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Suranga Lakmal

Sri Lanka

Full name Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal

Born March 10, 1987, Matara

Current age 26 years 77 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 medium-fast

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	14	19	7	77	18	6.41	212	36.32	0	0	13	0	3
ODIs	15	8	5	1	1*	0.33	20	5.00	0	0	0	0	5
T20Is	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
First-class	60	64	15	455	58*	9.28	844	53.90	0	1	51	8	20
List A	73	37	21	136	38*	8.50	212	64.15	0	0	16	2	22
Twenty20	15	5	4	7	3*	7.00	10	70.00	0	0	0	0	2

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
Tests	14	22	2165	1315	20	3/55	4/78	65.75	3.64	108.2	0	0
ODIs	15	14	636	670	17	3/43	3/43	39.41	6.32	37.4	0	0
T20Is	2	2	42	49	3	2/26	2/26	16.33	7.00	14.0	0	0
First-class	60	101	7980	5162	149	6/68	9/134	34.64	3.88	53.5	6	4
List A	73	72	3245	2936	106	5/31	5/31	27.69	5.42	30.6	1	3
Twenty20	15	15	319	377	18	3/30	3/30	20.94	7.09	17.7	0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Sri Lanka v West Indies at Colombo (RPS), Nov 23-27, 2010 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo (RPS), Mar 16-19, 2013 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut	India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Dec 18, 2009 scorecard
Last ODI	Bangladesh v Sri Lanka at Dhaka, Mar 20, 2012 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	England v Sri Lanka at Bristol, Jun 25, 2011 scorecard
Last T20I	Sri Lanka v Australia at Pallekele, Aug 6, 2011 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	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club v Sinhalese Sports Club at Colombo (SSC), Mar 30-Apr 1, 2013 scorecard
List A debut	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club v Colombo Cricket Club at Colombo (PSS), Nov 17, 2007 scorecard
Last List A	Rest of Sri Lanka v Sri Lanka Cricket Combined XI at Pallekele, May 20, 2013 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Basnahira South v Wayamba at Colombo (Colts), Apr 23, 2008 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Sri Lanka v Australia at Pallekele, Aug 6, 2011 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
23, 0/17	Rest SL	v SLC Comb XI	Pallekele	20 May 2013	LA
11, 1/24	Sri Lanka A	v SLC Comb XI	Pallekele	18 May 2013	LA
2/43	Sri Lanka A	v Rest SL	Pallekele	17 May 2013	LA
8, 1/50	Sri Lanka A	v SLC Comb XI	Pallekele	15 May 2013	LA
3/39, 38*	Sri Lanka A	v Rest SL	Pallekele	14 May 2013	LA
0/67	Tamil Union	v Sinhalese	Colombo (SSC)	30 Mar 2013	FC
6/68, 4, 3/66	Tamil Union	v Nondescripts	Colombo (NCC)	22 Mar 2013	FC
0/44, 0*, 0/26	Sri Lanka	v Bangladesh	Colombo (RPS)	16 Mar 2013	Test # 2082
0/31, 0/4	Tamil Union	v Kurunegala Y	Colombo (PSS)	8 Mar 2013	FC
58*, 0/62, 0/13	Tamil Union	v SL Navy	Welisara	1 Mar 2013	FC

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