page_title: History of the Sri Lankan cricket team
section_title: 2010s
hierarchical_section_title: History of the Sri Lankan cricket team / 2010s
caption_attribution_description: October 2010 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
context_page_description: The History of the Sri Lanka national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832. By the 1880s a national team, the Ceylon national cricket team, was formed which began playing first-class cricket by the 1920s. The Ceylon national cricket team had achieved associate member status of the International Cricket Council in 1965. Renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, the national team first competed in top level international cricket in 1975, when they played against West Indies during 1975 Cricket World Cup; West Indies won the match by 9 wickets at the Old Trafford, Manchester, England.
  After Sri Lanka awarded Test status on 21 July 1981 as eighth Test playing nation, they had to wait until 6 September 1985, where Sri Lanka recorded their first Test win by beating India, in the second match of the series by 149 runs at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo. As of 10 July 2018, Sri Lanka have played 272 Test matches; they have won 86 matches, lost 101 matches, and 85 matches were drawn. They have also won the 2001-02 Asian Test Championship, defeating Pakistan in the final by an innings and 175 runs.
context_section_description: 2010 ICC World Twenty20
  Although the tournament was held every two years beginning in 2007, the scheduled ICC Champions Trophy ODI tournament to be held in the West Indies in 2010 was revised to a Twenty20 format because the 2008 ICC Champions Trophy tournament in Pakistan was postponed due to security concerns and there was a need to correct the international cricketing tournament calendar. This ICC World Twenty20 took place only 10 months after the last one.
  In this third T20I occasion, Sri Lanka was again led by Kumar Sangakkara. Sri Lanka was in Group B with New Zealand and Zimbabwe. The first match was with New Zealand, where Sri Lanka scored only 135/6 with 81 of Jayawardene. In chasing, New Zealand were shaky in the start, but Jesse Ryder recovered the match to their way with 27 ball 42 runs. At the end, New Zealand won by 2 wickets, with a six scored by Nathan McCullum to Chaminda Vaas in last over.
  In next match, Mahela scored first T20 International century which is scored by a Sri Lankan, against Zimbabwe. He reached one hundred with 64 balls. With this century he became the fourth man in all T20 Internationals, and the third in the ICC World Twenty20 Cricket history to score a century. Zimbabwe came to the crease to chase 173 of Lankans, but rain interrupted when they were 29/1 in 5 overs. With this Sri Lanka won the match by 14 in D/L method.
  In Super 8 stage at Group F, Sri Lanka won against West Indies by 57 runs. In this match, Mahela came very close to score his second consecutive century but overs ended when he was not out in 98. In the next match against Australia, Sri Lanka lost the match by 81 runs. Against Indian in the next match, India scored 163/5, where Sri Lanka chased the scored with only 5 wickets down. With 2 wins and 1 loss, Sri Lanka selected for their second consecutive T20I World Cup semi-finals. This time with England. Sri Lanka batted first, but couldn't reach even 150 mark. They scored 128 runs only. Sri Lankan hopes came fade with this performance, where Kevin Pietersen (42 from 26 balls) attacked Sri Lankan bowling line-up. He took the match away from Lankans, and England finally won by 7 wickets to reach the final.
  2010 Asia Cup
  The tenth edition of Asia Cup was held in June 2010 in Sri Lanka. Only the four test playing nations were participated. Sri Lanka was led by Kumar Sangakkara. In the match against Pakistan, Sri Lanka scored 242 runs with the fifties from Angelo Mathews and Mahela Jayawardene. In bowling, Malinga ripped off Salman Butt for naught and Pakistan were 34 for 4 at one stage. With the century from Shahid Afridi, Pakistan came back strongly, until Malinga's deadly yorkers scattered the stumps of tail enders. Sri Lanka won the match by 16 runs and Malinga took a five-wicket haul in the match. Second match was against Bangladesh. Tillakaratne Dilshan all but scuttled Bangladesh's hopes of staying competitive in the Asia Cup. With Dilshan's half century, Sri Lanka posted 312 runs, which was recorded as the first ever 300+ total in Rangiri Dambulla soil. Dilshan took 3 wickets in the match and Sri Lanka won the match by 126 runs and helped earn Sri Lanka a bonus point. In the match against India, Farveez Maharoof took his maiden five-wicket haul. Maharoof took a hat-trick, during a period of play when four wickets fell for no runs for India. They ended up 209 runs and Sri Lanka won the match by 7 wickets.
  Both teams met again in the final. Indian captain MS Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first. Gautam Gambhir and Dinesh Karthik gave India a promising start but Gambhir was soon dismissed at 30 with India reeling at 38/1. Then Virat Kohli and Karthik put up a partnership of 62 runs after which Kohli was caught by Kumar Sangakkara behind the wickets. India managed to score 268/6 in their 50 overs with Sri Lanka needing 269 runs to win the championship. Sri Lankan chase was a slow start with Dilshan caught in the first over. First five wickets fell off in quick succession within the score of 50 runs. After this, a promising partnership developed between Thilina Kand
caption: Angelo Mathews was the Sri Lankan captain between 2013 and 2017
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