The Sri Lanka national cricket group, nicknamed The Lions, is a full individual from the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test and One-Day International (ODI) status.[8] The group initially played universal cricket in 1926– 27, and were later granted Test status in 1982, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing country. The group is regulated by Sri Lanka Cricket. Dinesh Chandimal is the present skipper in Tests and Upul Tharanga in ODIs and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
Sri Lanka's national cricket group made impressive progress starting in the 1990s, ascending from underdog status to winning the Cricket World Cup in 1996. From that point forward, the group has kept on being a power in universal cricket. The Sri Lankan cricket group achieved the finals of the 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups successively. Be that as it may, they wound up being sprinters up in both those occasions.The batting of Sanath Jayasuriya, Aravinda de Silva, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Tillakaratne Dilshan went down by the knocking down some pins of Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga, Ajantha Mendis, Rangana Herath, among numerous other capable cricketers, has supported the accomplishments of Sri Lankan cricket over the most recent two decades.
Sri Lanka have won the Cricket World Cup in 1996, the ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 (co-champions with India), and have won the ICC World Twenty20 title in 2014. They have been successive sprinters up in the 2007 and 2011 Cricket World Cups, and have been sprinters up in the ICC World Twenty20 of every 2009 and 2012. The Sri Lankan cricket group presently holds a few world records, including the world record for most elevated group add up to in Tests. The ODI add up to was broken by England on 30 August 2016 and Twenty20 aggregate was broken by Australia on 6 September 2016
