Sri Lanka
| Captain: | Kumar Sangakkara |  |
| Coach: | Trevor Bayliss | |
| Team Manager: | Anura Tennakoon | |
| ODI/Test ranking: | 3rd (Test), 2nd (ODI) | |
| First Test match: | vs England at Colombo, 17-21 Feb 1982 | |
| Last Test match: | vs India at Mumbai, 2-6 Dec 2009 |
Sri Lanka Squad
| Player Name | Age | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Shirt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kumar Sangakkara (Captain) | 33 | Left-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Medium | 11 |
| Mahela Jayawardene (Vice-Captain) | 33 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Medium | 27 |
| Tillakaratne Dilshan | 34 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off-Break | 23 |
| Dilhara Fernando | 31 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | 26 |
| Rangana Herath | 33 | Left-Handed Bat | Slow Left-Arm Orthodox | 78 |
| Chamara Kapugedera | 23 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Medium | 16 |
| Nuwan Kulasekara | 28 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | 92 |
| Lasith Malinga | 27 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast | 99 |
| Angelo Mathews | 23 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | 69 |
| Ajantha Mendis | 25 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Leg/Off-Break | 40 |
| Muttiah Muralitharan | 38 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off-Break | 08 |
| Thisara Perera | 21 | Left-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Fast-Medium | -- |
| Thilan Samaraweera | 34 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Off-Break | 03 |
| Chamara Silva | 31 | Right-Handed Bat | Right-Arm Leg-Break | 05 |
| Upul Tharanga | 26 | Left-Handed Bat | 44 |
Player details
| Full name: | Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | October 27, 1977, Matale |
| Current age: | 33 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Wicketkeeper batsman |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Central Province, Colombo District Cricket Association, ICC World XI, Kandurata, Kings XI Punjab, Marylebone Cricket Club, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Warwickshire |
Player profile
As soon as he broke into the side at the age of 22, while a law student, it was apparent that Kumar Sangakkara was destined for more than just batting stardom. The left-handers that had preceded him, like Arjuna Ranatunga and Asanka Gurusinha, had been pugnacious battlers but Sangakkara was cut from more graceful cloth, easing into strokes with the elegance often associated with those that play with the 'other' hand. The cut and the pull came naturally to him and with growing confidence, he became a more assured front-foot player as well ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | May 27, 1977, Colombo |
| Current age: | 33 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Asia XI, Kings XI Punjab, Sinhalese Sports Club, Wayamba |
Player profile
A prolific, elegant and utterly classy batsman with a huge appetite for runs, and a calm yet authoritative captain - those are the qualities that best describe Mahela Jayawardene. His sheer quality as a batsman was never in doubt even when he just entered the international scene, but for Jayawardene the biggest challenge has been to justify all the early hype. With a combined Test and ODI tally in excess of 17,000 - and a captaincy stint that included a World Cup final appearance - it can safely be said that he has met that challenge more ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan |
| Nickname: | Tuwan Mohamad Dilshan |
| Born: | October 14, 1976, Kalutara |
| Current age: | 34 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Basnahira South, Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Delhi Daredevils, Kalutara Town Club, Northern Districts, Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club, Singha Sports Club |
Player profile
With his relentless aggression, strong wrists and natural timing, Tillakaratne Dilshan is one of the most exciting batsmen in the game today. He is technically sound, but, much like Virender Sehwag, he uses the defensive option only as a last resort, after all the attacking alternatives have been explored. He loves to make room and thrash the ball through the off side, but the stroke that bears his signature more than any other is the one he developed for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 - the scoop shot over his head, which confounded bowlers and ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Congenige Randhi Dilhara Fernando |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | July 19, 1979, Colombo |
| Current age: | 31 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Mumbai Indians, Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lanka Board President's XI, Worcestershire |
Player profile
When Fernando burst onto the international scene, young and raw, he soon inspired hope that he would be the long-term replacement for Chaminda Vaas as the cutting edge of the pace attack. He has natural pace - six months after his debut he was timed at 91.9 mph in Durban - hits the pitch hard and moves the ball off the seam. During the early years he paid for his inconsistent line and length, but then worked hard with Rumesh Ratnayake in the Fast Bowling Unit and became more reliable. He also learnt the art of reverse swing and developed a well ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Herath Mudiyanselage Rangana Keerthi Bandara |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | March 19, 1978, Kurunegala |
| Current age: | 32 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Slow left-arm orthodox |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Hampshire, Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club, Moors Sports Club, Sri Lanka A, Surrey, Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club, Wayamba |
Player profile
Rangana Herath shot to prominence against Australia in 1999 with a 'mystery' ball. An orthodox left-arm spinner who broke into the side after an impressive A tour to England, he deceived the Australians in the first few matches with a delivery that darted the other way. After that series he has hovered on the fringes of the Test squad for a while, regularly playing for the A team, before being recalled for the third Test against Australia in Colombo. He didn't get a game on the tour to Australia, but in Pakistan in 2004-05, he showed plenty of ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Chamara Kantha Kapugedera |
