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The Sri Lankan Cricket Team is rated among strongest and
most challenging sides in the world. Though a relatively new
entrant to international cricket, Sri Lanka today has the
potential to upset any international side. They surprised
the cricketing world in the ICC Cricket World Cup 1996, when
they defeated the mighty Australians in the final. They reached
up to the semi-finals in the 2003 ICC World Cup. In the recently
held Natwest Series 2006, they stunned England in their own
home, making a 5-0 whitewash, the heaviest home defeat for
English side in 13 years.
The Sri Lanka Cricket Team made its first international
appearance in the first ICC Cricket World Cup in 1975. It
became the eighth Test playing nation in the world, when it
was accorded Test status in 1981 by the ICC. Sri Lanka has
produced several famous cricketers such as Arjuna Ranatunga,
Aravinda de Silva, Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan.
In the ICC World Cup 2007 groupings, Sri Lanka is placed
in Group B, along with India, Bangladesh and the debutant
Bermuda. The team will play its first warm-up match against
Scotland on March 05, 2007 at 3Ws stadium in Barbados, and
will start its 2007 World Cup campaign against Bermuda on
March 15, 2007 in Trinidad and Tobago.
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