test cricket and one of the six nations that has won a cricket World Cup. Cricket is played at professional, semi-professional and recreational levels in the country and international cricket matches are watched with interest by a large proportion of the population. (en)
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  • Cricket in Sri Lanka (en)
  • Cricket in Sri Lanka (de)
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