Bermuda Masters cricket team will embark on a two-week tour of Sri Lanka, taking in ICC World T20 knockout matches and playing four matches themselves against local Masters select teams.The Masters, who will take 16 players on the tour as well as 15 spectators, will leave on September 26 and arrive in time to watch a World T20 match on September 28 in Colombo before playing their first game against Bloomfield CC on September 29.Further matches for the Masters are scheduled for October 1 against another select team, October 3 against Colombo Cricket Club and October 6 against NCC, another club team.Allen Richardson, one of the key members of the Masters, admitted this year’s team was not the strongest that the Masters have taken abroad with the likes of captain Andre Manders, Terry Fray, Clevie Wade, Ricky Brangman, Winston Simmons, Treadwell Gibbons, Albert Steede and Charlie Marshall not available for the trip.The tour party is made up of the likes of Grant Smith, Ricky Hill, David DeSilva, Herbie Bascome, Gladwin Edness, Derek Wright, Hasan Durham, Sammy Robinson, Neil Anglin, Allen Richardson, Gilbert Caisey, Hoyte Zuill and Lloyd Morrison.“The team is not at full strength but we have enough to put up a good showing,” said Richardson who has been on previous trips with the Masters to Antigua, England, South Africa and Barbados. It was after their trip to Barbados last year that the Masters began planning for the Sri Lanka tour.“The way it came about was we went to Barbados last year and became close with one of the teams from England, a Yorkshire XI, and they suggested that for our next tour we should try to go to Sri Lanka,” Richardson explained.“Then when we looked at the World T20 we decided to organise it around that.“We have scheduled it where one day we are playing cricket and the next day we are the World T20 matches. We plan our trips a year in advance. We will come back in October, get together in November and decide where we are going to go next year.”As well as the Super 8 matches, the Masters group will also watch matches in the semi-final and final which is scheduled for October 7, as well as possibly some of the women’s T20 World Cup matches that will be held at the same time.“We are definitely looking forward to going there, particularly around this time as it is the World Cup T20,” said Richardson. “We have also heard that the country itself is beautiful so we’ve got a few tours that we are going to go on. We will be based in Colombo, about two miles from the stadium (R.Premadasa Stadium).“We’ve had fund raising, fish fries and pot luck suppers and we put something aside each month in our account.”