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Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara ( Sinhala: කුමාර් චොක්ශනාද සංගක්කාර; born 27 October 1977) is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer who represented Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2015. A former captain in all formats. He was born in Matale, Central Province. In first-class cricket, he played for ...
First test match of England tour of Sri Lanka 2021, Mathews scored his 6000 test runs. In the second innings, he scored his 36th test half-century. He scored 71 runs facing 219 balls and 344 minutes on the crease just hitting four boundaries. His patient innings helped to take a lead to Sri Lanka but England won the match by 7 wickets. [77]
The 374 made by Mahela Jayawardene against South Africa in 2006 is the highest individual score by a Sri Lankan cricketer, surpassing the previous best of 340 by Sanath Jayasuriya, which was established in 1997. [ 10] It is also the fourth-highest individual score in Test cricket. Jayawardene, Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara [319] are the only ...
Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva hit 74 to help his team fight back from a perilous position and reach tea at 178-8 on Day 1 of the first test against England. With the tourists struggling on ...
First match in Super 12 in T20 World Cup 2022, against Ireland, Mendis scored his 10th T20I half-century. During that inning, he reached 1000 T20I runs too. He scored unbeaten 68 runs hitting five boundaries and three sixes. Finally, Sri Lanka won the match by 9 wickets and Mendis won the Player of the Match award.
This is a list of Sri Lankan Test cricketers . A Test match is an international cricket match between two representative teams that are full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). Both teams have two innings, and the match lasts up to five days. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his first Test cap.
List of centuries scored on Test cricket debut. Australia's Charles Bannerman was the first cricketer to score a century on Test debut, in the first Test match. For a cricketer to score a century (100 runs or more) on his Test match debut is considered a notable achievement, [ 1] and as of 13 July 2023, it has been accomplished 115 times by 113 ...
Runner-up. 2011 India–Bangladesh–Sri Lanka. Source: ESPNcricinfo, 8 January 2014. Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan[ 4 ] (born 17 April 1972) is a Sri Lankan cricket coach, businessman and former professional cricketer. Averaging over six wickets per Test match, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.