Colombo Colts Cricket Club

Colombo Colts Cricket Club is one of the leading Cricket clubs in in the country. Founded in 1873 as the first Ceylonese Cricket Club in Sri Lanka, Colombo Colts CC is playing a significant role in promoting and popularizing Cricket in Sri Lanka and raising the standards of the game. The Colombo Colts Cricket Club has won the P Saravanamuttu Trophy once in 1991-92 and the Premier Trophy for five times in 1999-00, 2001-02, 2004-05, 2008-09(Tier A) and in 2011-12(Tier A). The members quickly met at the call of Wilfred van Twest, who, producing a copy of Lillywhites Red Annual, found in it a reference to Surrey and Yorkshire Colts. The name Colts stirred the imagination of the young cricketers, and they decided forthwith to re-christen their Club the Colombo Colts C.C., and so the most famous Ceylonese cricket club of the past seven decades came into being, soon to challenge the supremacy on the cricket field of the Englishmen in Ceylon. The headquarters of the Colts CC. was at the ...