Suranga Lakmal Cricket Sri Lanka

Suranga Lakmal

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Personal Information

Full Name Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal
Date of Birth March 10, 1987
Nationality Sri Lanka
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Role All-rounder, Bowler/Right-arm Fast-medium, Right-handed batsman
Family Dilani Chalanika (Spouse)

Most Recent Matches

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Match R BF 4s 6s S/R O R W E/R
DER vs GLO 2 8 0 0 25.00 25 77 3 3.08
DER vs WOR 6 10 1 0 60.00 24 78 1 3.25
WOR vs DER 0 0 0 0 0 26.2 & 15 65 & 41 1 & 1 2.46 & 2.73
DER vs GLA 5 17 1 0 29.41 29.4 & 14.5 82 & 65 5 & 2 2.76 & 4.38
LEI vs DER 1 5 0 0 20.00 21 & 26 52 & 57 2 & 2 2.47 & 2.19

Batting Stats

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Game Type Mat Inn R BF NO Avg S/R 100s 50s H 4s 6s Ct St
ODIs 86 48 244 404 22 9.38 60.39 0 0 26 18 3 20 0
TESTs 70 109 934 1936 25 11.11 48.24 0 0 42 114 12 22 0
T20Is 11 6 7 11 3 2.33 63.63 0 0 5 1 0 3 0
T20s 74 35 168 166 17 9.33 101.20 0 0 33 14 6 21 0
LISTAs 170 92 436 667 45 9.27 65.36 0 0 38 37 5 42 0
FIRSTCLASS 135 173 1522 2863 37 11.19 53.16 0 1 58 171 32 47 0

Bowling Stats

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Game Type Mat Inn O R W Avg E/R Best 5w 10w
ODIs 86 84 646.5 3534 109 32.42 5.46 4/13 0 0
TESTs 70 122 2073.5 6232 171 36.44 3.00 7/80 4 0
T20Is 11 11 34.4 330 8 41.25 9.51 2/26 0 0
T20s 74 72 238.3 1924 77 24.98 8.06 5/34 1 0
LISTAs 170 168 1268.1 6712 235 28.56 5.29 5/31 3 0
FIRSTCLASS 135 236 3577.4 11700 362 32.32 3.27 9/134 10 0
Suranga Lakmal: A Brief Biography

Suranga Lakmal Biography


Suranga lakmal is a right-arm medium-fast bowler and right-handed batsman, playing for the Sri Lankan national side. He was born on 10 March 1987 at Matara, Sri Lanka.


Lakmal became the third bowler to take a wicket with the first ball bowled in a test match at a new venue by dismissing Chris Gayle of West Indies.


Background


Suranga Lakmal started his cricket career at Debarawewa Central College where he was spotted by Sri Lanka Cricket fast bowling coaches. Later, he played his senior school cricket at Richmond College.


In 2007, he joined Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club where his progress was closely monitored by coaches and was inducted into the academy and this made him get into the national team.


Debut


By observing this consistent progress, he was selected to join the national cricket team. On 18 December 2009, Lakmal made his ODI debut against India at Nagpur. In his debut match he failed to take even a single wicket, he bowled eight wicketless overs for 58 runs.


In his second game, he impressed everyone by taking two major wickets of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, but failed to impress in the next games and was sent back to domestic cricket to improve on his bowling.


On November 23, 2010, Lakmal made his Test debut against West Indies at R. Premadasa Stadium and became the 114th Sri Lankan Test player.


Records


Lakmal has listed himself in some interesting records. He is the first player to represent Sri Lankan national cricket team from the Hambantota district.


He also joined an elite group comprising of Kapil Dev and Imran Khan by taking a wicket with the first ball bowled in a test match where he dismissed Chris Gayle of West Indies.


Suranga Lakmal News

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"As a team, in patches, we did well" - Dimuth Karunaratne assesses his side's performance in the IND vs SL Test series 
Watch: Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli congratulate Suranga Lakmal on eve of his final Test
Watch: Rahul Dravid and Virat Kohli congratulate Suranga Lakmal on eve of his final Test
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"This is the best time to take my leave of Sri Lanka cricket" - Suranga Lakmal ahead of his final Test
IND vs SL 2022: Dimuth Karunaratne wants Sri Lanka to reverse the pressure in second Test
IND vs SL 2022: Dimuth Karunaratne wants Sri Lanka to reverse the pressure in second Test
Last Modified Aug 28, 2018 18:23 IST