Colombo Cricket Club

The idea of a gentlemen's team for British colonists in Ceylon was first mooted among the patrons of the Colombo Club- a social club for the British upper class then located at the Galle Face Green (not to be confused with the 1871 club of the same name and location).[4] The beginnings of the club proper can then be traced back to a notice in the Colombo Journal of 5 September 1832, which called for "...gentlemen who may be inclined towards forming a Cricket Club..." to "...meet at the Library (located in the Pettah) at 2 o'clock precisely on the 8th instant".[5] Sources then differ as to the exact date of the formation of the Club, some citing 8 September,[5] October,[6] or November[7] of the same year, with all sources agreeing that a cricket club was formed sometime in 1832.[8] The newly formed club was located in Slave Island, on the land that later became the Rifle Green (now the site of the Defence Services School).[8] The first officially recorded game of cricket in the country was that between the eventual CCC and a team fielded by the 97th Regiment of the British Army stationed in Ceylon at the time, in November 1832.[8][9][10] The club soon became a hub for cricketing activity in the country, becoming the de facto governing body for cricket in Ceylon.[11]

The Colombo Club went through an expansion phase in 1863, becoming the Colombo Gymkhana Club, a parent/umbrella organisation that acted as a social club while at the same time administering a number of different sports clubs- the CCC included (alongside the CH&FC for rugby and hockey in 1892 and the Queen's Club for tennis and squash in 1899).[4][8] The CCC is thought to have been formally named with its current name sometime in 1863, and moved to Galle Face Green sometime during this period as well.[4]

In 1894, the club moved again, this time to its present address at Maitland Crescent.[8] It remained a Europeans-only club until 1962,[12] and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2013.[4][8]

• Premier Trophy (5) - 1979–80, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1995–96, 2006–07

These players featured in matches for Colombo CC in 2019/20[13]

Players with international caps are listed in bold

No	Name	Nat	Age	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Batsmen
8	Manelker De Silva		21	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
–	Pawantha Weerasinghe		19	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
50	Ron Chandraguptha		25	Left-handed	Slow left-arm chinaman
All-rounders
3	Ashan Priyanjan (Captain)		30	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break
–	Pawan Rathnayake		17	Right-handed	Right-arm leg-break
11	Shalika Karunanayake		33	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
49	Wanindu Hasaranga		22	Right-handed	Right-arm leg-break
Wicket-keepers
15	Minod Bhanuka		25	Left-handed	–
2	Kusal Mendis		25	Right-handed	–
18	Lasith Abeyratne		27	Right-handed	–
6	Malindu Maduranga		22	Right-handed	–
Bowlers
45	Lahiru Madushanka		27	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
68	Vishwa Fernando		28	Right-handed	Left-arm fast-medium
3	Malinda Pushpakumara		33	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
85	Lakshan Sandakan		29	Right-handed	Slow left-arm chinaman
91	Lahiru Gamage		32	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
–	Usman Ishak		25	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
4	Nuwan Thushara		25	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
–	Yuran Maduranga		21	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break

• Wisden Cricketers Almanack (annual)

• Sri Lanka domestic cricket: A brief history, by ESPNCricinfo