Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta kasar Sri Lanka ta samu gagarumar nasara tun daga farkon shekarun 1990, ta tashi daga matsayin rashin nasara zuwa lashe gasar cin kofin duniya ta Cricket a shekarar 1996. Sun kuma lashe 2014 ICC World Twenty20 da aka buga a Bangladesh, inda suka doke Indiya a wasan karshe. Bugu da kari, Sri Lanka ta zama ta biyu a gasar cin kofin duniya a shekarar 2007
da 2011, da kuma ICC World Twenty20 a 2009 da 2012. Tsohon dan wasan Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralitharan an lasafta shi a matsayin mafi kyawun ɗan wasan wasan gwajin da ya taɓa yin "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", kuma 'yan wasan Sri Lanka huɗu sun kasance na 2 (Sangakkara), na 4 (Jayasuriya), na 5 (Jayawardene) da na 11 (Dilshan) mafi yawan masu tseren ODI na kowane lokaci, wanda shine na biyu mafi kyau ta ƙungiyar. Sri Lanka ta lashe kofin Asiya a 1986, 1997, 2004, 2008 da 2014. Sri Lanka ta taɓa riƙe mafi girman ƙimar ƙungiyar a cikin dukkan nau'ikan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa uku. Kasar ta dauki bakuncin gasar cin kofin duniya a shekarar 1996 da 2011, kuma ta dauki bakuncin gasar cin kofin duniya ta ICC a shekarar 2012.