Wayamba cricket team

Also Wayamba province cricket team became joint champions with Kandurata in the 2007/08 Inter-Provincial Limited overs tournament after the finals match drawn due to rain.

Eventually in 2007/08 when the team included again in the Inter-Provincial Limited overs tournament they went on to win the title under the captaincy of Mahela Jayawardene.

In the first first-class Inter-provincial tournament, which was called the 1990 Singer Inter-Provincial Trophy, Wayamba, then called North Central Province, captained by Ranjith Madurasinghe, had come last out of the four provinces, losing all their matches and finishing the tournament with only five points.

In the final, captained by Sanjeewa de Silva, Wayamba won the toss and decided to field.

Playing a rain reduced game kandurata posted a score of 131 for 5 wickets in 29.3 overs.

In the final they met Basnahira South, winning with an over to spare getting the 145 runs needed, and qualifying for the 2009 Champions League Twenty20.

In the 2009 Inter-provincial tournament, Wayamba became runners-up after their defeat by 10 wickets in the finals in the hands of Basnahira North team.

Wayamba won three and only lost to the two Basnahiras coming third in the points table, behind Ruhuna and Kandurata.

In 2010 the Wayamba cricket team won their third Inter-Provincial Twenty20 tournament, winning in style not losing a game, and the discovery of Mahela Jayawardene as Twenty20 opener.

[12] There were high hopes for Wayamba for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20, sending a team with 11 players with international caps.

[14] It was officially declared open by the then Minister of Home Affairs, Justice Felix Dias Bandaranaike in 1972.

[14] Lanka Bell, a Sri Lankan telecommunication company is the team's sponsor.

Mahela Jayawardene of Wayamba.