Dimuth Karunaratne

Sri Lanka

Full name Frank Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne

Born April 21, 1988, Colombo

Current age 30 years 1 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Basnahira Cricket Dundee, Dambulla, Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka Board XI, Sri Lanka Under-19s, Sri Lanka Under-20s School

Playing role Opening batsman

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Height 6 ft 0 in

Education St. Joseph's College, Colombo

Explore Dimuth Karunaratne's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	49	95	3	3186	196	34.63	6714	47.45	7	14	316	6	42	0
ODIs	17	13	1	190	60	15.83	276	68.84	0	1	14	0	4	0
First-class	146	252	20	10624	212	45.79	18471	57.51	35	44	1194	24	154	1
List A	112	104	7	3204	132	33.03	4296	74.58	5	19	310	11	51	0
T20s	28	27	1	433	57*	16.65	409	105.86	0	2	55	2	15	1

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	49	6	144	97	1	1/31	1/31	97.00	4.04	144.0	0	0	0
ODIs	17	1	10	11	0	-	-	-	6.60	-	0	0	0
First-class	146	26	664	398	3	1/6	1/6	132.66	3.59	221.3	0	0	0
List A	112	4	64	46	3	2/13	2/13	15.33	4.31	21.3	0	0	0
T20s	28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Career statistics

Test debut	Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Galle, Nov 17-19, 2012 scorecard
Last Test	Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Dhaka, Feb 8-10, 2018 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	England v Sri Lanka at Manchester, Jul 9, 2011 scorecard
Last ODI	England v Sri Lanka at Wellington, Mar 1, 2015 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class debut	Chilaw Marians Cricket Club v Sinhalese Sports Club at Colombo (SSC), Nov 14-16, 2008 scorecard
Last First-class	Galle v Dambulla at Dambulla, Apr 8-11, 2018 scorecard
List A debut	Sinhalese Sports Club v Chilaw Marians Cricket Club at Colombo (SSC), Nov 19, 2008 scorecard
Last List A	Nondescripts Cricket Club v Sinhalese Sports Club at Colombo (SSC), Mar 25, 2018 scorecard
T20s debut	Sri Lanka A v Ireland at Colombo (SSC), Feb 4, 2010 scorecard
Last T20s	Sinhalese Sports Club v Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club at Colombo (Police), Mar 1, 2018 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
0, 0, 0/15	Dambulla	v Galle	Dambulla	8 Apr 2018	FC
71, 0/7, 40	Dambulla	v Kandy	Katunayake	30 Mar 2018	FC
14	Sinhalese	v Nondescripts	Colombo (SSC)	25 Mar 2018	LA
1/14, 17	Sinhalese	v Chilaw	Colombo (Colts)	23 Mar 2018	LA
70*	Sinhalese	v Ragama	Colombo (Colts)	21 Mar 2018	LA
4	Sinhalese	v Panadura	Panadura	18 Mar 2018	LA
132	Sinhalese	v Kurunegala Y	Kurunegala	16 Mar 2018	LA
64	Sinhalese	v SLPACC	Colombo (SSC)	14 Mar 2018	LA
-	Sinhalese	v Moors	Colombo (SSC)	12 Mar 2018	LA
65	Sinhalese	v Saracens	Katunayake	9 Mar 2018	LA

Profile

Dimuth Karunaratne is a solid left-hand opening batsman, and another alumnus of the St Joseph's College side that produced Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera, whom he also played with in the Sri Lanka Under-19 side. Karunaratne made his first class debut for Sinhalese Sports Club (SSC) in 2008, but had a quiet first season, batting largely in the middle order.

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