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Nidahas Trophy
AdministratorSri Lanka Cricket (SLC)
FormatODI , T20I
First edition1998 (SriLanka)
Latest edition2018 (SriLanka)
Next editionTBA
Tournament formatDouble round-robin and Final
Number of teams4 (all tournaments)
3(each in 1998 and 2018)
Current champion India (2nd title)
Most successful India (2 titles)
Most runsIndia Sachin Tendulkar (263) (ODI)
Sri Lanka Kusal Perera (204) (T20I) [1]
Most wicketsIndia Ajit Agarkar (12) (ODI)
India Washington Sundar , Yuzvendra Chahal (8) (T20I)


Nidahs Trophy is an international cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. The tournament is held to celebrate the independence of Sri Lanka.[2] The tournament is not a regular event in the calendar with the previous tournaments having a gap of 20 years in between [3].Each of the three participating teams play each other twice and the top two progress to the final. In March 2017 Sri Lanka Cricket announced that the 2018 tournament would be played in the T20I format. [2]

Tournament History

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Both the tournaments have been won by India, defeating Sri Lanka in the final of the 1998 tournament and Bangladesh in the final of the 2018 tournament.

Year Format Host(s) Final venue Result
Winner Margin Runner-up
1998
Details
ODI  Sri Lanka Colombo  India
307/6 (50 overs)
India won by 6 runs
Scorecard
 Sri Lanka
301 all out (49.3 overs)
2018
Details
T20I  Sri Lanka Colombo  India
168/6 (20 overs)
India won by 4 wickets
Scorecard
 Bangladesh
166/8 (20 overs)

Teams Performances

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Team \ Host 1998
(3)[4]
2018
(3)[5]
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka[6]
 Bangladesh 2nd
 India 1st 1st
 New Zealand 3rd
 Sri Lanka 2nd 3rd

Debut of teams

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Year Debutants Total
1998 [7]  India,  New Zealand,  Sri Lanka 3
2018  Bangladesh[8] 1

References

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Category:One Day International cricket competitions Category:Twenty20 International cricket competitions Category:Cricket in Asia Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1998