Hashan Tillakaratne
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| Full name | Hashan Prasantha Tillakaratne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14 July 1967 Colombo, Sri Lanka |
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| Batting style | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Middle order Batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ravindu Tillakaratne (son) Duvindu Tillakaratne (son) |
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| Test debut (cap 45) | 16 December 1989 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 24 March 2004 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODI debut (cap 51) | 27 November 1986 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 7 April 2003 v Zimbabwe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1987-2006 | Nondescripts Cricket Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hashan Prasantha Tillakaratne (born 14 July 1967, in Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and currently a politician. He was a key member for 1996 Cricket World Cup winning team for Sri Lanka.
Hashan started playing cricket at D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo. As a schoolboy in 1986, he was selected to play against England B at Galle, scoring a century to save the match. He played in his first One Day International in November 1986 and subsequently made his debut in the Sri Lankan cricket team as a wicketkeeper-batsman in December 1989. He continued as a specialist batsman from December 1992.
He was part of the Sri Lankan cricket team that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup. He was dropped from the Sri Lankan Test and ODI teams after the 1999 Cricket World Cup, but returned to the Test team in 2001 following success in domestic first-class cricket, where he played for Nondescripts Cricket Club. He also returned to the ODI team in 2002–03. He became captain of the Sri Lanka Test team in April 2003, but won only one of his ten matches in charge. After losing 3–0 to Australia, he resigned in March 2004 and was not selected for Sri Lanka again.
In 1995, in an ODI against West Indies at Sharjah he went to become the first batsman in the world to score an ODI century when batting at number 7 position.Up to date, he remains the only Sri Lankan to have scored an ODI century when batting at number 7 position and still has the highest ODI score for Sri Lanka when batting at no 7 position.(100)
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