Chamani Seneviratne
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Full name | Chamani Roshini Seneviratne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka | 14 November 1978||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Only Test (cap 9) | 17 April 1998 Sri Lanka v Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut (cap 9) | 25 November 1997 Sri Lanka v Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 17 February 2009 Sri Lanka v Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 15/10) | 21 April 2010 Sri Lanka v West Indies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 27 February 2019 United Arab Emirates v Thailand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2000–2009 | Slimline Sports Club Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2009– | Colts Cricket Club Women | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: cricinfo, 27 February 2019 |
Chamani Roshini Seneviratne (born 14 November 1978 in Anuradhapura) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. She scored Sri Lanka's only century in Women's Test cricket,[1] with an unbeaten 105 against Pakistan in April 1998. She also did it on her debut. By scoring a test century on debut, she became only the eighth batswoman to score a test hundred on debut.[2][3] After Chamani Seneviratne's century on debut, in Sri Lanka cricket's history the first-ever test centurions on debuts for both Sri Lanka men's national cricket team as well as Sri Lanka women's national cricket team came on debuts of Brendon Kuruppu and Seneviratne, respectively. An all-rounder, she has played one Test and 47 One Day Internationals for Sri Lanka. Chamani Seneviratne has scored the most runs on debut test for Sri Lanka (148 runs in both innings) and she is also the leading runscorer for Sri Lanka in test matches, despite Sri Lanka Women's managing to play their only test in 1998.[4] Her 148 runs on debut was also the fifth-highest by a woman on test debut.[5]
She holds the record for the highest test score made by any woman cricketer when batting at number 8 position or lower in women's test history (105*).[6]
In May 2018, she was named in the United Arab Emirates women's cricket team squad for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[7] She made her Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) for the United Arab Emirates against the Netherlands in the World Twenty20 Qualifier on 7 July 2018.[8]
On 19 February 2019, in the 2019 ICC Women's Qualifier Asia match against Kuwait, she took her first five-wicket haul in WT20Is.[9] In June 2020, Seneviratne was stranded in the UAE, after losing her coaching job in Abu Dhabi due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[10]
References
- ^ "Career Batting and Fielding for Sri Lanka in Women's Test Matches (Ordered by Name)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ "Sri Lanka Women v Pakistan Women". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ "Records | Women's Test matches | Batting records | Hundred on debut | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ^ "Cricket Records | Records | Sri Lanka Women | Women's Test matches | Most runs | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ^ "Records | Women's Test matches | Batting records | Most runs in debut match | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ^ "Records | Women's Test matches | Batting records | Most runs in an innings (by batting position) | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
- ^ "UAE women's cricket team for World Twenty20 Qualifier announced". The National. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
- ^ "3rd Match, Group A, ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualfier at Utrecht, Jul 7 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
- ^ "A great day for China while UAE make it two wins from two". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
- ^ "Former skipper Chamani Seneviratne stranded in the UAE". The Papare. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
External links
- Chamani Seneviratne at CricketArchive (subscription required)
- Chamani Seneviratne at ESPNcricinfo
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Sri Lankan women cricketers
- Sri Lanka women Test cricketers
- Sri Lanka women One Day International cricketers
- Sri Lanka women Twenty20 International cricketers
- Women cricketers who made a century on Test debut
- Sri Lanka women cricket captains
- United Arab Emirates women Twenty20 International cricketers
- Cricketers who have played for more than one international team
- Sri Lankan cricket biography, 1970s birth stubs