| Nickname: | Kapu |
| Born: | February 24, 1987, Kandy |
| Current age: | 23 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Chennai Super Kings, Colombo Cricket Club, Kandurata, Sri Lanka A |
Player profile
Chamara Kapugedera, a naturally aggressive right-hander, was one of the few genuinely exciting batsmen the selectors unearthed from Sri Lanka's Under-19 set-up. From the age of 11, when he first turned out for Dharmaraja College in Kandy, Kapugedera has hardly wasted an opportunity to push himself up the ladder. He has captained all the junior school sides from the U-13 to the first XI. Following a prolific 2003-04 season, where he scored over 1000 runs, he was picked for the U-19 tour to Pakistan the following year and excelled with a stunning knock ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Kulasekara Mudiyanselage Dinesh Nuwan Kulasekara |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | July 22, 1982, Nittambuwa |
| Current age: | 28 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Bandaranayake College Gampha, Basnahira North, Colts Cricket Club, Galle Cricket Club |
Player profile
Kulasekara made an instant impression in his first ODI, against England at Dambulla in November 2003, after being selected from relative obscurity. From a bustling run-up and whippy open-chested action, he generates a lively pace, moves the ball off the seam and can reverse-swing the ball. Most importantly though, he can maintain a tight line and length. He started his career as a softball enthusiast before he shifted his focus to cricket, joining Nugegoda Cricket Club and then Galle Cricket Club. He also won the best bowler award in the ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Separamadu Lasith Malinga |
| Nickname: | Separamadu Lasith Malinga Swarnajith |
| Born: | August 28, 1983, Galle |
| Current age: | 27 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, BCCSL Academy XI, Galle Cricket Club, Kent, Mumbai Indians, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Ruhuna |
Player profile
Lasith Malinga was the surprise selection for Sri Lanka's tour to Australia in 2004, though he had a fearsome reputation on the domestic circuit. Malinga bowls with a distinctive and explosive round-arm action which generates genuine pace and can disconcert batsmen who struggle to pick up the ball's trajectory. Already, he is rated the fastest bowler in Sri Lanka. His first performance in Sri Lankan colours was also impressive - he took 6 for 90 against a Northern Territory Chief Minister's XI. That paved the way for his inclusion in the Test ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Angelo Davis Mathews |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | June 2, 1987, Colombo |
| Current age: | 23 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm fast-medium |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Basnahira North, Colts Cricket Club, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka Under-19s |
Player profile
Mathews made his debut for Sri Lanka Under-19s when he was just 16 years old, against Pakistan in 2003. He is an outstanding allrounder, capable of batting anywhere in the top order and also delivers lively medium pace. A fixture in the youth side since his debut, he was handed the captaincy for the 2005 tour of England. The highlight on that tour was an unbeaten 123 in the third Test which wasnot enough to stave of defeat. During the U-19 triangular series involving Bangladesh and England towards the end of 2005, Mathews produced a series ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | March 11, 1985, Moratuwa |
| Current age: | 25 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Hampshire, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Board President's XI, Wayamba |
Player profile
Although classified as a right-arm, slow-medium bowler, Ajantha Mendis is a spinner who bowls a mixture of googlies, offbreaks, top-spinners, flippers and legbreaks. Batsmen have been confounded by the variety of deliveries he has up his sleeve and are at a loss to figure out what his stock delivery is. Mendis was a prolific wicket-taker for Sri Lanka Army in the 2007-08 season and had taken 46 wickets at an average of 10.56 and strike-rate of 31 from six matches. His performances did not go unnoticed for Mendis was called up to the Sri Lanka ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Muttiah Muralitharan |
| Nickname: | Muttiah Muralidaran |
| Born: | April 17, 1972, Kandy |
| Current age: | 38 years of age |
| Height: | 5 ft 7 in |
| Team role: | Bowler |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Chennai Super Kings, ICC World XI, Kandurata, Kent, Lancashire, Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club |
Player profile
Perhaps no cricketer since Douglas Jardine has polarised opinion quite like Muttiah Muralitharan. For the believers, he's among the greatest to ever spin a ball. For the doubters, he's a charlatan undeserving of the game's greatest records, responsible for changes in the laws that they think have legitimised throwing. What was undeniable was his ability to turn the ball sharply on just about any surface, and bowl the sort of marathon spells that would have seen a lesser man retire after five seasons rather than 18. Whether Sri Lanka played ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Narangoda Liyanaarachchilage Thisara Chirantha Perera |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | April 3, 1989, Colombo |
| Current age: | 21 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Allrounder |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm medium-fast |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Chennai Super Kings, Colts Cricket Club, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka Under-19s, Wayamba |
Player profile
