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Countries | Sri Lanka |
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Administrator | Sri Lanka Cricket |
Format | First-class cricket |
First edition | 2022 |
Latest edition | 2024 |
Next edition | 2025 |
Tournament format | Double round-robin and final |
Number of teams | 5 |
Current champion | Dambulla |
Most runs | Ahan Wickramasinghe (1004) |
Most wickets | Shashika Dulshan (39) |
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The National Super League 4-Day Tournament is a domestic first-class cricket competition, which is held annually in Sri Lanka. Five cricket teams representing five districts of the country take part in the tournament. [1] The league is organized by the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) beginning in the 2022 season. [2] In January 2022, the SLC launched the tournament. [3] The squads for the competition are announced based on the performances in the Major League Tournament, with 26 clubs clustered under five teams. [4] The tournament serves as the criteria to select players for Sri Lanka's Test squad. [5] The tournament runs alongside the National Super League Limited Over Tournament.
Team | Clubs | Title (s) | Runner-up |
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Kandy | 1 | 0 | |
Colombo | 0 | 0 | |
Jaffna | 0 | 1 | |
Galle | 0 | 1 | |
Dambulla | 1 | 0 |
Season | Winner | Runner-up | Leading run-scorer | Leading wicket-taker | Ref |
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2022 | Kandy | Jaffna | Kamindu Mendis (886) | Prabath Jayasuriya (23) | [6] |
2023 | Dambulla | Galle | Minod Bhanuka (456) | Shashika Dulshan (22) | |
2024 | Galle | Kandy | Oshada Fernando (885) | Nishan Peiris (35) | [7] |
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