Bandula Warnapura
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Bandula Warnapura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
1 March 1953 Rambukkana, Sri Lanka |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder, Umpire, Match Referee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations |
U Warnapura (brother) MS Warnapura (son) SM Warnapura (nephew) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National side |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Test debut (cap 10) | 17 February 1982 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 17 September 1982 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 11) | 7 June 1975 v West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 26 September 1982 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic team information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–91 | Bloomfield | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Umpiring information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Source: Cricinfo, 31 January 2009
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bandula Warnapura (Sinhala:බන්දුල වර්නපුර) (born 1 March 1953) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He played 4 Test matches and 12 One Day Internationals (ODI) during his international cricketing career from 1975 to 1982. He was a right-handed opening batsman and a right-handed medium pace bowler.
Warnapura captained Sri Lanka's first Test match, and also faced the first delivery and scored the first run for his team. He captained Sri Lanka in all the Tests he played, although he could not lead his team to victory in any of them. However, Sri Lanka won the first ODI match he captained. He has scored one half-century in ODI cricket.
Bandula Warnapura was born on 1 March 1953 in Rambukkana.Malinda Warnapura, who currently plays for the Sri Lanka national cricket team, is his nephew. He is an old student of Nalanda College Colombo. Bandula captained Nalanda College Colombo first XI cricket team in 1971. Warnapura has worked as an ICC match referee and an umpire, and is also a certified cricketing coach. He has served as the coach for the Sri Lanka national cricket team, before he was appointed Director of Coaching in 1994. He became Director of Operations of Sri Lanka Cricket in 2001. He functioned in that post for eight years before he resigned in 2008. He is now the Development Manager of the Asian Cricket Council. He has also refereed two Tests and three ODIs in 2001
...
Wikipedia