 The Sri Lankan Cricket Team is rated among strongest and most challenging sides in the world. Though a relatively new entrant to international cricket, Sri Lanka today has the potential to upset any international side. They surprised the cricketing world in the ICC Cricket World Cup 1996, when they defeated the mighty Australians in the final. They reached up to the semi-finals in the 2003 ICC World Cup. In the recently held Natwest Series 2006, they stunned England in their own home, making a 5-0 whitewash, the heaviest home defeat for English side in 13 years. The Sri Lankan Cricket Team made its first international appearance in the first ICC Cricket World Cup in 1975. It became the eighth Test playing nation in the world, when it was accorded Test status in 1981 by the ICC. Sri Lanka has produced several famous cricketers such as Arjuna Ranatunga, Aravinda de Silva, Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan. In the ICC World Cup 2007 groupings, Sri Lanka is placed in Group B, along with India, Bangladesh and the debutant Bermuda. The team will play its first warm-up match against Scotland on March 05, 2007 at 3Ws stadium in Barbados, and will start its 2007 World Cup campaign against Bermuda on March 15, 2007 in Trinidad and Tobago.
Sri Lanka
ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Probables
Marvan Atapattu
Sanath Jayasuriya
Upul Tharanga,
Mahela Jayawardene
Kumar Sangakkara
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Thilan Samaraweera
Russel Arnold
Avishka Gunawardena
Muttiah Muralitharan
Rangana Herath
Dilhara Fernando
Malinga Bandara
Upul Chandana
Chaminda Vaas
Lasith Malinga
Sajeewa Weerakoon
Farveez Maharoof
Nuwan Zoysa
Dilhara Lokuhettige
Coach: Tom Moody
Support Staff: 7
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