Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club logo

Nondescripts Cricket Club crest
Captain: Sri Lanka Upul Tharanga
Coach: Sri Lanka Sajith Fernando
City: Colombo
Founded: 1888 (1888)
Home ground: Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground
Capacity: 2,000
No. of titles 20
Premier Trophy wins: 16
Premier Limited Overs Tournament wins: 4
Twenty20 Tournament wins: 0
Notable players: Kumar Sangakkara
Aravinda de Silva
Russel Arnold
Lasith Malinga
Upul Tharanga
Dinesh Chandimal

Nondescripts Cricket Club (also known by its initials NCC) is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The team plays at the Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground.[1]

History

The club was founded in 1888. The name "Nondescripts" is derived from the fact it was intended to be open to anyone, unlike other Colombo-based clubs at the time such as Sinhalese Sports Club, Moors Sports Club and Tamil Union Cricket & Athletic Club which were aligned with a particular ethnic group.[2]

Other Nondescripts clubs

The name 'Nondescripts Cricket Club' derives from a 19th-century London-based team. The Nondescripts were a 'wandering' cricket club with no fixed ground and a team composed of players of all standards. A New Zealand Nondescripts Club was established in 1962 to promote "the principles of the game of Cricket, especially sportsmanship and high standards in dress, attitude and application." It too is a 'wandering' club drawn mainly from Wellington and Lower Hutt players; eight NZ internationals have played for the club, including Ewen Chatfield, John Reid and Bob Blair. In the 1980s, a Nondescripts Cricket Club played in the Brunei cricket league. Consisting largely of Sri Lankan expatriates, both Sinhalese and Tamil, it later merged with another club and changed its name.

Honours

1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1956–57 1957–58 1960–61 1969–70 1970–71 1975–76

1976–77 1978–79

1985–86 1988–89

1993–94

2000–01 2013-14

2008–09 2009–10

Team records

Notable players

Players who have represented Ceylon in cricket

Players to have represented Sri Lanka at Test cricket

References

  1. ↑ Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground, Colombo - Cricinfo
  2. ↑ "Descriptions of the Nondescripts" - Andrew Miller, Cricinfo


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