Kumar Dharmasena

 
Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumar Dharmasena (born 24 April 1971 in Colombo, Sri Lanka), more commonly known as Kumar Dharmasena, is a Sri Lankan cricket umpire and former international player. He was a member of the Sri Lanka team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler.

Playing career

Dharmasena started his cricketing career as a teenager at Nalanda College Colombo. His first foray into international cricket was in 1994 against South Africa.

His obscure action made him perfect for bowling in one-day matches, yet Dharmasena also proved a useful batsman, especially after he was investigated in 1998 by the ICC for overstretching his bowling action to illegal proportions. Having been cleared in July 2000, he played for the one-day team on several occasions since, but rarely played Test cricket.

Dharmasena was the 59th Sri Lankan cricketer to receive a Test cap (Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo Sinhalese Sports Club 1993).

Move to umpiring

Following his retirement from playing in November 2006, Dharmasena announced plans to become a competitive umpire, as he wished to remain "close to the game which I love so dearly". Prior to his retirement, he had already umpired several domestic matches in the Sara Trophy, the major first-class cricket tournament in Sri Lanka. He umpired his first international match in 2009, overseeing the one-day international between India and Sri Lanka at the Rangiri International Stadium in Dambulla: he remains the youngest ever Sri Lankan to umpire any international. He umpired at the 2011 Cricket World Cup, and was appointed to the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires later that year. Dharmasena was named the Umpire of the Year at the 2012 ICC Awards, for which he received the David Shepherd Trophy.

Kumar Dharmasena

Sri Lanka

 

 

Full name Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumar Dharmasena

Born April 24, 1971, Colombo

Current age 41 years 347 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Moratuwa Sports Club, Nondescripts Cricket Club

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Other Umpire

Batting and fielding averages
 

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	31	51	7	868	62*	19.72	2665	32.57	0	3	91	2	14	0
ODIs	141	87	33	1222	69*	22.62	1879	65.03	0	4	63	2	34	0
First-class	155	215	34	6568	157	36.28			9	37			78	0
List A	205	130	43	2243	94*	25.78			0	9			50	0
Twenty20	7	6	3	129	51*	43.00	107	120.56	0	1	11	4	1	0

 
Bowling averages
 

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	31	53	6939	2920	69	6/72	8/183	42.31	2.52	100.5	1	3	0
ODIs	141	134	7009	4998	138	4/37	4/37	36.21	4.27	50.7	1	0	0
First-class	155		25552	10286	495	7/30		20.77	2.41	51.6		30	5
List A	205		9693+	6667	233	5/14	5/14	28.61	4.11*	41.9*	5	3	0
Twenty20	7	6	122	108	4	2/15	2/15	27.00	5.31	30.5	0	0	0

 
Career statistics
 

Test debut	Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (SSC), Sep 6-10, 1993 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v Australia at Galle, Mar 8-12, 2004 scorecard
ODI debut	Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (RPS), Aug 24, 1994 scorecard
Last ODI	Sri Lanka v Australia at Colombo (RPS), Feb 25, 2004 scorecard
First-class debut	1988/89
Last First-class	Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Colts Cricket Club at Colombo (Moors), Mar 3-6, 2006 scorecard
List A debut	1988/89
Last List A	Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (SSC), Dec 24, 2005 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Police Sports Club at Colombo (Colts), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Chilaw Marians Cricket Club at Moratuwa, Nov 5, 2005 scorecard

 

                                                                                       Sanath  Jayasuriya

Sanath Teran Jayasuriya (Sinhala: සනත් ටෙරාන් ජයසූරිය, born 30 June 1969) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and a politician. Jayasuriya was an all-rounder, who had an international cricket career that spread over two decades.He made his One Day International debut against Australia at Melbourne on Boxing Day of 1989 and his Test debut against New Zealand at Hamilton in February 1991. Jayasuriya is the only player to score more than 13,000 runs and capture more than 300 wickets in One Day Internationals and he is regarded as one of the best all rounders in the history of Limited overs cricket. He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1996 Cricket World Cup and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack broke an age old tradition by naming him one of Five Cricketers’ of the Year 1997 despite not playing the previous season in England.Jayasuriya was also the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team from 1999 to 2003. He retired from test cricket in December 2007 and from limited overs cricket in June 2011.Sanath Jayasuriya has the distinction of playing in third most ODI matches in which his team was on winning side,just behind Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.Sri Lanka Cricket appointed him as the chairman of cricket selecting committee on 28 January 2013.

