Malinda Warnapura
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| Malinda Warnapura | ||||
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 Sri Lanka |
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Batting style | Left-hand bat | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm offbreak | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Tests | ODIs | |||
| Matches | 3 | 1 | ||
| Runs scored | 264 | 5 | ||
| Batting average | 66.00 | 5.00 | ||
| 100s/50s | 1/2 | -/- | ||
| Top score | 120 | 5 | ||
| Balls bowled | - | - | ||
| Wickets | - | - | ||
| Bowling average | - | - | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | - | - | ||
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a | ||
| Best bowling | - | - | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 4/- | -/- | ||
Basnayake Shalith Malinda Warnapura (born 26 May 1979 in Colombo, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler. Making his first class debut in 1998/99, Warnapura didn't play international cricket for Sri Lanka until 2007. He had however previously represented them in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. He made his highest first class score of 242 playing for Sri Lanka A against Bangladesh A in 2007.
[edit] Career
Despite his cricketing pedigree, Malinda Warnapura has taken his time to press forward his case for national recognition. Having begun his first-class career in 1998-99, it was not until 2006 that he really made his mark. The tour to India with the Sri Lanka 'A' team to participate in the Duleep trophy saw this elegant left-hand middle-order batsman blossom. He finished the three-match tournament with an aggregate of 421 runs (at an average of 105.25), which included two successive undefeated centuries at the famous Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata. His 111 not out steered his team to the final of the tournament. He then compiled 149 not out in the final against the eventual winners, North Zone.
Recognition did not follow immediately. He was overlooked for the tour of New Zealand that followed. However, he continued to pile on the runs for Sri Lanka 'A'. He was not at his best on the tour of the Caribbean when illness laid him low, but Warnapura was in outstanding form in the home series against Bangladesh 'A' that followed. He scored a career best 243 in the first unofficial Test at his home ground at Colts and followed it up with an unbeaten 104 in the second unofficial ODI to confirm that he could score runs in both forms of the game. However Anura Tennekoon , the former Sri Lanka captain and manager of the Sri Lanka 'A' team, regards Warnapura as the ideal Test match material.
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