Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club is a

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 officia ...

team based in

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

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 ...

. It is one of Sri Lanka's oldest cricket clubs founded in 1892 and competes in the Premier Trophy, which it has won eight times.

History

The club was founded in 1892.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold

Honours

* P Saravanamuttu Trophy (3) 1963–64 1994–95 1996–97 * Robert Senanayake Trophy (2) 1980–81 1981–82 * Lakspray Trophy (1) 1982–83 * Premier Trophy (2) 1998–99 2003–04 *Bristol Trophy Under 25 (2) 1983 1984

Club Presidents

Shelley Wickramasinghe Shelley Wickramasinghe (1926–10 August 2011) was a Sri Lankan cricketer. He studied at the Kalutara Vidyalaya. From 1972 to 2000, he represented Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club and served as its president three times. Wickramasinghe al ...

(1972–73) *

(1976–77) *

(1979 to 2000)

References

External links

Bloomfield Team on Batsman

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