Inter-Provincial Cricket

Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament
CountriesSri Lanka
AdministratorSri Lanka Cricket
FormatFirst-class, List A, Twenty20
First edition1990
Tournament formatRound-robin tournament and knockout
Number of teams5

Inter-Provincial Cricket was a cricket tournament that included the three domestic cricket competitions in Sri Lanka. It started with the Inter-Provincial First Class Tournament in 1990 because of the general idea that club cricket alone would be not enough to keep Sri Lanka cricket competitive.[1] The tournament stopped after the 1994–95 season but was revived 10 years later with the 2003–04 season and disestablished again in 2010. Sri Lanka remains today as the only Test cricket playing country to have club cricket as their form of first-class cricket with the Premier Trophy.[2] The Inter-Provincial Limited Over Tournament and Inter-Provincial Twenty20 were created for the 2007–08 domestic season. The last First Class Tournament was held in 2009–10. The Twenty20 tournament was last held in 2011 and subsequently replaced by the Sri Lanka Premier League.

  1. ^ "Tournaments in Sri Lanka". cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 22 September 2008.
  2. ^ "The future is provincial". cricinfo.com. Retrieved 22 September 2008.