Hashan Tillakaratne

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Hashan Tillakaratne Sri Lanka (SL)
Batting style	Left-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm offbreak
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	83	200
Runs scored	4545	3789
Batting average	42.87	29.60
100s/50s	11/20	2/13
Top score	204*	104
Balls bowled	76	180
Wickets	-	6
Bowling average	-	23.50
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	N/A
Best bowling	-	1/3
Catches/stumpings	122/2	89/6
As of 9 February 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Hashan Tillakaratne (born July 14, 1967 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer.

As a schoolboy in 1986, he was selected to play against England B at Galle, scoring a century to save the match. He played in his first One-day International in November 1986, and emerged into the Sri Lankan cricket team as a wicketkeeper-batsman in December 1989. He continued as a specialist batsman from December 1992.

He fell out of the Sri Lankan Test and ODI teams after the 1999 World Cup, but returned to the Test team in 2001 following success in domestic first-class cricket, where he plays for Nondescripts Cricket Club. He also returned to the ODI team in 2002-03. He became captain of the Sri Lanka Test team in April 2003, but won only one of his ten matches in charge. After losing 3-0 to Australia, he resigned in March 2004, and has not been selected for Sri Lanka again.

On 1 February 2005, the Sri Lankan cricket board appointed him Executive Director of Cricket-Aid, a body formed to provide relief following the December 2004 tsunami,[1] but he was suspended amid recriminations later that year.[2]

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Player Profile: Hashan Tillakaratne from Cricinfo

	Sri Lanka squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Jayasuriya | 2 Atapattu | 3 Jayawardene | 4 Sangakkara | 5 De Silva | 6 Arnold | 7 Mubarak | 8 Tillakaratne | 9 Muralitharan | 10 Vaas | 11 Fernando | 12 Gunaratne | 13 Gunawardene | 14 Nissanka | 15 Buddhika | Coach: Whatmore