Test cricket
- The highest Test total of all time was recorded at the R Premadasa Stadium is 952/6 declared by Sri Lanka against India in 1997.
- The lowest Test total is 87 by Bangladesh against Sri Lanka in 2005.
- Sanath Jayasuriya scored 340 against India in 1997. This remains the highest score at R Premadasa stadium.
- The 36 wickets captured by Muttiah Muralitharan remains the most number of wickets at the R Premadasa stadium.
- The best bowling figures in an innings is 6/18 by Muttiah Muralitharan against Bangladesh in the 2005/06 season.
- Muttiah Muralitharan's 9/60 remains the best bowling figures in a match.
One Day Internationals
- The highest ODI total is 375/5 by India against Sri Lanka on 31 August 2017.
- Sanath Jayasuriya has scored 2514 runs and is the highest by a single player at the Premadasa stadium and he held the record for being the highest runs scored in a single cricket ground till January 2018 before Tamim Iqbal take over it. Marvan Atapattu, Aravinda de Silva, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara and Sachin Tendulkar has scored more than 1000 runs.
- Muttiah Muralitharan with 69 scalps has captured the most number of wickets at the Premadasa stadium.
- The highest individual score at R Premadasa stadium is 169 by Kumar Sangakkara against South Africa in the 2013 season.
- R Premedasa stadium became the first in Sri Lanka and fourth in the world to reach 100 ODIs hosted stadium.
- Lasith Malinga has taken two ODI hat-tricks at this stadium. The first came against Kenya in the 2011 World Cup and the second versus Australia on 22 August 2011
Twenty20 Internationals
- First match played on 10 February 2009 involving Sri Lanka and India
- Highest team total at the R Premadasa Stadium is 215/5 by Bangladesh against Sri Lanka.[10]
- The lowest Test total is 80 by Afghanistan against England on 21 September 2012.
- Sri Lanka has lost 9 of 10 match played in this ground, which is the worst ground for Sri Lanka in home.
Attendance
Highest attendance records for cricket matches at the R Premadasa Stadium |
Number |
Teams |
Match type |
Attendance |
Date |
1 |
Sri Lanka v England |
One Day International |
35,350 |
16 December 2014 |
2 |
Sri Lanka v West Indies |
T20 International |
35,000 |
7 October 2012 |
3 |
Sri Lanka v New Zealand |
One Day International |
35,000 |
29 March 2011 |
4 |
Sri Lanka v Pakistan |
T20 International |
35,000 |
4 October 2012 |
5 |
India v Pakistan |
T20 International |
34,100 |
30 September 2012 |
6 |
Nagenahira Nagas v Uva Next |
T20 Domestic |
33,600 |
31 August 2012 |
7 |
Sri Lanka v South Africa |
T20 International |
33,050 |
2 August 2013 |
World Cup Cricket
In 1996 and 2011 ICC cricket world cups R. Premadasa Stadium hosted nine matches including a quarter-final match and a semi-final match. It has hosted the highest number of cricket world cup matches in Sri Lanka.
1996 Cricket World Cup
- Australia forfeited the match due to safety concerns and were in Mumbai at the time of the match.
- West Indies forfeited the match due to safety concerns.
2011 Cricket World Cup
- Group matches
- Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Kenya won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Lasith Malinga took his second ODI hat-trick.
- Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Due to rain, match abandoned; therefore Sri Lanka and Australia got 1-point each.
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Quarter-finals
- England won the toss and elected to bat first.
- For the first time England lost a World Cup match by 10 wickets.
- Semi-finals
- New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first.
- This is New Zealand's sixth world cup semi final and Sri Lanka's fourth.
ICC Champions Trophy Cricket
The 2002 ICC Champions Trophy was held in Sri Lanka. Nine matches were played in R. Premadasa Stadium including semi-finals and the final. Other matches were played in SSC.
2002 ICC Champions Trophy
- Group matches
- Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first.
- India won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first.
- England won the toss and elected to bat first.
Zimbabwe were fined 2 overs for a slow over rate.
- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat first.
- England won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Semi-finals
- India won the toss and elected to bat first.
- India advanced to the final.
- Australia won the toss and elected to bat first.
- Sri Lanka advanced to the final.
- Final
- Match rained out twice.
- India and Sri Lanka declared co-champions.
ICC World Twenty20
Sri Lanka hosted the 2012 ICC World Twenty20. Fifteen out of twenty-seven matches were played at R. Premadasa stadium, including semi-finals and the final. Other matches were played in Pallekele International Cricket Stadium and Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium.
2012 ICC World Twenty20
- Group matches
- Ireland won the toss and elected to bat
- Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field
- Afghanistan won the toss and elected to field
- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat
- England won the toss and elected to field
- West Indies won the toss and elected to field
- Super 8s
- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat
- India won the toss and elected to bat
- Australia won the toss and elected to field
- Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat
- Australia won the toss and elected to field
- South Africa won the toss and elected to field
- Semi-finals
- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat
- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat
- Final
- West Indies won the toss and elected to bat
Gallery
At night, with the lights on (before redevelopment)
Pavilion C and D, August 2011
Floodlights at the RPS, Colombo
Australia took on Sri Lanka in two ODIs, August 2011
Premadasa Stadium being fully covered due to rain
Ground fully masked by covers, August 2011
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