T.B Kehelgamuwa
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| Full name | Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Tikiri Banda Kehelgamuwa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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9 December 1942 Gampola, Sri Lanka |
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| Nickname | Kehel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Tikiri Banda Kehelgamuwa (born 10 December 1942, Gampola) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and Manager of the Sri Lankan cricket team, under whose tenure the Sri Lanka Test team recorded their first overseas Test victory in 1995. He was a player from 1967 to 1974, and is considered as one of the best paceman Sri Lanka has ever had.
Tikiri Banda Kehelgamuwa was born on 10 December 1942 at Gampola. He began schooling at the Wahalgoda Central College, Gampola, where his father was the Principal. In 1955, he enrolled at Dharmaraja College, where he excelled as an outstanding schoolboy cricketer in the early 1960s. He also represented Dharmaraja at athletics, hockey and soccer.
Kehel was coached by D. M. Dharamatillake, Arthur Alwis and Sonny Yatawara, when he was playing for Dharmaraja. He captained the first XI team in 1960–1961 and was selected the Best Bowler in the island in the "Daily News Schoolboy Cricketer" Contest. Kehelgamuwa won the much coveted Best Schoolboy Bowler award in 1961 and 1962.
While playing for his school team, he was selected to tour India with the Sri Lanka schools team in 1961. He tore apart the South Zone Schools team, taking 8 wickets for 8 runs, with all of his victims clean bowled (9.4–5–8–8). In 1961 he had the proud distinction of representing Sri Lanka in the Gopalan Trophy match under the captaincy of C. I. Gunesekera and later under Michael Tissera.
Kehelgamuwa joined the Ceylon Police Force in 1963, as a Sup-Inspector of Police and served till his retirement in 2002 as a Deputy Inspector General of Police. He also represented the Police Sports Club at the Government Services Cricket Championships for several years. During his service he was assigned as personal bodyguard of the former Governor-General, William Gopallawa.
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