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Rio Sports Club
Rio Sports Club is a former first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka. Rio competed in the Sri Lankan first-class competition in 1992-93 and 2001-02. They played 14 matches and lost all of them. They continue to compete at sub-first-class levels. See also * List of Sri Lankan cricket teams References External links Rio Sports Club at CricketArchive Former senior cricket clubs of Sri Lanka {{cricket-team-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-class Cricket
First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams. Matches must allow for the teams to play two innings each, although in practice a team might play only one innings or none at all. The etymology of "first-class cricket" is unknown, but it was used loosely before it acquired official status in 1895, following a meeting of leading English clubs. At a meeting of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1947, it was formally defined on a global basis. A significant omission of the ICC ruling was any attempt to define first-class cricket retrospectively. That has left historians, and especially statisticians, with the problem of how to categorise earlier matches, especially those played in Great Britain be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and southeast of the Arabian Sea; it is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with India and Maldives. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and financial centre. Sri Lanka has a population of around 22 million (2020) and is a multinational state, home to diverse cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Sinhalese are the majority of the nation's population. The Tamils, who are a large minority group, have also played an influential role in the island's history. Other long established groups include the Moors, the Burghers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sri Lankan Cricket Teams
This is a list of Sri Lankan cricket teams who have played all forms of the game, past and present. Franchise teams * Colombo Stars * Dambulla Aura * Galle Gladiators * Jaffna Kings * Kandy Falcons Club teams Current major clubs These are the clubs with current first-class, List A and Twenty20 status who are playing in Sri Lanka's major tournaments: the SLC Major League Tournament, the SLC Major Clubs Limited Overs Tournament, and the SLC Major Clubs T20 Tournament. * Ace Capital Cricket Club (formerly Seeduwa Raddoluwa Cricket Club to 2011 and Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club to 2020) * Badureliya Sports Club * Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club * Burgher Recreation Club * Chilaw Marians Cricket Club * Colombo Cricket Club * Colts Cricket Club * Galle Cricket Club * Kalutara Town Club * Kandy Customs Cricket Club * Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club * Lankan Cricket Club * Moors Sports Club * Negombo Cricket Club * Nondescripts Cricket Club * Nugegoda Sports and Welfare C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
