Nidahas Trophy

Nidahas Trophy

Administrator	Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC)
Format	ODI, T20I
First edition	1998
Latest edition	2018
Next edition	2038
Tournament format	Double round-robin and Final
Number of teams	India   Sri Lanka   New Zealand   Bangladesh
Host	Sri Lanka
Current champion	India (2nd title)
Most successful	India (2 titles)
Most runs	Sachin Tendulkar (263) (ODI) Kusal Perera (204) (T20I) [1]
Most wickets	Ajit Agarkar (12) (ODI) Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal (8) (T20I)

Nidahas Trophy is an international cricket tournament held in Sri Lanka. The tournament is held to celebrate the independence of the Asian island country Sri Lanka. ^[2] The tournament is not a regular event in the calendar with the previous tournaments having a gap of 20 years in between. ^[3] Each of the three participating teams play each other twice and the top two progress to the final. In March 2017 Sri Lanka Cricket announced that the 2018 tournament would be played in the newer and shorter T20I format with Bangladesh entering the tournament, replacing the only Non-Asian team in the triple-nation New Zealand.

Tournament history

Both the tournaments have been won by India, defeating Sri Lanka in the final of the 1998 tournament and Bangladesh in the final of the 2018 tournament.

Year	Format	Host(s)	Final venue	Result
				Winner	Margin	Runner-up
1998	ODI	Sri Lanka	Colombo	India 307/6 (50 overs)	India won by 6 runs Scorecard	Sri Lanka 301 all out (49.3 overs)
2018	T20I	Sri Lanka	Colombo	India 168/6 (20 overs)	India won by 4 wickets Scorecard	Bangladesh 166/8 (20 overs)

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Results summary

The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past Nidahas Trophy tournaments. ^{[5] [6]}

Team	Appearances			Best result	Statistics
	Total	First	Latest		Played	Won	Lost	Tie	NR	Win%
India	2	1998	2018	Champions(1998, 2018)	12	6	2	0	4	66.67%
Sri Lanka	2	1998	2018	Runners-up(1998)	11	4	5	0	2	45.45%
Bangladesh	1	2018	2018	Runners-up(2018)	5	2	3	0	0	40.00%
New Zealand	1	1998	1998	Group Stage (1998)	6	0	2	0	4	33.33%

Teams Performances

Team \ Host	1998 (3) [7]	2018 (3) [8]
		[9]
Bangladesh	—	2nd
India	1st	1st
New Zealand	Group Stage	—
Sri Lanka	2nd	Group Stage

Debut of teams

Year	Debutants	Total
1998 [10]	India,   New Zealand,   Sri Lanka	3
2018	Bangladesh [11]	1

References

1. "India and Bangladesh in Sri Lanka T20I Tri-Series, 2018 Statistics".
2. "Nidahas trophy 2018 announced | Sri Lanka Cricket". Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2018-10-01.
3. 1998 & 2018.
4. 라이브스코어
5. "Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy, Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy 1998 score, Match schedules, fixtures, points table, results, news".
6. "Nidahas Twenty20 Tri-Series, Nidahas T20 Series 2017/18 score, Match schedules, fixtures, points table, results, news".
7. Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy 1998 | Cricket news, live scores, fixtures, features and statistics on ESPNcricinfo
8. Nidahas Twenty20 Tri-Series 2018 - Live Cricket Scores & Fixtures | ESPNCricinfo
9. SL to host India, Bangladesh for T20I tri-series in March - ESPNcricinfo
10. Sri Lanka and New Zealand are tough opponents - Gaekwad
11. Indian cricket team's flag gesture after Nidahas Trophy 2018 final wins Sri Lankan hearts | cricket | Hindustan Times