Jayasuriya ran for public office at the 2010 Sri Lankan general elections and was elected to the parliament from his native Matara District. He topped the UPFA parliamentary election list for Matara district by obtaining 74,352 preferential votes.
   

1 Early life

Sanath Jayasuriya was born in the Southern Sri Lankan city of Matara to the family of Dunstan and Breeda Jayasuriya. He has an elder brother, Chandana Jayasuriya. He was educated at St. Servatius' College, Matara, where his cricketing talents were nourished by his school principal, G.L. Galappathy, and cricket coach, Lionel Wagasinghe. He excelled in cricket while at St. Servatius College, Matara and was picked as Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year in the Outstation Segment in 1988. He was also picked as the Best Batsman and Best All-rounder in the Outstation Section. Jayasuriya also represented Sri Lanka in the inaugural ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup which was held in Australia in 1988. Jayasuriya was subsequently selected for a tour in Pakistan a few months later with the Sri Lanka 'B' team where he made two unbeaten double centuries. Shortly afterwards he was drafted into the national side for the tour to Australia in 1989–90.

2 Style and international career

Batting style

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Along with his opening partner Romesh Kaluwitharana, Jayasuriya revolutionized One Day International batting with his aggressive tactics during the 1996 Cricket World Cup, a strategy they first tried on the preceding tour of Australia. The tactic used was to take advantage of the early fielding restrictions by smashing the opening bowlers to all parts of the cricket ground, particularly by lofting their deliveries over the mandatory infielders, rather than the established tactic of building up momentum gradually. This was a novel but potentially match-winning tactic at that time, and Sri Lanka, who had previously never made it out of the preliminary rounds, went on to win the World Cup without a single defeat. Their new gameplan is now the standard opening batting strategy in limited overs cricket for the modern era. Glenn McGrath cited Jayasuriya in his XI of toughest batsmen, noting "it is always a massive compliment to someone to say they changed the game, and his storming innings in the 1996 World Cup changed everyone's thinking about how to start innings."

Jayasuriya is known for both cuts and pulls along with his trademark shot, a lofted cut over point. He was the key player in Sri Lanka's victory in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, where he was adjudged Man of the Tournament in recognition of his all-round contributions. His philosophy towards batting is summarized by an all-aggression approach and over the years he has dominated almost every one day bowling combination that he has faced at one stage or another. Batsmen such as Adam Gilchrist and Virender Sehwag have similar styles. This is because of his ability to make huge match-winning contributions at rapid pace once he gets in, he holds the record for the second highest number of one day centuries and has scored the second most 150+ scores (4 scores) (Sachin Tendulkar has the most 150+ scores at 5). His devastating performances have ensured that Sri Lanka have won almost 80% of the matches that he scores over 50 in. This is due to the rapid rate in which he scores his runs as well as the psychological effect he has on opposition bowling attacks.

He was named as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1997 and served as captain of the Sri Lankan team in 38 Test matches from 1999 to 2003. He is a very useful all-rounder with a good batting average in both Test cricket and One Day Internationals, and an excellent batting strike rate in One Day Internationals.

As a left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he has a reasonable bowling average and economy rate. He regularly helps to decrease the workloads of strike bowlers Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas and as of August 2007 has 400 international wickets.

Jayasuriya is a skillful infielder, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the seventh highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the eleventh highest success rate.

Test career

Jayasuriya held the record for the highest Test score made by a Sri Lankan, 340 against India in 1997. This effort was part of a second-wicket partnership with Roshan Mahanama that set the then all-time record for any partnership in Test history, with 576 runs. Both records were surpassed in July 2006 when fellow Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene scored 374 as part of a 624-run partnership with Kumar Sangakkara against South Africa. On 20 September 2005, during the Second Test of the home series against Bangladesh, Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan to play 100 Tests, and the 33rd Test cricketer to achieve this feat.

Jayasuriya announced his intention to retire from Test cricket following the Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka in April 2006. He reversed his decision soon after, however, joining the Sri Lankan cricket team in England in May 2006. Missing the first two Tests, Jayasuriya returned in the Third Test at Trent Bridge.

