Dimuth Karunaratne

Dimuth Karunane

Personal information
Full name	Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne
Born	(1988-04-21) 21 April 1988 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Nickname	Dimma
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Batting style	Left-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
Role	Batsman
International information
National side	Sri Lanka
Test debut	17 November 2012 v New Zealand
Last Test	3–7 January 2015 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 146)	9 July 2011 v England
Last ODI	1 March 2015 v England
ODI shirt no.	21
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2008–present	Sinhalese Sports Club
2009	Basnahira North
2010-present	Wayamba
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODI FC LA Matches 15 17 86 99 Runs scored 886 190 5,988 2,693 Batting average 32.81 15.83 46.78 30.95 100s/50s 1/4 0/1 19/25 3/16 Top score 152 60 210* 120 Balls bowled 12 10 241 22 Wickets – 0 0 2 Bowling average – - - 16.00 5 wickets in innings – - - 0 10 wickets in match – - - 0 Best bowling – - - 2/13 Catches/stumpings 11/– 4/0 93/1 46/–
Source: ESPN Cricinfo, 1 March 2015

Frank Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne (Sinhala:දිමුත් කරුණාරත්න )(born 21 April 1988 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a left-handed opening batsman in both Tests and ODIs, and plays first class cricket for the Sinhalese Sports Club.^[1]

International career

Karunaratne attended the prestigious St. Joseph's College, Colombo, which has produced a number of Sri Lankan test cricketers such as Chaminda Vaas, Angelo Mathews and Thisara Perera. He was a record-breaking batsman for the school's cricket team.^[2] After featuring in Sri Lanka's Under-19 and A squads, he was called into the senior One Day International (ODI) team for the series against England and Scotland in June and July 2011.^[3] He played in two matches on the tour, scoring four runs against England in Manchester, and 60 against Scotland in Edinburgh.^[1] He was selected in Sri Lanka's Test squad for its tour of South Africa at the end of 2011, although did not play in any of the three Tests.^[4]

He was recalled into the Test squad for the home Tests against New Zealand during late 2012. He got the opportunity due to Tillakaratne Dilshan being unable to make the XI because of an injury. He debuted in the first Test in that series, in Galle, only to get out for a duck in the first innings. However, he came back strongly in the 2nd innings with an unbeaten half century and hit the winning runs as well.^[5] Following the New Zealand series he was called into the test squad which was to tour Australia for a three test match series. During the first two tests in that series he failed to have an impact as he struggled against the Australian pace attack. In the final test of the series in Sydney he managed to get his highest test score of 85 in the second innings.

His maiden century came against New Zealand on 28 December 2014 at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. He scored 152 runs from 363 balls in the second match of the series, where Sri Lanka in deep trouble of even draw the match.

References

Sri Lanka squad – 2015 Cricket World Cup 1 Perera 9 Mendis 11 Sangakkara (wk) 14 Herath 16 Chameera 18 Senanayake 21 Karunaratne 23 Dilshan 27 Jayawardene 36 Chandimal (wk) 66 Thirimanne 69 Mathews (c) 82 Lakmal 92 Kulasekara 99 Malinga  Kaushal Coach: Atapattu Chameera was named as a replacement player for Dhammika Prasad & Kaushal was named as a replacement player for Rangana Herath.