Centurion of the east
The stadium in Pallekele is designed to look and feel like the SuperSport Park in South Africa
One of the two new stadiums built in Sri Lanka for the 2011 World Cup, the Pallekele stadium hsa been designed along the lines of Centurion's SuperSport Park, and replicates the South African venue's famed grass banks. After the World Cup, the venue was handed to the navy indefinitely because the cost of constructing it and the stadium in Hambantota, and redeveloping the R Premadasa in Colombo, left Sri Lanka Cricket financially crippled.
Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakkara, Ruwan Kalpage, Ranjan Madugalle, Chamara Kapugedera andTB Kehelgamuwa.
The Pallekele Stadium is the base of Kandurata, the team which represents Central Province in Sri Lanka's domestic tournaments. Almost everyone in the current first XI has international experience, which helped them win the one-day tournament in 2009-10.