Moors Sports Club Ground

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Moors Sports Club Ground
Ground information
LocationMuttaiah Road and Braybrooke Place, Colombo 02
Owner Moors Sports Club
End names
Main Pavilion End
Score Board End
International information
First WODI13 April 1998:
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka v Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Last WODI29 January 2002:
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka v Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Only WT20I3 October 2012:
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As of 3 September 2020
Source: Cricinfo

Moors Sports Club Ground is a first-class cricket ground in Colombo, the home ground of the Moors Sports Club.

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Location

The ground is on Muttaiah Road and Braybrooke Place, near Beira Lake and Gangaramaya Temple, about one kilometre from the sea.

History

Moors Sports Club used the ground for many years before the first first-class matches were played there, in 1988-89, when Sri Lanka's domestic competition, the Lakspray Trophy, was granted first-class status. Since then it has been in constant use for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. While Moors play their home matches there, other teams also use the ground in Sri Lanka's domestic competitions.

As of early September 2020, 207 first-class matches and 111 List A matches had been played at the ground.

Five women's international matches have been played at the ground, all between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Two of them took place in 1998, three in 2002. [1] Three matches in the 2000 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup were played at the ground. [2]

Records

The highest first-class score on the ground is 300 not out by Ramesh Mendis for Moors against Negombo in 2019-20. [3] The best bowling figures are 9 for 38 by Manjula Munasinghe for Western Province North against Central Province in 1993-94. [4]

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References

  1. "Women's one-day international matches played at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. "Youth one-day international matches played at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  3. "Double centuries at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  4. "Seven wickets in an innings at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

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