Basnahira South cricket team

Basnahira South
One-day name:	Basnahira South elevens
Captain:	Tillakaratne Dilshan
Founded:	Western Province 1990-1991 Basnahira South 1992-2010 Basnahira 2011
Home ground:	Sinhalese Sports Club Ground & Tyronne Fernando Stadium
Capacity:	10,000
First-class debut:	vs North Western Province[1] in 1992 at Welagedara Stadium
IP FC wins:	none
IP LO wins:	none
IP T20 wins:	none
Official website:	Sri Lanka Cricket

Basnahira South cricket team is one of the five provincial cricket teams which make up the Sri Lankan domestic cricket structure representing southern region of Western province. Basnahira South is based in Colombo.The cricket team participate in the two provincial tournaments: the first-class cricket competition known as the Inter-Provincial Tournament, and the Twenty20 competition known as the Inter-Provincial Twenty20. They also participated in the 2007/08 Inter-Provincial Limited Overs Tournament. The tournament is defunct now. The top 75 players of the Premier Limited Overs Tournament take part in the Inter-Provincial tournament.^[2]

The team plays their home matches in Colombo Sinhalese Sports Club Ground and Tyronne Fernando Stadium in Moratuwa.^[3] Lexmark, a global printing and imaging solutions corporation is the Basnahira South's sponsor.^[4] Tillakaratne Dilshan is the captain of the side.^[5] Prasanna Jayawardene, Malinda Warnapura and Chamara Silva are some of the other current Test cricketers in the side.

2008/09 season

Basnahira South did not qualify for this year's finals Inter-Provincial Tournament.^[6] Although they did better in the Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament. They had the chance to qualify for the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League.^[7] Despite entering the finals unbeaten Basnhira South, collapsed from a strong position of 133 for 1, losing their last nine wickets for just eleven runs.^[8] Wayamba chased down the target with six balls remaining and qualified for the Twenty20 Champions League.

Name and participation

From the early years of the Inter-Provincial tournament to 2004/05 season teams used English names. But from 2007/08 onwards the teams were named in Sinhalese. From its inception of the tournament Western Province presented more than one team to the tournament except for 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons. Since then Western province teams became known as Basnahira North and Basnahira South. Basnahira is Sinhalese for West. Number of teams representing Western province varied from season to season and their names also. Teams represented Western Province for the each tournament given below.

Team	Season
	1990	1990/91	1992	1993/94	1994/95	2003/04	2004/05	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11
Western Province	Western Province	City, Suburbs	Suburbs, North, South	City, North, South		Western Province		North, South			Basnahira

Notable players

The following is a list of players who have represented both Basnahira South and Sri Lanka.^[9]

Chaminda Mendis Asanka Gurusinha Arjuna Ranatunga Marvan Atapattu Sanjeeva Ranatunga Romesh Kaluwitharana Nishantha Ranatunga Manjula Munasinghe Pramodya Wickramasinghe Pulasthi Gunaratne Tillakaratne Dilshan Dulip Samaraweera Hemantha Wickramaratne Dulip Liyanage

Gamini Perera Sajeewa de Silva Jayantha Silva Ravindra Pushpakumara Don Anurasiri Dilruwan Perera Prasanna Jayawardene Hasantha Fernando Chamara Silva Malinda Warnapura Malinga Bandara Nuwan Zoysa Ruchira Perera Lahiru Thirimanne

Current squad

The squad for the 2008–09 season as of 22 March 2009.^[5]

Basnahira South current squad
Players	Coaches
Nat. Name Age Pos. Bat st. Bowl st. Tillakaratne Dilshan (Captain) 32 All-rounder RHB OS Chamara Silva 29 Batsman RHB LS Malinga Bandara 29 Bowler RHB LS Charith Sylvester 26 Wicket keeper LHB Hasantha Fernando 29 All-rounder RHB RMF Janaka Gunaratne 28 All-rounder RHB OS Prasanna Jayawardene 29 Wicket keeper RHB Suranga Lakmal 22 Bowler RHB RMF Chinthaka Perera 24 Bowler RHB RFM Dilruwan Perera 26 Bowler RHB OS Gihan Rupasinghe 23 Batsman LHB LS Milinda Siriwardana 23 All-rounder LHB LO Lahiru Thirimanne 19 Batsman LHB RMF Malinda Warnapura 29 Batsman LHB OS

Honours

• Inter-Provincial Tournament
• Inter-Provincial Limited Overs Tournament
• Inter-Provincial Twenty20

References

1. "North Western Province v Western Province South". cricketarchive.com. CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
2. Silva, Revata S. (25 March 2009). "SLC Inter-Provincial T-20 – 2008/09 Top ninety players in bang-bang cricket". The Island. Upali Newspapers Limited. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
3. "Sri Lanka Domestic Season". planetcricket.net. 22 December 2007. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
4. Thawfeeq, Sa'adi (9 April 2008). "Sri Lankan schools team find sponsors for Twenty20 series". cricinfo.org. Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
5. "Sri Lanka Cricket Inter-Provincial Twenty20 Tournament, 2008/09". cricinfo.org. Cricinfo. 22 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
6. Thawfeeq, Sa'adi (16 March 2009). "Wayamba and Basnahira North qualify for final". cricinfo.org. Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
7. Cricinfo staff (24 May 2009). "Champions League expanded from eight to 12 teams". cricinfo.com. Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
8. Thawfeeq, Sa'adi (5 March 2009). "Udana stars in Wayamba's title win". cricinfo.org. Cricinfo. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
9. "Tournaments in Sri Lanka". cricketarchive.com. CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-08-10.