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Suwanji Madanayake

Sri Lanka

Full name Suwanji Madanayake

Born August 28, 1975, Kandy

Current age 36 years 168 days

Major teams Burgher Recreation Club, Central Province, Kandy Youth Cricket Club, Kurunegala Youth Cricket Club, Moors Sports Club, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Ragama Cricket Club, Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club, Sri Lanka A, Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club, Sri Lanka Cricket Development XI

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox

Height 5 ft 8 in

Education Kingswood College, Kandy

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	113	170	19	3053	110	20.21			1	13			66
List A	70	61	5	936	52	16.71			0	1			19
Twenty20	2	1	0	4	4	4.00	4	100.00	0	0	0	0	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
First-class	113		13510	6500	310	7/15		20.96	2.88	43.5		15	2
List A	70		3115	1926	100	5/15	5/15	19.26	3.70	31.1	4	1	0
Twenty20	2	2	22	34	2	2/18	2/18	17.00	9.27	11.0	0	0	0

Career statistics

First-class debut	1991/92
Last First-class	Saracens Sports Club v Burgher Recreation Club at Colombo (Burgher), Feb 5-7, 2012 scorecard
List A debut	1998/99
Last List A	Colombo Cricket Club v Burgher Recreation Club at Colombo (CCC), Dec 10, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club v Chilaw Marians Cricket Club at Colombo (Moors), Oct 26, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club v Panadura Sports Club at Colombo (Burgher), Oct 30, 2005 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
2/27, 7*, 0/30	Burgher	v Saracens	Colombo (Burgher)	5 Feb 2012	First-class
21, 3/58, 11, 0/44	Burgher	v SL Army	Panagoda	27 Jan 2012	First-class
1/52, 10, 0/48	Burgher	v Panadura	Colombo (Burgher)	20 Jan 2012	First-class
0, 2/38	Burgher	v Col CC	Colombo (CCC)	10 Dec 2011	List A
2/14, 10	Burgher	v SL Navy	Welisara	7 Dec 2011	List A
3/27, 3	Burgher	v Panadura	Colombo (Burgher)	6 Dec 2011	List A
2, 1/41	Burgher	v SL Army	Colombo (Burgher)	3 Dec 2011	List A
20, 4/32, 1/34	Moors	v Panadura	Colombo (Moors)	8 Apr 2011	First-class
36, 2/22, 5*, 2/60	Moors	v Police SC	Colombo (Police)	1 Apr 2011	First-class
5/34, 7, 2/11	Moors	v SL Air SC	Colombo (Moors)	25 Mar 2011	First-class

Profile

Suwanji Madanayake is bowling all-rounder who bowls left arm spin and middle order left handed. He is fully professional commitments in UK where he has excelled for a variefy of clubs. his career as a professional in the uk include successful stints in the north Yorkshire and South Durham, Lancashire league, Leistershire and Liverpool competition. He is the first Liverpool player to achieve the 500 runs and 50 wicket milestone in 2008 summer. Between 1995-1999 he pushed hard for international recognition too, winning places in various development squads as well as the Sri Lanka "A' squad. Although he has developed his game alongside such international stars as Aravinda de silva, Hashan Thilakaratne, Ruwan Kalpage, Kumar Sangakkara at his club (the famous NCC) and mercantile team (Sampath bank ltd).In addition elected as the best bowling average in 97/98 first class season. His Sri Lankan clubs, Burgher Recreation Cricket Club, Sebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club, Air force cricket and UK clubs, Ormskirk Cricket Club, Maghull cricket club and Wigan cricket club (strong Liverpool premier league arguely UK no 1 league) have been the beneficiaries as he has scored heavily and claimed wickets heavily. in 2008 he became the highest wicket taker as the first Sri Lankan done this milestone in 150 years old Liverpool league. In addition consecutive two times best all-rounder for Tier B FC tournament in 2008 and 2009.