Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 1990
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The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured England in the 1990 season
to play six first-class
matches and two limited overs matches against county teams.
The first-class fixtures were against:
1990 English cricket season
The 1990 English season was one of the most batsmen-friendly summers in living memory. The size of the seam on the cricket ball had been reduced markedly from 1989, and along with dry conditions and the extension of four-day cricket this allowed batsmen to build huge scores: Graham Gooch became one...
to play six first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
matches and two limited overs matches against county teams.
The first-class fixtures were against:
- Glamorgan at Eugene Cross Park, Ebbw Vale
- Nottinghamshire at Cleethorpes
- Warwickshire at EdgbastonEdgbaston Cricket GroundEdgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England...
- Sussex at Hove
- Lancashire at Old Trafford
- Hampshire at Southampton
External sources
CricketArchive – tour itinerariesAnnual reviews
- Playfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket AnnualPlayfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
1991 - Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1991