After scoring 78 runs on day three of the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007, he announced he was to retire from Test cricket at the end of the match. In that inning he hit six fours in one over against James Anderson.

One day international career

Sanath Jayasuriya held the records for the fastest fifty (against Pakistan 17 balls), fastest 100 (against Pakistan 48 balls) and fastest 150 (against England in 95 balls) in ODI cricket. Though he lost the fastest 100 to Shahid Afridi and fastest 150 to Shane Watson, he still holds the record for the fastest fifty. Jayasuriya and Sachin Tendulkar are the only players in history to have 4 ODI scores over 150. Jayasuriya's highest ODI score is 189 runs, scored against India in Sharjah in 2000. It remains the highest ODI score by a Sri Lankan, and at the time of the innings it was the third-highestNote 1 in ODI history. Until December 2009, he held the four highest individual scores by a Sri Lankan, and seven of the top nine.


He currently holds the record fastest fifty in ODIs, scored off just 17 balls. Jayasuriya was the previous record-holder for the fastest century (off 48 balls), before losing that claim to Shahid Afridi of Pakistan. He has also held the world record for most ODI sixes (270 in 441 ODI's), which was surpassed by Shahid Afridi during the 2010 Asia Cup match against Bangladesh. He has become the fourth batsman to score more than 10,000 runs and the second batsman to score more than 12,000, and 13,000 runs in the history of ODIs. He also is the third highest century getter in ODIs with 28 centuries. He used to hold the record of scoring most runs in an ODI over (30; he has achieved this twice).This record is now with South Africa's Herschelle Gibbs (36 runs in an over).He used to hold the record of heading the most ODI caps by an international cricketer 444, till Sachin Tendulkar (India) equalled the record in January 2011 against South Africa.

During the one-day Natwest series in May 2006 in England, he scored two centuries, including scoring 152 off 99 balls in the final match. In that innings, he and Upul Tharanga (109) put on 286 runs for the first wicket, a new record. Jayasuriya's batting display earned him the Man of the Series award as Sri Lanka won the series 5–0.

Following the Natwest Trophy, Sri Lanka travelled to the Netherlands for a two-match one-day series. In the first game, Jayasuriya scored 157 off 104 balls as Sri Lanka posted 443/9,beating the 438/9 South Africa scored against Australia in March 2006. Sri Lanka won the match by 195 runs. On a personal note the innings was his 4th score of over 150 in ODI cricket and he is currently the only player to do so other than Sachin Tendulkar who has achieved it five times. It was also his second successive score of 150 plus, another first in ODI cricket.

He also scored 2 centuries and 2 half-centuries in the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies.In 2008, his one-day career was all but over when he was omitted for the ODIs in the West Indies. However, a stirring performance in the IPL—finishing the third-highest run-getter with 514 runs—prompted his country's sports minister to intervene in his selection for the Asia Cup. He ultimately shaped Sri Lanka's title victory with a blistering hundred under pressure.[23] His international career has been revived at the age of 41, after being recalled to the One-day and Twenty-20 squads for Sri Lanka's 2011 tour of England and Scotland.

Twenty20 career

During the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, Jayasuriya appeared to break his tradition of using Kookaburra bats by wielding a normal Reebok sponsored bat. He achieved two half centuries in the group stages against New Zealand and Kenya in this tournament. He also shares a dubious record with James Anderson for having the most expensive figures in a Twenty20 international, having been hit for 64 runs in the maximum of 4 overs. After the Twenty20 World Cup, Jayasuriya played in Sri Lanka's 3–2 One Day International series defeat against England, achieving limited success and then in the 2–0 Test series defeat in Australia. In December 2007, Jayasuriya confirmed that he has signed for Warwickshire for the Twenty20 Cup.

In April 2008, he joined the Mumbai Indians to play in the Indian Premier League T20. After scoring a devastating 114 not out off just 48 ballsfor the Mumbai Indians against Chennai, Jayasuriya regained his position in the one-day side after he had been dropped for the West Indies tour. He then followed up his century with a 17-ball 48 not out to surpass the Kolkata Knight Riders' score of 67 in just the 6th over, resulting in the biggest victory in Twenty20 history in terms of balls remaining. In 2010 has signed with Worcestershire for their Twenty20 campaign. At the age of 42, Jayasuriya played for the Ruhuna Rhinos in the qualifying round of the 2011 Champions League. In February 2012 Jayasuria played for the Khulna Royal Bengals in the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League, later that year he played for Kandurata Warriors in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League.

