Singhalese is the most successful club in Sri Lankan domestic cricket, having won the Premier Trophy a record 32 times to 2017.

The SSC was inaugurated the same year and established as a cricket club by a group of distinguished Ceylonese lawyers, legislators, businessmen, proprietary planters and civil society leaders of that time.

[citation needed] In 1900, the club leased a land in Victoria Park with sandy soil and covered with cinnamon trees.

[4] This land was gradually leveled to a cricket ground and its first match was played the following year.

The Club attracted the best school boy players from Royal, S. Thomas', Wesley, St. Josephs & Trinity.