The next day, April 20, they head further down the road for a match at the Asgiriya Cricket Stadium in Kandy, before making the long trip to the southern end of the country to play at the Matara Cricket Stadium two days later.
The tour will conclude with their last match on April 23 at Galle International Cricket Stadium.
While most of the tour kit is provided to the team, the players have all been encouraged to bring at least a dozen balls with them, which could be cricket, tennis or even small rugby balls, so they can give them to the village children they will meet along the way.
Sherriff will follow in the footsteps of former schoolmate and fellow Wanganui representative player Connor O'Leary, who went on the tour in April 2017 as a bowler.
The young man has had an excellent summer, captaining the Ray White Wanganui Under 17 side to being joint winners of the Central Districts age-group tournament in Napier, then taking the CD Under 17s to finish runner-up at the national tournament in Lincoln.
He scored 50's in both one-day and two-day formats for the Wanganui senior team against Horowhenua-Kapiti.
Sherriff will endeavour to keep a running diary of his tour, hoping to post the entries up on the Cricket Wanganui Facebook page.