Sanath Jayasuriya 

Sri Lanka

 

 

Full name Sanath Teran Jayasuriya

Born June 30, 1969, Matara 

Current age 43 years 280 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Asia XI, Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Colombo Cricket Club, Dolphins, Khulna Royal Bengals, Marylebone Cricket Club, Mumbai Indians, Ruhuna, Somerset

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Batting and fielding average

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	110	188	14	6973	340	40.07			14	31	910	59	78	0
ODIs	445	433	18	13430	189	32.36	14725	91.20	28	68	1500	270	123	0
T20Is	31	30	3	629	88	23.29	487	129.15	0	4	76	23	4	0
First-class	265	419	33	14819	340	38.39			29	70			162	0
List A	557	542	25	16128	189	31.19			31	82			153	0
Twenty20	111	109	7	2317	114*	22.71	1654	140.08	1	12	252	114	21	0

 
Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	110	140	8188	3366	98	5/34	9/74	34.34	2.46	83.5	6	2	0
ODIs	445	368	14874	11871	323	6/29	6/29	36.75	4.78	46.0	8	4	0
T20Is	31	24	371	456	19	3/21	3/21	24.00	7.37	19.5	0	0	0
First-class	265		15275	6808	205	5/34		33.20	2.67	74.5		2	0
List A	557		18167	14396	413	6/29	6/29	34.85	4.75	43.9	12	5	0
Twenty20	111	92	1593	1983	77	4/24	4/24	25.75	7.46	20.6	1	0	0

 
Career statistics
 

Test debut	New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Hamilton, Feb 22-26, 1991 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v England at Kandy, Dec 1-5, 2007 scorecard
ODI debut	Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Dec 26, 1989 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Sri Lanka at The Oval, Jun 28, 2011 scorecard
T20I debut	England v Sri Lanka at Southampton, Jun 15, 2006 scorecard
Last T20I	England v Sri Lanka at Bristol, Jun 25, 2011 scorecard
First-class debut	1988/89
Last First-class	Saracens Sports Club v Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club at Colombo (Riffle), Jan 20-22, 2012 scorecard
List A debut	1989/90
Last List A	Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club v Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club at Colombo (Burgher), Dec 12, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club v Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club at Colombo (RPS), Sep 2, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Wayamba United v Kandurata Warriors at Colombo (RPS), Aug 24, 2012 scorecard

                                                                                  Romesh  Kaluwitharana

Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana (born November 24, 1969, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played in 49 Test and 189 ODIs from 1990 to 2004. He was appointed as the interim cricket coach of Malaysia on the 17th of May 2008.

His early career made him look like a good Sri Lankan prospect, and the undoubted highlight of his career was the entertaining innings of 132 not out (including 26 boundaries) that he made on Test debut against a powerful Australian side in 1992. However, he failed to deliver on his promise in a declining Sri Lankan team (prior to the revival of Sri Lankan cricket at the 1996 World Cup).

Once in the national side, he sometimes threw his wicket away due to poor shot-selection and was suspect to the swinging delivery. However, he relished pace and would often be quick to put away any delivery off line or length. His greatest contribution to ODIs came after he was promoted to the top of the batting order to partner opener Sanath Jayasuriya during the 1995-96 tour of Australia, helping to give birth to an aggressive batting approach in the first fifteen overs of fielding restrictions. This new strategy of attacking from the outset heavily contributed to Sri Lanka to win all their matches and secure the 1996 Cricket World Cup as all other teams were not prepared for such an attack. Kaluwitharana was the wicket keeper and opener with Jayasuriya in that world cup series that was captained by Arjuna Ranatunga.

The two of them revolutionized the one day game and their tactics are now commonly used by limited overs openers.

Kaluwitharana has spent a number of years contributing to charity work in the impoverished Northern part of Sri-Lanka along with his long-time cricket companion Muttiah Muralitharan.

