Matches (9)

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BPL (2)

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IND Women vs IRE Women (1)

ILT20 (2)

SA20 (1)

Women's Ashes (1)

Live • 33rd Match • BBL • T20 • Sydney

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(1.2/20 ov, T:159) 10/1

Scorchers need 149 runs in 112 balls.

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Live • 19th Match • BPL • T20 • Sylhet

Kings

SYS

(12.2/20 ov, T:204) 82/4

Strikers need 122 runs in 46 balls.

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Tony Opatha

Sri Lanka

INTL CAREER: 1975 - 1979

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Full Name

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha

Born

August 05, 1947, Colombo

Died

September 11, 2020, Colombo, (aged 73y 37d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

TEAMS

Tony Opatha Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	5	3	0	29	18	9.66	55	52.72	0	0	3	0	3	0
FC	39	53	7	790	65	17.17	-	-	0	3	-	-	24	0
List A	20	15	2	100	19	7.69	-	-	0	0	-	-	8	0

Bowling

Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
ODIs	5	5	253	180	5	3/31	3/31	36.00	4.26	50.6	0	0	0
FC	39	-	-	3413	111	6/91	-	30.74	-	-	-	2	0
List A	20	-	1092	711	21	3/20	3/20	33.85	3.90	52.0	0	0	0

Umpire & Referee

Format	Mat	Referee
List A	1	1

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha

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Recent Matches of Tony Opatha

Match	Bat	Bowl	Date	Ground	Format
Sri Lanka vs Canada	3	1/44	21-Jun-1979	Worcester	ICCTROPHY # 28
Sri Lanka vs India	--	3/31	16-Jun-1979	Manchester	ODI # 68
Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	18	0/31	09-Jun-1979	Nottingham	ODI # 62
Sri Lanka vs Denmark	1*	0/16	06-Jun-1979	Birmingham	ICCTROPHY # 26
Sri Lanka vs Netherlands	23*	2/35	31-May-1979	Solihull	ICCTROPHY # 20

Debut/Last Matches of Tony Opatha

ODI Matches

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Debut

Sri Lanka vs West Indies at Manchester - June 07, 1975

Last

Sri Lanka vs India at Manchester - June 16 - 18, 1979

FC Matches

Span

1969/70 - 1982/83

List A Matches

Span

1973/74 - 1982/83

News and Features about Tony Opatha

Tony Opatha, who led Sri Lanka's rebel tour to South Africa in 1982, dies

Tony Opatha, who led Sri Lanka's rebel tour to South Africa in 1982, dies

He is remembered as arguably Sri Lanka's finest seam bowlers of the 1970s

11-Sep-2020•ESPNcricinfo staff

When Sri Lanka went to cuckoo land

When Sri Lanka went to cuckoo land

Tony Opatha led a rebel side to South Africa in 1982 - a tour on which a certain ill-suppressed madness lurked around the edges

01-Feb-2017•Luke Alfred