Capacity: 2,000 Premier Trophy wins: 16 Twenty20 Tournament wins: 0 | No. of titles 20 Premier Limited Overs Tournament wins: 4 Date founded 1888 | |
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Home ground: Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground Ground Nondescripts Cricket Club Ground | ||
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.
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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.
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