Basnahira South cricket team is one of the five provincial cricket teams which make up the Sri Lankan domestic cricket structure representing southern region of Western province. Basnahira South is based in

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.The cricket team participate in the two provincial tournaments: the

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competition known as the Inter-Provincial Tournament, and the Twenty20 competition known as the

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. They also participated in the 2007/08 Inter-Provincial Limited Overs Tournament. The tournament is defunct now. The top 75 players of the Premier Limited Overs Tournament take part in the Inter-Provincial tournament. The team plays their home matches in Colombo

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and

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in Moratuwa.

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, a global printing and imaging solutions corporation is the Basnahira South's sponsor.

Tillakaratne Dilshan Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan ( si, තිලකරත්න මුදියන්සේලාගේ ඩිල්ෂාන්; born 14 October 1976), commonly known as TM Dilshan () is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain of th ...

is the captain of the side. Prasanna Jayawardene,

Malinda Warnapura Basnayake Shalith Malinda Warnapura (born 26 May 1979), or Malinda Warnapura, is a former professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who played in 14 Test matches and three One Day Internationals. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bo ...

and

Chamara Silva Lindamlilage Prageeth Chamara Silva ( si, චාමර සිල්වා) (born 14 December 1979) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played all formats of the game for 12 years. He is a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. After poor ...

are some of the other current

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ers in the side.

2008/09 season

Basnahira South did not qualify for this year's finals Inter-Provincial Tournament. Although they did better in the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament. They had the chance to qualify for the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League. Despite entering the finals unbeaten Basnhira South, collapsed from a strong position of 133 for 1, losing their last nine wickets for just eleven runs. Wayamba chased down the target with six balls remaining and qualified for the Twenty20 Champions League.

Name and participation

From the early years of the Inter-Provincial tournament to 2004/05 season teams used English names. But from 2007/08 onwards the teams were named in Sinhalese. From its inception of the tournament

Western Province Western Province or West Province may refer to: * Western Province, Cameroon *Western Province, Rwanda *Western Province (Kenya) *Western Province (Papua New Guinea) *Western Province (Solomon Islands) *Western Province, Sri Lanka *Western Provin ...

presented more than one team to the tournament except for 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons. Since then Western province teams became known as Basnahira North and Basnahira South. Basnahira is Sinhalese for West. Number of teams representing Western province varied from season to season and their names also. Teams represented Western Province for the each tournament given below.

Notable players

The following is a list of players who have represented both Basnahira South and Sri Lanka.

Current squad

The squad for the 2008–09 season as of 22 March 2009. , , , ,

(Captain) , , 32 , , All-rounder , , RHB , , OS , - , , , ,

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Malinga Bandara Herath Mudiyanselage Charitha Malinga Bandara (born 31 December 1979), commonly known as Malinga Bandara, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who played all formats. He is a right-handed batsman and also bowls legbreaks. He studied at the Kalutara ...

, , 29 , , Bowler , , RHB , , LS , - , , , ,

Charith Sylvester Charith Sylvester Fernando (born December 30, 1982) in Badulla is a Sri Lankan first class cricketer. Debuting in 2001, Sylvester is a left-handed wicket-keeper batsman. He made his Twenty20 debut on 17 August 2004, for Sinhalese Sports Club in ...

, , 26 , , Wicket keeper , , LHB , , , - , , , , Hasantha Fernando , , 29 , , All-rounder , , RHB , , RMF , - , , , , Janaka Gunaratne , , 28 , , All-rounder , , RHB , , OS , - , , , , Prasanna Jayawardene , , 29 , , Wicket keeper , , RHB , , , - , , , ,

Suranga Lakmal Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal ( si, රණසිංහ ආරච්චිගේ සුරංග ලක්මාල්; born 10 March 1987) is a former professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who played in all formats of the game and is a forme ...

, , 22 , , Bowler , , RHB , , RMF , - , , , , Chinthaka Perera , , 24 , , Bowler , , RHB , , RFM , - , , , , Dilruwan Perera , , 26 , , Bowler , , RHB , , OS , - , , , ,

Gihan Rupasinghe Rupasinghe Jayawardene Mudiyanselage Gihan Madushanka Rupasinghe (born March 5, 1986, in Watupitiwala) is a professional Sri Lankan T20I cricketer. International career Rupasinghe is the 30th Twenty20 International Cap for Sri Lanka. He made his ...

, , 23 , , Batsman , , LHB , , LS , - , , , ,

Milinda Siriwardana Tisse Appuhamilage Milinda Siriwardana, commonly as Milinda Siriwardana (born 4 December 1985) is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for limited over formats. He is a left-hand batsman and a left-arm spinner. He is playing Test, O ...

, , 23 , , All-rounder , , LHB , , LO , - , , , , Lahiru Thirimanne , , 19 , , Batsman , , LHB , , RMF , - , , , ,

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Honours

* Inter-Provincial Tournament * Inter-Provincial Limited Overs Tournament *

References

{{Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Former senior cricket clubs of Sri Lanka