Romesh Kaluwitharana

Sri Lanka

 

 

Full name Romesh Shantha Kaluwitharana

Born November 24, 1969, Colombo

Current age 43 years 133 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Colts Cricket Club, Galle Cricket Club, Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club

Batting style Right-hand bat

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Other Coach

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	49	78	4	1933	132*	26.12	3203	60.34	3	9	284	6	93	26
ODIs	189	181	14	3711	102*	22.22	4776	77.70	2	23	411	17	132	75
First-class	145	219	15	8050	192	39.46			16	49			302	58
List A	251	243	21	5876	140*	26.46			5	36			183	87
Twenty20	5	5	0	158	80	31.60	112	141.07	0	1	15	5	4	2

 
Bowling averages
 

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	189	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	145	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
List A	251		12	16	2	2/16	2/16	8.00	8.00	6.0	0	0	0
Twenty20	5	1	12	24	2	2/24	2/24	12.00	12.00	6.0	0	0	0

 
Career statistics
 

Test debut	Sri Lanka v Australia at Colombo (SSC), Aug 17-22, 1992 scorecard
Last Test	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Karachi, Oct 28-Nov 1, 2004 scorecard
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Margao, Dec 8, 1990 scorecard
Last ODI	Sri Lanka v Australia at Dambulla, Feb 22, 2004 scorecard
First-class debut	1988/89
Last First-class	Burgher Recreation Club v Colts Cricket Club at Colombo (SSC), Dec 10-12, 2004 scorecard
List A debut	1990/91
Last List A	Colts Cricket Club v Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club at Colombo (Colts), Sep 19, 2004 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Colts Cricket Club v Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club at Colombo (Moors), Aug 17, 2004 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Colts Cricket Club v Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club at Colombo (NCC), Oct 8, 2005 scorecard

                                                                                             ROSHAN MAHANAMA

Roshan Siriwardene Mahanama (born 31 May 1966 in Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and currently an ICC match referee.

Although he averaged less than 30 at Test cricket, he did score four centuries, including a top score of 225 for the Sri Lankan cricket team against India at Colombo, where he shared a then world record second wicket partnership of 576 runs with Sanath Jayasuriya. This record was surpassed in July 2006 as the largest partnership in Test match history by fellow Sri Lankans Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene who put on 624 against South Africa.

Roshan Mahanama was the stylish batsman in Sri Lankan cricket side. He established himself as stylish opening batsman in late 80's & early 90's. In W.C. 1992, Roshan Mahanama performed as opening batsman along with M.A.R. Samarasekera & U.C. Hathurusingha. During the captaincy of Aravinda de silva in early 90's, Roshan Mahanama was a consistent opening batsman. In W.C. 1992, Roshan Mahanama scored: 59 runs off 89 balls v.s. Zimbabwe, 80 runs off 131 balls v.s. New Zealand & 68 runs off 121 balls v.s. South Africa. During 1995/96, whenever Roshan Mahanama gets out, Aravinda de Silva gets out easily.

Roshan is the 36th Sri Lanka Test Cap [Sri Lanka Vs Pakistan at Colombo 1985/86].

'Retired hurt' is common parlance in cricket, but that is the name former Sri Lankan cricketer Roshan Mahanama chose for his biography, reflecting his feelings after he was not considered for selection in the One-dayers and Tests, following the team's disastrous showing in the 1999 World Cup.

The authorities told Roshan that he was dropped to groom young talent. But then players older than he was found a place, and that hurt the veteran. As a matter of principle and self-respect he decided to retire.

These facts are mentioned in the book 'Retired hurt,' penned by noted Australian sports chronicler Ken Piesse, based on 40 hours of taped narration on Roshan's experience on and off the field.