An attacking batting allrounder, Thissara Perera began his career primarily as a bowler, opening the bowling for the Under-19s. He turned in noteworthy performances in the tri-nation tournament in Sri Lanka in July 2007 and in the youth Test against India in Colombo the following month. Those performances earned him a call-up to the U-19 squad for the World Cup in Malaysia in 2008. He received his maiden national call-up during Sri Lanka's tour of India in 2009 as an emergency replacement for Angelo Mathews. His aggressive batting in an ODI against ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Thilan Thusara Samaraweera |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | September 22, 1976, Colombo |
| Current age: | 34 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Right-arm offbreak |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Colts Cricket Club, Kandurata, Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka Board President's XI |
Player profile
Thilan Samaraweera's batting will not fill a stadium; yet, in a batting line-up of flamboyant strokeplayers, his patience and solidity offers a vital balancing factor. In his second avatar he has added more strokes to make his batting more well-rounded, but what Samaraweera does best is wear bowlers down through patient and relentless accumulation. His batting is built around reserves of resilience, determination and sheer toughness, and he had to draw into them all to overcome the trauma of cricket's darkest hours - the terrorist attack on the Sri ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Lindamlilage Prageeth Chamara Silva |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | December 14, 1979, Panadura |
| Current age: | 31 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Batsman |
| Batting style: | Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Legbreak |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Basnahira South, Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club, Deccan Chargers, Panadura Sports Club, Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club, Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lanka A |
Player profile
Chamara Silva first arrived on the scene as a slightly-built 19-year-old in 1999, a beneficiary of the youth policy adopted by Sidath Wettimuny, the chairman of the selectors at the time. He began with a promising 54 on his ODI debut against Australia. His mannerisms while batting - particularly bow-legged stance and the flamboyant cover drives - immediately attracted comparisons with the great Aravinda de Silva. But despite being prodigiously talented, he failed to nail down a regular place during tours to Sharjah (1999), Zimbabwe (1999), Pakistan ...
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Player details
| Full name: | Warushavithana Upul Tharanga |
| Nickname: | None |
| Born: | February 2, 1985, Balapitiya |
| Current age: | 26 years of age |
| Height: | 0 m |
| Team role: | Batsman |
| Batting style: | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style: | Not a bowler |
| Played for: | Sri Lanka, Asia XI, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Ruhuna, Singha Sports Club, Sri Lanka Board President's XI, Sri Lanka Board XI |
Player profile
Upul Tharanga's call-up to the national one-day squad in July 2005 brightened a year marred by the Asian tsunami, which washed away his family home in Ambalangoda, a fishing town on the west coast. From an early age he was tipped for the big time, playing Premier League cricket for Singha CC at the age of 15 and passing seamlessly and successfully through the Sri Lanka under-15, under-17 and under-19 development squads. He first really caught the eye during the under-19 World Cup in 2004 when he cracked 117 against South Africa and then 61 in ...
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Match records and statistics
| Test Records | |
| Highest total: | 952/6 dec against India in Colombo (RPS) Aug 2, 1997 |
| Lowest total: | 71 (28.2 overs) against Pakistan in Kandy Aug 26, 1994 |
| Largest victory: | 1 innings and 254 runs against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo May 14, 2004 |
| ICC Test Wins: | ICC Test Championships won - no recorded wins |
| ODI Records | |
| Highest total: | 443/9 scored off 50 overs against Netherlands in Amstelveen Jul 4, 2006 |
| Lowest total: | 55 (28.3 overs) vs West Indies in Sharjah Dec 3, 1986 |
| Largest victory: | 245 runs against India in Sharjah Oct 29, 2000 |
| ICC ODI Wins: | 1 ICC ODI Championships won - 1996 |
Team profile
The Sri Lankan cricket team is the national cricket team of Sri Lanka. The team first played international cricket in 1926-27, and were later awarded Test status in 1981, which made Sri Lanka the eighth Test cricket playing nation. The team is administered by Sri Lanka Cricket. Sri Lanka's national cricket team transformed the country from underdog status to a major cricketing nation during the 1990s. The team went on to win the 1996 Cricket World Cup, beating Australia in the finals, and becoming World Champions. Since then, the team has continued to be a major force in international cricket.
The Sri Lankan cricket team reached the finals of the 2007 Cricket World Cup but lost to Australia in a rain-affected final match. The batting of Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva (retired), backed up by the bowling of Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas (retired), among many other talented cricketers, has underpinned the successes of Sri Lankan cricket during the last 15 years. Sri Lanka have won the Cricket World Cup in 1996, the ICC Champions Trophy in 2002 (Co-champions with India), have been runners up in the 2007 Cricket World Cup, and have been runners up in the ICC World Twenty20 in 2009. The Sri Lankan cricket team currently holds several world records, including world records for highest team totals in all three forms of the game, Test, ODI and Twenty20.
As of April 2010, the Sri Lankan team has played 192 Test matches, winning 31.25%, losing 35.94% and drawing 32.81% of its games. Sri Lankan cricket's greatest moment undoubtedly came during the aforementioned 1996 World Cup, when they defeated the top-ranked Australian team under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga in the Final. Sri Lanka's game style over the course of the series revolutionized One Day International Cricket, and was characterized by highly aggressive batting in the first fifteen overs of the innings in order to take advantage of the fielding restrictions imposed during this period. This strategy has since become a hallmark of One Day International cricket.
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