The 2019–20 Premier League Tournament Tier B is the second division of the 32nd season of
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 of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...
in
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ...
's
Premier Trophy
The Major League Tournament (formerly known as the Premier Trophy) is the main domestic first-class cricket competition in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1938 and has existed under a number of different names. Matches before the 1988–89 seas ...
. The tournament started on 31 January and was originally scheduled to conclude on 11 April 2020.
Lankan Cricket Club
Lankan Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team in Sri Lanka.
History
Lankan Cricket Club played in the Premier Trophy from 2005–06 to 2012–13. It was one of six clubs that lost their places when the competition was reduced from 20 teams t ...
won the tournament in the
previous season and were promoted to Tier A. They were replaced in Tier B by
Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club Coach_ Thisera Captain _ Chaninda Bandara
Ace Capital Cricket Club is a first-class cricket club based in Negombo, Sri Lanka. It was originally founded in 1989 as the Seeduwa/Raddoluwa Cricket Club. In 2011, it became the Sri Lanka Ports Authority ...
after their relegation from
Tier A.
The league was expanded to twelve teams, with the addition of
Kandy Customs Cricket Club,
Nugegoda Sports and Welfare Club
Nugegoda Sports and Welfare Club, commonly abbreviated as NSWC, is a first-class cricket club in Sri Lanka. It is one of the 14 affiliated clubs of Sri Lanka Cricket. Tillakaratne Sampath is the current captain of the club.
History
Nugegoda Sport ...
and
Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club.
On 16 March 2020,
Sri Lanka Cricket
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is the governing body for cricket in Sri Lanka. It was first registered with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Sports (Sri Lanka), Ministry of Sports as the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka on 30 June 1975 as a national ...
postponed the rest of the tournament due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. In July 2020, Sri Lanka Cricket announced that
Tier A would resume on 14 July 2020.
The Tier B tournament never resumed and was cancelled in August 2020 after seven rounds of matches (of eleven planned rounds).
Points table
Matches
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Round 5
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Round 6
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Round 7
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See also
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2019–20 Premier League Tournament Tier A
References
External links
Series home at ESPN Cricinfo
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