Isuru Udana
Isuru Udana
| Personal information |
| Full name |
Isuru Udana Tillakaratna |
| Born |
17 February 1988 (1988-02-17) (age 24)
Balangoda, Sri Lanka |
| Batting style |
Right-hand bat |
| Bowling style |
Left-arm fast-medium |
| Role |
Pace bowler |
| International information |
| National side |
Sri Lanka |
| Domestic team information |
| Years |
Team |
| 2008 |
Tamil Union |
| 2009 |
Wayamba |
| Career statistics |
| Competition |
FC |
List A |
| Matches |
18 |
27 |
| Runs scored |
427 |
248 |
| Batting average |
21.35 |
20.66 |
| 100s/50s |
0/2 |
0/0 |
| Top score |
88 |
49* |
| Balls bowled |
2,115 |
1,106 |
| Wickets |
40 |
44 |
| Bowling average |
31.65 |
21.31 |
| 5 wickets in innings |
0 |
0 |
| 10 wickets in match |
0 |
n/a |
| Best bowling |
4/60 |
4/36 |
| Catches/stumpings |
8/– |
15/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 12 December 2009 |
Isuru Udana Tillakaratna (born 17 February 1988 in Balangoda) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He plays domestic cricket for Tamil Union and Wayamba. On September 22, 2010 while playing for Wayamba in the Champions League T20, Udana completed a rare feat by taking a hat-trick of two (legal) deliveries. Mathew Sinclair, the second wicket of the hat-trick was out stumped off a no ball.
Udana made his first-class and List A whilst playing for the Sri Lanka A team during their tour to South Africa in August and September 2008. He subsequently went on to play for Tamil Union in both forms during the 2008–09 season. He was then selected by Wayamba to play in both the first-class and Twenty20 portions of the Sri Lankan Inter-Provincial Cricket Tournament. In the Twenty20 final against Basnahira South he was named Man of the Match after taking 4-31, including 4 of the top 5 batsman.[1] He was also named player of the tournament.[2]
Udana was selected in the Sri Lanka squad for the 2009 ICC World Twenty20.[3] He made his Twenty20 international debut on 8 June 2009 against Australia. He played in 5 of Sri Lanka's 7 games in the tournament, including their loss in the final to Pakistan.[4]
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