Basnahira North cricket team

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Basnahira North
One Day nameBasnahira North elevens
Personnel
Captain Thilina Kandamby
Team information
Founded Western Province
1990–1991
Basnahira North
1992–2010
Basnahira
2011
Home ground R. Premadasa Stadium
Capacity35,000
History
First-class debutvs Ruhuna cricket team [1]
in 1992
at  Sinhalese Sports Club Ground
IP FC  wins3 (1992, 2008–09, 2009–10)
IP LO  winsnone
IP T20  winsnone
Official website Sri Lanka Cricket

Basnahira North cricket team represents northern region of Western Province, Sri Lanka in first-class cricket tournaments. Basnahira North is based in Colombo. The team competes in two Sri Lankan domestic cricket competitions. The first-class Inter-Provincial tournament and the Twenty20 competition known as the Inter-Provincial Twenty20. The team also participated in, now defunct, the Inter-Provincial Limited Overs Tournament in 2007–08. From 2009 onwards champions of the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament will be eligible to represent Sri Lanka in Twenty20 Champions League. [2] But Basnahira North did not win the title in this year. The team draws cricketers from first-class club competition Premier Limited Overs Tournament. The top 75 players of the tournament selected for the Inter-Provincial tournament. [3]

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Basnahira North's home ground is R. Premadasa Stadium, which is situated in northern part of city of Colombo. [4] E-wis, a Sri Lankan IT company is the team's sponsor. Many cricketers who had represented leading schools in Colombo ended up playing for the Western province. Current captain of the side, Chaminda Vaas [5] is a player who studied at the St. Joseph's College, Colombo.

2008/09 season

Basnhira North won the 2008–09 Inter-Provincial tournament beating Wayamba by 10 wickets in the finals. Angelo Mathews scored 152 runs in the finals and finished as the highest scorer in the tournament. [6] Earlier in the tournament Mathews also scored a career best 270 against Kandurata. [7] In 2009 Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament they managed to beat only the Schools invitational XI. [8] The team did not qualify for the semi-finals.

Name and participation

From the early years of the Inter-Provincial tournament to 2004–05 season teams used English names. But from 2007 to 2008 onwards the teams were named in Sinhalese. From its inception of the tournament Western Province 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.

TeamSeason
19901990–9119921993–941994–952003–042004–052007–082008–092009–102010–11
Western Province Western ProvinceCity, SuburbsSuburbs, North, SouthCity, North, SouthWestern ProvinceNorth, South Basnahira

Notable players

The following is a list of players who have represented both Basnahira North and Sri Lanka. [9]

Current squad

The squad for the 200809 season as of 22 March 2009. [5]

Basnahira North current squad
PlayersCoaches
Nat.NameAgePos.Bat st.Bowl st.
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Chaminda Vaas (Captain) 35All-rounder LHB LFM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Thilina Kandamby 26Batsman LHB LS
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Amal Athulathmudali 22Batsman LHB RFM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Ian Daniel 27Batsman RHB RM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Daminda Darshanpriya25Bowler RHB RMF
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Shanuka Dissanayake 31All-rounder RHB LO
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Nuwan Pradeep 22Bowler RHB RFM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Saliya Saman 23All-rounder RHB RFM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Nuwan Kulasekara 26Bowler RHB RFM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Angelo Mathews 21All-rounder RHB RFM
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Dhanuka Pathirana 26Batsman RHB OS
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Bhathiya Perera 31All-rounder RHB LS
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Muthumudalige Pushpakumara 27All-rounder LHB OS
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Kaushal Silva 22Wicket keeper RHB
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Gayan Wijekoon 32All-rounder LHB RM

Honours

2008/09

References

  1. "Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, 1992". ESPNcricinfo. 3 July 2001. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  2. Cricinfo staff (24 May 2009). "Champions League expanded from eight to 12 teams". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  3. Silva, Revata S. (25 March 2009). "SLC Inter-Provincial T-20 – 2008/09 Top ninety players in bang-bang cricket". The Island. Upali Newspapers Limited. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  4. "Sri Lanka Domestic Season". planetcricket.net. 22 December 2007. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  5. 1 2 "Sri Lanka Cricket Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Tournament, 2008/09". ESPNcricinfo. 22 March 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  6. Thawfeeq, Sa'adi (25 March 2009). "Mathews, Pushpakumara help Basnahira North to title". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  7. Thawfeeq, Sa'adi (18 February 2009). "Mathews 270 powers Basnahira North to innings win". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  8. Thawfeeq, Sa'adi (31 March 2009). "Basnahira North limp to consolation win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  9. "Tournaments in Sri Lanka" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 August 2009.