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Kusal Perera

Kusal Perera
Personal information
Full name Mathurage Don Kusal Janith Perera
Born (1990-08-17) 17 August 1990 (age 26)
Kalubowila, Sri Lanka
Nickname Little Sana, Kusalaa
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Role Wicket-keeper batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 130) 28 August 2015 v India
Last Test 26 December 2016 v South Africa
ODI debut (cap 155) 13 January 2013 v Australia
Last ODI 27 November 2016 v Zimbabwe
ODI shirt no. 8
T20I debut (cap 48) 26 January 2013 v Australia
Last T20I 9 September 2016 v Australia
T20I shirt no. 88
Domestic team information
Years Team
Wayamba cricket team
2013 – present Rajasthan Royals (squad no. 8)
Ruhuna cricket team
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 10 68 25 49
Runs scored 565 1,635 635 3,549
Batting average 31.38 26.37 25.40 49.98
100s/50s 1/2 3/8 0/5 11/12
Top score 110 135 84 336
Balls bowled
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 16/8 26/2 7/2 88/19
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 30 December 2016

Mathurage Don Kusal Janith Perera (born 17 August 1990), more commonly known as Kusal Perera, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer. He plays all forms of the game for the Sri Lanka national cricket team, and currently the permanent wicket keeper in all formats. He was a key member of the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 winning team. He owned the joint second fastest fifty of all time in ODI history.

In domestic cricket, he plays for the Wayamba cricket team.

Educated at Kottawa Dharmapala Maha Vidyalaya, and Royal College Colombo, he has played for the Royal–Thomian annual cricket encounter. At the younger age of 11 to 13 years, Kusal was a right-handed batsman, but at the later age, He was moved into left-hand. This change was due to his passion for the master stroke play of Sanath Jayasuriya, which given Kusal to change his way of batting.

He recently played for Rajasthan Royals in IPL. Kusal made his One day international debut against Australia on January 13, 2013, replacing the injured Dinesh Chandimal. His debut Twenty20 International also came in the same series against Australia on January 26, 2013.

He is known as a quick scorer, and can hit the ball very hard which has a same batting style of former Sri Lanka legend Sanath Jayasuriya. In a first class match he scored 330 of 270 balls, which is a domestic record.

Perera was a part of a 15-man squad that toured Australia in January 2013. He made his debut in the 2nd ODI, where he came to bat on number 4 and scored an unbeaten 14 from 16 balls before Sri Lanka won by 8 wickets.


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