Pallekele International Cricket Stadium: cricket results and records

Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Kandy appears in 115 recorded matches, the first on 1 December 2010 and the latest on 2 August 2026. The matches are 42 in One Day Internationals, 36 in Twenty20 Internationals, 28 in franchise Twenty20 leagues and 9 in Test matches. The competitions seen most often are Lanka Premier League (28 matches), ICC World Twenty20 (9 matches) and India tour of Sri Lanka (6 matches).

The sides that appear most often are Sri Lanka (75 matches), New Zealand (15 matches), India (13 matches) and England (13 matches).

Of the 115 matches, 104 produced a winner, 4 were drawn, 3 were tied and 4 ended without a result.

The highest innings total in the records is 648/8 by Sri Lanka against Bangladesh on 21 April 2021.

The lowest completed total is 70 by Zimbabwe against Sri Lanka on 21 January 2022.

In the 99 limited-overs matches here that produced a winner, the side batting first won 46 (46.5%).

The leading run scorers at the ground are BKG Mendis (1,582 runs in 49 innings), TM Dilshan (1,313 runs in 27 innings), LD Chandimal (1,211 runs in 41 innings), AD Mathews (1,138 runs in 49 innings) and P Nissanka (1,115 runs in 33 innings).

The leading wicket takers are SL Malinga (42 wickets), PWH de Silva (38 wickets), A Dananjaya (36 wickets), DN Wellalage (36 wickets) and M Theekshana (33 wickets).

The highest individual scores are 244 by FDM Karunaratne against Bangladesh on 21 April 2021, 176 by BKG Mendis against Australia on 26 July 2016 and 171* by Younis Khan against Sri Lanka on 3 July 2015.

The best bowling figures are 6 for 16 by BAW Mendis against Australia on 8 August 2011, 6 for 31 by MG Johnson against Sri Lanka on 10 August 2011 and 6 for 44 by NLTC Perera against Pakistan on 9 June 2012.

The first innings of 8 Test matches matches here averaged 325.1 runs.

In 40 One Day Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 240.2 and the side batting second 201.7.

In 36 Twenty20 Internationals matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 167.1 and the side batting second 146.6.

In 27 franchise Twenty20 leagues matches with two innings, the side batting first averaged 174.4 and the side batting second 161.1.

The toss is recorded in 115 of these matches. The toss winner chose to field in 59 (51.3%) and to bat in 56.

Among the 104 of those matches that produced a winner, the side that won the toss also won the match 51 times (49.0%).

Batters at the ground hit 4,412 fours and 999 sixes in the recorded innings, one boundary every 9.5 balls; 52.7% of the runs came in boundaries.

Batters were dismissed caught 52%, bowled 22%, lbw 14%, run out 5% and stumped 3% of the 1,650 times.

Wickets credited to bowlers fell caught 56%, bowled 24%, lbw 15%, stumped 3% and caught and bowled 3% of the 1,557 times.

That is 47.1 boundaries a match, counting every recorded innings.

Matches by decade: 2010s (51) and 2020s (64).

The competitions that have used the ground are Lanka Premier League (28 matches), ICC World Twenty20 (9 matches), India tour of Sri Lanka (6 matches), England tour of Sri Lanka (6 matches), West Indies tour of Sri Lanka (6 matches), ICC Men's T20 World Cup (6 matches), New Zealand tour of Sri Lanka (5 matches) and ICC Cricket World Cup (3 matches).