Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club crest
Personnel
Captain	Angelo Perera
Coach	Sajith Fernando
Team information
City	Colombo
Colours	Blue     [1]
Founded	1888 (1888)
Home ground	Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground
Capacity	2,000
History
No. of titles	20
Premier Trophy wins	16
Premier Limited Overs Tournament wins	5
Twenty20 Tournament wins	0
Notable players	Kumar Sangakkara Aravinda de Silva Russel Arnold Lasith Malinga Upul Tharanga Dinesh Chandimal

Nondescripts Cricket Club (also known by its initials NCC) is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The team plays at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground.^[2]

History

The club was founded in 1888. The name "Nondescripts" is derived from the fact it was intended to be open to anyone, unlike other Colombo-based clubs at the time such as Sinhalese Sports Club, Moors Sports Club and Tamil Union Cricket & Athletic Club which were aligned with a particular ethnic group.^[3]

Honours

• P Saravanamuttu Trophy/Robert Senanayake Trophy/Lakspray Trophy/Premier Trophy (16)

1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1960–61, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1993–94, 2000–01, 2013-14

• Under 23 Trophy (2)

2008–09 2009–10

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold

No	Name	Nat	Age	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Batsmen
4	Bhanuka Rajapaksa		26	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
44	Upul Tharanga		33	Left-handed	–
59	Mahela Udawatte		32	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
–	Nimesha Gunasinghe		23	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break
All-rounders
23	Angelo Perera (Captain)		28	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
28	Farveez Maharoof		34	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
50	Chaturanga de Silva		28	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
–	Malinga Amarasinghe		20	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
36	Dinesh Chandimal		28	Right-handed	–
48	Niroshan Dickwella		25	Left-handed	–
52	Sandun Weerakkody		25	Left-handed	–
–	Lahiru Udara		24	Right-handed	–
Bowlers
5	Dushmantha Chameera		26	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
8	Lahiru Kumara		21	Left-handed	Right-arm fast
10	Sachintha Peiris		22	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break
21	Chamika Karunaratne		22	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
34	Tharindu Kaushal		25	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break
99	Lasith Malinga		35	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
–	Nuwan Karunaratne		24	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
–	Lasith Ambuldeniya		21	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox

Team records

• Highest team total - 538 vs Sinhalese Sports Club
• Best innings bowling figures - Lyndon Hannibal 8/38 vs MSC
• Hundred in first match - Prasad Padmasanka 106 vs PSC
• Hundred in each innings - Pradeep Hewage 168 & 123 vs Matara
• Highest individual score - Aravinda De Silva 222 vs SCC
• Partnership records -
• 1 - 233 RP Arnold & S Weerasinghe
• 2 - 226 RP Arnold & MN Nawaz
• 3 - 143 MN Nawaz & PA de Silva
• 4 - 285 HP Tillakaratne & CP Mapatuna
• 5 - 234* RP Arnold & CP Mapatuna
• 6 - 239* DA Gunawardene & HP Tillakaratne
• 7 - 153 PA de Silva & AGD Wickremasinghe
• 8 - 147* RS Kalpage & MTT Mirando
• 9 - 130 HP Tillakaratne & KR Pushpakumara
• 10 - 62 RS Kalpage & WS Sirimanne

Other Nondescripts clubs

The name 'Nondescripts Cricket Club' derives from a 19th-century London-based team. The Nondescripts were a 'wandering' cricket club with no fixed ground and a team composed of players of all standards. A New Zealand Nondescripts Club was established in 1962 to promote "the principles of the game of Cricket, especially sportsmanship and high standards in dress, attitude and application." It too is a 'wandering' club drawn mainly from Wellington and Lower Hutt players; eight NZ internationals have played for the club, including Ewen Chatfield, John Reid and Bob Blair. In the 1980s, a Nondescripts Cricket Club played in the Brunei cricket league. Consisting largely of Sri Lankan expatriates, both Sinhalese and Tamil, it later merged with another club and changed its name.

Notable players

Players who have represented Ceylon in cricket

• Carl Obeysekera

Players to have represented Sri Lanka at Test cricket

References

External links

• Brief history of Nondescripts Cricket Club
• Cricinfo
• Nondescripts Cricket Club at CricketArchive
• Nondescripts Cricket Club at Sri Lanka Cricket