SRLANKA GROUNDS AND SURROUNDINGS

Pallekele International Cricket Stadium
Pallekele,
Kandy, Sri Lanka

Established 2009
Capacity 35,000
Playing area 80.0m long, 75.0m wide
Floodlights Yes installed in 2010
End names Hunnasgiriya End, Rikillagaskada End
Curator Asitha Wijesinghe
Current local time 23:23, Sun Jan 09, 2011 (UTC +0530)

                                                  

	The Pallekele stadium is wholly owned by SLC and is set to become the next international venue of choice around Kandy © ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, one of Sri Lanka's three venues being developed for next year's World Cup, is the ground organisers are most confident about, in terms of how the pitch will behave and completing the construction sufficiently in time. "We have no fears," Suraj Dandeniya, director of the World Cup secretariat, said, "because we are playing matches, we are playing South Africa, New Zealand, all those matches, so it is 100% sure that the pitch is complete."

Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota

Hambantota, Sri Lanka

Established 2009
Capacity 35000
Playing area 100.0m long, 100.0m wide
Floodlights Yes installed in 2010
End names Thanamalwila End, Sooriyawewa End
Curator Ravi Dissanayake
Current local time 23:28, Sun Jan 09, 2011 (UTC +0530

                                                  





                        R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo

Khettarama,
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Also or formerly known as Khettarama Stadium (until June 1994)
Established 1986
Named after Former Sri Lanka president Ranasinghe Premadasa
Capacity 35,000
Floodlights Yes
End names Khettarama End, Maligawatte End
Home team Sri Lanka
Current local time 23:36, Sun Jan 09, 2011 (UTC +0530)

                                    

                               The R. Premadasa International Stadium (known prior to June 1994 as the Khetterama Cricket Stadium, after the area of Colombo it stands in) was the brainchild of the late Sri Lanka President Ranasinghe Premadasa, who championed the development of this colossal 35,000-seater concrete bowl, the biggest stadium in the country. Opened on February 2, 1986 , the stadium was built on swampland previously used by monks ferrying across to the Khettarama temple adjacent to the stadium. The inaugural one-day international was played on April 5, 1986 between Sri Lanka and New Zealand. On August 28, 1992 it hosted its first Test between Sri Lanka and Australia. The venue is best remembered for holding the world record for the highest Test total - 952 for 6 declared by Sri Lanka against India in 1997-98, in which the former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya scored 340 and Roshan Mahanama 225, the pair sharing the highest partnership in Test cricket with 576 for the second wicket. A new training centre was developed behind the stadium with 16 practice pitches and dormitories for the Academy which started in 2003.