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Suraj Randiv

Suraj Randiv
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Personal information
Full name Hewa Kaluhalamullage Suraj Randiv Kaluhalamulla
Born (1985-01-30) 30 January 1985 (age 32)
Matara,  Sri Lanka
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Role Allrounder
International information
National side
Test debut 26 July 2010 v India
Last Test 25 November 2012 v New Zealand
ODI debut 18 December 2009 v India
Last ODI 24 June 2016 v England
T20I debut 3 May 2010 v Zimbabwe
Last T20I 25 June 2011 v England
Domestic team information
Years Team
2004-2007 Sinhalese Sports Club
2005 Southern Province
2007 Nondescripts Cricket Club
2008-2010 Kandurata Kites
2008- Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club
2011- Ruhuna Rhinos
2011-2012 Chennai Super Kings
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I FC
Matches 12 31 7 127
Runs scored 147 280 8 3,090
Batting average 9.18 17.50 4.00 21.16
100s/50s 0/0 0/1 0/0 3/10
Top score 39 56 6 112
Balls bowled 3,146 1,437 126 26,331
Wickets 43 36 7 578
Bowling average 37.51 33.72 19.85 26.11
5 wickets in innings 1 1 0 39
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 11
Best bowling 5/82 5/42 3/20 9/62
Catches/stumpings 1/0 7/0 0/0 87/0
Source: [1], 24 June 2016

Hewa Kaluhalamullage Suraj Randiv Kaluhalamulla (born 30 January 1985), known as Suraj Randiv, born Mohamed Marshuk Mohamed Suraj is a Sri Lankan international cricketer who plays first-class cricket for Sinhalese Sports Club. Suraj was educated at Rahula College Matara.

A right arm offspinner, Suraj had a successful under-age career in Sri Lanka. He represented his country at under-15 and under-19 level and took 23 wickets in four matches at an Under-23 tournament of 2003-04. This effort caught the attention of Marvan Atapattu, who was influential in getting him over to Sinhalese Sports Club. He went on play for Sri Lanka A and Sri Lanka.

In December 2009, he replaced Muttiah Muralitharan in Sri Lanka's ODI squad in India and he made his debut in the second match of the series in Nagpur. He impressed by taking three wickets for 51 runs; Sri Lanka went on to win the match by three wickets.

On 16 August 2010, in an incident that drew considerable media attention, Randiv intentionally bowled a no ball—overstepping the bowling mark by a significant margin—to Virender Sehwag—then on 99—that ensured a victory for India in the ODI, while denying Sehwag a chance to score a century. Sehwag hit the ball for six but as the winning run was registered as soon as the umpire signalled no ball, Sehwag's shot was deemed to have been made after the end of the match. Randiv later apologised to Sehwag for use of the tactic; he was docked his match fees for the game and handed a one match suspension by Sri Lanka Cricket.

He was omitted from Sri Lanka's squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, but was called up as a replacement for the injured Angelo Mathews, and was subsequently picked for the World Cup Final.

After 5 years of long period, Randiv was selected for England tour in 2016, where he played in the second ODI on 24 June 2016.


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