Lahiru Madushanka

Personal information

Full name

Lahiru Dilshan Madushanka

Born

12 September 1992
Elahera, North Central Province, Sri Lanka

Batting style

Right-handed

Bowling style

Right-arm medium-fast

Career statistics

Competition	FC	LA	T20
Matches	8	19	5
Runs scored	574	191	63
Batting average	26.09	23.87	21.00
100s/50s	–/2	–/–1	–/–
Top score	81*	46	41*
Balls bowled	1039	537	83
Wickets	15	20	2
Bowling average	39.00	20.65	52.00
5 wickets in innings	1	–	–
10 wickets in match	–	–	–
Best bowling	5/70	3/8	1/13
Catches/stumpings	13/–	7/–	3/–

Source: Cricinfo, 7 April 2015

Lahiru Madushanka (born 12 September 1992), is a 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]

Lahiru Madushanka

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