Suranga Lakmal

Sri Lanka

Full name Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal

Born March 10, 1987, Matara

Current age 31 years 132 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Basnahira South, Matara Sports Club, Sri Lanka A, Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Explore Suranga Lakmal's performance

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	48	75	20	619	42	11.25	1270	48.74	0	86	3	14
ODIs	75	40	19	161	26	7.66	303	53.13	0	10	1	14
T20Is	10	5	3	7	5*	3.50	8	87.50	0	1	0	3
First-class	103	129	30	1069	58*	10.79	2043	52.32	1	132	14	37
List A	150	79	40	316	38*	8.10	535	59.06	0	26	3	35
T20s	42	17	11	41	10*	6.83	52	78.84	0	4	1	11

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	48	86	8952	4727	117	5/63	7/119	40.40	3.16	76.5	3	1
ODIs	75	73	3440	3072	98	4/13	4/13	31.34	5.35	35.1	3	0
T20Is	10	10	184	292	7	2/26	2/26	41.71	9.52	26.2	0	0
First-class	103	180	15953	9189	275	6/68	9/134	33.41	3.45	58.0	11	5
List A	150	148	6804	5986	214	5/31	5/31	27.97	5.27	31.7	4	3
T20s	42	40	823	1083	47	5/34	5/34	23.04	7.89	17.5	0	1

Career statistics

Test debut	Sri Lanka v West Indies at Colombo (RPS), Nov 23-27, 2010 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v South Africa at Galle, Jul 12-14, 2018 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Dec 18, 2009 scorecard
Last ODI	Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Dhaka, Jan 27, 2018 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	England v Sri Lanka at Bristol, Jun 25, 2011 scorecard
Last T20I	Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), Mar 12, 2018 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (PSS), Jan 17-20, 2008 scorecard
Last First-class	Sri Lanka v South Africa at Galle, Jul 12-14, 2018 scorecard
List A debut	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club v Colombo Cricket Club at Colombo (PSS), Nov 17, 2007 scorecard
Last List A	Colombo v Galle at Colombo (RPS), May 8, 2018 scorecard
T20s debut	Basnahira South v Wayamba at Colombo (Colts), Apr 23, 2008 scorecard
Last T20s	Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), Mar 12, 2018 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
10, 3/21, 33*	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Galle	12 Jul 2018	Test # 2311
2/52, 0, 3/25	Sri Lanka	v West Indies	Bridgetown	23 Jun 2018	Test # 2309
10, 2/50, 7, 2/48	Sri Lanka	v West Indies	Gros Islet	14 Jun 2018	Test # 2308
2/55, 15, 1/32, 1	Sri Lanka	v West Indies	Port of Spain	6 Jun 2018	Test # 2306
2/40	Galle	v Colombo	Colombo (RPS)	8 May 2018	LA
2/38	Galle	v Dambulla	Colombo (CCC)	5 May 2018	LA
2*, 0/41	Galle	v Kandy	Colombo (PSS)	2 May 2018	LA
0, 0/37	Tamil Union	v Saracens	Katunayake	21 Mar 2018	LA
1/45, 7*	Tamil Union	v Bloomfield	Colombo (Bloomfield)	18 Mar 2018	LA
5*, 0/19	Sri Lanka	v India	Colombo (RPS)	12 Mar 2018	T20I # 659

Profile

A right-arm fast bowler, Suranga Lakmal was first spotted by Sri Lanka Cricket's fast bowling coaches while still a student at Debarawewa Central. They closely monitored his progress to Richmond College and then to the Tamil Union team whom he represents in domestic cricket. What impressed the coaches about Lakmal was his height and ability to get bounce and swing at a tender age. Despite his natural ability, Lakmal had one big deficiency in that he lacked the stamina to bowl long spells and on occasions he did, he regularly fell ill. The lack of nutrition was quite common with fast bowlers coming from outside Colombo and soon after Lakmal was inducted into the academy, the coaches worked on developing his stamina. Good performances with Sri Lanka A saw him break into the national ODI side. He was one of three players marked for the future by Chandika Hathurusingha in 2008 when he coached the A side.
Sa'adi Thawfeeq January 2010

Suranga Lakmal

Sri Lanka

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