Roshan Mahanama

Sri Lanka

 

 

 

Full name: Roshan Siriwardene Mahanama

Born: May 31, 1966, Colombo 

Current age :46 years 310 days

Major teams: Sri Lanka, Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Colombo Cricket Club

Batting style: Right-hand bat

Other: Referee

 

Batting and fielding averages
 

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	6s	Ct	St
Tests	52	89	1	2576	225	29.27			4	11	2	56	0
ODIs	213	198	23	5162	119*	29.49	8521	60.57	4	35		109	0
First-class	137	211	18	6698	225	34.70			12	31		136	0
List A	250	235	29	6374	119*	30.94			6	41		120	0

 
Bowling averages
 

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	52	2	36	30	0	-	-	-	5.00	-	0	0	0
ODIs	213	2	2	7	0	-	-	-	21.00	-	0	0	0
First-class	137		36	30	0	-	-	-	5.00	-	0	0	0
List A	250		2	7	0	-	-	-	21.00	-	0	0	0

 
Career statistics
 

Test debut	Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (CCC), Mar 14-18, 1986
Last Test	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Centurion, Mar 27-30, 1998
ODI debut	Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Kandy, Mar 2, 1986
Last ODI	Kenya v Sri Lanka at Southampton, May 30, 1999
First-class span	1984-1999
List A span	1984-2001

 
ICC match referee statistics
 

Test debut	West Indies v Bangladesh at Gros Islet, May 28-Jun 1, 2004
Last Test	New Zealand v England at Auckland, Mar 22-26, 2013
Test matches	43
ODI debut	West Indies v Bangladesh at Kingstown, May 15, 2004
Last ODI	New Zealand v England at Auckland, Feb 23, 2013
ODI matches	187
T20I debut	Australia v New Zealand at Perth, Dec 11, 2007
Last T20I	New Zealand v England at Wellington, Feb 15, 2013
T20I matches	26

ASANKA GURUSINHA   

Asanka Pradeep Gurusinha (born 16 September 1966 in Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who enjoyed an 11-year international career, playing 41 Tests and 147 One Day Internationals for Sri Lanka. He was a specialist batsman who helped win the 1996 World Cup final with 65 in a partnership of 125 with the final's Man of the Match, Aravinda de Silva. He studied at Nalanda College Colombo. He now lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Gurusinha was called up at 19 as a wicket-keeper, a role he took in a further two ODIs and one Test. He gradually established himself as a No. 3 batsman, playing 33 Tests and 109 ODIs in that position, and was described by Simon Wilde of Cricinfo as "the rock on which Sri Lankan batting was founded". He was also known for his big stature and wide stance when batting. When he retired in 1996, only Sri Lanka's captain Aravinda de Silva had made more Test hundreds, with eight compared to Gurusinha's seven.

Asanka is the 32nd Sri Lanka Test Cap, making his debut against Pakistan in Karachi in 1985/86. He was also a useful part-time bowler, with Michael Atherton, Sunil Gavaskar, Dean Jones, Steve Waugh and Inzamam-ul-Haq among his 20 Test wickets.

Asanka Gurusinha

 Sri Lanka

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Full name: Asanka Pradeep Gurusinha

Born: September 16, 1966, Colombo

Current age: 46 years 202 days

Major teams: Sri Lanka, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Sinhalese Sports Club

Batting style: Left-hand bat

Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Fielding position: Wicketkeeper

 

Batting and fielding averages
 

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	6s	Ct	St
Tests	41	70	7	2452	143	38.92			7	8	11	33	0
ODIs	147	143	5	3902	117*	28.27	6409	60.88	2	22		49	0
First-class	124	183	19	7169	162	43.71			20	32		89	0
List A	173	169	6	4365	117*	26.77			2	23		56	0

 
Bowling averages
 

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	41	39	1408	681	20	2/7	4/68	34.05	2.90	70.4	0	0	0
ODIs	147	55	1585	1354	26	2/25	2/25	52.07	5.12	60.9	0	0	0
First-class	124		5142	2298	107	5/54		21.47	2.68	48.0		1	0
List A	173		2035	1676	39	3/36	3/36	42.97	4.94	52.1	0	0	0

 
Career statistics
 

Test debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Karachi, Nov 7-11, 1985
Last Test	Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe at Colombo (SSC), Sep 18-21, 1996
ODI debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Hyderabad (Sind), Nov 3, 1985
Last ODI	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, Nov 8, 1996
First-class span	1984-1997
List A span	1984-1997

ARAVINDA DE SILVA

Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva (Sinhala:පින්නදුවගේ අරවින්ද ද සිල්වා) (born 17 October 1965) is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, who is considered one of the finest batsmen produced by the country. He is also regarded as one of the most elegant batsman in his generation, and to date is the only player to make a hundred and take 3 or more wickets in a world cup final. He was the head of the national selection committee briefly before stepping down after the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

