Inter-Provincial Cricket

Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament

Countries	Sri Lanka
Administrator	Sri Lanka Cricket
Format	First Class, List A, Twenty20
First edition	1990
Latest edition	2008
Tournament format	Double round-robin and Knockout
Number of teams	6 (2008)
Current champion	Wayamba(North Western) Province

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. 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. Now it played as both List A Tournament and a Twenty20 Tournament among 5 Provincial Teams.

Teams

	Team name	Home ground	First season
	Basnahira Utura Western Province North	R. Premadasa	1992 as Western Province in 1990
	Basnahira Dakuna Western Province South	SSC	1992 as Western Province in 1990
	Kandurata Central Province	Asgiriya	1990
	Ruhuna Southern Province	Galle	1990
	Wayamba North Western Province	Welagedara Stadium	1990/91

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

External Links

• Cricinfo-provincial archive