Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament

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name = Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament


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country = Flagicon|Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
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administrator = Sri Lanka Cricket
cricket format = First Class, List A, Twenty20
first = 1990
last = 2008
tournament format = Double round-robin and Knockout
participants = 6 (2008)
champions = Wayamba(North Western) Province
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Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament is a domestic cricket competition in Sri Lanka. It Started as a First-Class Tournament in 1990 because of the general idea that Club cricket alone is would be not enough to keep Sri Lanka Cricket competitive. [cite web |url= http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/SL.html|title=Tournaments in Sri Lanka |accessdate=2008-09-22 |work=cricketarchive.com ] Sri Lanka remains today as the only Test Cricket playing country to have Club cricket as their major form of First Class Cricket. After 10 years of hiatus it revived in 2004 again. This revival welcomed many cricketers. [cite web |url= http://content-sl.cricinfo.com/sangakkarazone/content/story/333240.html|title=The future is provincial |accessdate=2008-09-22 |work=cricinfo.com ] Now it played as both List A Tournament and a Twenty20 Tournament among 5 Provincial Teams.

Teams

From the inauguration of the tournament participating teams varied from year to year. 1990 the tournament started with four provincial teams. They were Western Province, Central Province, Southern Provinceand North Western Province. But in 1991 Western province as the major player contributor to Sri Lankan Cricket had two teams, City team and Suburb team. Then three teams in 1992 and therefore total teams participating was six. 1993 Western province presented three teams again as one City team and two suburban teams. After nearly 10 years of hiatus tournament revived in 2004. Teams yet again changed, only one team from Western province and teams for North Central Province, Uva Province participated for the first time. Then again in 2008 Limited Over Tournament comprised two teams from Western province. For the Twenty20 Tournament 2008 five provincial teams and schools invited team participated. List of the teams for each tournament as follows.

;1990 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Western Province

;1990/91 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province City
*Western Province Suburbs
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Western Province

;1992 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province North
*Western Province South
*Western Province Suburbs
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Western Province

;1993/94 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province North
*Western Province South
*Western Province City
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Western Province

;1994/95 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province North
*Western Province South
*Western Province City
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Western Province

;2003/04 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Central Province
*Uva Province

;2004/05 Tournament Teams:
*Western Province
*Central Province
*Southern Province
*North Central Province

;2007/08 Limited Over Tournament Teams:
*Basnahira Utura - Western Province
*Basnahira Dakuna - Western Province
*Kandurata - Central Province
*Ruhuna - Southern Province
*Wayamba - North Western Province

;2007/08 Twenty20 Tournament Teams:
*Basnahira Utura
*Basnahira Dakuna
*Kandurata
*Ruhuna
*Wayamba
*Sri Lanka Schools

Tournaments

;First-Class
* Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, 1990
* Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, 1990-91
* Singer Inter-Provincial Tournament, 1992
* Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, 1993-94
* Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, 1994-95
* Ten Sports Inter-Provincial Tournament, 2003/04
* Inter-Provincial Tournament 2004/05

;List-A
* Inter-Provincial Limited Over Tournament 2007/08

;Twenty20
* Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Tournament 2007/08

References

External Links

* [http://sl.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/SL/DOMESTIC/archive_provincial.html Cricinfo-provincial archive]