Nidahas Trophy

Nidahas Trophy
Administrator Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC)
Format ODI , T20I
First tournament 1998 (Sri Lanka)
Last tournament 2018 (Sri Lanka)
Next tournament TBA
Tournament format Double round-robin and Final
Number of teams 4 (all tournaments)
3 (each in 1998 and 2018)
Current champion  India (2nd title)
Most successful  India (2 titles)
Most runs India Sachin Tendulkar (263) (ODI)
Sri Lanka Kusal Perera (204) (T20I) [1]
Most wickets India Ajit Agarkar (12) (ODI)
India Washington Sundar , Yuzvendra Chahal (8) (T20I)


Nidahs Trophy is an international cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. The tournament is held to celebrate the independence of Sri Lanka.[2] The tournament is not a regular event in the calendar with the previous tournaments having a gap of 20 years in between [3].Each of the three participating teams play each other twice and the top two progress to the final. In March 2017 Sri Lanka Cricket announced that the 2018 tournament would be played in the T20I format. [2]

Tournament History

Both the tournaments have been won by India, defeating Sri Lanka in the final of the 1998 tournament and Bangladesh in the final of the 2018 tournament.

Year Format Host(s) Final venue Result
Winner Margin Runner-up
1998
Details
ODI  Sri Lanka Colombo  India
307/6 (50 overs)
India won by 6 runs
Scorecard
 Sri Lanka
301 all out (49.3 overs)
2018
Details
T20I  Sri Lanka Colombo  India
168/6 (20 overs)
India won by 4 wickets
Scorecard
 Bangladesh
166/8 (20 overs)

Results summary

The table below provides an overview of the performances of teams over past Nidahas Trophy tournaments.[4][5]

Team Appearances Best result Statistics
Total First Latest Played Won Lost Tie NR Win%
 India 219982018Champions (1998, 2018) 12620466.67%
 Sri Lanka 219982018Runners-up (1998) 11450245.45%
 Bangladesh 120182018Runners-up (2018) 5230040.00%
 New Zealand 119981998Group Stage (1998) 6024033.33%

Teams Performances

Team \ Host 1998
(3)[6]
2018
(3)[7]
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka[8]
 Bangladesh2nd
 India1st1st
 New ZealandGP
 Sri Lanka2ndGP

Debut of teams

Year Debutants Total
1998 [9]  India,  New Zealand,  Sri Lanka 3
2018  Bangladesh[10] 1

References

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