Moors Sports Club Ground

Moors Sports Club Ground
Location Muttaiah Road and Braybrooke Place, Colombo 02
Owner Moors Sports Club
End names
Main Pavilion End
Score Board End
As of 10 December 2015
Source: Cricinfo

Moors Sports Club Ground is a first-class cricket ground in Colombo, the home ground of the Moors Sports Club.

Location

The ground is on Muttaiah Road and Braybrooke Place, near Beira Lake and Gangaramaya Temple, about one kilometre from the sea.

History

Moors Sports Club used the ground for many years before the first first-class matches were played there, in 1988-89, when Sri Lanka's domestic competition, the Lakspray Trophy, was granted first-class status. Since then it has been in constant use for first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches. While Moors play their home matches there, other teams also use the ground in Sri Lanka's domestic competitions.

At the end of the 2014-15 season, 178 first-class matches and 99 List A matches had been played at the ground.

Five women's international matches have been played at the ground, all between Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Two of them took place in 1998, three in 2002.[1] Three matches in the 2000 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup were played at the ground.[2]

Records

The highest first-class score on the ground is 234 by Jeevantha Kulatunga for Colts against Ragama in 2008-09.[3] The best bowling figures are 9 for 38 by Manjula Munasinghe for Western Province North against Central Province in 1993-94.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Women's one-day international matches played at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  2. ↑ "Youth one-day international matches played at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Double centuries at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Seven wickets in an innings at Moors Sports Club Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

Coordinates: 6°55′00.9″N 79°51′35.2″E / 6.916917°N 79.859778°E / 6.916917; 79.859778

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