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Tharanga Paranavitana

Sri Lanka

Full name Nishad Tharanga Paranavitana

Born April 15, 1982, Kegalle

Current age 29 years 303 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Kandurata, Sinhalese Sports Club, Sri Lanka A

Playing role Opening batsman

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
Tests	27	50	4	1543	111	33.54	3660	42.15	2	10	180	2	21
First-class	135	224	21	8792	236	43.31	17058	51.54	23	39			137
List A	89	88	12	3216	116*	42.31	4495	71.54	5	22			50
Twenty20	27	27	2	628	67*	25.12	479	131.10	0	5	70	19	11

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w
Tests	27	6	102	86	1	1/26	1/26	86.00	5.05	102.0	0
First-class	135		1727	875	22	4/39		39.77	3.03	78.5	1
List A	89		856	665	14	4/25	4/25	47.50	4.66	61.1	1
Twenty20	27	13	96	117	4	1/3	1/3	29.25	7.31	24.0	0

Career statistics

Test debut	Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Karachi, Feb 21-25, 2009 scorecard
Last Test	South Africa v Sri Lanka at Durban, Dec 26-29, 2011 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut	2001/02
Last First-class	Sinhalese Sports Club v Chilaw Marians Cricket Club at Colombo (SSC), Feb 10-12, 2012 scorecard
List A debut	2001/02
Last List A	Nondescripts Cricket Club v Sinhalese Sports Club at Colombo (NCC), Dec 4, 2011 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Colombo Cricket Club v Sinhalese Sports Club at Colombo (Bloomfield), Oct 16, 2005 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Kandurata v Ruhuna at Colombo (RPS), Jul 30, 2011 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
0/20, 93	Sinhalese	v Chilaw	Colombo (SSC)	10 Feb 2012	First-class
36, 0/2, 11	Sinhalese	v Moors	Colombo (Moors)	5 Feb 2012	First-class
0/9, 216	Sinhalese	v Tamil Union	Colombo (PSS)	20 Jan 2012	First-class
12, 9	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Durban	26 Dec 2011	Test # 2026
32, 4	Sri Lanka	v South Africa	Centurion	15 Dec 2011	Test # 2023
100	Sri Lankans	v SAf Invit XI	Benoni	9 Dec 2011	First-class
35, 0/19	Sinhalese	v Nondescripts	Colombo (NCC)	4 Dec 2011	List A
4, 76*	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	Sharjah	3 Nov 2011	Test # 2014
6, 72	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	Dubai (DSC)	26 Oct 2011	Test # 2011
37, 0	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	Abu Dhabi	18 Oct 2011	Test # 2009

Profile

Tharanga Paranavitana is a tall, upright opening batsman who came into prominence during the Emerging Team Trophy in Sri Lanka in 2003. A run of consistent scores on the domestic scene followed, but it was Paranavitana's career-best 236 off 392 balls that helped Sinhalese SC clinch the 2007-08 Premier League Tier A title which furthered his opportunities at the international level. He made three hundreds during SSC's successful campaign and finished as the leading run-getter for the season with 893 runs at 74.41, and followed up with a century and two half-centuries in the unofficial Tests that Sri Lanka A played in South Africa. Named after that tour by coach Chandika Hathurusingha as a future prospect for Sri Lanka, Paranavitana earned a maiden Test cap in Pakistan in early 2009.
Cricinfo staff July 2009