Nidahas Trophy is an international

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tournament held in

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. The tournament is held to celebrate the independence of the Asian island country Sri Lanka. The tournament is not a regular event in the calendar with the previous tournaments having a gap of 20 years in between. Each of the three participating teams play each other twice and the top two progress to the final. In March 2017

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announced that the 2018 tournament would be played in the newer and shorter

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format with Bangladesh entering the tournament, replacing the only Non-Asian team in the triple-nation New Zealand.

Tournament history

Both the tournaments have been won by

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, defeating

in the final of the 1998 tournament and

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in the final of the 2018 tournament.

Results summary

The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past Nidahas Trophy tournaments.

Teams Performances

Debut of teams

References

{{International cricket tours of Sri Lanka One Day International cricket competitions Twenty20 International cricket competitions Cricket in Asia Recurring sporting events established in 1998