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Sri Lankan Domestic Season / Players / Kanishka Alvitigala

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Kanishka Alvitigala

Sri Lanka

Full name Kanishka Gihan Alvitigala

Born June 8, 1986, Homagama

Current age 25 years 354 days

Major teams Colts Cricket Club, Sri Lanka A

Playing role Bowler

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Height 6 ft 3 in

Education Lumbini College, Thurstan College, Colombo

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct
First-class	30	34	2	360	60	11.25	729	49.38	0	2	33	6	23
List A	25	12	1	97	34	8.81	102	95.09	0	0	10	1	7
Twenty20	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w
First-class	30	54	3411	1961	66	5/34	6/92	29.71	3.44	51.6	2	1
List A	25	23	966	907	23	4/46	4/46	39.43	5.63	42.0	1	0
Twenty20	1	1	24	35	1	1/35	1/35	35.00	8.75	24.0	0	0

Career statistics

First-class debut	Colts Cricket Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (Colts), Feb 14-17, 2008 scorecard
Last First-class	Sri Lanka Board XI v England XI at Colombo (RPS), Mar 15-17, 2012 scorecard
List A debut	Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club v Colts Cricket Club at Colombo (PSS), Dec 31, 2008 scorecard
Last List A	Sri Lanka A v England Lions at Kurunegala, Jan 31, 2012 scorecard
Only Twenty20	Kandurata v Wayamba at Galle, Mar 4, 2010 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
4, 1/50, 0	SL Board XI	v England XI	Colombo (RPS)	15 Mar 2012	First-class
1/84	Colts	v Sinhalese	Colombo (Colts)	9 Mar 2012	First-class
33, 3/24, 3, 0/10	Colts	v Chilaw	Colombo (Colts)	1 Mar 2012	First-class
1, 4/26, 1/61	Colts	v Moors	Colombo (Colts)	17 Feb 2012	First-class
3/26, 2, 2/30	Colts	v Lankan CC	Colombo (Colts)	10 Feb 2012	First-class
0/10	Sri Lanka A	v Eng Lions	Kurunegala	31 Jan 2012	List A
0/78, 32	Sri Lanka A	v Eng Lions	Dambulla	27 Jan 2012	List A
2/47	Colts	v Nondescripts	Colombo (Moors)	14 Dec 2011	List A
4/46	Colts	v Moors	Colombo (Moors)	10 Dec 2011	List A
1/50	Colts	v Ragama	Colombo (Moors)	7 Dec 2011	List A

Profile

A tall fast bowler, Kanishka Alwitigala began his career with little known Homagama MV and came to Lumbini MV to do his 'O' levels. He eventually ended up playing for Thurstan College whom he represented for three years in the first XI, finishing with the all-island best bowler runner-up prize by scalping 65 wickets. He joined Colombo Colts soon after taking five wickets in the Under-23 semi-final against Nondescripts CC in 2008-09. Bowling with national fast bowlers Chaminda Vaas, Ruchira Perera and Nuwan Kulasekera has helped Alwitigala immensely and the inputs from the former Sri Lanka fast bowler Champaka Ramanayake and Anusha Samaranayake, head of Sri Lanka's fast bowling academy have also helped in his development. The best advice he's received from them is to bowl more dot balls and commit the batsman into making mistakes. He clocks between 135-140 kph and hopes to improve on that figure.
Sa'adi Thawfeeq