 

1.Career

Born in Colombo, de Silva made his Test match debut in 1984 at Lord's against England. During the early part of his career he was known as a dashing but inconsistent batsman - he was given the nickname "Mad Max" for his tendency to get out to rash shots. He later commented on his aggressive batting style: "That's my natural game - I don't want to change because I feel confident playing that way. If someone is capable of dominating the bowling, they should do it. It's the way I've been playing since I was a youngster." But a successful season playing first-class cricket for the English county Kent in 1995 marked a turning point in his career. De Silva was instrumental in Sri Lanka's triumph in the 1996 Cricket World Cup where his unbeaten century and three wickets earned him the Man of the Match award in the final against Australia. His other notable achievements include scoring a century in each innings of a Test match on two separate occasions (only bettered by India's Sunil Gavaskar and Australia's Ricky Ponting, who each performed this feat three times). One of these doubles was 138 and 105, both undismissed, against Pakistan at Colombo's Sinhalese Sports Club in April 1997. This made him the first, and so far only, player to score two not out centuries in the same Test match. As he had scored 168 in the second innings of the previous Test, he posted three hundreds in eight days. He finished the year with 1220 runs at 76.25.

De Silva's highest test score of 267 was made at Basin Reserve in 1991 against New Zealand. He scored another double century in his final Test innings as well as picking up a wicket with his final delivery in Test cricket (against Bangladesh in 2002), thus retiring with a place in cricket's history secure - from all international cricket after the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

     County cricket with Kent

Following the Sri Lankan tour of New Zealand De Silva joined the English county side Kent in April 1995 on short notice after Kent's leading batsman of the previous season, Carl Hooper, left to join the West Indies team for the summer. The season proved to be a mix of disappointment and success for Kent, as they finished last (18th) in County Championship with only three wins and four draws out of 17 matches played. Their form in the 40-overs National Cricket League was much better, and they finished on top of the league table with 12 wins, four losses and one abandoned match.In addition, Kent reached the final of Benson & Hedges Cup, where they lost to Lancashire by 35 runs despite de Silva's 112 runs. Personally for de Silva, the time spent with Kent marked the turning point in his career. He was the third most prolific batsman of the County Championship in 1995 after Mark Ramprakash and Nasser Hussain with 1661 runs at an average of 59.32 and six centuries including the highest score of the season, 255. He was also often called to perform as fifth or sixth bowler, a role where he proved to be relatively economic but inefficient wicket-taker.

     1996 World Cup

De Silva did not play in Kent's two last County Championship matches having left to join the Sri Lankan squad on their tour of Pakistan. Sri Lanka had embarrassingly lost a first-class match against Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI and the following first Test against Pakistan both by an innings. He joined the team only few days before the second Test and was dismissed for a duck in the first innings; however, in Sri Lanka's second innings his third wicket stand of 176 runs with Chandika Hathurusingha helped to win the Test for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka went on to win the third Test and clinch the Test series against Pakistan 2–1. Sri Lanka also proved victorious with the same numbers in the subsequent three-match ODI-series against Pakistan, where de Silva was Sri Lanka's leading wicket-taker with five wickets at an average of 17.80.

In the three-nation Champions Trophy tournament in Sharjah in October 1995 with Pakistan and West Indies each team ended up with two wins and two losses in the preliminary round-robin stage, and West Indies and Sri Lanka were selected to play in the final due to their higher run rates. In the final Sri Lanka proved victorious by 50 runs. De Silva ended up with a modest 117 runs at an average of 29.25 in five matches. His batting form slumped lower in the three-test Series in Australia, where the Sri Lankan batsmen struggled with the bowling of Glenn McGrath, who took 21 wickets while de Silva managed 98 runs at an average of 16.33. In the third test he acted as captain after the regular captain Arjuna Ranatunga pulled out due to finger injury. The series was shrouded in controversy, as in the first Test Sri Lanka was first found guilty of ball-tampering only to be exonerated later by International Cricket Council, while in the second Test the Australian umpire Darrell Hair no-balled Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan seven times in just three overs for throwing. Concurrently with the Test series Sri Lanka also participated in three-nation ODI series with Australia and West Indies. In the seventh match of the tournament against West Indies Muralitharan was again called for throwing and did not play again in the ODI series. The tournament was won by Australia, who beat Sri Lanka in both final matches, confirming their favourite position in the forthcoming ICC World Cup in the Indian sub-continent. In the absence of Ranatunga, de Silva captained Sri Lanka in the ODI tournament until Ranatunga returned in the later stages and finished the series as Sri Lanka's top batsman with 258 runs at an average of 25.80.

