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Lahiru Madushanka

Lahiru Madushanka
Personal information
Full name Lahiru Dilshan Madushanka
Born (1992-09-12) 12 September 1992 (age 24)
Elahera, North Central Province, Sri Lanka
Nickname Lahiya
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role Allrounder
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 179) 4 February 2017 v South Africa
Last ODI 10 February 2017 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
2015-Present Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club
2013 Uva Next
Career statistics
Competition ODI FC LA T20
Matches 3 34 28 17
Runs scored 13 1,216 233 125
Batting average 4.33 32.00 16.64 12.50
100s/50s -/- 2/5 –/– –/–
Top score 7 164 46 41*
Balls bowled 154 2,422 783 305
Wickets 4 39 26 12
Bowling average 38.50 35.17 23.88 33.58
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 2/70 4/48 3/8 3/8
Catches/stumpings -/– 21/– 10/– 10/–
Source: Cricinfo, 10 February 2017

Lahiru Dilshan Madushanka (born 12 September 1992), is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays for One Day Internationals. A handy right handed batsman, Madushanka bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Elahera, Polonnaruwa. He is an old Thomian of St. Thomas' College, Matale.

After playing for the school matches, he has picked to the under-19 cricket team for the Quadrangular Under-19 Series in 2011. He showed immense talent within the series, where his knock of 63 and 4 for 17 runs against India U-19, produced only in the losing side with just 5 runs short. Within the series, against Australia U-19s, Lahiru scored an unbeaten 56 runs, giving the team total of 225. Australia finally lost the match by 86 runs.

On 2012, Lahiru was picked to the Under-19 World Cup 2012. The first match for Sri Lanka was against Namibia U-19s, where Lahiru was able to pick up 4 for 15 runs. The match was eventually won by Sri Lanka with 195 runs. He took 6 wickets for 24 runs against Ireland U-19 team, where Sri Lanka won the match by 109 runs.

On 2015 cricket season, Lahiru played for the Bloomfield in SLC Twenty20 Tournament 2015. He scored his highest T20 score of 41* runs against Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club.

Madushanka was included to the Sri Lanka A team for the tour in New tealand and played the second unofficial ODI. He took 2 wickets for 57 runs and Sri Lanka won the match by 7 wickets finally. However, he didn't include for the rest of the matches and Sri Lanka A finally lost the series to 3-2.

In January 2017 he was named in Sri Lanka's One Day International (ODI) squad for their series against South Africa. He made his ODI debut on 4 February 2017 against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. He was dismissed for a duck, but took his first international wicket in his first over, by dismissing Faf du Plessis for 24 runs. In the series, Madushanka took the wicket of du Plessis in all three times in last three games.


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