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Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council on 21 July 1981. Previously they were an associate member of the ICC from 1965, which made them eligible to compete in the ICC Trophy , the leading one-day tournament for associate members.
In September, Sri Lanka played a limited over series against South Africa, where Shanaka was lifted as the regular captain of ODI squad. Sri Lanka later won the ODI series 2–1, which is recorded as the first series win over South Africa after 8 years. [45]
Frank Dimuth Madushanka Karunaratne (born 21 April 1988; Sinhala: ෆ්රෑන්ක් දිමුත් මදුෂංක කරුණාරත්න), popularly known as Dimuth Karunaratne, is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer and former captain of Test and ODI team of Sri Lanka. [1]
Charith Asalanka scored a career-best 127 to help Sri Lanka beat Australia by 49 runs in the opener of a two-match one-day international cricket series on Wednesday. Sri Lanka was bowled out for ...
Mathews was sacked as the captain of the Sri Lankan ODI and T20 team in September 2018 after a disastrous 2018 Asia Cup campaign where Sri Lanka crashed out of the tournament after losing both their group matches against Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Test captain Dinesh Chandimal was named as the replacement for Mathews to captain the limited ...
In June 2021, Asalanka was named in Sri Lanka's squad for their tour of England. [25] [26] He made his One Day International (ODI) debut on 29 June 2021, for Sri Lanka against England. [27] In July 2021, he was named in Sri Lanka's squad for their series against India. [28] On 19 July 2021, Asalanka scored his maiden ODI fifty against India. [29]
Joseph Ravindran Ratnayeke (born 2 May 1960), is a Sri Lankan businessman and former cricketer [1] who was ODI captain of Sri Lanka national cricket team.Ratnayeke played 22 Tests and 78 ODIs from 1982 to 1990, his Test best bowling performance of eight wickets for 83 runs at Jinnah Stadium (Sialkot) Pakistan was a Sri Lankan Test record at the time, and was also vice captain to Arjuna Ranatunga.
Dhananjaya Maduranga de Silva (Sinhala: ධනංජය මදුරංග ද සිල්වා; born 6 September 1991) is a Sri Lankan professional cricketer, [1] who plays for Sri Lanka in all formats of the game and for Tamil Union in domestic cricket and current captain of the national team in Test cricket.