Dates | 15 December 2017 – 18 February 2018 |
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Administrator(s) | Sri Lanka Cricket |
Cricket format | First-class cricket |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin |
Host(s) | Sri Lanka |
Champions | Negombo Cricket Club |
Participants | 9 |
Matches | 36 |
Most runs | Kashif Naved (805) |
Most wickets | Gayan Sirisoma (55) |
The 2017–18 Premier League Tournament Tier B was the second division of the 30th season of first-class cricket in Sri Lanka's Premier Trophy. The tournament was contested by nine teams, starting on 15 December 2017 and concluding on 18 February 2018. [1]
Panadura Sports Club finished top of the table in the 2016–17 Tier B tournament, but it was runners-up Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club who were promoted to Tier A due to a match-fixing scandal that resulted in a match between Panadura SC and Kalutara Physical Culture Club in January 2017 being declared null and void. [2] [3] [4] They were replaced in Tier B by Galle Cricket Club after they were relegated from the 2016–17 Tier A tournament. In another change from the previous season, Negombo Cricket Club replaced Kalutara Physical Culture Club, who dropped out of the first-class system.
Negombo Cricket Club won the tournament and secured promotion to Tier A, after finishing top of the points table ahead of Lankan Cricket Club. [5] [6]
Team [7] | Pld | W | L | D | T | Pts |
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Negombo Cricket Club | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 87.74 |
Lankan Cricket Club | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 86.91 |
Galle Cricket Club | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 76.39 |
Kalutara Town Club | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 76.25 |
Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 71.71 |
Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 65.72 |
Panadura Sports Club | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 64.34 |
Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 63.19 |
Police Sports Club | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 58.56 |
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