Matches (10)
IPL 2023 (3)
CWC QLF (2)
NZ v SL (1)
SA v NL (1)
WI 4-Day (3)

Full Name

Sahan Hewa Thilina Kandamby

Born

June 04, 1982, Colombo

Age

40y 302d

Batting Style

Left hand Bat

Bowling Style

Legbreak

Playing Role

Top order Batter

Kandamby is a cricketer who has not fulfilled the promise he showed as a schoolboy at Ananda College, one of the country's leading Buddhist institutions. He holds the highest individual score of 144 in the traditional match against Nalanda made in 1999. The following year was his best, aggregating 940 runs from 12 matches and was selected captain of the Sri Lanka Under-19 side to tour Australia where he won the Man-of-the-Series award with some sterling contributions. Graduating to the Sri Lanka A side, he toured India and hit five half-centuries which saw him being selected for the Sri Lanka team's tour to New Zealand. He was picked for Sri Lanka's tour to Zimbabwe in 2004 but a lack of consistency meant he was dropped after just four ODI appearances.

He is the first to admit that he did not completely grab the opportunities that came his way. In an attempt to win back his place, he took over the captaincy of Bloomfield in 2004 and thrice scored ninety in the Premier league. In 2005-06, he won the Premier limited overs Man-of-the-Tournament award. The retirement of Russell Arnold after the 2007 World Cup opened up a spot for him but he had to wait more than a year for a recall. He returned to Zimbabwe and scored a crucial 40 in a low-scoring game to set up the victory, and that set in motion an exceptional run of form for Kandamby that saw him break into the Test squad for Sri Lanka's tour of India in late 2009.

For several years, he competed for a spot in the one-day middle order with Thilan Samaraweera and Chamara Kapugedera but lost out to them in the race for a place in the 2011 World Cup squad. That June, however, following several months of turmoil in Sri Lankan cricket, he returned to the one-day squad as vice-captain, and took charge in the Twenty20 against England at Bristol after Tillakaratne Dilshan was ruled out with a broken thumb.
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Career Averages
Batting & Fielding
FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
ODI3936687093*29.00125069.600571070
T20I54013103.252161.90000040
FC163235208758340*40.73--1941--850
List A234201365691128*34.49751475.73340--640
T20615089609022.85801119.85029022260
Bowling
FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
ODI39917417322/372/3786.505.9687.0000
T20I5------------
FC163-28682126554/36-38.654.4452.1100
List A234-11371024304/684/6834.135.4037.9100
T206169310153/213/2120.206.5118.6000
Thilina Kandamby portrait
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Recent Matches - Player
MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Sinhalese vs Ragama601/33 & 3/2403-Mar-2016Colombo (RPS)FC
Sinhalese vs Col CC13 & 201/37 & 2/5725-Feb-2016Colombo (Colts)FC
Sinhalese vs Moors500/8 & 1/918-Feb-2016Colombo (Bloomfield)FC
Sinhalese vs Tamil Union5 & 40/511-Feb-2016Colombo (Moors)FC
Sinhalese vs Badureliya--1/3708-Jan-2016MaggonaFC
Photos
Thilina Kandamby hits one to the leg side
Sachithra Senanayake picked up 3 for 16
Thilina Kandamby had to deal with plenty of short stuff from England's seamers
Thilina Kandamby's 63 made him the top scorer for Sri Lanka A
Thilina Kandamby cuts during his century
Thilina Kandamby exults after getting the big wicket of MS Dhoni