In 1996 World Cup, Sri Lanka, who hosted the cup together with India and Pakistan, played only three games in the preliminary rounds as both West Indies and Australia forfeited their matches in Colombo due to security reasons. Neither Zimbabwe nor Kenya were able to truly test Sri Lanka team – in both matches de Silva was selected man-of-the-match following his 91 and 145 runs with bat. De Silva's 145 from 115 balls against Kenya was the highest ever score for Sri Lanka in ODIs, and the third highest in 1996 World Cup. India proved a stronger opponent, but despite Sachin Tendulkar's 137 runs, Sri Lanka cruised to a comfortable six wicket victory.

In the quarter-finals Sri Lanka defeated England by five wickets, the first time they had ever beaten England outside Sri Lanka. Their semi-final opponent was India, which had beaten Pakistan in their quarter-final match. Winning the toss at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, India selected to field and had a very good start with Javagal Srinath dispatching the Sri Lankan opening pair for only one run. Coming in at number four, de Silva lead the Sri Lankan recovery hitting 66 runs from 47 balls as Sri Lanka set a target of 252 runs for India to chase. His 66 runs does not really stand out in statistics tables, however is regarded as one of his finest innings. In their response, the batsmen of India failed to score with the exception of Tendulkar (65 runs). After India had collapsed to 120 runs for 8 wickets at 34.1 overs, a densely packed home crowd vented their anger by throwing bottles on to the outfield and setting fire to the seating. Eventually the match referee Clive Lloyd had to abandon the game and Sri Lanka won by default.

However, the highlight of his career was almost certainly the 1996 World Cup Final against Australia, where he took 3 wickets for 42 runs (including the Australian captain Mark Taylor and the future captain Ricky Ponting), two catches and then followed that with 107 not out with the bat to secure Sri Lanka a convincing 7 wicket victory, thereby clinching the World Cup, and also the Man of the Match award.His role in the final was recognised by Wisden in 2002 as the eight most significant batting performance in ODI cricket while his bowling was ranked 82nd in Wisden top 100 bowling chart.

On 28 July 2007 he made a one-off appearance for a friend for Dorset county league side Sherborne.
Career Centuries
Main article: List of international cricket centuries by Aravinda de Silva

2.Achievements

     Awards

De Silva was selected one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1996 and one of the five Indian Cricketers of the Year in 1990. The Wisden list of top 100 batting performances contains six entries for him, only one less than the West Indies batsman Viv Richards.

Aravinda de Silva

      

  Sri Lanka

   

 

Full name: Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva

Born: October 17, 1965, Colombo 

Current age: 47 years 171 days

Major teams: Sri Lanka, Auckland, Kent, Nondescripts Cricket Club

Batting style: Right-hand bat

Bowling style: Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages
 

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	6s	Ct	St
Tests	93	159	11	6361	267	42.97			20	22	48	43	0
ODIs	308	296	30	9284	145	34.90	11443	81.13	11	64		95	0
First-class	220	343	33	15000	267	48.38			43	71		108	0
List A	392	377	44	12095	158*	36.32			17	77		116	0

 
Bowling averages
 

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	93	58	2595	1208	29	3/30	3/34	41.65	2.79	89.4	0	0	0
ODIs	308	156	5148	4177	106	4/30	4/30	39.40	4.86	48.5	2	0	0
First-class	220		9005	3763	129	7/24		29.17	2.50	69.8		8	1
List A	392		7377	5663	156	4/28	4/28	36.30	4.60	47.2	4	0	0

 
Career statistics
 

Test debut	England v Sri Lanka at Lord's, Aug 23-28, 1984
Last Test	Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo (PSS), Jul 21-23, 2002
ODI debut	Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Moratuwa, Mar 31, 1984
Last ODI	Australia v Sri Lanka at Port Elizabeth, Mar 18, 2003
First-class span	1983-2002
List A span	1983-2003