Sri Lanka, March 5 -- The ongoing Champions Trophy is the first ICC tournament in decades that Sri Lanka are not taking part. The island nation's poor showing in the last fifty over World Cup meant that any chances of qualifying for the Champions Trophy 2025 was gone.

Apart from the minnow-bashing in Zimbabwe a couple of years ago where Sri Lanka won a qualifying round to seal their spot in the 2023 which could be considered an ICC event, they have won nothing significant in the last decade.

However, Sri Lanka has had some great success in ICC events in the past including the 50-over World Cup in 1996 and 2014 T20 Word Cup. Further Sri Lanka have also been runners-up in 2007,2009, 2011 and 2012. However, it's interesting to notice tha...