Suranga Lakmal

Sri Lanka

Full name Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal

Born March 10, 1987, Matara

Current age 32 years 130 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

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	57	90	23	740	42	11.04	1491	49.63	0	100	4	16
ODIs	85	48	22	244	26	9.38	404	60.39	0	18	3	19
T20Is	11	6	3	7	5*	2.33	11	63.63	0	1	0	3
First-class	112	144	33	1190	58*	10.72	2264	52.56	1	146	15	39
List A	164	89	44	410	38*	9.11	647	63.36	0	35	5	41
T20s	45	20	11	44	10*	4.88	62	70.96	0	4	1	12

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	57	101	10329	5402	137	5/54	7/119	39.43	3.13	75.3	4	3
ODIs	85	83	3824	3478	107	4/13	4/13	32.50	5.45	35.7	3	0
T20Is	11	11	208	330	8	2/26	2/26	41.25	9.51	26.0	0	0
First-class	112	195	17330	9864	295	6/68	9/134	33.43	3.41	58.7	12	7
List A	164	162	7384	6549	230	5/31	5/31	28.47	5.32	32.1	4	3
T20s	45	43	895	1204	50	5/34	5/34	24.08	8.07	17.9	0	1

Career statistics

Test debut	Sri Lanka v West Indies at Colombo (RPS), Nov 23-27, 2010 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Port Elizabeth, Feb 21-23, 2019 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Dec 18, 2009 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street, Jun 28, 2019 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	England v Sri Lanka at Bristol, Jun 25, 2011 scorecard
Last T20I	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Johannesburg, Mar 24, 2019 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	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Port Elizabeth, Feb 21-23, 2019 scorecard
List A debut	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club v Colombo Cricket Club at Colombo (PSS), Nov 17, 2007 scorecard
Last List A	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street, Jun 28, 2019 scorecard
T20s debut	Basnahira South v Wayamba at Colombo (Colts), Apr 23, 2008 scorecard
Last T20s	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Johannesburg, Mar 24, 2019 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
5*, 0/47	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Chester-le-Street	28 Jun 2019	ODI # 4176
15*, 0/27	Sri Lanka	v Afghanistan	Cardiff	4 Jun 2019	ODI # 4149
7, 0/28	Sri Lanka	v New Zealand	Cardiff	1 Jun 2019	ODI # 4145
7*, 0/26	Sri Lanka	v Australia	Southampton	27 May 2019	Other OD
2/63, 1	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Cardiff	24 May 2019	Other OD
12*, 2/55	Sri Lanka	v Scotland	Edinburgh	21 May 2019	ODI # 4142
1/52	Colombo	v Galle	Dambulla	11 Apr 2019	LA
1/24	Colombo	v Kandy	Pallekele	6 Apr 2019	LA
1*, 3/29	Colombo	v Dambulla	Dambulla	4 Apr 2019	LA
1/38, 0	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Johannesburg	24 Mar 2019	T20I # 763

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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