Full Name

Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal

Born

March 10, 1987, Matara

Age

37y 9d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast medium

Playing Role

Bowler

Right-arm quick Suranga Lakmal parlayed his height and ability to extract bounce and swing into one of the longest, most successful fast-bowling careers in Sri Lankan cricket, enough to place him below only Chaminda Vaas on the team's all-time Test wicket-takers' list.

Good performances with Sri Lanka A fetched him a call-up into the national side in 2010. In 2011 he took eight wickets across three Tests against Australia at home. More than most seamers from the subcontinent, Lakmal's numbers improved radically overseas - he has a 15-run difference between his averages home and away. Against Pakistan in the series in the UAE in 2014, he took 12 wickets in the three Tests and followed it up with six in his next one, against Bangladesh in Chattogram. Lakmal's first five-for came against South Africa in Port Elizabeth in December 2016; he took 12 wickets in two Tests on that tour, albeit in matches Sri Lanka lost.

The theme of overseas overachiever was a long-running one: Lakmal took seven in Kolkata in 2017, five in Bridgetown later that year, five each in back-to-back matches in Christchurch and Brisbane in 2018-19, and 11 in two Tests in North Sound in 2021.

Though he made his ODI debut in 2009, he missed the World Cup that followed and was not quite a regular in the one-day side till the middle of the next decade. After a small handful of years when he played ten or more ODIs apiece, he faded out of white-ball contention while still remaining a mainstay of the Test attack.

Suranga Lakmal Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests701221244362321715/477/8036.443.0072.7740
ODIs8684388135341094/134/1332.425.4635.6300
T20Is111120833082/262/2641.259.5126.0000
FC13924222144121373706/689/13432.803.2859.818100
List A175173786169672415/315/3128.905.3132.6530
T20s747214311924775/345/3424.988.0618.5010

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests70109259344211.11193648.240011412220
ODIs864822244269.3840460.3900183200
T20Is116375*2.331163.63001030
FC13917941155258*11.24293252.930117432480
List A175944745038*9.5767167.0600396430
T20s743517168339.33166101.2000146210
Ranasinghe Arachchige Suranga Lakmal

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Suranga Lakmal struck early on his Derbyshire debut
The retiring Suranga Lakmal savours the moment as he walks off the ground for the last time for his country
The retiring Suranga Lakmal is congratulated by Jasprit Bumrah before he walks off the ground for the last time
Suranga Lakmal warms up in what is his final Test before retiring
Suranga Lakmal knocked out Axar Patel's stumps for his first wicket
Suranga Lakmal, playing his final Test, looks on as the Sri Lankans huddle