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This is a list of all men, boys and women who have captained a Sri Lankan national cricket team at official international level. Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 21 July 1981. Previously they were an associate member of the ICC from 1965, which made them eligible to compete in the ICC Trophy, the leading one-day tournament for associate members. Just after Sri Lanka gained Test status in 1981 a team of rebel players toured apartheid South Africa under the banner "Arosa Sri Lanka" (the term "Arosa" being derived from the promoter's name). All players who toured Sri Lanka were banned from official cricket matches for life, thereby setting Sri Lanka's development back. Sri Lanka's greatest success in One Day Internationals was when they won the Cricket World Cup in 1996 under the captaincy of Arjuna Ranatunga.
Men's cricket
Test match captains
This is a list of cricketers who have captained the Sri Lankan cricket team for at least one Test match.[1] The table of results is complete including the first Test against Bangladesh which ended on 4 February 2018. Where a player has a dagger (†) next to a Test match series in which he captained at least one Test, that denotes that player captained this side for a minor proportion in a series.
| Sri Lankan Test match captains | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Name | Year | Opposition | Location | Played | Won | Lost | Drawn | W% |
| 1 | Bandula Warnapura[2] | 1981/82 | England | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 1981/82 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 1982/83 | India | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Duleep Mendis[3] | 1981/82† | Pakistan | Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| 1982/83 | Australia | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1983/84 | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1984 | England | England | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1985 | India | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33% | ||
| 1985/86 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1985/86 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33% | ||
| 1986/87 | India | India | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1986/87 | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | ||
| Total | 19 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 10.53% | ||||
| 3 | Somachandra de Silva[4] | 1982/83 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 4 | Ranjan Madugalle[5]
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1987/88 | Australia | Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1988 | England | England | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 5 | Arjuna Ranatunga[6]
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| 1989/90 | Australia | Australia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1990/91 | India | India | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1990/91 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0% | ||
| 1992 | Australia | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0% | ||
| 1992/93 | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% | ||
| 1992/93 | England | Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
| 1993 | India | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0% | ||
| 1993 | South Africa | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0% | ||
| 1993/94 | West Indies | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1993/94 | India | India | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1994 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1994/95 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0% | ||
| 1994/95 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 50% | ||
| 1995/96 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67% | ||
| 1995/96 | Australia | Australia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1996/97 | Zimbabwe | Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
| 1996/97 | New Zealand | New Zealand | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1996/97 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0% | ||
| 1997 | West Indies | West Indies | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 1997 | India | Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0% | ||
| 1997/98 | India | India | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0% | ||
| 1997/98 | Zimbabwe | Sri Lanka | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
| 1997/98 | South Africa | South Africa | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0% | ||
| 1998 | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67% | ||
| 1998 | England | England | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100% | ||
| 1998/99 | India | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% | ||
| Total | 56 | 12 | 19 | 25 | 21.43% | ||||
| 6 | Aravinda de Silva[7] |
1991 | England | England | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| 1991/92 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||
| 1995/96† | Australia | Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 1998/99† | Pakistan | Bangladesh | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |||||
| 7 | Hashan Tillakaratne[8] | 1998/99 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0% |
| 2003 | New Zealand | Sri Lanka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0% | ||
| 2003 | West Indies | West Indies | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 2003/04 | England | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.33% | ||
| 2003/04 | Australia | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0% | ||
| Total | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9% | ||||
| 8 | Sanath Jayasuriya[9]
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1999 | Australia | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.3% |
| 1999/2000 | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 33.33% | ||
| 1999/2000 | Pakistan | Pakistan | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67% | ||
| 2000 | Pakistan | Sri Lanka | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0% | ||
| 2000 | South Africa | Sri Lanka | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33.33% | ||