Lahiru Madushanka
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| Full name | Lahiru Dilshan Madushanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 September 1992 Elahera, North Central Province, Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Allrounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 2 October 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lahiru Madushanka (born 12 September 1992), is a Sri Lankan First Class left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Elahera.
He is a old Thomian of St. Thomas' College, Matale. After playing for the school matches, he has picked to the under-19 cricket team for the Quadrangular Under-19 Series in 2011. He showed immense talent within the series, where his knock of 63 and 4 for 17 runs against India U-19, produced only in the losing side with just 5 runs short. Within the series, against Australia U-19s, Lahiru scored an unbeaten 56 runs, giving the team total of 225. Australia finally ost the match by 86 runs.[1][2][3]
On 2012, Lahiru was picked to the Under-19 World Cup 2012. The first match for Sri Lanka was against Namibia U-19s, where Lahiru was able to pick up 4 for 15 runs. The match was eventually won by Sri Lanka with 195 runs.[4] He took 6 wickets for 24 runs against Ireland U-19 team, where Sri Lanka won the match by 109 runs.[5]
On 2015 cricket season, Lahiru played for the Bloomfield in SLC Twenty20 Tournament 2015. He scored his highest T20 score of 41* runs against Sri Lanka Air Force Sports Club.[6]
Madushanka was included to the Sri Lanka A team for the tour in New Zealand and played the second unofficial ODI. He took 2 wickets for 57 runs and Sri Lanka won the match by 7 wickets finally. However, he didn't include for the rest of the matches and Sri Lanka A finally lost the series to 3-2.[7][8]
References
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/535705.html
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/534768.html
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/534535.html
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-under19-world-cup-2012/content/story/577184.html
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-under19-world-cup-2012/content/story/578766.html
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/slc-twenty20-15/engine/current/match/854887.html?version=iframe
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/910169.html
- ^ http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/series/875977.html