Full name Roshan Punyajith Wijesinghe Guneratne
Born January 26, 1962, Colombo
Died July 21, 2005, California (aged 43 years 176 days)
Major teams Sri Lanka, Colombo Cricket Club, Nomads Sports Club
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s | Ct | St | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0* | - | 19 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First-class | 13 | 17 | 6 | 95 | 29 | 8.63 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tests | 1 | 1 | 102 | 84 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.94 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First-class | 13 | 1056 | 599 | 17 | 4/34 | 35.23 | 3.40 | 62.1 | 0 | 0 |
Only Test | Sri Lanka v Australia at Kandy, Apr 22-26, 1983 scorecard |
Test statistics | |
First-class span | 1982/83 - 1988/89 |
Roshan Guneratne made his first class debut against the touring Australians playing for the President's Board XI in the lead-up to the one-off Test at Kandy in 1982-83. Guneratne captured the wickets of Kepler Wessels and Greg Chappell finishing with 2 for 66. The selectors were sufficiently impressed to include him in the starting XI for the Test despite the fact that they already had an established legspinner in DS de Silva. It proved to be an unhappy time as the Australians rattled up 514 for 4 before declaring, Guneratne bowling 17 expensive overs, taking 0 for 84. Sri Lanka suffered a crushing victory and it proved to be Guneratne's sole test appearance. He went on to represent NCC, Moors SC and Nomads in Division One domestic cricket before leaving for the USA to join his mother and sister. He died in California at the age of 43, only the third Sri Lankan Test player to die.
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