 The idea of a gentlemen's team for British colonists in Ceylon was first mooted among the patrons of the Colombo Club- a social club for the British upper class then located at the Galle Face Green (not to be confused with the 1871 club of the same name and location).The beginnings of the club proper can then be traced back to a notice in the Colombo Journal of 5 September 1832, which called for ""...gentlemen who may be inclined towards forming a Cricket Club..."" to ""...meet at the Library (located in the Pettah) at 2 o'clock precisely on the 8th instant"".Sources then differ as to the exact date of the formation of the Club, some citing 8 September, October, or November of the same year, with all sources agreeing that a cricket club was formed sometime in 1832.